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  • Sensational Modernism

    Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America

    by Joseph B. Entin ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the United States
    Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, Sensational Modernism uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind and fiction by writers such as William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, Tillie Olsen, and Pietro di Donato, Joseph Entin argues ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Remaking Reality

    U.S. Documentary Culture after 1945

    Edited by Sara Blair, Joseph B. Entin, Franny Nudelman ...
    After World War II, U.S. documentarians engaged in a rigorous rethinking of established documentary practices and histories. Responding to the tumultuous transformations of the postwar era — the atomic age, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the emergence of the environmental movement, immigration and refugee crises, student activism, the globalization of labor, and the financial collapse ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Documentary Film

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Patricia Aufderheide ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes readers along the diverse ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition

    by Bill Nichols ...
    The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps of planning and preproduction and includes an example of a project proposal for a film that went on to win awards at major festivals. Designed ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Feeling Canadian

    Television, Nationalism, and Affect

    by Marusya Bociurkiw ...
    Series series Film and Media Studies
    “My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian!” How did a beer ad featuring an unassuming guy in a plaid shirt become a national anthem? This book about Canadian TV examines how affect and consumption work together, producing national practices framed by the television screen. Drawing on the new field of affect theory, Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect tracks the ways that ideas about the ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Paraliterary

    The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America

    by Merve Emre ...
    "[Emre's] intellectual moves . . . are many, subtle, and a pleasure to follow. . . . None of her bad readers could have written this very good book." — Los Angeles Review of BooksLiterature departments tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers—attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom

    Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential Art

    Edited by Robert G. Weiner, Carrye Kay Syma ...
    Sequential art combines the visual and the narrative in a way that readers have to interpret the images with the writing. Comics make a good fit with education because students are using a format that provides active engagement. This collection of essays is a wide-ranging look at current practices using comics and graphic novels in educational settings, from elementary schools through college. The ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Teaching Film

    by Mark Lynn Anderson, Dudley Andrew, Michael Aronson ...
    Series Book 35 - Options for Teaching
    Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of film is dispersed across a range of academic departments, programs, and scholarly organizations, film studies has come to be recognized as a field in its own right. In an era when teaching and scholarship are increasingly interdisciplinary, film studies ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Music and Social Movements

    Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century

    by Ron Eyerman, Andrew Jamison ...
    Series series Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
    Building on their studies of sixties culture and theory of cognitive praxis, Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison examine the mobilization of cultural traditions and formulation of new collective identities through the music of activism. They combine a sophisticated theoretical argument with historical-empirical studies of nineteenth-century populists and twentieth-century labour and ethnic movements, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Citizen Machine

    Governing by Television in 1950s America

    by Anna McCarthy ...
    The Citizen Machine is the untold political history of television's formative era. Historian Anna McCarthy goes behind the scenes of early television programming, revealing that long before the age of PBS, leaders from business, philanthropy, and social reform movements as well as public intellectuals were all obsessively concerned with TV's potential to mold the right kind of citizen.Based on ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Framing Blackness

    The African American Image in Film

    by Ed Guerrero ...
    Series series Culture And The Moving Image
    From D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Ed Guerrero argues, the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society. Written with the energy and conviction generated by the new black film wave, Framing Blackness traces an ongoing epic—African Americans protesting screen images of blacks as criminals, servants, comics, athletes, and sidekicks.These ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Hegemony, Mass Media and Cultural Studies

    Properties of Meaning, Power, and Value in Cultural Production

    by Sean Johnson Andrews ...
    Series series Cultural Studies and Marxism
    In the early part of the 20th century, state and corporate propagandists used the mass media to promote the valor and rightness of ascending U.S. hegemony on the global stage. Critics who challenged these practices of mass persuasion were quickly discredited by the emergent field of communication research - a field explicitly attempting to measure and thereby improve the efficacy of media messages ... Read more

    $46.99 USD