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Political Discourse and Media in Times of Crisis
Edited by Sofia Iordanidou, Nael Jebril, Emmanouil Takas
This edited book examines the key challenges in political discourse and journalistic practice in times of crises. It focuses on European paradigms and links political rhetoric and media challenges with the societal, political, and financial crises from 2008 until the present.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982828
April 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This edited book examines the key challenges in political discourse and journalistic practice in times of crises. It focuses on European paradigms and links political rhetoric and media challenges with the societal, political, and financial crises from 2008 until the present.
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The Dark Side of News Fixing
The Culture and Political Economy of Global Media in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Syed Irfan Ashraf
This book provides a local journalist's perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. Fixers are local journalists hired to help global media outlets in developing news stories on wars. The book shows how the fixers' risky news pursuits made possible for global media to access distant regions and dangerous caves on Pakistan and Afghanistan borders, causing unprecedented deaths of the local reporters in the context of the U.S-led war on terror.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981371
November 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book provides a local journalist’s perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. Fixers are local journalists hired to help global media outlets in developing news stories on wars. The book shows how the fixers’ risky news pursuits made possible for global media to access distant regions and dangerous caves on Pakistan and Afghanistan borders, causing unprecedented deaths of the local reporters in the context of the U.S-led war on terror.
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The Poverty of Television
The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines
Jonathan Corpus Ong
Based on an ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084067
May 2015
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£115.00 / $115.00Based on an ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television.
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Unhomely Cinema
Home and Place in Global Cinema
Dwayne Avery
Representations of troubled and inhospitable domestic places are a common feature of many cinematic narratives. “Unhomely Cinema” explores how the unhomely nature of contemporary film narrative provides an insight into what it means to dwell in today’s global societies.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783083022
October 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00Representations of troubled and inhospitable domestic places are a common feature of many cinematic narratives. “Unhomely Cinema” explores how the unhomely nature of contemporary film narrative provides an insight into what it means to dwell in today’s global societies.
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The Politics of Time and Youth in Brand India
Bargaining with Capital
Jyotsna Kapur
A study of the profound preoccupation with time, youth and the relationship between generations in contemporary popular Indian media culture, this book suggests that the politics of time is a manifestation of the radicalised war between labour and capital inherent in India’s shift to neoliberalism since the 1990s.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857281098
October 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00A study of the profound preoccupation with time, youth and the relationship between generations in contemporary popular Indian media culture, this book suggests that the politics of time is a manifestation of the radicalised war between labour and capital inherent in India’s shift to neoliberalism since the 1990s.
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The Content Machine
Towards a Theory of Publishing from the Printing Press to the Digital Network
Michael Bhaskar
‘The Content Machine’ outlines a theory of publishing that allows publishers to focus on their core competencies in times of crisis. This ground-breaking study, the first of its kind, fuses history, media theory and business experience in a defiant answer to those who contend that publishing has no future in the digital age.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9780857281111
October 2013
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£19.95 / $19.95‘The Content Machine’ outlines a theory of publishing that allows publishers to focus on their core competencies in times of crisis. This ground-breaking study, the first of its kind, fuses history, media theory and business experience in a defiant answer to those who contend that publishing has no future in the digital age.
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Memory Machines
The Evolution of Hypertext
Belinda Barnet
This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857280602
July 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications.
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Angus & Robertson and the British Trade in Australian Books, 1930–1970
The Getting of Bookselling Wisdom
Jason D. Ensor
This volume details the history of Australia’s oldest and most nationally iconic publishing firm, Angus & Robertson, and its long-term investment in establishing and maintaining a viable commercial arm in London from 1930 to 1970.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857285669
December 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume details the history of Australia’s oldest and most nationally iconic publishing firm, Angus & Robertson, and its long-term investment in establishing and maintaining a viable commercial arm in London from 1930 to 1970.
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From Happy Homemaker to Desperate Housewives
Motherhood and Popular Television
Rebecca Feasey
‘Motherhood and Popular Television’ is designed to introduce readers to key debates concerning the representations of motherhood and the maternal role in contemporary television programming.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9780857285614
November 2012
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£39.00 / $39.00‘Motherhood and Popular Television’ is designed to introduce readers to key debates concerning the representations of motherhood and the maternal role in contemporary television programming.
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Perceptions of the Press in Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals
A Bibliography
E. M. Palmegiano
This annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century British periodicals reveals how Victorian commentaries on journalism shaped the discourse on the origins and contemporary character of the domestic, imperial and foreign press.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284396
February 2012
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£130.00 / $130.00This annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century British periodicals reveals how Victorian commentaries on journalism shaped the discourse on the origins and contemporary character of the domestic, imperial and foreign press.
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World Cinema and the Visual Arts
Edited by David Gallagher
‘World Cinema and the Visual Arts’ combines new analyses of two subjects of ongoing research in the field of humanities: cinema and the visual arts. The films analysed encompass a wide geographical base, and have been drawn from a diverse array of cultural traditions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284389
February 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00‘World Cinema and the Visual Arts’ combines new analyses of two subjects of ongoing research in the field of humanities: cinema and the visual arts. The films analysed encompass a wide geographical base, and have been drawn from a diverse array of cultural traditions.
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South Asian Media Cultures
Audiences, Representations, Contexts
Edited by Shakuntala Banaji
'South Asian Media Cultures' examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, political and theoretical engagements.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318422
April 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘South Asian Media Cultures’ examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, political and theoretical engagements.
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Screen Writings
Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics
Bert Cardullo
'Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics' offers close readings of genre films and acknowledged film classics in an attempt to explore both the aesthetics of genre and the definition of 'classic' - as well as the changing perception of so-called classic movies over time.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318378
March 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics’ offers close readings of genre films and acknowledged film classics in an attempt to explore both the aesthetics of genre and the definition of ‘classic’ – as well as the changing perception of so-called classic movies over time.
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Screen Writings
Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary
Bert Cardullo
'Screen Writings: Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary' offers close readings of individual films intended to explain how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex and significant humanistic goals.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318798
March 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Screen Writings: Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary’ offers close readings of individual films intended to explain how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex and significant humanistic goals.
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Bollywood and Globalization
Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora
Edited by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande
This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318330
January 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.
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Action!
Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran
Edited by Gary Morris
foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum
introduction by Bert Cardullo‘Action!’ draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the ‘Bright Lights Film Journal’, and contains many gems, including the last ever interview given by Francois Truffaut, four months before he died.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843313120
February 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Action!’ draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the ‘Bright Lights Film Journal’, and contains many gems, including the last ever interview given by Francois Truffaut, four months before he died.
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A Blogger’s Manifesto
Free Speech and Censorship in a Digital World
Erik Ringmar
An expansive and captivating interrogation of free speech in the modern world, exploring the limitations of the digital age.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781843312888
October 2007
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£14.99 / $14.99An expansive and captivating interrogation of free speech in the modern world, exploring the limitations of the digital age.