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  • Contracting Out Hollywood

    Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting

    by Greg Elmer, Marcus Breen, Susan Christopherson, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Ben Goldsmith, Nitan Govil, Sara Matheson, Tom O'Regan, Barbara Selznick0 ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    In Hollywood's search for cheap, distinctive, and authentic locations, producers and directors are taking their business to foreign soil. Only one of the five 2002 Best Picture nominees was shot in the United States_The Hours, filmed in Hollywood, Florida. Contracting Out Hollywood addresses the American trend of 'runaway productions'_the growing practice of producing American films and television ... Read more

    $49.99 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

    $22.99 USD

  • Mediated Society

    by John D. Jackson, Greg M. Nielsen, Yon Hsu ...
    Taking a sociological approach to the study of mass media, Mediated Society explores how the media affects individuals and society. Within this unique framework, the authors analyze media and mass communication as a social rather than as a technological construct while addressing issues such as democracy, citizenship, class, gender, and cultural diversity. Drawing attention to the way in which ... Read more

    $24.19 USD

  • The Mass Media in Canada

    Fourth Edition

    by Mary Vipond ...
    Canada has one of the most advanced mass-media systems in the world, which allows Canadians more access to American culture via television, the movies, and the Internet than ever before. At the same time, governments support the production and distribution of Canadian content to Canadians.In this fully updated fourth edition, Mary Vipond traces the rise of the traditional mass media in Canada, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Popular Culture and High Culture

    An Analysis and Evaluation Of Taste

    by Herbert J. Gans ...
    Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards?In this new edition of Herbert Gans's brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of the universality of high cultural standards. While conceding that popular and high culture have converged to some extent over the twenty-five years since he ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Mouse that Roared

    Disney and the End of Innocence

    by Grace Pollock, Henry A. Giroux ...
    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

  • Cultural Industries.ca

    Making Sense of Canadian Media in the Digital Age

    by Ira Wagman ...
    Canada's creative industries encompass book, periodical, and newspaper publishing; radio and television broadcasting; the music industry; video game production; filmmaking and video production; telecommunications; and the new media. These industries represent a major sector in the Canadian economy and exert a profound influence on many aspects of Canadian life.In Cultural Industries.ca, thirteen ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Media Studies: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself

    by Joanne Hollows ...
    Written by an academic and researcher with over twenty years' experience in teaching and convening Media Studies courses, Media Studies: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear jargon-free English, and then providing added-value features ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Television Studies After TV

    Understanding Television in the Post-Broadcast Era

    Edited by Graeme Turner, Jinna Tay ...
    Television studies must now address a complex environment where change has been vigorous but uneven, and where local and national conditions vary significantly. Globalizing media industries, deregulatory policy regimes, the multiplication, convergence and trade in media formats, the emergence of new content production industries outside the US/UK umbrella, and the fragmentation of media audiences ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Politics, Society, and the Media, Second Edition

    by Paul Nesbitt-Larking ...
    Politics, Society, and the Media is the first comprehensive political sociology of the media to be published in Canada. Paul Nesbitt-Larking draws upon a range of disciplines, including cultural and media studies, political economy, social theory, and political science to provide an analysis of the relationship between power and representation in Canada.The framework for the book presents a model ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • We Interrupt This Program

    Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture

    by Miranda J. Brady, John M.H. Kelly ...
    We Interrupt This Program tells the story of how Indigenous people are using media tactics in the realms of art, film, television, and journalism to rewrite Canada’s national narratives from Indigenous perspectives. Miranda Brady and John Kelly showcase the diversity of these interventions by offering personal accounts and reflections on key moments – witnessing survivor testimonies at the Truth ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Age of Access

    The New Culture of Hypercapitalism

    by Jeremy Rifkin ...
    Visionary activist and author Jeremy Rifkin exposes the real stakes of the new economy, delivering "the clearest summation yet of how the Internet is really changing our lives" (The Seattle Times).Imagine waking up one day to find that virtually every activity you engage in outside your immediate family has become a "paid-for" experience. It's all part of a fundamental change taking place in the ... Read more

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