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Philosophy And The Hitchhiker'S Guide To The Galaxy

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 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy provides an excellent way of looking at some intriguing issues in philosophy, from vegetarianism and Artificial Intelligence to God, space and time. This is an entertaining yet thought provoking volume for students, philosophers and fans of The Hitchhiker's series.
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Philosophy Of Software - Code And Mediation In The Digital Age

by D. Berry

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 This book is a critical introduction to code and software that develops an understanding of its social and philosophical implications in the digital age. Written specifically for people interested in the subject from a non-technical background, the book provides a lively and interesting analysis of these new media forms.
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Melodramatic Public - Film Form And Spectatorship In Indian Cinema

by R. Vasudevan

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 What does it mean to say Indian movies are melodramatic? How do film audiences engage with socio-political issues? What role has cinema played in the emergence of new economic forms, consumer cultures and digital technologies in a globalizing India? Ravi Vasudevan addresses these questions in a wide-ranging analysis of Indian cinema.
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Dark Humor In Films Of The 1960s

by Wheeler Winston Dixon

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 Focusing on "dark" or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and filmmakers (Vanishing Point, Marcel Hanoun), whose work has largely been ignored, but whose influence and importance is clearly present.
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Obamas And Mass Media - Race, Gender, Religion, And Politics

by Jannette Dates e Mia Moody-Ramirez

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 Using the cultural prism of race, this book critically examines the image of African Americans in media of the twenty-first century. Further, the authors assess the ways in which media focused on gender, religion, and politics in framing perceptions of the President and First Lady of the United States during the Obama administration.
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Media, Myth, And Society

by A. Berger

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 Using a cultural approach to classical myths, this book examines how they affect psychoanalytic theory, historical experience, elite culture, popular culture, and everyday life. Berger explores diverse topics such as the Oedipus Myth, James Bond, Star Wars, and fairy tales.
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Martin Luther King Jr., Homosexuality, And The Early Gay Rights Movement - Keeping The Dream Straight?

by Desmond Tutu e Michael G. Long

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 Martin Luther King, Jr., was not an advocate of homosexual rights, nor was he an enemy; however both sides of the debate have used his words in their arguments, including his widow, in support of gay rights, and his daughter, in rejection. This fascinating situation poses the problem that Michael G. Long seeks to address and resolve.
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Psychoanalyzing Cinema - A Productive Encounter With Lacan, Deleuze, And Žižek

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 The essays within this collection explore the possibilities and potentialities of all three positions, presenting encounters that are, at times contradictory, at other times supportive, as well as complementary. The collection thereby enriches the questions that are being raised within contemporary cinematic studies.
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Symbolic, The Sublime, And Slavoj Zizek'S Theory Of Film

by M. Flisfeder

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 Returning to questions about ideology and subjectivity, Flisfeder argues that Slavoj Zizek's theory of film aims to re-politicize film studies and film theory, bringing cinema into the fold of twenty-first century politics.
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Speaking Of Monsters - A Teratological Anthology

by Caroline Joan S. Picart e John Edgar Browning

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 Employing a range of approaches to examine how "monster-talk" pervades not only popular culture but also public policy through film and other media, this book is a "one-stop shop" of sorts for students and instructors employing various approaches and media in the study of "teratologies," or discourses of the monstrous.
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Buddhism In Iran - An Anthropological Approach To Traces And Influences

by M. Vaziri

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 Exploring the interactions of the Buddhist world with the dominant cultures of Iran in pre- and post-Islamic times, Vaziri demonstrates that the traces and cross-influences of Buddhism have brought the material and spiritual culture of Iran to its present state even after the term was eradicated from the literary and popular language of the region.
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Consuming Reality - The Commercialization Of Factual Entertainment

by J. Deery

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 Engaging in a comprehensive examination of reality TV's advertising and promotional strategies, as well as the commodification of viewers, Consuming Reality dissects the unique and startling relation between mediation and consumption.
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Dvd And The Study Of Film - The Attainable Text

by M. Parker

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 Drawing on interviews with producers, directors, and scholars, and examining the DVD's supplementary features, this book explores how the format, at its best, combines the enthusiasm of a fan, cinematic nostalgia, and scholarly insight.
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Cinema, Technologies Of Visibility, And The Reanimation Of Desire

by V. Hausmann

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 Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty , and The Elephant Man , Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up psychic/social spaces that transfer bodily drives to language.
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Cultural Theory After The Contemporary

by S. Tumino

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 Contemporary cultural studies have marginalized "agency," namely the power of people to shape social life. Here, Stephen Tumino offers a new materialist challenge to these tendencies and articulates an internationalist cultural theory that puts global agency in the forefront of cultural analysis.
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Critical Approaches To The Films Of M. Night Shyamalan - Spoiler Warnings

by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

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 Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Taken together, the collection recognizes and explores Shyamalan s "star status" and offers the concerted analysis that this cultural phenomenon requires.
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Politics Of Adaptation - Media Convergence And Ideology

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 In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their underlying ideologies that are reshaping our global media landscape, including questions of audience participation and transmedia storytelling.
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Civic Engagement And Social Media - Political Participation Beyond Protest

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 The Occupy movement and the Arab Spring have brought global attention to the potential of social media for empowering otherwise marginalized groups. This book addresses questions like what happens after the moment of protest and global visibility and whether social media can also help sustain civic engagement beyond protest.
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Popular Media Cultures - Fans, Audiences And Paratexts

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 Popular Media Cultures explores the relationship between audiences and media texts, their paratexts and interconnected ephemera. Authors focus on the cultural work done by media audiences, how they engage with social media and how convergence culture impacts on the strategies and activities of popular media fans.
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Understanding Terrorism In The Age Of Global Media - A Communication Approach

by C. Archetti

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 We cannot truly understand - let alone counter - terrorism in the 21st century unless we also understand the processes of communication that underpin it. This book challenges what we know about terrorism, showing that current approaches are inadequate and outdated, and develops a new communication model to understand terrorism in the media age.
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Transnational Television Drama - Special Relations And Mutual Influence Between The Us And Uk

by Elke Weissmann

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 This history of British and American television drama since 1970 charts the increased transnationalisation of the two production systems. From The Forsyte Saga to Roots to Episodes , it highlights the close relationship that drives innovation and quality on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Phenomenology And The Future Of Film - Rethinking Subjectivity Beyond French Cinema

by J. Chamarette

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 Using hybrid phenomenological approaches to film, this book focuses on how moving images are 'experienced' and 'encountered' as well as 'read' and 'viewed'. Its close engagements with films and installations by four contemporary French filmmakers explore the limits and possibilities of 'cinematic' subjectivity.
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Post-War Modernist Cinema And Philosophy - Confronting Negativity And Time

by H. Ford

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 A unique study of four major post-war European films by four key 'auteurs', which argues that these films exemplify film modernism at the peak of its philosophical reflection and aesthetic experimentation.
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Bdsm In American Science Fiction And Fantasy

by L. Call

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 A history of the love affair between BDSM (Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism) and science fiction and fantasy. Lewis Call explores representations of BDSM in the 1940s Wonder Woman comics, the pioneering prose of Samuel Delany and James Tiptree, and the television shows Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, Angel and Dollhouse.
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