Ciencias sociales / Estudios sobre los medios

Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9-11

de Nancy Snow & Greg Palast

In Information War, former United States Information Agency employee Nancy Snow describes how U.S. propaganda efforts and covert operations are expanding more rapidly today than at any other time in U.S. history,...

Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema

de Tim Palmer

A major survey of contemporary French cinema's leading films and filmmakers

Arnheim for Film and Media Studies

de Scott Higgins

Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007) was a pioneering figure in film studies, best known for his landmark book on silent cinema Film as Art. He ultimately became more famous as a scholar in the fields of art and art history,...

Television and New Media

de Jennifer Gillan

Television and New Media introduces students to the ways that new media technologies have transformed contemporary television production, distribution, and reception practices. Drawing upon recent examples including...

Elsewhere, Within Here

de Trinh T Minh-ha

Elsewhere, Within Here is an engaging look at travel across national borders--as a foreigner, a tourist, an immigrant, a refugee-in a pre- and post-9/11 world. Who is welcome where? What does it mean to feel...

Scorpion Tongues New and Updated Edition: Gossip, Celebrity, And American Politics

de Gail Collins

From Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton, Scorpion Tongues is a popular history of gossip in American politics. Complete with wickedly delightful anecdotes of major and minor politicians and entertainers...

Global Terrorism and New Media

de Philip Seib & Dana M Janbek

Global Terrorism and New Media carefully examines the content of terrorist websites and extremist television programming to provide a comprehensive look at how terrorist groups use new media today.

Global Mobile Media

de Gerard Goggin

Global Mobile Media offers an overview of the complex topic of mobile media, looking at the emerging industry structures, new media economies, mobile media cultures and network politics of mobiles as they move...

Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory

de Mikhail Gronas

In this volume, Gronas addresses the full range of psychological, social, and historical issues that bear on the mnemonic existence of modern literary works, particularly Russian literature. He focuses on the...

Introduction to Communication Studies

de John Fiske

Fiske's essential text aims to equip the reader with a range of methods of analysing examples of communication in our society, together with a critical awareness of the theories underpinning them.

Television Culture

de John Fiske

A comprehensive introduction to television studies. Fiske analyzes both the economic and cultural aspects of television and investigates it in terms of both theory and text based criticism.

Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture: Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society

de Arthur Asa Berger

Now in its fourth edition, the popular Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture is an engaging cultural studies critique of contemporary advertising and its impacts on American society. Arthur Asa Berger looks at marketing...

We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age

de Scott Gant

As the internet continues to reshape almost all corners of our world, no institution has been more profoundly altered than the practice of journalism and distribution of information. In this provocative new...

Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture

de Daniel Radosh

What does it mean when a band is judged by how hard they pray rather than how hard they rock? Would Jesus buy "Jesus junk" or wear "witness wear"? What do Christian skate parks, raves, and romance novels say...

The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines

de Loren Coleman

VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE...

A disturbed student shoots up his classroom -- and suddenly a wave of mass murder is sweeping through our nation's schools. A young child is taken from her home --...

Star Trek: The Magic of Tribbles

de Terry J. Erdmann, Gary Hutzel & Paula M. Block

Originally conceived of more than thirty-five years ago, these dimunitive creatures have become stars in their own right. With uncanny grace and ease they have won hearts and upstaged stars.

They are tribbles....

Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War

de Howard Kurtz

Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings: They were on a first-name basis with the country for a generation, leading viewers through moments of triumph and tragedy. But now that a new generation has succeeded...

Sports Talk: A Journey Inside the World of Sports Talk Radio

de Alan Eisenstock

A Journey inside the World of Sports Talk Radio

Their voices explode over the airwaves -- with names like Mike and the Mad Dog, the Stinkin' Genius, Hacksaw, and JT the Brick. They broadcast in drive time and...

The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Street's Game of Money, Media, and Manipulation

de Howard Kurtz

Just as "spin" has taken over politics in America, so too has it come to define the long bull market on Wall Street. The booming trade in stocks, which has become a national obsession, has produced an insatiable...

Everything Bad is Good for You

de Steven Johnson

Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book,...