Media Studies category: 113 books
by Hugh Jones, Christopher Benson
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Publishing Law is an authoritative and engaging guide to a wide range of legal issues affecting publishing today.
Hugh Jones and Christopher Benson present readers with clear and accessible guidance to the complex legal areas specific to the ever evolving world of contemporary publishing, including...
Greentown
Murder and Mystery in Greenwich, America's Wealthiest Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The “authentic and definitive” story of Martha Moxley’s murder case, including the conviction of her killer, Michael Skakel—includes photos! (Greenwich Time)
On the night before Halloween, 1975, the wealthy community of Greenwich, Connecticut, was rocked by the murder of fifteen-year-old...
Curators of Cultural Enterprise
A Critical Analysis of a Creative Business Intermediary
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
This study is based on the authors' fieldwork inside Cultural Enterprise Office, a small Scottish agency that supports creative businesses. It discusses UK policy on the creative economy, the rise of intermediaries between policy-making and the marketplace, and the playing out in the delivery of business advice services to creative microbusinesses.
Four Jews on Parnassus—a Conversation
Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schönberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
This book features a CD of rarely performed music, including a specially commissioned rap by Erik Weiner of Walter Benjamin's "Thesis on the Philosophy of History."
Theodor W. Adorno was the prototypical German Jewish non-Jew, Walter Benjamin vacillated between German Jew and Jewish...
We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free
Stories of Free Expression in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
In a stinging dissent to a 1961 Supreme Court decision that allowed the Illinois state bar to deny admission to prospective lawyers if they refused to answer political questions, Justice Hugo Black closed with the memorable line, "We must not be afraid to be free." Black saw the First Amendment...
by Lorna Stefanick
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Digital communications technology has immeasurably enhanced our capacity to store, retrieve, and exchange information. But who controls our access to information, and who decides what others have a right to know about us? In Controlling Knowledge, author Lorna Stefanick offers a thought-provoking...
Privacy and the Digital State
Balancing Public Information and Personal Privacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Alan Charles Raul The devastating and reprehensible acts of terrorism committed against the 11, 2001 have greatly affected our lives, our United States on September livelihoods, and perhaps our way of living. The system of government embodied in our Constitution and Bill of Rights was designed to...
Commercial Nationalism
Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
This book intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses.
Love and Money
Queers, Class, and Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Love and Money argues that we can’t understand contemporary queer cultures without looking through the lens of social class. Resisting old divisions between culture and economy, identity and privilege, left and queer, recognition and redistribution, Love and Money offers supple approaches to capturing...
The Chamberlain Case
the legal saga that transfixed the nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
A baby disappears from a tent near Uluru in the sandy desert of central Australia. The Aboriginal trackers say she has been taken by a dingo. But amidst a melange of sinister rumours, suspicion falls on the parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain. There are no eyewitnesses, no body, no confession,...
Stealing History
Art Theft, Looting, and Other Crimes Against our Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
When compared to terrorism, drugs and violent crimes that occupy the news today art is not considered as important. But, as it turns out, art and cultural crime is currently ranked as the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world. What exactly is art crime? Why does art matter? And what is law...
Intellectual Property and Development
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The book examines the correlation between Intellectual Property Law – notably copyright – on the one hand and social and economic development on the other. The main focus of the initial overview is on historical, legal, economic and cultural aspects. Building on that, the work subsequently investigates...
Critiquing Free Speech
First Amendment theory and the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
In this exceptional volume, Matthew D. Bunker explores the work of contemporary free speech critics and argues that, while at times these critics provide important lessons, many of their conclusions must be rejected. Moreover, Bunker suggests that we be wary of interdisciplinary approaches to free...
Playing War
Military Video Games After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The culture that made military shooter video games popular and key in understanding the War on Terror. No video game genre has been more popular or more lucrative in recent years than the “military shooter.” Franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and those bearing Tom Clancy’s name turn...