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Media studies
Hardcover. How does culture produce stories about class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspiration? Drawing on contemporary examples, Biressi and Nunn demonstrate why social class still matters in Britain and considers the costs and investments at stake for all involved. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFCA; JFDT; JFFJ; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230240568
- ISBN
- 9780230240568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230236455
- ISBN
- 9780230236455
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Just how bad is television? Drawing on a range of theoretical sources including Husserl Lacan, Lefebvre, Sartre, Schutz and Adam Smith, this book takes a phenomenological approach to the small screen to offer an original sociological approach to television and its contribution to moral culture of late modern societies. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFDT; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230234819
- ISBN
- 9780230234819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Hardcover. The first substantial interdisciplinary, cross-genre critique of Margaret Thatcher and her cultural 'afterlife', exploring Thatcher's legacy across a range of areas including public policy, broadcast media, film, poetry, architectural design, political cartoons and literature. Editor(s): Ho, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230233317
- ISBN
- 9780230233317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.45
€ 67.45
Hardcover. Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic images of Irish manhood to a much more diverse and gender-politically ambiguous range of male identities on the Irish screen. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; APFA; JFD; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232006
- ISBN
- 9780230232006
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. Examining how the press in Britain, Sweden and Finland responded to the Holocaust immediately after the Second World War, Holmila offers new insights into the challenge posed by the Holocaust for liberal democracies by looking at the reporting of the liberation of the camps, the Nuremberg trial and the Jewish immigration to Palestine. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; HBTZ1; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 208 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229778
- ISBN
- 9780230229778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardcover. Taking a close look at ordinary people 'telling their own story', Nancy Thumim explores self-representations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality TV, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 220 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229662
- ISBN
- 9780230229662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Television and Terror: Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discou...
Hoskins, Andrew, O'Loughlin, Ben
Paperback. The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity, fails to deliver critical and consistent expositions of our conflicting times. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFDT; JWL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 219 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229020
- ISBN
- 9780230229020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.92
€ 65.92
Hardcover. A lively account of the general election of 2008 and of its profound significance for Italy and beyond. It gets to grips with the complexities of Italian politics in an exceptionally clear way. Covering the background to the election, the campaign, the parties, voting and the outcome, it is comprehensive in approach and tells a fascinating 'story'. Editor(s): Newell, James L. Num Pages: 281 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JPB; JPHF; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224070
- ISBN
- 9780230224070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Hardcover. This book engages with key theoretical and analytical issues in the field of media, communication and cultural studies. Using case studies of radio, internet, text messaging and photojournalism, it deploys Bourdieu's ideas to reveal how language in the media is implicated in broader social patterns of 'symbolic violence'. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT; APW; CFA; JFCX; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320. 182 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. This book engages with key theoretical and analytical issues in the field of media, communication and cultural studies. Using case studies of radio, internet, text messaging and photojournalism, it deploys Bourdieu's ideas to reveal how language in the media is implicated in broader social patterns of 'symbolic violence'. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APT; APW; CFA; JFCX; JFD. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 15. Weight: 320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222090
- ISBN
- 9780230222090
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.30
€ 66.30
Paperback. Reconciles cognitive metaphor theory with Critical Discourse Analysis to offer a fresh approach to the study of metaphor. In applying this framework to a substantial corpus of texts from business magazines, the author shows how metaphors of war, sports and evolutionary struggle are used to construct business as a masculinized social domain. Num Pages: 244 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 142 x 266 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2004th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230217072
- ISBN
- 9780230217072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Paperback. Based on more than five years of anthropological fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book highlights race, class, gender and territory to argue that Brazilian hip hoppers are subjects rather than objects of history and everyday life. This is the first ethnography in English to analyze Brazilian hip hop Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; AVGR; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120716
- ISBN
- 9780230120716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 38.70
€ 48.99
€ 38.70
Hardcover. In this book, the authors propose a multilayered reading of contemporary transnational cultural manifestations in which it is possible to recognize challenges and cultural strategies that transnational Mexican communities conceive in order to claim cultural, political and social agency. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; DS; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120471
- ISBN
- 9780230120471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.29
€ 52.90
€ 47.29
Paperback. This book explores how girls growing up in girl power media culture understand gender, self, empowerment, and resistance. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230119963
- ISBN
- 9780230119963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.80
€ 65.80
Hardcover. A critical look at the links between civil actors, new media, and political change, using case studies from Africa, particularly urban, political, non-state actors in Kenya and Zambia. Series: The Palgrave MacMillan Series in International Political Communication. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; JFD; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117921
- ISBN
- 9780230117921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Paperback. Roselle analyzes how political leaders of powerful states use media to explain military defeats. The cases of the United States in Vietnam and the Soviet Union in Afghanistan highlight the role of great power identity, domestic politics, and media structure. Series: The Palgrave MacMillan Series in International Political Communication. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 218 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116771
- ISBN
- 9780230116771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.74
€ 65.74
Hardcover. Series: The Palgrave MacMillan Series in International Political Communication. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109858
- ISBN
- 9780230109858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardcover. An insightful look into the origins of modern Italian media culture by examining a sensational crime and trial that took place in Rome in the late 1870s, when a bloody murder triggered a national spectacle that became the first great media circus in the new nation of Italy, crucially shaping the young state's public sphere and image of itself. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; HBTB; JFD; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Printing
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108363
- ISBN
- 9780230108363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Paperback. A useful guide to understanding the structure and meaning of media and its messages. Series: Semiotics and Popular Culture. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 164 x 11. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108288
- ISBN
- 9780230108288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. A useful guide to understanding the structure and meaning of media and its messages. Series: Semiotics and Popular Culture. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 397.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108271
- ISBN
- 9780230108271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58