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Forthcoming August 2023 Entertaining German Culture
Contemporary Transnational Television and Film
Ehrig, S., Schaper, B. & Ward, E. (eds)
In an increasingly transnational production of film and television, Entertaining German Culture explores and contextually thematizes a radical shift in the past fifteen years towards a profound appreciation of German cultural and intellectual history in the international mainstream.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies History (General)
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Forthcoming July 2023
Cryptopolitics
Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media
Bernal, V., Pype, K., & Rodima-Taylor, D. (eds)
Focusing on African societies, Crypolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media to draw out the significance of hidden information, double meanings, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages in negotiations of power relations.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published March 2023
Amnesia Remembered
Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact
Aycock, J.
As an introduction to studying and reverse engineering a digital artifact, this volume is intended for nontechnical audiences wanting to learn how to conduct their own similar research on computer software. While presented through an archaeological lens, it is also suitable for readers in history, game studies, and other areas in the humanities and social sciences, as well as computer science and engineering.
Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2023
The Right to Memory
History, Media, Law, and Ethics
Tirosh, N. & Reading, A. (eds)
The Right to Memory looks beyond everyday memory and commemoration practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order to legitimize and protect groups and individuals.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies Media Studies
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Published June 2022
Spanish Laughter
Humor and Its Sense in Modern Spain
Calvo Maturana, A. (ed)
Exploring various forms of humor in Modern Spain since their entry into the eighteenth-century public sphere, Spanish Laughter takes on the comforting, transgressive, conservative, rebellious, and other dynamic forms of humor as they have changed and contributed to the building of Spain’s cultural framework and historiographical panorama.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published May 2022
Soho on Screen
Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963
Young, J.
Soho on Screen provides the first history of London’s commercial and cultural center, Soho, in British cinema. It highlights forgotten British films, filmmakers, and stars in detail and introduces thoroughly researched studies that highlight not only the cultural importance of Soho as a locus for cinema but also the impact of gentrification on the cultural and social development of Soho today.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published May 2022
The Walls of Santiago
Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile
Gordon-Zolov, T. & Zolov, E.
The response in Chile to Santiago’s metro’s fare hike in October of 2019 has grown into a strong and multi-faceted resistance movement. Through incisive and topical analysis, the authors offer a beautiful catalog of photographs of the murals, graffiti, and other forms of political art, reflecting on these aesthetic traditions and their relationship to the broader context of global protest movements and the long shadow cast by memories of the Pinochet regime.
Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2022
Collecting Educational Media
Making, Storing and Accessing Knowledge
Hertling, A. & Carrier, P. (eds)
Over the last two centuries, collectors from around the world have historicized, politicized, and digitized media in the pursuit of knowledge and education. This collected volume explores how collections of educational media influence the ways in which people learn in both the present and future.
Subjects: Educational Studies Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2022
The Social Origins of Thought
Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project
Schick, Johannes F. M.
The Social Origins of Thought explores the Durkheim School’s ambitious critique of philosophical interpretations of the genesis and constitution of the categories of thought. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the “category project”.
Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology Media Studies
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Published March 2022
Animals, Plants and Afterimages
The Art and Science of Representing Extinction
Bienvenue, V. & Chare, N. (eds)
From quaggas to thylacine to dinosaurs, Animals, Plants and Afterimages brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in media, art, literature and elsewhere, crossing academic boundaries to explore how portrayals of disappeared species embody cultural assumptions.
Subjects: Media Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2022
Times of History, Times of Nature
Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge
Ekstrom, A. & Bergwik, S. (eds)
Times of History, Times of Nature engages with this historical shift in temporal sensibilities through a combination of detailed case studies and synthesizing efforts. Focusing on the history of knowledge, media theory, and environmental humanities, this volume explores the rich and nuanced notions of time and temporality that have emerged in response to climate change.
Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published January 2022
Mediated Lives
Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
Twigt, M.
Using the example of Iraqi refugees in Jordan's capital of Amman, this book describes how information and communication technologies (ICTs) play out in the everyday experiences of urban refugees, geographically located in the Global South, and shows how interactions between online and offline spaces are key for making sense of the humanitarian regime, for carving out a sense of home and for sustaining hope.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published January 2022
Emerging Technologies and Museums
Mediating Difficult Heritage
Stylianou-Lambert, T., Bounia, A., & Heraclidou, A. (eds)
Emerging technologies in museums have the potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions, encourage emotional responses, introduce the unexpected, and overall provide alternative experiences. By examining varied theoretical approaches and case studies, authors demonstrate how “awkward”, contested, and rarely discussed subjects and stories are treated – or can be potentially treated - in a museum setting with the use of the latest technology.
Subjects: Museum Studies Heritage Studies Media Studies
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Published November 2021
Dressing Up
Menswear in the Age of Social Media
Bluteau, J. M.
What does men’s fashion say about contemporary masculinity? How do these notions operate in an increasingly digitized world? To answer these questions, author Joshua M. Bluteau combines theoretical analysis with vibrant narrative, exploring men’s fashion in the online world of social media as well as the offline worlds of retail, production, and the catwalk.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published September 2021
Digital Archives and Collections
Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage
Müller, K.
Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives envision, decide and conduct digitization and online dissemination.
Subjects: Museum Studies Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2021
Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience
New Phenomenological and Cognitivist Perspectives
Sinnerbrink, R. (ed)
Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film theory. Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience explores how these two approaches might work together to create a philosophy of film that is both descriptively rich and theoretically productive.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology
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Published May 2021
Mattering the Invisible
Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral
Espírito Santo, D. & Hunter, J. (eds)
Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. The book uses contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible arises through technological engagement, and where the paranormal intertwines with modern technology.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published March 2021
On the Death of Jews
Photographs and History
Fresco, N.
In this trenchant meditation on photographs from an atrocity in Latvia during the Holocaust, Nadine Fresco argues for the vital importance of photographs—and nontraditional sources more broadly—for understanding the Holocaust. She confronts charged questions around guilt and testimony while teasing out the subtle implications of camera angles, photo sequencing, and body language, helping us to see anew the perspectives of victims, perpetrators, and others who witnessed the brutality of the Holocaust.
Subjects: Genocide History Media Studies Jewish Studies
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Published February 2021
Nordic War Stories
World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory
Stecher-Hansen, M. (ed)
Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining formal and informal national historiographies alongside representations of the second world war in canonical literary works, memoirs, and films. Together, they comprise a valuable companion that challenges the myth of Scandinavian homogeneity while demonstrating the powerful influence that the war continues to exert on national self-conceptions.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published February 2021
Four-Color Communism
Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic
Eedy, S.
As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were employed as extensions of the regime’s educational system, delivering state ideology to develop the socialist personality among youth. The East German children who avidly read these comics, however, found their own meanings and projected their own desires in them.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published December 2020
The Meanings of a Disaster
Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France
Kalmbach, K.
Focusing on the cases of Great Britain and France, this innovative study explores the discourses and narratives that arose in the wake of the incident among both state and nonstate actors. It gives a thorough account of the strategies that shaped Western European responses to the disaster as well as nuclear policy up to the present day.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published November 2020
Sensitive Subjects
The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema
Mukhida, L.
Sensitive Subjects examines how contemporary German-language cinema may be read as seeking to produce greater political sensitivity in audiences through its form—that is, by employing medium-specific devices such as lighting, sound, editing and mise-en-scène in ways that prompt a more critical stance towards the societies it depicts.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published November 2020
Sounds German
Popular Music in Postwar Germany at the Crossroads of the National and Transnational
Fulk, K. A. (ed)
Sounds German surveys the sociopolitical impact of music on German national identity, gender and sexuality, and transnational cultural production and consumption, expanding on the ways in which sounds, technologies, media practices, and exchanges of popular music provide a unique glimpse into the cultural dynamics of postwar Germany.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published November 2020
Spanish Comics
Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Magnussen, A. (ed)
Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from early comics history in 1875-1939; the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain from the early 1980s, and themes of memory, gender, regional identities, and history.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published November 2020
Engaging with Chaucer
Practice, Authority, Reading
Moseley, C.W.R.D. (ed)
This collected volume represents an homage to a toweringly great poet, as well as an acknowledgement of the intellectual excitement, challenges, and pleasure that readers owe to him as even today, his poems have the capacity to change the way we engage with fundamental questions of knowledge, understanding, and beauty.
Subjects: Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2020
Modern Lusts
Ernest Borneman: Jazz Critic, Filmmaker, Sexologist
Siegfried, D.
Detlef Siegfried’s long-awaited English translation chronicles Ernest Borneman’s journey from his days as a young Jewish Communist in Berlin to his ventures in England and Canada, and ultimately, to his endeavors as the most prominent sexologist spearheading the sexual revolution in West Germany and Austria in the twentieth century.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published July 2020
An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology
Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence
Graham, S.
The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling allows archaeologists to test the ‘just-so’ stories they tell about the past. These models are one end of a spectrum that ends with video games. This volume explores this spectrum in the context of Roman archaeology, addressing the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities of a formalized approach to computation and archaeogaming.
Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2020
Don't Need No Thought Control
Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Horten, G.
Don't Need No Thought Control explores the dynamic interplay between popular demands, intensifying economic crises, and cultural policy decisions during the Erich Honecker era in a comprehensive and comparative analysis.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies
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Published April 2020
A Dramatic Reinvention
German Television and Moral Renewal after National Socialism, 1956–1970
Anderson, S.
A Dramatic Revinvention sheds new light on how Germans rebuilt their moral and intellectual world after the Nazi catastrophe. The book argues that television emerged as one of the most important mediums for presenting, discussing, and working through the question of how to re-moralize Germany.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published April 2020
Theorising Media and Conflict
Budka, P. & Bräuchler, B. (eds)
Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict. Practitioners, policymakers, students and scholars who wish to understand the lived realities and dynamics of contemporary conflicts will find this book invaluable.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2020
Revisiting Austria
Tourism, Space, and National Identity, 1945 to the Present
Graml, G.
Revisiting Austria draws on a rich selection of films, marketing materials, literature, and first-person accounts to explore the ways in which tourism has shaped both international and domestic perceptions of Austrian identity even as it has failed to confront the nation’s often violent and troubled history.
Subjects: Travel and Tourism History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published April 2020
In Fading Light
The Films of the Amber Collective
Leggott, J.
The Amber Film collective has been part of the British and European documentary scene since the late 1960s. Situating the work within wider social, political and historical contexts, In Fading Light interrogates how their critically acclaimed body of work—which includes documentaries, feature films, television films, and other experimental and campaigning projects—relates to other filmmakers in Britain and Europe.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2020
The Children of Gregoria
Dogme Ethnography of a Mexican Family
Kristensen, R. & Adeath Villamil, C.
The Children of Gregoria portrays a struggling Mexico, told through the story of the Rosales family. This book highlights their voices and allows them to tell their own stories in an accessible, literary manner without prejudice, persecution or judgment.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Media Studies
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Published March 2020
Media Practices and Changing African Socialities
Non-media-centric Perspectives
Helle-Valle, J. & Strom-Mathiesen, A. (eds)
Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The focus is on media-related practices, which require engagement with different perspectives and concerns while situating these in a wider analytical context.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published January 2020
Feelings Materialized
Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500–1950
Hillard, D., Lempa, H., & Spinney, R. (eds)
Examining the material aspects of emotion, this volume encompasses technology, photography, aesthetics, and a variety of other historical themes in an innovative application of emotion studies. Feelings Materialized brings together an interdisciplinary group of Germanists to unveil the emotions embedded in the world of things and bodies.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies History: Medieval/Early Modern Literary Studies
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Published September 2019
Shakespeare and the Ethics of War
Gray, P. (ed)
How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporary conflict through the lens of the past.
Subjects: Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Media Studies
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Published July 2019
PC Worlds
Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony
Friedman, J.
This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and as specific critical historical conjunctures in which new elites attempt to redefine social reality.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published July 2019
The Girl in the Text
Smith, A. (ed)
How are girls represented in written and graphic texts, and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume, contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality.
Subjects: Literary Studies Sociology Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2019
Peace at All Costs
Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish–German Reconciliation
Frieberg, A. E.
Peace at All Costs reconsiders postwar Polish-German relations as an interdisciplinary case study of reconciliation and follows an influential network of non-state peace activists, major players in print and audiovisual media, as they attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies Media Studies
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Published July 2019
Comical Modernity
Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna
Hakkarainen, H.
Comical Modernity looks at the years between 1857–1890, a period of dramatic urban renewal within Vienna during which the city’s rapidly changing face was a popular topic in publications. This book shows how humor provided access to understanding modernity in an era of radical change, thus broadening our understanding of the cultural history of nineteenth-century Vienna.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2019
Persistently Postwar
Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan
Guarné, B., Lozano-Méndez, A., & Martinez, D. P. (eds)
Persistently Postwar approaches the topics of social memory and political discourse through an exploration of Japan’s post-war mass media. Diverse disciplinary backgrounds and contrasting perspectives offer a nuanced dialogue in which the functions of mass media are explored as more than a simple ideological tool.
Subjects: Media Studies Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Published January 2019
Monetising the Dividual Self
The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia
Hopkins, J.
Combining theoretical discussions with shorter case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers. It tracks the transformation of personal blogs, which attracted readers with spontaneous, authentic accounts of everyday life, into lifestyle blogs that generate income through advertising and foreground consumerist lifestyles.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published December 2018
Dreams of Germany
Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor
Gregor, N. & Irvine, T. (eds)
Why is Germany imagined as the ‘land of music’? How has that image been made over time? Exploring examples that range from Bruckner to the Beatles, from classical song to sex-club dance music, a team of historians and musicologists explores these perennial questions in innovative and exciting ways.
Subjects: Media Studies History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Performance Studies
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Published December 2018
Humanitarianism and Media
1900 to the Present
Paulmann, J. (ed)
Humanitarianism & Media brings together scholars from a variety of backgrounds to offer an unprecedented exploration of the history behind humanitarian efforts and the media, spanning from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published August 2018
Nation Branding in Modern History
Viktorin, C., Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E., Estner, A., & Will, M. K. (eds)
Branding in Modern History draws from a variety of international case studies, ranging from Austria and Switzerland to Chile, the US, China, Spain, Suriname, and Poland to investigate the nexus between cultural marketing, self-representation and political power by looking at current nation branding campaigns as well as its historical predecessors.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology Media Studies
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Published June 2018
Lessons in Perception
The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist
Taberham, P.
Narrative comprehension, memory, hallucination, and dreaming have long been objects of fascination for cognitive psychologists, as well as inspiration for experimental filmmakers. Lessons in Perception brings together film theory and psychological research by exploring how experimental filmmakers expand the viewer’s range of aesthetic sensitivities, and the creative possibilities uncharted by commercial cinema.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology
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Published June 2018
Archaeogaming
An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games
Reinhard, A.
Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. This book serves as a general introduction to "archaeogaming"; it describes the intersection of archaeology and video games and applies archaeological method and theory into understanding game-spaces as both site and artifact.
Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2018
The Witness as Object
Video Testimony in Memorial Museums
Jong, S. de
Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum object” in the form of video interviews. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes this new global phenomenon of the “musealisation” of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of video testimonies as exhibits.
Subjects: Museum Studies History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Memory Studies
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Published January 2018
The Ethics of Seeing
Photography and Twentieth-Century German History
Evans, J., Betts P., & Hoffmann, S.-L. (eds)
The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. These revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode of narrating the past.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published November 2017
Cyprus and its Conflicts
Representations, Materialities, and Cultures
Doudaki, V. & Carpentier, N. (eds)
Cyprus is an island of enduring political, military and, more recently, economic conflict. In this edited volume, Cyprus serves as a geographical, cultural and political point of reference to study how conflict is mediated, represented, reconstructed, experienced, and transformed, offering broader insight into the ways in which the culture of conflict impacts identity.
Subjects: Media Studies Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published September 2017
Spanish Lessons
Cinema and Television in Contemporary Spain
Smith, P. J.
Spanish film and television represent a remarkably influential and vibrant cultural industry, as well as a fertile site of innovation in the production of “transmedia” works that bridge narrative forms. Spanish Lessons provides an engaging exploration of the nation’s visual culture in an era of collapsing genre boundaries, accelerating technological change, and political-economic tumult.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published August 2017
Images from Paradise
The Visual Communication of the European Union's Federalist Utopia
Salgó, E.
Drawing upon the disciplines of politics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and cinema studies, Salgó presents a new way of looking at the “art of European unification” and to highlight the mythical sources of the federalist project.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Media Studies
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Published July 2017
Mad Mädchen
Feminism and Generational Conflict in Recent German Literature and Film
McCarthy, M.
The last two decades have been frequently discordant for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement’s strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. This book offers an incisive cultural analysis of these trans-generational debates, identifying characteristic features of their representation in German literature, film, and media.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Media Studies Film and Television Studies Literary Studies
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Published July 2017
Transborder Media Spaces
Ayuujk Videomaking between Mexico and the US
Kummels, I.
Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how various media forms have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. Within new media spaces, the Ayuujk people carve out their own visions of development, modernity, gender, and indigeneity in the twenty-first century.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2017
Reluctant Skeptic
Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture
Craver, H. T.
Best remembered for investigations of film and other media, journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer offered a seismographic reading of the Weimar-era confrontation between religion and secular modernity. This discerning study analyzes and contextualizes Kracauer’s early output, showing how he identified the quasi-theological roots of the era’s cultural ferment.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published December 2016
Stars and Stardom in Brazilian Cinema
Bergfelder, T., Shaw, L. & Vieira, J. L. (eds)
The richness of Brazilian stardom extends well beyond the ubiquitous Carmen Miranda, and among the studies assembled in this volume are fascinating explorations of figures alongside interrogations of the inner workings of the star system in Brazil, from the pioneering efforts of silent-era actresses to the recent advent of the non-professional movie star.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published August 2016
German Television
Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Powell, L. & Shandley, Robert R. (eds)
Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambitious volume collects penetrating essays on the distinctive theories, practices, and social-historical contexts that defined television in Germany.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published July 2016
New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies
Austin, G. (ed)
French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s work has been extremely influential, but has only intermittently been used to study cinema and new media. With topics ranging from photography to mobile technology, this collection demonstrates the enormous relevance that Bourdieu holds for the field of media studies.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology
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Published June 2016
Narratives in Motion
Journalism and Modernist Events in 1920s Portugal
Trindade, L.
A fascinating study of newspapers in 1920s Portugal, Narratives in Motion explores how the new “modernist reportage” embodied the spirit of its era while mediating some of its most spectacular episodes. In the process, it shows how that journalism epitomized a distinctively modern entanglement of narrative and event.
Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published June 2016
Designing Worlds
National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization
Fallan, K. & Lees-Maffei, G. (eds)
In design history, globalization is deeply intertwined with a long-held bias towards Western, industrialized nations. By reassessing the role of regional and national design histories and challenging the claim that nation states are obsolete in identity construction, Designing Worlds reflects on new national narratives from around the world.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published April 2016
Humour, Comedy and Laughter
Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life
Sciama, L.D. (ed)
Anthropological writings on humour are not numerous, but they do contain insight into the social processes that underlie joking and laughter. This volume examines the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humour and its potential to bring about a sense of mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published December 2015
Empire of Pictures
Global Media and the 1960s Remaking of American Foreign Policy
Kunkel, S.
The 1960s were a period of global media revolution: communication satellites compressed time and space, television spread around the world, and images circulated through print media in expanding ways. This book examines how U.S. policymakers exploited these changes.
Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2015
Museum Websites and Social Media
Issues of Participation, Sustainability, Trust and Diversity
Sánchez Laws, A. L.
Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity. This volume provides insight into the issues behind designing and implementing web pages and social media to serve the broadest range of museum stakeholders.
Subjects: Museum Studies Media Studies
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Published September 2015
The Event of Charlie Hebdo
Imaginaries of Freedom and Control
Zagato, A. (ed)
The January 2015 shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris sparked an enormous discussion among citizens and intellectuals worldwide. By analyzing the effects the attacks have had in various spheres of social life including the political, ideology, collective imaginaries, the media, and education, this collection aims to serve as a contribution and a critical response to that discussion.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published April 2015
Music and International History in the Twentieth Century
Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E. (ed)
Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Performance Studies
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Published September 2014
Sounds of Modern History
Auditory Cultures in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe
Morat, D. (ed)
Since the late 19th century, there has been a paradigmatic shift in auditory cultures and practices in European societies. This change was brought about by modern phenomena such as urbanization, industrialization and mechanization, the rise of modern sciences, and of course the emergence of new sound recording and transmission media. This book contributes to our understanding of modern European history through the lens of sound by examining diverse subjects such as performed and recorded music, auditory technologies like the telephone and stethoscope, and the ambient noise of the city.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published February 2014
Media and Revolt
Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present
Fahlenbrach, K., Sivertsen, E. & Werenskjold, R. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published January 2013
The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture
Ashby, C., Gronberg, T. & Shaw-Miller, S. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Media Studies Literary Studies
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Published November 2012
Beyond Habermas
Democracy, Knowledge, and the Public Sphere
Emden, C. J. & Midgely, D. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Media Studies Literary Studies
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Published June 2012
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama
Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa
Pype, K.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Media Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published July 2010
Comics in French
The European Bande Dessinée in Context
Grove, L.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Literary Studies
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Published May 2010
News as Culture
Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Traditions
Rao, U.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2010
The New Media Nation
Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication
Alia, V
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2009
The Political Economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schröder
Decline of the German Model?
Leaman, J.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published July 2009
Mediating Europe
New Media, Mass Communications, and the European Public Sphere
Harrison, J. & Wessels, B. (eds)
Subjects: Media Studies Sociology
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Published May 2009
Alarming Reports
Communicating Conflict in the Daily News
Arno, A.
Subjects: Media Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2008
Narrating the Nation
Representations in History, Media and the Arts
Berger, S., Eriksonas, L. & Mycock, A. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Media Studies Literary Studies Film and Television Studies
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Published May 2006
Media and Nation Building
How the Iban became Malaysian
Postill, J.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2005
Between Marx and Coca-Cola
Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980
Schildt, A. & Siegfried, D. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Sociology
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Published November 2003
Anthropology & Mass Communication
Media and Myth in the New Millennium
Peterson, M.A.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Media Studies
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