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  • More Bad News (Routledge Revivals)

    by Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge, John Hewitt, Jean Hart, Gregg Philo, Paul Walton, Brian Winston ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1980, More Bad News is the Second Volume in the research findings of the Glasgow University Media Group. It develops the analytic findings and methods of the first volume Bad News through a series of Case Studies of Television News Coverage, and argues that much of what passes as balanced and factual news reporting is produced from a highly partial viewpoint.Focusing on the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Bad News (Routledge Revivals)

    by Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge, John Hewitt, Jean Hart, Gregg Philo, Paul Walton, Brian Winston ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    It is a commonly held belief that television news in Britain, on whatever channel, is more objective, more trustworthy, more neutral than press reporting. The illusion is exploded in this controversial study by the Glasgow University Media Group, originally published in 1976.The authors undertook an exhaustive monitoring of all television broadcasts over 6 months, from January to June 1975, with ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Fires Were Started –

    by Brian Winston ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Humphrey Jennings (1907-50) was perhaps the most gifted film-maker of the British documentary movement. Involved in the Mass Observation project of the 1930s, Jennings' talent lay in picturing ordinary life in ways that were inventive yet authentic. "Fires Were Started –" (1943) is his major achievement. A film about a day's work for a unit of mainly auxiliary volunteer firemen at the height of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Claiming the Real

    Documentary: Grierson and Beyond

    by Brian Winston ...
    Claiming the Real II describes the origins, development and current state of documentary cinema, and the social, political, industrial and ethical factors that determine its production. This new edition addresses the ethical quagmires, digital technologies and proliferating forms that have transformed documentary cinema. ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Technologies of Seeing

    Photography, Cinema and Television

    by Brian Winston ...
    This text examines the complex forces pushing and constraining technological developments in cinema. It contests the view that technological advance is simply the result of scientific progress. Rather, the author argues that social forces control the media technology agenda at every stage. ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • The Act of Documenting

    Documentary Film in the 21st Century

    by Brian Winston, Dr Gail Vanstone, Mr. Wang Chi ...
    Documentary has never attracted such audiences, never been produced with such ease from so many corners of the globe, never embraced such variety of expression. The very distinctions between the filmed, the filmer and the spectator are being dissolved. The Act of Documenting addresses what this means for documentary's 21st century position as a genus in the “class” cinema; for its foundations as, ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Misunderstanding Media

    by Brian Winston ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies
    The 1980s saw constant reports of an information revolution. This book, first published in 1986, challenges this view. It argues that the information revolution is an illusion, a rhetorical gambit, an expression of profound historical ignorance, and a movement dedicated to purveying misunderstanding and disseminating disinformation. In this historically based attack on the information revolution, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Documentary Film Book

    Edited by Brian Winston ...
    Powerfully posing questions of ethics, ideology, authorship and form, documentary film has never been more popular than it is today. Edited by one of the leading British authorities in the field, The Documentary Film Book is an essential guide to current thinking on documentary film.In a series of fascinating essays, key international experts discuss the theory of documentary, outline current ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Roots of Fake News

    Objecting to Objective Journalism

    by Brian Winston, Matthew Winston ...
    The Roots of Fake News argues that ‘fake news’ is not a problem caused by the power of the internet, or by the failure of good journalism to assert itself. Rather, it is within the news’s ideological foundations – professionalism, neutrality, and most especially objectivity – that the true roots of the current ‘crisis’ are to be found.Placing the concept of media objectivity in a fuller historical ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Messages

    Free Expression, Media and the West from Gutenberg to Google

    by Brian Winston ...
    Easy to read, and highly topical, Messages writes a history of mass communication in Europe and its outreaches, as a search for the origins of media forms from print and stage, to photography, film and broadcasting.Arguing that the development of the mass media has been an essential engine driving the western concept of an individual, Brian Winston examines how the right of free expression is ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Media,Technology and Society

    A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet

    by Brian Winston ...
    Challenging the popular myth of a present-day 'information revolution', Media Technology and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in the social impact of technological change. Winston argues that the development of new media forms, from the telegraph and the telephone to computers, satellite and virtual reality, is the product of a constant play-off between social necessity and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Innovators

    How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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