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Videoland

Movie Culture at the American Video Store

by Daniel Herbert ...

Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans socialized around movies and collectively made movies meaningful. When films became tangible as magnetic ... Read more

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Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans socialized around movies and collectively made movies meaningful. When films became tangible as magnetic
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The Circle

by Daniel Herbert ...

"Written as a Memoir of adolescence an adulthood, as it's written Herbert's work tell the story of a group of young men who bond together in an "us against the "world" friendship. Laughing together, fighting together, getting into trouble together, they come to moments of decision about the Vietnam war- and go." The plot moves at a rapid pace, and the characters are swiftly drawn. "Using the ... Read more

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"Written as a Memoir of adolescence an adulthood, as it's written Herbert's work tell the story of a group of young men who bond together in an "us against the "world" friendship. Laughing together, fighting together, getting into trouble together, they come to moments of decision about the Vietnam war- and go." The plot moves at a rapid pace, and the characters are swiftly drawn. "Using the
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Shame

Methods, Theories, Norms, Cultures, and Politics

by Cecilea Mun, Dolichan Kollareth, Mariko Kikutani, James A. Russell, Laura Candiotto, Matthew Rukgaber, Daniel Herbert, Alba Montes Sánchez, Lisa Cassidy, Mikko Salmela0, Julian Honkasalo1 ...

Shame is one of the most stigmatized and stigmatizing of emotions. Often characterized as an emotion in which the subject holds a global, negative self-assessment, shame is typically understood to mark the subject as being inadequate in some way, and a sizable amount of work on shame focuses on its problematic or unhealthy aspects, effects, or consequences. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Shame ... Read more

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Shame is one of the most stigmatized and stigmatizing of emotions. Often characterized as an emotion in which the subject holds a global, negative self-assessment, shame is typically understood to mark the subject as being inadequate in some way, and a sizable amount of work on shame focuses on its problematic or unhealthy aspects, effects, or consequences. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Shame
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Media Industry Studies

by Daniel Herbert, Amanda D. Lotz, Aswin Punathambekar ...

Series series Short Introductions
The study of media industries has become a thriving subfield of media studies. It already comprises a diverse intellectual history, a range of fascinating questions and topics, and many theoretical and methodological frameworks.Media Industry Studies provides the roadmap to this vibrant area of study. Blending a comprehensive overview of foundational literature with an examination of the varied ... Read more

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The study of media industries has become a thriving subfield of media studies. It already comprises a diverse intellectual history, a range of fascinating questions and topics, and many theoretical and methodological frameworks.Media Industry Studies provides the roadmap to this vibrant area of study. Blending a comprehensive overview of foundational literature with an examination of the varied
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Fear, Cultural Anxiety, and Transformation

Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films Remade

by Shane Borrowman, Costas Constandinides, Daryl G. Frazetti, Daniel Herbert, Ils Huygens, Stan Jones, Zilia Papp, Myoungsook Park, Constantine Verevis, Juneko J. Robinson ...

This collection was inspired by the observation that film remakes offer us the opportunity to revisit important issues, stories, themes, and topics in a manner that is especially relevant and meaningful to contemporary audiences. Like mythic stories that are told again and again in differing ways, film remakes present us with updated perspectives on timeless ideas. While some remakes succeed and ... Read more

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This collection was inspired by the observation that film remakes offer us the opportunity to revisit important issues, stories, themes, and topics in a manner that is especially relevant and meaningful to contemporary audiences. Like mythic stories that are told again and again in differing ways, film remakes present us with updated perspectives on timeless ideas. While some remakes succeed and
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Point of Sale

Analyzing Media Retail

by Daniel Herbert, Derek Johnson, Emily West, Greg Steirer, Heikki Tyni, Olli Sotamaa, Elizabeth Affuso, Avi Santo, Ethan Tussey0, Meredith A. Bak1, Courtney Brannon Donoghue2, Tim J. Anderson3, Lynn Comella4, Benjamin Woo5, Nasreen Rajani6, Erin Hanna7, Evan Elkins8, Marc Steinberg9 ...

Point of Sale offers the first significant attempt to center media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars with their fingers on the pulse of both the changes that foreground retail in a digital age and the history that has made retail a fundamental part of the culture industries. The book reveals why retail matters as a ... Read more

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Point of Sale offers the first significant attempt to center media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars with their fingers on the pulse of both the changes that foreground retail in a digital age and the history that has made retail a fundamental part of the culture industries. The book reveals why retail matters as a
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Academic Misconduct and Plagiarism

Case Studies from Universities around the World

by Paola Cavaliere, Denise De Souza, Anthony L. Fenton, Beena Giridharan, Cynthia Gralla, Natalia Inshakova, Brenda Lee, Andrew Leichsenring, Jillian Marchant, Najwa Saba ‘Ayon, Masahiro Saito, Alice Schmidt Hanbidge, Raimond Selke, Philip Streich, Tony Ti, Anna Toom, Herbert Tsang, Daniel Velasco, Yoshihiko Yamamoto, Georgina Zaharuk ...

This book discusses the issue of academic misconduct and publication ethics in general and plagiarism in particular, with a focus on case studies in various universities around the world (notably in Japan, Singapore, Australia, USA, and Canada). We are especially interested in students’ and teachers’ perception of academic misconduct and their definition and understanding of plagiarism. Most ... Read more

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This book discusses the issue of academic misconduct and publication ethics in general and plagiarism in particular, with a focus on case studies in various universities around the world (notably in Japan, Singapore, Australia, USA, and Canada). We are especially interested in students’ and teachers’ perception of academic misconduct and their definition and understanding of plagiarism. Most
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Paving the Way

Contributions of Interactive Conflict Resolution to Peacemaking

by Andrea Bartoli, George Emile Irani, Edy Kaufman, Herbert C. Kelman, Daniel Lieberfeld, Christopher Mitchell, Susan Allen Nan, Harold H. Saunders, Saúl Sosnowski, Andrew Williams ...

This first-of-a-kind collection brings together in one volume the strongest available evidence of successful transfer effects from unofficial third-party work to official peacemaking. Using comparative case analysis from several real-world interventions, Paving the Way offers insights into the conditions and qualities of successful programs of interactive conflict resolution from experts in the ... Read more

$46.99 USD

This first-of-a-kind collection brings together in one volume the strongest available evidence of successful transfer effects from unofficial third-party work to official peacemaking. Using comparative case analysis from several real-world interventions, Paving the Way offers insights into the conditions and qualities of successful programs of interactive conflict resolution from experts in the
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The Misadventures of a Tropical Medico

by Herbert Spencer Dickey, Hawthorne Daniel ...

A vivid and rich personal narrative of a doctor in South America.At the turn of the 19th Century, newly qualified M.D. Herbert Spencer Dickey, set sail to fulfill his lifelong dream of experiencing the varied countries and cultures of South America. From the start his adventure did not go to plan, having only 100 dollars and a letter of introduction from the Colombian consul to his credit the ... Read more

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A vivid and rich personal narrative of a doctor in South America.At the turn of the 19th Century, newly qualified M.D. Herbert Spencer Dickey, set sail to fulfill his lifelong dream of experiencing the varied countries and cultures of South America. From the start his adventure did not go to plan, having only 100 dollars and a letter of introduction from the Colombian consul to his credit the
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Philosophy of Education

by George Herbert Mead, Daniel Trohler, Gert Biesta ...

Never before published, this book features George Herbert Mead's illuminating lectures on the Philosophy of Education at the University of Chicago during the early 20th century. These lectures provide unique insight into Mead's educational thought and reveal how his early psychological writings on the social character of meaning and the social origin of reflective consciousness was central in the ... Read more

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Never before published, this book features George Herbert Mead's illuminating lectures on the Philosophy of Education at the University of Chicago during the early 20th century. These lectures provide unique insight into Mead's educational thought and reveal how his early psychological writings on the social character of meaning and the social origin of reflective consciousness was central in the
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Mass Communication and American Social Thought

Key Texts, 1919-1968

by Jane Addams, Theodor Adorno, Gordon Allport, Sherwood Anderson, Raymond Bauer, Daniel Bell, Bernard Berelson, Edward Bernays, Herbert Blumer, Warren Breed, Ernest W. Burgess, Hadley Cantril, John Cheever, Charles Horton Cooley, Reuel Denny, John Dewey, George Gallup, George Gerbner, Nathan Glazer, Herta Herzog, Max Horkheimer, Donald Horton, Helen MacGill Hughes, Julian Sorrell Huxley, Harold Innis, Elihu Katz, Ernst Kris, Galdys Engel Lang, Kurt Lang, Harold Dwight Lasswell, Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Alfred McLung Lee, Elizabeth Briant Lee, Daniel Lerner, Walter Lippman, Alain Locke, Leo Lowenthal, Helen M. Lynd, Robert S. Lynd, Dwight Macdonald, Duncan MacDougald, Herbert Marcuse, Thelma McCormack, Marshall McLuhan, Rolf Meyersohn, C Wright Mills, Newton Minow, Lewis Mumford, Gunnar Myrdal, Robert E. Park, Hortense Powdermaker, Saul Rae, Stuart Rice, David Riesman, John W. Riley, James Rorty, Edward Sapir, David Sarnoff, Herbert Schiller, Wilbur Schramm, Dallas Smythe, Hans Speier, Leila A. Sussmann, Sidney Verba, Norbert Wiener, Malcolm Willey, Louis Wirth, R Richard Wohl, Charles Wright, Robert K. Merton ...

Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt ... Read more

$89.99 USD

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt
... Read more
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The Study of Sociology

by Herbert Spencer ...

Narrated by Daniel Natal ...

Unabridged

12 hours 39 min

Hebert Spencer coined the famous expression “survival of the fittest”. "The Study of Sociology, written in 1873," was the first major work in the English language on the subject of Sociology.This is a must-have book for listeners who are interested in studying a seminal work in Sociology and discovering Spencer’s groundbreaking work in the field. ... Read more

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Hebert Spencer coined the famous expression “survival of the fittest”. "The Study of Sociology, written in 1873," was the first major work in the English language on the subject of Sociology.This is a must-have book for listeners who are interested in studying a seminal work in Sociology and discovering Spencer’s groundbreaking work in the field.
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