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  • Global Media Studies

    Global Media Studies is unique in its coverage of places, peoples, institutions, and discourses. Toby Miller and Marwan M. Kraidy provide a comprehensive �how-to� guide to the study of media, going far beyond the established English-language literature and drawing on the best methods and research from around the world. They look at political economy, global policymaking and governance, and the ... Read more

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  • Global Sports Go Green—Or Do They?

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the multifaceted impact of sports mega-events, from the World Cup to the Olympics, Formula One, and America’s Cup. Often celebrated for uniting nations, showcasing culture, and driving economic growth, these events also face increasing scrutiny for their ecological and social consequences. Global Sports Go Green—Or Do They? critically examines claims of environmental ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Why Journalism? A Polemic

    by Toby Miller ...
    This new book from Toby Miller engages with journalism from within the cultural studies tradition, addressing fundamental claims for the profession and its biggest contemporary challenges: critiques, objectivity, and insecurity.Why Journalism? A Polemic considers four key aspects of contemporary journalism in terms of theoretical relevance and historic tasks that are not usually considered in ... Read more

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  • Greening the Media

    You will never look at your cell phone, TV, or computer the same way after reading this book. Greening the Media not only reveals the dirty secrets that hide inside our favorite electronic devices; it also takes apart the myths that have pushed these gadgets to the center of our lives. Marshaling an astounding array of economic, environmental, and historical facts, Maxwell and Miller debunk the ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • A COVID Charter, A Better World

    by Toby Miller ...
    With unprecedented speed, scientists have raced to develop vaccines to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control and restore a sense of normalcy to our lives. Despite the havoc and disruption the pandemic has caused, it’s exposed exactly why we should not return to life as we once knew it. Our current profit-driven healthcare systems have exacerbated global inequality and endangered public health, ... Read more

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  • The Persistence of Violence

    Colombian Popular Culture

    Colombia’s headline story, about the peace process with guerrilla and its attendant controversies, does not consider the fundamental contradiction of a nation that spans generosity and violence, warmth and hatred—products of its particular pattern of invasion, dispossession, and enslavement. The Persistence of Violence fills that gap in understanding. Colombia is a place that is two countries in ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Cultural Policy

    Hitherto, cultural theory and empirical work on culture have outstripped cultural policy. This book rectifies the peculiar imbalance in the field of Cultural Studies by offering the first comprehensive and international work on cultural policy. Fully alive to the challenges posed by globalization it addresses a wide range of central topics including cinema, television, museums, international ... Read more

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  • Violence

    by Toby Miller ...
    Using discourses from across the conceptual and geographical board, Toby Miller argues for a different way of understanding violence, one that goes beyond supposedly universal human traits to focus instead on the specificities of history, place, and population as explanations for it.Violence engages these issues in a wide-ranging interdisciplinary form, examining definitions and data, psychology ... Read more

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  • Television Studies: The Basics

    by Toby Miller ...
    Series series The Basics
    Television Studies: The Basics is a lively introduction to the study of a powerful medium. It examines the major theories and debates surrounding production and reception over the years and considers both the role and future of television.Topics covered include:broadcasting history and technologyinstitutions and ownershipgenre and contentaudiencesComplete with global case studie... ... Read more

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  • Global Hollywood 2

    Substantially revised and updated, this book highlights how Hollywood has transformed itself to attain ever global clout and reach and the material factors underlining Hollywood's apparent artistic success. Takes into consideration recent events affecting Hollywood such as 9/11, US foreign policy and developments in consumer technology. ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • How Green is Your Smartphone?

    Series series Digital Futures
    Every day we are inundated by propaganda that claims life will be better once we are connected to digital technology. Poverty, famine, and injustice will end, and the economy will be “green.” All anyone needs is the latest smartphone.In this succinct and lively book, Maxwell and Miller take a critical look at contemporary gadgets and the systems that connect them, shedding light on environmental ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Television Studies

    "Genuinely transnational in content, as sensitive to the importance of production as consumption, covering the full range of approaches from political economy to textual analysis, and written by a star-studded cast of contributors*"*- Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner, University of Queensland"Finally, we have before us a first rate, and wide ranging volume that reframes television studies afresh, ... Read more

    $118.79 USD