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  • Films that Sell

    Moving Pictures and Advertising

    Series series Cultural Histories of Cinema
    While moving image advertising has been around us, everywhere, for at least a century, the topic has tended to be overlooked by cinema studies. This far-reaching new collection makes an incisive contribution to a new field of study, by exploring the history, theory and practice of moving image advertising, and emphasising the dynamic and lasting relationships between print, film, broadcasting and ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Swedish Film: An Introduction and Reader

    Swedish Film: An Introduction and Reader gives a wide and yet concise presentation of the history of Swedish film through a number of articles by Swedish and international film scholars. The book draws upon a rich tradition of research on Swedish cinema, and it offers a varied and inspiring introduction to the history – from the very first film screenings to contemporary works.Combining in-depth ... Read more

    $15.85 USD

  • Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures

    Series series Film Culture in Transition
    Advertising has played a central role in shaping the history of modern media. While often identified with American consumerism and the rise of the 'Information Society', motion picture advertising has been part of European visual culture since the late nineteenth century. With the global spread of ad agencies, moving image advertisements became a privileged cultural form to make people experience ... Read more

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    Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, development, spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media practice. These case studies ... Read more

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  • The Invention of Design

    A Twentieth-Century History

    by Maggie Gram ...
    **From a brilliant cultural historian, a fascinating history of the twentieth century told through the story of design and its utopian promises“Fascinating, rigorously researched.” ―AtlanticA New Yorker Best Book of the Year**Design has penetrated every dimension of contemporary society, from classrooms to statehouses to corporate boardrooms. It’s seen as a kind of mega-power, one that can solve ... Read more

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  • Graphic Design as Communication

    What is the point of graphic design? Is it advertising or is it art? What purpose does it serve in our society and culture? Malcolm Barnard explores how meaning and identity are at the core of every graphic design project and argues that the role and function of graphic design is, and always has been, communication. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches including those of Derrida, Saussure, ... Read more

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  • The Architect as Worker

    Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design

    Edited by Professor Peggy Deamer ...
    Directly confronting the nature of contemporary architectural work, this book is the first to address a void at the heart of architectural discourse and thinking. For too long, architects have avoided questioning how the central aspects of architectural “practice” (professionalism, profit, technology, design, craft, and building) combine to characterize the work performed in the architectural ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Aesthetic Journalism

    How to Inform Without Informing

    As the art world eagerly embraces a journalistic approach, Aesthetic Journalism explores why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries and reportage. This new mode of journalism is grasping more and more space in modern culture and Cramerotti probes the current merge of art with the sphere of investigative journalism. The attempt to map this field, here defined as ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Film Programming

    Curating for Cinemas, Festivals, Archives

    by Peter Bosma ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    This study explores artistic choices in cinema exhibition, focusing on film theaters, film festivals, and film archives and situating film-curating issues within an international context. Artistic and commercial film availability has increased overwhelmingly as a result of the digitization of the infrastructure of distribution and exhibition. The film trade's conventional structures are ... Read more

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  • After Uniqueness

    A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation

    by Erika Balsom ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities for the duplication and consumption of images, offering greater dissemination and access. But digital reproduction has also stoked new anxieties concerning authenticity and ownership. From this ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Advertising as Culture

    by Chris Wharton ...
    This book is about advertising and culture. Advertising is a significant aspect of modern societies and plays an important part in economic activity. It is a highly visible component of everyday life and increasingly of contemporary culture. The book considers culture as a broad category of human endeavour and experience. It takes a multidisciplinary approach drawing on media and cultural studies ... Read more

    $28.79 USD