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The Information Front
The Canadian Army and News Management during the Second World War
UBC Press
The first book on the public relations efforts of the Canadian Army during the Second World War.
Dreaming in Canadian
South Asian Youth, Bollywood, and Belonging
By Faiza Hirji
UBC Press
Dreaming in Canadian explores the connections between the media and identity formation among young Canadians of South Asian origin.
Sex and the University
Celebrity, Controversy, and a Student Journalism Revolution
Rutgers University Press
Sex and the University explores the celebrity status that student sex columnists and magazine editors have received, the controversies they have caused, and the sexual generation and student journalism revolution they represent. Complete with a sexicon of slang, this book also dives into the columns and magazines themselves, sharing for the first time what modern students are saying about their sex and love lives, in their own words.
Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press
University Press of Mississippi
An analysis of the media’s reaction to the lynching of a young black man
The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada
Activism, Policy, and Contested Science
By Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews
UBC Press
A comprehensive examination of the aquaculture controversy in Canada.
Indianizing Film
Decolonization, the Andes, and the Question of Technology
By Freya Schiwy
Rutgers University Press
Latin American indigenous media production has recently experienced a noticeable boom, specifically in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia. Indianizing Film zooms in on a selection of award-winning and widely influential fiction and docudrama shorts, analyzing them in the wider context of indigenous media practices and debates over decolonizing knowledge. Within this framework, Freya Schiwy approaches questions of gender, power, and representation.
The Animated Bestiary
Animals, Cartoons, and Culture
By Paul Wells
Rutgers University Press
The Animated Bestiary critically evaluates the depiction of animals in cartoons and animation more generally. Paul Wells argues that artists use animals to engage with issues that would be more difficult to address directly because of political, religious, or social taboos.
The Kennedy Assassination
By Peter Knight
University Press of Mississippi
An overview of the many American perspectives in the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination
Not in Front of the Children
'Indecency,' Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth
Rutgers University Press
In Not in Front of the Children, Marjorie Heins explores the fascinating history of “indecency” laws and other restrictions aimed at protecting youth. From Plato’s argument for rigid censorship, through Victorian laws aimed at repressing libidinous thoughts, to contemporary battles over sex education in public schools and violence in the media, Heins guides us through what became, and remains, an ideological minefield. With fascinating examples drawn from around the globe, she suggests that the “harm to minors” argument rests on shaky foundations.
The Press and Race
Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement
Edited by David R. Davies
University Press of Mississippi
The fervent opinions and historic decisions of editorial writers in the turbulent 1950s and 1960s
The Circle of Guilt
By Fredric Wertham; Introduction by William Bush
University Press of Mississippi
A famed psychiatrist’s view of race, mass media, and a rush to judgment in New York City
Religion, Media, and the Marketplace
Edited by Lynn Schofield Clark
Rutgers University Press
At a time when religious fundamentalism throughout the world is inseparable from political aims, this interdisciplinary look at the mutual influences between religion and the media is essential reading for scholars from a wide variety of disciplines.
'You Should See Yourself'
Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture
Rutgers University Press
Bringing together fourteen new essays by leading scholars, You Should See Yourself examines the fluctuating representations of Jewishness in a variety of areas of popular culture and high art, including literature, the media, film, theater, music, dance, painting, photography, and comedy. Contributors explore the evolution that has taken place within these cultural forms and how we can best explain these changes. Are variations in our understanding of Jewishness the result of general phenomena such as multiculturalism, politics, and postmodernism, or are they the product of more specifically Jewish concerns such as the intermarriage/continuity crisis, religious renewal, and relations between the United States and Israel?
Accessible to students and general readers alike, this volume takes an important step toward advancing the discussion of Jewish cultural influences in this country.
The First Texas News Barons
University of Texas Press
A fascinating look at how newspaper publishers including A. H. Belo and George B. Dealey (Dallas Morning News), William P. Hobby and Oveta Culp Hobby (Houston Post), Jesse H. Jones (Houston Chronicle), and Amon G. Carter Sr. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) pla
Morals and the Media, 2nd edition
Ethics in Canadian Journalism
UBC Press
This revised edition of the groundbreaking text covers the many changes in the Canadian media in the last decade, including further concentration of media ownership, media convergence, the rise of the blog, and the tightening economic pressures on the industry as a whole, and new “Tough Calls” at the end of each chapter, inviting readers to test their own ethics in scenarios drawn from real news stories.
Trauma Culture
The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature
Rutgers University Press
In Trauma Culture, E. Ann Kaplan explores the relationship between the impact of trauma on individuals and on entire cultures and nations. Arguing that humans possess a compelling need to draw meaning from personal experience and to communicate what happens to others, she examines the artistic, literary, and cinematic forms that are often used to bridge the individual and collective experience. A number of case studies, including Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism, Marguerite Duras' La Douleur, Sarah Kofman's Rue Ordener, Rue Labat, Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, and Tracey Moffatt's Night Cries, reveal how empathy can be fostered without the sensationalistic element that typifies the media.
Terrorism, Media, Liberation
Edited by J. David Slocum
Rutgers University Press
Bringing together fifteen classic essays by prominent scholars in a variety of fields, including history, international relations, communications, American studies, anthropology, political science, and cultural studies, Terrorism, Media, Liberation explores the relationship between violent political actions and the technological media that present and frame them for mass audiences.
Happy Days and Wonder Years
The Fifties and the Sixties in Contemporary Cultural Politics
Rutgers University Press
In the twenty-first century, why do we keep talking about the Fifties and the Sixties? The stark contrast between these decades, their concurrence with the childhood and youth of the baby boomers, and the emergence of television and rock and roll help to explain their symbolic power. In Happy Days and Wonder Years, Daniel Marcus reveals how interpretations of these decades have figured in the cultural politics of the United States since 1970.
Producing Dreams, Consuming Youth
Mexican Americans and Mass Media
By Vicki Mayer
Rutgers University Press
Producing Dreams, Consuming Youth takes us behind the scenes in San Antonio, Texas, a major market for Mexican American popular culture. Vicki Mayer brings readers the perspectives of those who produce and consume mass media—including music, television, and newspapers. Through the voices of people ranging from Spanish-language advertising agency executives to English-speaking working-class teenagers, we see how the media brings together communities of Mexican Americans as they pursue cultural dreams, identification, and empowerment.
Global Cities
Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age
Edited by Patrice Petro and Linda Krause
Rutgers University Press
In Global Cities, scholars from an impressive array of disciplines critique the growing body of literature on the process broadly known as "globalization." This interdisciplinary focus enables the authors to explore the complex geographies of modern cities, and offer possible strategies for reclaiming a sense of place and community in these globalized urban settings. While examining major cities including New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Paris, and Hong Kong, contributors insist that the study of urban experiences must remain as attentive to the material effects as to the psychic and social consequences of globalization.
Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media
Edited by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam
Rutgers University Press
Reflecting the burgeoning academic interest in issues of nation, race, gender, sexuality, and other axes of identity, Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media brings all of these concerns under the same umbrella, contending that these issues must be discussed in relation to each other. Communities, societies, nations, and even entire continents, the book suggests, exist not autonomously but rather in a densely woven web of connectedness.
Brown Tide Rising
Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse
University of Texas Press
Applying the insights of cognitive metaphor theory to an extensive natural language data set drawn from hundreds of articles in the Los Angeles Times and other media, Santa Ana reveals how metaphorical language portrays Latinos as invaders, outsiders, bur
Latin Politics, Global Media
Edited by Elizabeth Fox and Silvio Waisbord
University of Texas Press
Thirteen well-known media experts examine how the intersection of globalization and democratization has transformed media systems and policies throughout Latin America.
Border Radio
Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves, Revised Edition
By Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford
University of Texas Press
The eventful history of border radio, from its founding in the 1930s by "goat-gland doctor" J. R. Brinkley to the glory days of Wolfman Jack in the 1960s.
Mass Media and Free Trade
NAFTA and the Cultural Industries
Edited by Emile G. McAnany and Kenton T. Wilkinson
University of Texas Press
This book brings together experts in economics, sociology, anthropology, the humanities, and communications to explore what effects the North American Free Trade Agreement may have on the flow of cultural products among Mexico, the United States, and Cana
Manufacturing the News
By Mark Fishman
University of Texas Press
How the routine methods of gathering news, rather than any hidden manipulators, determine the ideological character of the product.
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