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  • Critical Media Studies

    An Introduction for the Digital Age

    by Brian L. Ott, Robert L. Mack ...
    Master the critical tools for understanding media in today’s fast-evolving digital landscapeCritical Media Studies: An Introduction for the Digital Age provides students with a powerful framework for analyzing the impact of media on knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. In a world increasingly shaped by digital technologies and personalized information feeds, this leading textbook supplies the ... Read more

    $49.00 USD

  • The Haunted West

    Memory and Commemoration at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West

    by Greg Dickinson, Eric Aoki, Brian L. Ott ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    Through incisive analysis of the museum’s five institutions, Greg Dickinson and his coauthors reveal how narratives of Native American heritage, violent colonial settlement, Western art, natural history, and ever‑present gun culture collide to shape a haunted sense of American identity. By tracing the tensions between what is memorialized, what is mythologized, and what is suppressed, the authors ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Twitter Presidency

    Donald J. Trump and the Politics of White Rage

    by Brian L. Ott, Greg Dickinson ...
    Series series NCA Focus on Communication Studies
    The Twitter Presidency explores the rhetorical style of President Donald J. Trump, attending to both his general manner of speaking as well as to his preferred modality. Trump’s manner, the authors argue, reflects an aesthetics of white rage, and it is rooted in authoritarianism, narcissism, and demagoguery. His preferred modality of speaking, namely through Twitter, effectively channels and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Michael Moore and the Rhetoric of Documentary

    by Christine Harold, Brian L. Ott, Susan A. Sci, Thomas Rosteck, Thomas S. Frentz, Edward Schiappa, Daniel Ladislau Horvath, Peter B. Gregg, Davis W. Houck, Joseph Delbert Davenport, Kendall R. Phillips, Assistant Professor Jennifer L. Borda ...
    Not afraid to tackle provocative topics in American culture, from gun violence and labor policies to terrorism and health care, Michael Moore has earned both applause and invective in his career as a documentarian. In such polarizing films as Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko, Moore has established a unique voice of radical nostalgia for progressivism, and in doing so has become ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Border Rhetorics

    Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier

    by Bernadette Marie Calafell, Karma R. Chávez, Anne Teresa Demo, Lisa A. Flores, Dustin Bradley Goltz, Marouf Hasian, Julia R. Johnson, Zach Justus, Diane M. Keeling0, Toby Miller1, Kent A. Ono2, Mary Ann Villarreal3, George F. McHendry Jr4, Kimberlee Pérez Jr5, Dr. Josue David Cisneros6, Dr. Michelle A. Holling7, Dr. John Louis Lucaites8, Dr. Brian L. Ott9 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    Undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United StatesA “border” is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Places of Public Memory

    The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials

    Edited by Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, Brian L. Ott ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections of memory, place, and rhetoricThough we live in a time when memory seems to be losing its hold on communities, memory remains central to personal, communal, and national identities. And although popular and public discourses from speeches to films invite a shared sense of the past, official sites of memory such as memorials, museums, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • It's Not TV

    Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era

    Edited by Marc Leverette, Brian L. Ott, Cara Louise Buckley ...
    Since first going on the air in 1972, HBO has continually attempted to redefine television as we know it. Today, pay television (and HBO in particular) is positioned as an alternative to network offerings, consistently regarded as the premier site for what has come to be called "quality television."This collection of new essays by an international group of media scholars argues that HBO, as part ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    by Christina Lauren ...
    Series series The Beautiful Series
    New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling authors Christina Lauren’s Beautiful and Wild Seasons series hook up in Beautiful Secret for an erotic intercontinental romp that celebrates the best of both worlds!When Ruby Miller’s boss announces he’s sending her on an extended business trip to New York City, she’s shocked. As one of the best and brightest young engineers in London, she knows ... Read more

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  • Thanks for Watching

    An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube

    by Patricia G. Lange ...
    YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. In her award winning book, Thanks for Watching, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on this heavily mediated social environment by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them. She demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology—participant-observation, ... Read more

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  • The Death of Truth

    Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

    by Michiko Kakutani ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America’s retreat from reasonWe live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced, proven science is once more up for debate, and Russian propaganda floods our screens. The ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Keywords for Media Studies

    Edited by Laurie Ouellette, Jonathan Gray ...
    Series Book 5 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Read more

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  • Post-Truth

    by Lee McIntyre ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    We are living in a world where “alternative facts” replace actual facts—and where feelings have more weight than evidence. But how did we get here?In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of “fake news,” from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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