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| ADVANCES IN COMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA RESEARCH, VOLUME 3 [Patula E Grossmark (ed)] In a society predicated on information, the media has a pervasive presence. From government policy to leisure television, the information age touches us all. The papers collected in this book constitute some of today's leading analyses of the information industry. Together, these essays represent a needed foundation for understanding the present state and future development of the mass media. Current trends in communications as well as media impact on public opinion are studied and reported on. { 135pp, 180x260mm, December 2006; HB, £63.50, 1600211887:9781600211881 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| ADVANCES IN COMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA RESEARCH, VOLUME 4 [William H Miller (ed)] In a society predicated on information, the media has a pervasive presence. From government policy to leisure television, the information age touches us all. The papers collected in this book constitute some of today's leading analyses of the information industry. Together, these essays represent a needed foundation for understanding the present state and future development of the mass media. Current trends in communications as well as media impact on public opinion are studied and reported on. { 162pp, 180x260mm, December 2006; HB, £63.50, 1600211895:9781600211898 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| BEYOND MOBILITY [Per Andersson, Ulf Essler & Bertil Thorngren (eds)] The book's title metaphor brings forth a number of questions and potential developments for the future. Mobile telephony has evolved beyond voice communication and on to further services, such as basic Internet access, mail, and mobile TV. It is however still unclear what value this development creates, and for whom. There is reason to talk about a new phase, bound to encompass a far more complex set of market situations. The technological changes are indisputable, but what markets are being collapsed or expanded are still very much under debate. The new wireless world looks bound to provide an ever-increasing number of different market offerings, rather than services delivered solely over one specific kind of telecom network. A situation has arisen similar to the pattern for physical transportation where the use of cars, buses, trains, and aeroplanes often combine. The sixteen chapters in this book aim to give a comprehensive view of Mobility and Value, based on extensive empirical studies as well as on the application of theoretical tools and the development of those tools. There seems to be a need for new, dynamic business models and value creating constellations of firms, adaptable to ever-changing technologies and markets. The concept of mobility is clearly more than just a fancy word for mobiles. Rather, it is an intriguing umbrella concept embracing the complexities of a new economic landscape. The connection between mobility and value is dynamic; it is inherently unstable. { 445pp, 155x230mm, September 2007; PB, £30.00, 9144049285:9789144049281 , Studentlitteratur AB } |
| EUROPEAN FILM & MEDIA CULTURE [Lennard Hojbjerg & Henrik Sondergaard (eds)] Brings into focus central aspects of recent developments in European film and media culture. Through studies of both film and television the question of national identity, European integration and globalisation is analysed in a both Eastern and Western European context. This volume offers case studies of the more historical and institutional context of European film television, studies of European TV drama, children’s television, TV entertainment formats, and comparative studies of European art cinema and art television and American (Hollywood) films and TV-serials. { 296pp, 160x240mm, August 2006; PB, £22.00, 8763504278:9788763504270 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| FRENCH PLAY : Exploring Theatre 'Re-creatively' with Students of Foreign Language [Les Essif] Incorporating a wide array of subjects pertaining to planning, producing, analysing, & theorising theatre, this edition includes valuable strategies for re-creating theatre for students whose first language is not French. { 252pp, 155x230mm, November 2006; PB, £17.99, 1552382133:9781552382134 , University of Calgary Press } |
| HOW CANADIANS COMMUNICATE II : Media, Globalization & Identity [David Taras, Maria Bakardjieva & Frits Pannekoek (eds)] In the first volume of "How Canadians Communicate" the editors examined & assessed the health of Canada's cultural industries circa 2003. In this second volume, they not only undertake a new examination of Canada's current media health, but also turn their attention to analysing the impact of the startling pace of global media proliferation on our country's media institutions. The revolutionary changes underway in mass media technology, from blogs to peer-to-peer networks & the ubiquitous cell-phone, have all imposed structural modifications to global communication systems, inexorably altering the fundamental ways in which Canadians communicate. The editors have carefully chosen essays that address the central issues of today's global media environment from a uniquely Canadian perspective. Grouped under the headings 'The Debate over Policy', 'The Quest for Identity', & 'The Struggle for Control', the topics ranging from media concentration to foreign ownership & the challenge of mass communication in an increasingly multicultural community, underscoring the way in which our media has operated in the past & how it must now adapt to a new media landscape. There is little doubt that Canadian media & cultural institutions have been buffeted by the sheer magnitude of new communication technologies. But with change comes opportunity, & the ability to re-evaluate current paradigms & look for better & more effective ways of adapting to new circumstances. "How Canadians Communicate II" will illuminate the present media climate, & in doing so, suggest new & challenging paths forward that will utilise the vast array of media technology to strengthen a uniquely Canadian cultural identity. { 328pp, 155x230mm, April 2007; PB, £26.50, 1552382249:9781552382240 , University of Calgary Press } |
| IN THE NEWS, 2ND EDITION : The Practice of Media Relations in Canada [William Wray Carney] With the proliferation of round-the-clock media, communicators have more opportunities than ever to find themselves "in the news." Yet today's communicators come from diverse backgrounds and are not always equipped to deal with evolving practices and technology. This revised and updated edition of In the News addresses not only traditional communications, but also the onslaught of new media that we experience in our everyday lives. Carney explains current practices and proposes a plan with which to manage media relationships. In the News is ideal for communications students and media relations practitioners in the private, public, and voluntary sectors. { 265pp, 155x230mm, February 2008; PB, £15.99, 0888644957:9780888644954 , University of Alberta Press } |
| LAYERS OF MUSICAL MEANING [Finn Egeland Hansen] This book is a radical attempt to explain musical meaning as the complex fabric of tension and relaxation resulting from the courses of the individual musical elements: e.g. rhythm, where the musical tension manifests itself by the opposition strong versus weak beats -- or harmony, where the chords of the tonal cadence generate courses of tension and relaxation. It is strongly emphasised that the total structure of contributors to the web of tension/relaxation, in short, the musical style, is constantly changing, and it is an error to believe that any musical way of articulation is eternal: new ways of expression arrive and others drop out gradually -- precisely as with ordinary language. This consideration, however, implies that too many and radical changes over a short period of time are foredoomed to go over the head of the ordinary listener. The radical modernism of the 1950s illustrates how composers in their endeavour to wipe the slate clean in order to start from scratch largely failed. Attempts at semantic interpretations of music are rejected. Such interpretations belong to the private sphere and cannot be scholarly supported. No hermeneutic interpretation, however elaborate, can claim higher truth value than another. { 336pp, 180x250mm, August 2006; PB, £30.00, 8763504243:9788763504249 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| MASTERS & MASTERPIECES OF IRANIAN CINEMA [Hamid Dabashi] The rise of Iranian cinema to world prominence over the last few decades is one of the most fascinating cultural stories of our time. There is scarcely an international film festival anywhere that does not honour the aesthetic and political explorations of Iranian artists. MASTERS & MASTERPIECES OF IRANIAN CINEMA celebrates this remarkable emergence. It focuses on twelve of the most important Iranian filmmakers of the past half-century -- among them, such pioneers as Forugh Farrokhzad, Dariush Mehrjui, Abbas Kiarostami, and Jafar Panahi. In his examination of their lives and their greatest works, Hamid Dabashi explains how, despite the censorship of both the Pahlavi monarchy and the Islamic Republic, the creativity of these filmmakers has transcended national and cultural borders. His account traces the ascendancy of Iranian cinema in modern Iranian intellectual history and also probes its links to Persian poetry, fiction, art, and philosophy. In Europe and in North America, in Asia and in Latin America, in Australia and Africa, the thematic and narrative richness of Iranian cinema has met with tremendous acclaim. Indeed, its particular modes of realism -- building on such cinematic antecedents as Italian, French and German neorealism -- have become truly transnational, contributing a new visual vocabulary to filmmaking everywhere. Masters & Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema studies the role that prominent film festivals have played in fostering the global success of Iranian cinema, and investigates the reception of these films within Iran, an intriguing story in its own right. This is a book that will reward not only the scholar and the film aficionado but also anyone interested in the cultural history of modern Iran. { 456pp, 165x240mm, February 2007; HB, £39.99, 093421185X:9780934211857 , Mage Publishers } |
| MEDIA STUDIES : Volume 1 -- Media History, Media & Society: 2nd Edition [Pieter Fourie (ed)] "Media Studies" encompasses the systematic, critical and analytical study of the media in all its forms, and sees the media as one of the most important generators and disseminators of meaning in contemporary society. It investigates who owns the media, who produces the media, media content and the users of the media { 436pp, 170x245mm, January 2007; PB, £22.99, 0702176923:9780702176920 , Juta Publishing (Academic) } |
| MOVING MEDIA STUDIES : Remediation Revisited [Heidi Philipsen & Lars Qvortrup (eds)] Sometimes, basic questions must be raised, and this is what this book does: What do we understand by a "medium"? How do we observe "communication"? What does it mean to say that communication is mediated? How should we interpret the idea of immediacy? The background for raising these questions is this important book which was published by Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin in 1999. Although it was published only a few years ago, revisions -- or, at least, reconsiderations -- already seem to be needed. The chapters represent a wide spectrum of different cases and media -- from television to computer, film and mobile phone. The main effort of the book is to put concepts like hypermediacy, immediacy, remediation, communication and the desire for the real into debate and practice. In nine articles, the last one written by Bolter himself, the writers are discussing and reconsidering these fundamental concepts. { 213pp, 155x230mm, August 2007; PB, £26.00, 8759312610:9788759312612 , Samfundslitteratur Press } |
| TELECOMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA ISSUES [Alane N Moller & Charles E Pletson (eds)] In a society predicated on information, the media has a pervasive presence. From government policy to leisure television, the information age touches us all. The papers collected in this book constitute some of today's leading analyses of the information industry. Together, these essays represent a needed foundation for understanding the present state and future development of the mass media. Current trends in telecommunications as well as media impact on public opinion are presented. { 118pp, 180x260mm, May 2008; HB, £45.99, 1604562943:9781604562941 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| WITNESS : Memory, Representation & the Media in Question [Frederik Tygstrup & Ulrik Ekman (eds)] This book offers a complex and thought-provoking anthology of critical essays respecting the notion of the witness and phenomena of witnessing in Western culture since the Holocaust. 'Witness' presents a new body of work in the field by an international collective of scholars concerned with resituating witnessing in its specifically contemporary problematic. This volume thus not only establishes links with existing, currently canonical contributions to witness literature -- from Primo Levi through Victor Klemperer to Imre Kertész -- it also goes on to provide a set of analyses of exemplary and very recent literary works in that area. Most significantly, Witness extends and changes the previous scholarly tendency to focus strongly on historical evidence and the witness’ vocalisation of true remembrance so as to include difficult theoretical and interpretative questions posed by studies today of traumatic experience, amnesia, visual culture, new media, and technology. Amongst others, the book includes contributions from the acclaimed Romanian-German author Herta Müller, and such an internationally recognised scholar in trauma studies as Cathy Caruth. { 420pp, June 2008; PB, £35.00, 8763504251:9788763504256 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |