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  • Very Special Episodes

    Televising Industrial and Social Change

    by Jonathan Cohn, Jennifer Porst, Reba Wissner, Philip Scepanski, Barbara Selznick, David Scott Diffrient, Lindsay Giggey, Erin Copple Smith, Ron Becker0, Erin Giannini1, Mimi White2, Brett Mills3, Apryl Alexander4, Christine Becker5, Jorie Lagerwey6, Taylor Nygaard7 ...
    Very Special Episodes examines how the quintessential “very special episode” format became a primary way in which the television industry responded to and shaped social change, cultural traumas, and industrial transformations. With essays covering shows ranging from the birth of Desi Arnaz, Jr. on I Love Lucy to contemporary examples such as a delayed episode of Black-ish and the streaming-era ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory

    by Christine Becker, Susan J. Douglas, Herman Gray, Jonathan Gray, Heather Hendershot, Eric Hoyt, Deborah Jaramillo, Derek Kompare, Susan Murray0, Allison Perlman1, Lynn Spigel2 ...
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    Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory is the first edited volume devoted to the Peabody Awards Collection, a unique repository of radio and TV programs submitted yearly since 1941 for consideration for the prestigious Peabody Awards. The essays in this volume explore the influence of the Peabody Awards Collection as an archive of the vital medium of TV, turning their ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Local TV

    Histories, Communities, and Aesthetics

    by Annie Laurie Sullivan, Caroline Bayne, Christine Becker, Mary Beltrán, Ana Howe Bukowski, Rod Carveth, Aymar Jean Christian, Daphne Gershon, Antoine Haywood0, Dyfrig Jones1, Evelyn Kreutzer2, Lori Kido Lopez3, Jonathan MacDonald4, Daniel Marcus5, Taylor Cole Miller6, Helen Morgan Parmett7, Shawn VanCour8 ...
    Series Book 5 - The Peabody Series in Media History
    Local Television: Histories, Communities, and Aesthetics offers critical analyses of an expansive range of practices, policies, and debates in local television histories from the United States. Television is typically perceived as a commercial and/or national form of communication with the potential to reach millions of viewers. Yet, from the earliest years of television through the present, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Wall

    And Other Stories

    by Jurek Becker ...
    Jurek Becker was one of the giants of postwar German literature. The novel for which he is best-known, Jacob the Liar, won wide acclaim, was awarded the Heinrich-Mann and Charles Veillon Prizes, and was made into two movies. It has been called a novel about the martyrdom of Europe’s Jews that has never been surpassed” (Times Literary Supplement). The Wall is a new, brief collection of stories by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • What Was MTV?

    Music Television from Launch to Reality

    by Ethan Thompson ...
    Series Book 2 - The Peabody Series in Media History
    What did people really mean when they said, “I want my MTV”? Long before music videos were instantly searchable online, MTV offered something very different: a nonstop, unpredictable flow of images, sounds, and personalities that reshaped how audiences experienced music, television, and youth culture. What Was MTV? tells the story of how MTV emerged in 1981 and evolved through 1992, tracing its ... Read more

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  • Spreadable Media

    Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture

    by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, Joshua Green ...
    Series Book 15 - Postmillennial Pop
    Spreadable Media maps fundamental changes taking place in our contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content. It contrasts “stickiness”—aggregating attention in centralized places—with “spreadability”—dispersing content widely through both formal and informal networks,some ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • A Week at the Shore

    A Novel

    by Barbara Delinsky ...
    “A first-rate storyteller who creates believable, sympathetic characters who seem as familiar as your neighbors,” (The Boston Globe), Barbara Delinsky presents a captivating new novel about a woman whose unexpected reunion with her estranged family forces her to confront a devastating past in A Week at the Shore.One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her family’s Rhode ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Mouse that Roared

    Disney and the End of Innocence

    by Henry A. Giroux, Grace Pollock ...
    How are children-and their parents-affected by the world's most influential corporation? Henry A. Giroux explores the surprisingly diverse ways in which Disney, while hiding behind a cloak of innocence and entertainment, strives to dominate global media and shape the desires, needs, and futures of today's children. ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Purity

    A Novel

    by Jonathan Franzen ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Notable Book“So funny, so sage and above all so incandescently intelligent” (The Chicago Tribune), the New York Times bestseller Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, a daring and penetrating book from “the most intelligent novelist of [his] generation” (The New Republic), ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Rational Ritual

    Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

    by Michael Suk-Young Chwe ...
    Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.Game theory shows that in order to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • That Book Is Dangerous!

    How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing

    by Adam Szetela ...
    An alarming exposé of the new challenges to literary freedom in the age of social media—when anyone with an identity and an internet connection can be a censor.In That Book Is Dangerous!, Adam Szetela investigates how well-intentioned and often successful efforts to diversify American literature have also produced serious problems for literary freedom. Although progressives are correct to be ... Read more

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  • My Brother's Voice: How a Young Hungarian Boy Survived the Holocaust: A True Story

    by Stephen Nasser ...
    Stephen Nasser somehow dug deep within his soul to survive the brutal and inhumane treatment his captors inflicted on the Jews. He was the only one of his family to survive--but the memory of his brother's dying words compelled him to live. Stephen's account of the Holocaust, told in the refreshingly direct and optimistic language of a young boy, appeals to both younger audiences and his ... Read more

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