The media's coverage of religion is an important question for academic researchers, given the central role which news media play in ensuring that people are up-to-date with religion news developments. Not only is there a lack of treatment of the subject in other countries, but there is also the absence of comparative study on news and religion. A key question is how the media, the political system, the religions themselves, the culture, and the economy influence how religion is reported in diffe...
Zombies have changed dramatically in the new millennium. They are no longer the comical, shuffling, mindless monsters of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968). In works such as 28 Days Later... (2002) and World War Z (2013) they are fast, rabid, and absolutely terrifying in large hordes. In Warm Bodies (2013) and In the Flesh (2013-2015), they are thoughtful, sensitive, and capable of ethics and empathy. Audiences of this modern cinematic monster have changed, too, from teenaged camp a...
La nueva cartografia del sector audiovisual argentino relata y analiza un proceso de descentralizacion que transforma el tradicional mapa de ese sector productivo. A partir de los primeros anos del Siglo XXI, en el cruce de la digitalizacion y la puesta en marcha de politicas publicas nacionales y provinciales, comienza a crecer la produccion audiovisual en todas las provincias del pais. Se trata de una realidad que excede en mucho la realizacion de un conjunto de producciones audiovisuales que...
When Garth Ancier left NBC for the start-up FOX network, NBC head Grant Tinker told Ancier he was making a terrible mistake. "I will never put a fourth column on my schedule board," Ancier recalls Tinker telling him. "There will only be three." Today, fewer than twenty years later, FOX is routinely referred to as one of the "Big Four" television networks while more recent arrivals like UPN, PAX, and the WB strive to be number five. The Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Barry Diller, an...
Entertainment and Society, 2nd Edition: Influences, Impacts, and Innovations
by Dr Shay Sayre and Associate Professor Emeritus Cynthia King
Tatort Deutsche Einheit: Ostdeutsche Identitatsinszenierung Im -Tatort- Des MDR
by Tina Welke
Training and informational programming has always been an important application of video and is one of the most important applications for multimedia. The use of technology in training for industry, government, health care and education has increased dramatically in recent years. Video, text, graphics, animation and sound are combined in various ways to convey concept, attitude and technical skill. Designing and Producing Media-Based Training examines why, how and when you can use technology f...
Established in 2009, the highly successful Century 21 series of books soon acquired a reputation for presenting some of the best-loved comic strips of the 1960s in breathtaking quality. Each page is painstakingly restored from the best archive materials, including original artwork unseen for over 40 years. Menace From Space is the fifth volume in the series, and features twelve complete stories with an outer space theme. The book also includes biographies of the original artists, reproductions o...
Containing scripts, music and sound effects for adverts, documentaries, training films and radio drama, this book aims to explain and teach the skills of voicing radio and television commercials. It also includes scripts written for well-known brand and companies and gives advice on how to find work. There are sections too on making your own demo tape, work in a voice studio, interpret text, work with CD-ROMS or computer games , look after your voice and work in radio drama. In addition there ar...
Albert Abramson published (with McFarland) in 1987 a landmark volume titled ""The History of Television, 1880-1941"" (""massive...research"" - ""Library Journal""; ""voluminous documentation"" - ""Choice""; ""many striking old photos"" - ""The TV Collector""). At last, he has produced the follow-up volume; the reader may be assured there is no other book in any language that is remotely comparable to it. Together, these two volumes provide the definitive technical history of the medium. Upon the...
The next entry in Sterling's pop-culture psychology series features 20 essays and an exclusive interview with Rod Roddenberry, son of 'Star Trek' creator Gene Roddenberry. In a fun and accessible way, Star Trek Psychology delves deep into the psyches of the show's well-known and well-loved characters. It uses academic and scientific theories to analyse and answer such questions as 'Why do Trek's aliens look so human?' and How can the starship's holodeck be used for therapy?' This compilation exa...