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Understanding Women's Magazines: Publishing, Markets and Readership
"Understanding Women's Magazines" explores the changing landscape of the women's magazine market. Tracing changes in women's magazine production, advertising and marketing practices, Gough-Yates analyzes the strategies and fortunes of a range of …
Big-budget, spectacular films designed to appeal to mass audience: is this what- or all- blockbusters are? "Movie Blockbusters" brings together leading film scholars to consider this most high-profile and culturally significant genre. Drawing on …
Using examples of writing from a range of film and television dramas such as "The English Patient," "Coronation Street," "The Fisher King" and "My Left Foot," "Scriptwriting for Screen" analyzes the demands made on writers by different forms and …
Cyberculture: The Key Concepts
"Cybercultures: The Key Concepts" provides a wide-ranging and up to date overview of the fast-changing and increasingly important world of cyberculture. Its clear and accessible entries cover aspects ranging from the technical to the theoretical, …
Newspapers, magazines, TV talk shows, album covers — all display a proliferation of film star images. In the past we have tended to see celebrities as cogs in a mass entertainment industry selling desires and ideologies. But since the 1970s, new …
Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity and Subjectivity
From Janis Joplin to P.J. Harvey," Women and Popular Music" explores the changing role of women musicians and the ways in which their songs resonate in popular culture. Through a series of artist case studies Sheila Whiteley examines the …
TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life
"TV Living" presents the surprising results of the largest survey of television viewing habits ever completed. For five years, 500 people kept a diary of their television viewing, their lives, and the relationship between the two. The results …
"The Everyday Life Reader" brings together a wide range of thinkers from Freud to Baudrillard with primary sources on everyday life such as the Mass Observation survey and key texts by Michel de Certeau and Henri Lefebvre, to provide a …
The Spectacle of Violence: Homophobia, Gender and Knowledge
"The Spectacle of Violence" explores the contexts and implications of homophobia-related violence and hostility. Through research based on in-depth interviews, Gail Mason draws on a range of experiences of verbal hostility, physical violence and …
Newnes Guide to Radio and Communications Technology
In this brand new volume, Ian Poole begins with a fine introduction to radio, suitable for almost all readers. ...the book is an excellent way for neophytes to step into radio and learn something about it. It begins with the basics and gradually …
Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the twentieth century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s, and an anarchist revolutionary during the war years, by the time of his death in 1968 he had become a key …
An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture
How can we study popular culture? What makes popular culture' popular? Is popular culture important? What influence does it have? "An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture" provides a clear and comprehensive answer to these questions. It …
Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identities in the Movies
From Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy, to sharp suited gangsters in Tarantino movies, clothing is a key element in the construction of cinematic identities. "Undressing Cinema," an innovative examination of the significance of clothes in film, proposes …
Football/soccer in the new media age can often appear ubiquitous, dominating much of the mainstream news and current affairs agenda. The vast amounts of money paid to elite soccer players and the inability of young men to cope with this when …
"The Culture of Queers" is a study of gay male culture from the early gay liberation movement to today's "post-queer" environment. Richard Dyer focuses on key aspects of queer cultural production, examining genres from vampire films, to film noir …
"The European Cinema Reader" is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of national cinemas in Europe, bringing together classic writing by key filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, Luis Bunuel and John Grierson, and critics from …
"Movie Acting, the Film Reader" explores one of the most central but often overlooked aspects of cinema: film acting. Combining classic and recent essays, it examines key issues such as: What constitutes film acting? How is film acting different …
What distinguishes fans from general audiences? Who is most likely to become a fan? This fascinating collection of essays explores the relationship between fans and their adored media products. Examining fandom as a distinct form of cultural …
History of Art: A Students' Handbook
This completely revised and updated edition introduces the reader to the practices, challenges, questions and writings encountered in the study of art history. Marcia Pointon describes and analyzes various methods and approaches to the discipline—…
"Subediting for Journalists" is a concise, up-to-date and readable introduction to the skills of subediting for newspapers and magazines. It describes how subediting has developed, from the early days of printing to the modern era of computers …
Learning to Look at Modern Art
This companion volume to the author's "Learning to Look at Paintings" addresses some of the questions most commonly asked about modern art: why does it appear so different from the art of the past? Why is it so difficult to understand? How should …
Prime Time Animation: Television Animation and American Culture
The contributors explore a series of key issues and questions, including: How do we explain the animation explosion of the 1960s? Why did it take nearly twenty years following the cancellation of "The Flintstones" for animation to find its feet …
Impacts and Influences: Media Power in the Twentieth Century
Examines the ways in which press, cinema, radio and television have wielded power in the course of this century.
Hollywood Comedians: The Film Reader
"Hollywood Comedians" examines a range of comedians and contexts from the silent era to the 1990s. Contributors address key debates on performance and genre, and discuss issues of gender and the body, ethnicity and race. Includes essays by: …
Book Commissioning and Acquisition
This volume provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of commisioning, from assessing markets through to the finished product, across every sector of publishing. This book provides guidance on finding successful books; list building and …
British Cinema: Past and Present
This work responds to the commercial and critical success of British film in the 1990s. Providing a historical perspective to the contemporary resurgence of British cinema, this unique anthology brings together leading international scholars to …
Writing for Broadcast Journalists
"Writing for Broadcast Journalists "guides readers through the differences between written and spoken language in journalism, helping broadcast journalists at every stage of their career to steer past such pitfalls as pronunciation, terms of …
"Horror, The Film Reader" brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror from "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" to "The Blair Witch …
Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction
"Everyday Life and Cultural Theory" provides a unique critical and historical introduction to theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday life, from the Mass Observation project of the 1930s to …
Understanding Reality Television
"Reality TV" has rapidly come to occupy a place at the forefront of contemporary television culture on an international scale. This collection responds to this shift by analyzing the terrain of this genre—its range of economic, technological and …