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Morrissey
Memory Fragments
Marion Richardson
Morrissey
Media and Participation
Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy arts development spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media practice. These case studies also show participation’s close connection to power identity organization technology and quality.
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The Mobile Nation
The Mobile Nation
Media in Europe Today
Media in Europe Today provides a comprehensive overview of European media in its current state of transformation. Through a focus on specific European media sectors it assesses the impact of new technologies across industries and addresses a wide range of practices strategies and challenges facing European media today. The Euromedia Research Group has more than twenty years of experience in the observation of trends affecting media today and this book marks the strong continuation of that long tradition.
Misreading Postmodern Antigone
In the mid-1980s film director Marco Bellocchio and renegade psychoanalyst Massimo Fagioli cowrote The Devil in the Flesh a politically and sexually charged film illustrating some of Fagioli's controversial theories. Echoing the anti-Lacanian sentiment popularized by Gilles Deleuze the film is perhaps best remembered for a scene in which the character Andrea misreads a section of the famous Greek tragedy Antigone. But this scene has itself been frequently misread opening up the text to questions of feminism politics and the representation of Antigone—a figure frequently used and abused in feminist politics. Displaying considerable analytic depth Misreading Postmodern Antigone considers these divergent readings and what they have to tell us about contemporary society.
Media, Markets and Public Spheres
Using a sample of European newspapers and their TV listings as a stepping stone Media Markets and Public Spheres presents an overview of changes in European public spheres over the last fifty years. With in-depth analyses of structural changes in press and broadcasting changing relations between media and changes in media policies this book explores how and why the media decisively influence most aspects of society. Media Markets and Public Spheres will be useful to students in media and communication studies and European studies as well as for those studying sociology and political science.
The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov
Grigorii Aleksandrov’s musical comedy films created with composer Isaak Dunaevskii were the most popular Russian cinema of the 1930s and ’40s. Drawing on studio documents press materials and interviews with surviving film crew members The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov presents the untold production history of the films. Salys explores how Aleksandrov’s cinema preserved the paradigms of the American musical including its comedic tradition using both to inscribe the foundation myths of the Stalin era in the national consciousness. As the first major study to situate these films in the cultural context of the era this book will be essential to courses on Russian cinema and Soviet culture.
Modes of Spectating
The notion of spectatorship has become of increasing interest as artists develop experimental works and manufacturers seek to produce the means for viewing such works. Modes of Spectating explores the visual landscapes which spectators encounter and how they perceive what they view.The volume questions the effect of different mediums on the spectator and asks not only how we view but also how what we view determines what artists create. Chapters discuss how gaming and televisual media and entertainment are used by young people and the resulting psychological challenges of human beings in their new ‘spectated’ surroundings of virtual worlds and media. Themes explored include aesthetics the body and mind and digital entertainment environments looked at through the lenses of gaming art photography sculpture and performance making it a useful text for scholars of all disciplines of media and art.
Media in the Enlarged Europe
The EU is in a constant state of flux: its constitution its institutions and especially its political economic and regulatory borders. Media in the Enlarged Europe deals with the complexity and instability of the European Union and its relationship with the mass media looking beyond national and cultural boundaries. This compilation also views the mass media not only in its more traditional senses but looks at newer media technologies and their applications.The recurring theme that binds the diverse papers in this collection is the relationship between European media industries and their social political economic and legislative contexts. The first part of the collection offers a snapshot of media politics policies industries and cultures in the European Union as a whole; the second part presents comprehensive case studies of the history and current state of the mass media in specific European nations making Media in the Enlarged Europe an essential resource for media academics and students.
Media, Democracy and European Culture
Media Democracy and European Culture presents some of the most recent cutting edge research on Europe from social political and cultural perspectives equally focusing on each dimension of democracy in Europe. The role of the media communication policy and the question of how the media report on Europe runs as a thread through all contributions. The book is interdisciplinary and international. It brings together researchers from many countries and from humanities social sciences and law. The articles combine the discussion of central theories and theoretical concepts for the understanding of media democracy and European culture with empirical data and comparative analytical studies of media culture and democracy across Europe. The book is written by some of the most prominent European Scholars in media political science sociology and cultural studies.
Media, Monarchy and Power
Is obsession with the Royal Family in Britain a fact of culture or an illusion of media culture? What interest do the European media display in their royal families? Does twenty-first century monarchy remain a political and ideological force - or is it just an economic commodity? Media Monarchy and Power provides a radical insight into the cultural and political functioning of royalty in five countries. Blain and O'Donnell examine the bonds between monarchies and their 'subjects' or 'citizens' and the relationships between royal families the media and nation-states. Numerous case-studies from press and television in Europe and the UK support a theoretical account of the operation of monarchy and royalty in the media. Central to the concerns of Media Monarchy and Power are the complex relationship between Britain and Europe and the limits of British political modernization.
Media and Values
Media Between Culture and Commerce
In the face of declining newspaper sales challenges from online competitors and flagging ratings for broadcast news programs media companies have struggled to maintain their relevance. Media between Culture and Commerce brings together a group of European media experts to address the consequences of a system that is increasingly powered by global media conglomerates that set the pace of news and information. As national borders blur and the corporations behind journalism and broadcasting continue to merge this timely volume will prove a necessary resource to those interested in European media studies and globalization.
Media and Identity in Contemporary Europe
An integrated analysis of the central issues in contemporary media policy. Chapters focus on technological change and its impact on cultural and political identities the role of the cultural industries in the 'New Economy' and the impact of European integration on national institutions - public service broadcasting in particular. Because technological change in broadcasting has enabled us to open up media markets the shape of media and of society has become more internationally-oriented. Indeed modern international media has bought into question the very legitimacy of national communities and ideologies. And this is a phenomenon whose greatest impact has been in Europe. These studies address the future of public service broadcasting and the power of national regulators to shape trans-national media relationships. The author takes an empirical approach to analysis of these issues exploring media and communication studies very much as a social science.