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Convergence of Telecommunications and Broadcasting in Japan United Kingdom and Germany
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 195.00The convergence of telecommunications and broadcasting raises many questions. What form will convergence take in the future? When convergence produces new opportunities in the information, education and entertainment markets, what sort of rules of the game will be required? How will the players behave in these new markets? What policies might be needed? more...
Occidentalism in Turkey
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 92.50From the early Attaturk years, Turkish radio broadcasting was seen as a great hope for sealing the national identity of the new Turkish Republic. Since the inaugural broadcast in 1927 the national elite designed radio broadcasting to represent the 'voice of a nation'. Here Meltem Ahiska reveals how radio broadcasting actually showed Turkey's... more...
The Insider's Guide to Film Finance
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 43.95Financing an independent feature film production is a highly complex process. This book demystifies the legal and commercial implications of a film from start to finish. It provides a detailed survey of each of the processes and players involved, and analyses of the legal and commercial issues faced by all of the participants in a film financing... more...
Wireless and Empire
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 84.99Although the product of a self-proclaimed consensus politics, the British Empire was always based on communications supremacy and the knowledge of the atmosphere. Using the metaphor of a thread of five pieces representing the categories science, industry, government, the military, and the education, this is the first book to study the relations between... more...
Desperately Seeking the Audience
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 45.95Millions of people all over the world are avid members of the television audience. Yet, despite the central place television occupies in contemporary culture, our understanding of its complex and dynamic role in everyday life remains surprisingly limited. Focusing on the television audience, Ien Ang asks why we understand so little about its nature,... more...
British Cinema Past and Present
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95British Cinema: Past and Present 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 investigate the rich diversity of British film production, from the early sound... more...
Hollywood Insider Exposed!
New Holland Publishers (Australia) 2008; US$ 12.95Hollywood's happiest TV personality shares his insights and secrets in this show-and-tell-all collection of anecdotes. more...
Distorting Defense
ABC-CLIO 1998; US$ 119.95Using journalists' own standards as the measure, an exhaustive analysis of nearly 3000 network news reports from the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations reveals that the networks may do more to misinform than inform on a whole range of complex issues related to national defense. This study paints a disturbing picture of the inadequate coverage... more...
Backstory
Penguin Group US 2004; US$ 15.00It is said that journalism is a vital public service as well as a business, but more and more it is also said that big media consolidation; noisy, instant opinions on cable and the Internet; and political ?bias? are making a mockery of such high-minded ideals. In Backstory , Ken Auletta explores why one of America?s most important industries is... more...
The DVD Revolution
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 70.00The introduction of the DVD marked the beginning of one of history's most successful technological innovations, and capped a 75-year development of home-viewing possibilities. Never before have film fans had access in their living rooms to something so remarkably close to the theatrical experience. In addition, because a DVD can hold much more than... more...









