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Soupy Sales and the Detroit Experience: Manufacturing a Television Personality

Soupy Sales and the Detroit Experience: Manufacturing...

Author: Francis Shor
ISBN: 9781527575530
Format: Hardback
$263.87

When Soupy Sales left Detroit in 1960 after seven years on WXYZ TV, he was the highest-paid local television personality...  Read More >>

Soupy Sales and the Detroit Experience: Manufacturing a Television Personality

Soupy Sales and the Detroit Experience: Manufacturing...

Author: Francis Shor
ISBN: 9781527576407
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Public Television in Poland: Political Pressure and Public Service Media in a Post-communist Country

Public Television in Poland: Political Pressure and...

Author: Agnieszka Węglińska (University of Lower Silesia, Poland)
ISBN: 9781032061856
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This book examines the professional activity of public television journalists in Poland operating in the still unstable...  Read More >>

Human Rights, Iranian Migrants, and State Media: From Media Portrayal to Civil Reality

Human Rights, Iranian Migrants, and State Media: From...

Author: Shabnam Moinipour
ISBN: 9781032177908
Format: Paperback
$39.99

This book analyzes the Islamic Republic of Iran’s approach towards human rights in the media. It looks at the state-owned...  Read More >>

Media Education in Latin America

Media Education in Latin America

Author: Julio-César Mateus ,  Pablo Andrada
ISBN: 9781032177670
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book offers a systematic study of media education in Latin America. As spending on technological infrastructure...  Read More >>

The Melancholy Lens: Loss and Mourning in American Avant-Garde Cinema

The Melancholy Lens: Loss and Mourning in American Avant-Garde...

Author: Tony Pipolo (Professor Emeritus of Film and Literature, Professor Emeritus of Film and Literature, CUNY, New York)
ISBN: 9780197551172
Format: Paperback
$64.95

In The Melancholy Lens, author Tony Pipolo offers new insight into the psychological motivations of avant-garde...  Read More >>

Sport and Mediatization

Sport and Mediatization

Author: Kirsten Frandsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781032176703
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Contemporary society is highly media-saturated, and no sector more so than sport. Drawing on case studies from the...  Read More >>

Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television

Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television...

Author: Monika Bednarek
ISBN: 9781032178400
Format: Paperback
$41.99

As entertaining as it is enlightening, Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television presents interviews...  Read More >>

The Rhetoric of Brexit Humour: Comedy, Populism and the EU Referendum

The Rhetoric of Brexit Humour: Comedy, Populism and...

Author: Simon Weaver (Brunel University London, UK)
ISBN: 9780367350987
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores the comedy that has emerged following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. Analysing a...  Read More >>

Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost)...

Author: Josh Widdicombe
ISBN: 9781788704694
Format: Paperback
$38.79

A childhood memoir about growing up in the middle of nowhere and watching too much TV, from beloved comedian, Josh...  Read More >>

The Lie about the Truck: Survivor, Reality Tv, and the Endless Gaze

The Lie about the Truck: Survivor, Reality Tv, and the...

Author: Sallie Tisdale ,  Gabra Zackman
ISBN: 9781797134758
Format: Audio
$105.57

The author of the acclaimed Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them) brings her singular sensibility,...  Read More >>

Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost)...

Author: Josh Widdicombe
ISBN: 9781788704359
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A childhood memoir about growing up in the middle of nowhere and watching too much TV, from beloved comedian, Josh...  Read More >>

Don't Look Down: Hard-won Lessons to help you in your own fight

Don't Look Down: Hard-won Lessons to help you in your...

Author: Fatima Daoui
ISBN: 9789948871941
Format: Hardback
$36.10

Al Arabiya News anchor Fatima Daoui is one of the most recognisable faces in the Middle East, but she didn’t make...  Read More >>

The Soft Power of the Korean Wave: Parasite, BTS and Drama

The Soft Power of the Korean Wave: Parasite, BTS and...

Author: Youna Kim (American University of Paris, France)
ISBN: 9780367609115
Format: Paperback
$75.99

At this fascinating historical moment, this timely collection explores the new meaning of the Korean Wave and the...  Read More >>

The Soft Power of the Korean Wave: Parasite, BTS and Drama

The Soft Power of the Korean Wave: Parasite, BTS and...

Author: Youna Kim (American University of Paris, France)
ISBN: 9780367609122
Format: Hardback
$284.00

At this fascinating historical moment, this timely collection explores the new meaning of the Korean Wave and the...  Read More >>

Understanding The Simpsons: Animating the Politics and Poetics of Participatory Culture

Understanding The Simpsons: Animating the Politics and...

Author: Moritz Fink
ISBN: 9789462988316
Format: Hardback
$276.86

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The World of Marvel Comics

The World of Marvel Comics

Author: Andrew J. Friedenthal
ISBN: 9780367507213
Format: Hardback
$124.00

A detailed study of the history and long-lasting influence of Marvel Comics, this book explores the ways Marvel’s...  Read More >>

Soap Operas, Gender and the Sri Lankan Diaspora: A Transnational Ethnography in Australia and Sri Lanka

Soap Operas, Gender and the Sri Lankan Diaspora: A Transnational...

Author: Shashini Gamage
ISBN: 9783030706319
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This book is a transnational ethnographic study of Sri Lankan women’s television soap opera cultures in Australia...  Read More >>

Discourse and Identity in Turkish Media

Discourse and Identity in Turkish Media

Author: Süheyla Nil Mustafa ,  Ayşe Dilara Bostan
ISBN: 9783631822340
Format: Paperback
$89.27

This book analyzes the identities or subjectivities reproduced by the hegemonic/normative discourses such as Turkish...  Read More >>

Representing the Contemporary North American Family: Family Portraits

Representing the Contemporary North American Family:...

Author: Sophie Chapuis ,  Marie Moreau
ISBN: 9781527572850
Format: Hardback
$263.87

The rise in individualism and the growing liberalism of family law may be seen as potential threats to the family...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Global Television

The Routledge Companion to Global Television

Author: Shawn Shimpach
ISBN: 9781032085784
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Featuring scholarly perspectives from around the globe and drawing on a legacy of television studies, but with an...  Read More >>

The World of The Walking Dead

The World of The Walking Dead

Author: Matthew Freeman
ISBN: 9781032093710
Format: Paperback
$39.99

An accessible introduction to the world of The Walking Dead, this book looks across platforms and analytical frameworks...  Read More >>

Digital Theology: A Computer Science Perspective

Digital Theology: A Computer Science Perspective

Author: Erkki Sutinen (University of Turku, Finland) ,  Anthony-Paul Cooper (University of Turku, Finland)
ISBN: 9781839825354
Format: Hardback
$124.17

Digital theology is an emerging and evolving field of research in academia. It is gaining traction with scholars...  Read More >>

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