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Global Sex
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 17.50Global Sex is the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the ways in which desire and pleasure—as well as ideas about gender, political power, and public health—are framed, shaped, or commodified by a global economy in which more and more cultures move into ever-closer contact. more...
Convergent Journalism an Introduction
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 44.95Learn how to deliver news in any and all media. This one volume teaches you how to master all of the skills needed to be a converged journalist. Don't think only broadcast or print. Think online, air waves, magazines, PDAs, cell phones and electronic paper. Convergent Journalism an Introduction explains what makes a news story effective today and how... more...
Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds
LSU Press 2011; US$ 18.95In this thought-provoking and highly readable book, Robert Mann provides a concise, engaging study of the ?Daisy Girl? spot, which helped usher presidential campaign advertising into the modern era. Commissioned by Johnson?s campaign and aired only once during Johnson?s 1964 presidential contest against Barry Goldwater, the spot remains an iconic piece... more...
Law and Justice as Seen on TV
NYU Press 2003; US$ 75.00Law and Justice as Seen on TV examines the impact, significance, and social and political problems raised by the enormous onslaught of law-related television programming, both fiction and nonfiction, in the years since the rise of live televised trials as major media events. The book weaves together the various strandsmedia history and analysis,... more...
Foreign News
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 25.00Foreign News gives us a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Exploring how they work, Ulf Hannerz also compares the ways correspondents and anthropologists report from one part of the world to another. Hannerz draws on extensive interviews with correspondents in cities as diverse... more...
Prats and Twats
Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 2.99This is all about the people who think the world revolves around them. Includes celebritiy maxims, the A-Z of celebrity twattage, twat names, celebrity prat clothes, soundbites that we will never hear, the reality shows we'd actally like to see, 'You know you've had too much work done when...' and lots more. more...
From Celluloid to Cyberspace
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95The arts in America are entering a new era that will pose many challenges for the arts community. However, our current knowledge of the operation of the arts world and its underlying dynamics is limited. These limits are particularly pronounced with regard to the newest and most dynamic component of the arts world: the media arts. Defined as art that... more...
Lads
Random House Publishing Group 2004; US$ 13.95"What I wanted after college was a job and my own apartment, but what I needed was a good comeuppance, and that?s what I got." When Dave Itzkoff graduated from Princeton in 1998?the first member of his family to earn a college degree?he expected to be rewarded with a career, and a life, that mattered. Instead, he ended up convinced that he was... more...
Critical Vices: The Myths of Postmodern Theory
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 41.95In these essays, Nicholas Zurbrugg charts the developments in late 20th-century multimedia art. He challenges accounts of postmodern techno-culture, and interweaves literary and cultural theory and visual studies to demonstrate the neutering of mass-media culture and the exceptions to it. more...
The Nationwide Television Studies
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 170.00This book brings together for the first time David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon's classic texts, Everyday Television: Nationwide and The Nationwide Audience . Originally published in 1978 and 1980 these two research projects combine innovative textual readings and audience analysis of the BBC's current affairs programme Nationwide . In a specially... more...









