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  • Celebrity and Power

    Fame in Contemporary Culture

    by P. David Marshall ...
    Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the famous, exploring the concept of the new public intimacy: a product of social media in which celebrities from Lady Gaga to Barack Obama are ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Persona Studies

    An Introduction

    by P. David Marshall, Christopher Moore, Kim Barbour ...
    The definitive and first major text on personas in contemporary cultureModern social media and communication technologies have reshaped our identities and transformed contemporary culture, revealing an expanded and intensified reforming of our collective online behavior. Billions of people worldwide are increasingly engaged in the production, presentation, and modification of their public selves ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • The Celebrity Persona Pandemic

    by P. David Marshall ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    The Celebrity Persona Pandemic explores how the construction of a public persona is fetishized in contemporary culture. As social media has progressively led to a greater focus on the production of the self, so this book looks at the most visible versions of persona through figures such as Stephen Colbert, Cate Blachett, and Justin Bieber, as well as fictional characters like Spock and Harry ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Advertising and Promotional Culture

    Case Histories

    by Joanne Morreale, Professor P David Marshall ...
    This key textbook traces the development of advertising from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, providing connections with the past that illuminate present developments and point to future possibilities. Chapters take a variety of theoretical approaches to address four main themes: how advertising imagines the future through the promise of transformation; how tribalism creates a sense of ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • A Companion to Celebrity

    by P. David Marshall, Sean Redmond ...
    Companion to Celebrity presents a multi-disciplinary collection of original essays that explore myriad issues relating to the origins, evolution, and current trends in the field of celebrity studies.Offers a detailed, systematic, and clear presentation of all aspects of celebrity studies, with a structure that carefully build its enquiryDraws on the latest scholarly developments in celebrity ... Read more

    $181.00 USD

  • Contemporary Publics

    Shifting Boundaries in New Media, Technology and Culture

    Edited by P. David Marshall, Glenn D'Cruz, Sharyn McDonald, Katja Lee ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    If the twentieth century has been dominated by discussions of the public, public life, and the public sphere, Contemporary Publics argues that, in the twenty-first century, we must complicate the singularity of that paradigm and start thinking of our world in terms of multiple, overlapping, and competing publics. In three distinct streams—art, media and technology, and the intimate life—this ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Roots Revisited

    A Hometown Study

    by Steven Verrier, P. David Marshall, David Riddell ...
    Series Book 14 - Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas
    Decades after pulling up stakes, three sixty-something Canadians living in three different countries are drawn back to the town in which they spent their formative years and built their lifelong friendship. In Roots Revisited, they share their memories of the town that molded them and sent them on their way, and examine the effect of those hometown experiences on their adult lives out in the world ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • The Ambivalent Internet

    Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online

    by Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner ...
    This book explores the weird and mean and in-between that characterize everyday expression online, from absurdist photoshops to antagonistic Twitter hashtags to deceptive identity play.Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner focus especially on the ambivalence of this expression: the fact that it is too unwieldy, too variable across cases, to be essentialized as old or new, vernacular or institutional ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • How Real Is Reality TV?

    Essays on Representation and Truth

    Edited by David S. Escoffery ...
    American viewers are attracted to what they see as the non-scripted, unpredictable freshness of reality television. But although the episodes may not be scripted, the shows are constructed within a deliberately designed framework, reflecting societal values. The political, economic and personal issues of reality TV are in many ways simply an exaggerated version of everyday life, allowing us to ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Watching YouTube

    Extraordinary Videos by Ordinary People

    by Michael Strangelove ...
    An anonymous musician plays Pachelbel's Canon on the electric guitar in a clip that has been viewed over sixty million times. The Dramatic Gopher is viewed over sixteen million times, as is a severely inebriated David Hasselhoff attempting to eat a hamburger. Over 800 variations, parodies, and parodies-of-parodies are uploaded of Beyonce Knowles' Single Ladies dance. Tay Zonday sings Chocolate ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • It's Not TV

    Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era

    Edited by Marc Leverette, Brian L. Ott, Cara Louise Buckley ...
    Since first going on the air in 1972, HBO has continually attempted to redefine television as we know it. Today, pay television (and HBO in particular) is positioned as an alternative to network offerings, consistently regarded as the premier site for what has come to be called "quality television."This collection of new essays by an international group of media scholars argues that HBO, as part ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Keywords for Media Studies

    Edited by Laurie Ouellette, Jonathan Gray ...
    Series Book 5 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD