Television

The word "e;ventriloquism"e; has traditionally referred to the act of throwing one's voice into an object that appears to speak.

Through popular movies starring Bruce Lee and songs like the disco hit "e;Kung Fu Fighting,"e; martial arts have found a central place in the Western cultural imagination.

Through popular movies starring Bruce Lee and songs like the disco hit "e;Kung Fu Fighting,"e; martial arts have found a central place in the Western cultural imagination.

Since the debut of the iPhone in 2007, the mobile phone has become a quick, convenient, and immensely popular gateway for accessing and consuming news.

Since the debut of the iPhone in 2007, the mobile phone has become a quick, convenient, and immensely popular gateway for accessing and consuming news.

Like its companion volume, Telecommunications in Europe, this book deals with the evolution of powerful monopoly institutions in the communications field--the public broadcasters--and the dramatic changes that took place in the late 1980s throughout Europe, and transformed the media landscape.

We all talk about the "e;tube"e; or "e;box,"e; as if television were simply another appliance like the refrigerator or toaster oven.

Following the overwhelming success of "e;The Cosby Show"e; in the 1980s, an unprecedented shift took place in television history: white executives turned to black dollars as a way of salvaging network profits lost in the war against video cassettes and cable T.

In recent years, the media has been awash in exuberant tales of the arrival of the information superhighway, when television will explode with exciting possibilities, offering some 500 channels as well as a marriage of TV and computer that will provide, on command, access to the latest movies, magazines, newspapers, books, sports events, stock exchange figures, your bank account, and much, much more.

A Dictionary of Film Studies covers all aspects of its discipline as it is currently taught at undergraduate level.

Why do heroes fight each other?

Why do heroes fight each other?

The Oxford Mid-Century Studies series publishes monographs in several disciplinary and creative areas in order to create a thick description of culture in the thirty-year period around the Second World War.

Classics in the Modern World brings together a collection of distinguished international contributors to discuss the features and implications of a 'democratic turn' in modern perceptions of ancient Greece and Rome.

In works of literary fiction, it is a part of the fiction that the words of the text are being recounted by some work-internal 'voice': the literary narrator.

How advertising works is not a question that has a simple answer.

How advertising works is not a question that has a simple answer.

In this engagingly written history of electioneering in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present, Jon Lawrence explores the changing relationship between politicians and public.

During the fertile decade 1955-65 the television institution emerged in a form which would be familiar for the next half century: this book attends to two aspects of its formation.

In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction.

The Oxford Mid-Century Studies series publishes monographs in several disciplinary and creative areas in order to create a thick description of culture in the thirty-year period around the Second World War.

In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction.

Classics in the Modern World brings together a collection of distinguished international contributors to discuss the features and implications of a 'democratic turn' in modern perceptions of ancient Greece and Rome.

Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production shows how changes in the design of music software in the first decades of the twenty-first century shaped the production techniques and performance practices of artists working across media, from hip-hop and electronic dance music to video games and mobile apps.

Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production shows how changes in the design of music software in the first decades of the twenty-first century shaped the production techniques and performance practices of artists working across media, from hip-hop and electronic dance music to video games and mobile apps.

To many, the technological aspects of projection often go unnoticed, only brought to attention during moments of crisis or malfunction.

To many, the technological aspects of projection often go unnoticed, only brought to attention during moments of crisis or malfunction.

The term "e;queer cinema"e; is often used to name at least three cultural events: 1) an emergent visual culture that boldly identifies as queer; 2) a body of narrative, documentary, and experimental work previously collated under the rubric of homosexual or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) cinema; 3) a means of critically reading and evaluating films and other visual media through the lens of sexuality.

The term "e;queer cinema"e; is often used to name at least three cultural events: 1) an emergent visual culture that boldly identifies as queer; 2) a body of narrative, documentary, and experimental work previously collated under the rubric of homosexual or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) cinema; 3) a means of critically reading and evaluating films and other visual media through the lens of sexuality.

Where do you end, and where do media begin?

Where do you end, and where do media begin?

The way we communicate with each other is vital to preserving the cultural ecology, or wellbeing, of a place and time.

The way we communicate with each other is vital to preserving the cultural ecology, or wellbeing, of a place and time.

Television has never been exclusive to the home.

Television has never been exclusive to the home.

Through the rise and fall of the Hollywood studio system, David O.

It was as if American television audiences discovered the musical in the early 21st century.

It was as if American television audiences discovered the musical in the early 21st century.

Alan Jay Lerner wrote the lyrics for some of the most beloved musicals in Broadway and Hollywood history.

Alan Jay Lerner wrote the lyrics for some of the most beloved musicals in Broadway and Hollywood history.

While the Cold War governments of Eastern Europe operated within the confines of the Soviet worldview, their peoples confronted the narratives of both East and West.

While the Cold War governments of Eastern Europe operated within the confines of the Soviet worldview, their peoples confronted the narratives of both East and West.

Technologically mediated talk is organized around familiar styles-styles of person, relationship and genre.

Technologically mediated talk is organized around familiar styles-styles of person, relationship and genre.

Music and the Broadcast Experience explores the complex ways in which music and broadcasting have developed together throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries.

Dance in TV advertisements has long been familiar to Americans as a silhouette dancing against a colored screen, exhibiting moves from air guitar to breakdance tricks, all in service of selling the latest Apple product.

Dance in TV advertisements has long been familiar to Americans as a silhouette dancing against a colored screen, exhibiting moves from air guitar to breakdance tricks, all in service of selling the latest Apple product.

Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on screen media.

In the wake of World War II, the cultural life of the United States underwent a massive transformation.

In the wake of World War II, the cultural life of the United States underwent a massive transformation.