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  • The Rolling Stones

    Sociological Perspectives

    by Andrea Baker, Matteo Bortolini, Andrea Cossu, Marlie Centawer, Daniel M. Downes, June Madeley, Jason T. Eastman, Barry J. Faulk, Andre Millard, Michael Skladany, Peter Smith ...
    The Rolling Stones: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Helmut Staubmann, draws from a broad spectrum of sociological perspectives to contribute both to the understanding of the phenomenon Rolling Stones and to an in-depth analysis of contemporary society and culture that takes The Stones a starting point. Contributors approach The Rolling Stones from a range of social science perspectives ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • American Remakes of British Television

    Transformations and Mistranslations

    by Jennifer Andrews, Silvia Barlaam, Janet J. Boseovski, Brian Ekdale, Lisa Emmerton, Karen Hellekson, Stuart Marcovitch, James W. Martens, Albert Moran, Jeanette Steemers, Priscilla L. Walton, Paul Booth, Daniel Downes ...
    Ever since Norman Lear remade the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part into All in the Family, American remakes of British television shows have become part of the American cultural fabric. Indeed, some of the programs currently said to exemplify American tastes and attitudes, from reality programs like American Idol and What Not to Wear to the mock-documentary approach of The Office, are adaptations ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education

    by Larry Alexander, Jonathan Haidt, Cristine H. Legare, Heather MacDonald, Azhar Majeed, Harvey C. Mansfield, Norma Thompson, James R. Stoner Jr., Ulrich Baer, David M. Buss0, Paul Carrese1, Daniel Cullen3, Donald Alexander Downs4, Joshua M. Dunn5, Steven F. Hayward6, James M. Manley7, Carol McNamara8, Laura Beth Nielsen0, Robert C. Post1, Geoffrey R. Stone2, Eugene Volokh3 ...
    Series series Political Theory for Today
    The essays in Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education reflect diverse perspectives on one of the most pressing issues in higher education--the controversies over freedom of speech and its relation to intellectual diversity. Does the First Amendment apply on campuses and do its principles clarify or obscure the issues surrounding campus speech? What, after all, is the basis for ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Essentials of Modeling and Analytics

    Retail Risk Management and Asset Protection

    by David B. Speights, Daniel M. Downs, Adi Raz ...
    Essentials of Modeling and Analytics illustrates how and why analytics can be used effectively by loss prevention staff. The book offers an in-depth overview of analytics, first illustrating how analytics are used to solve business problems, then exploring the tools and training that staff will need in order to engage solutions. The text also covers big data analytical tools and discusses if and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Chief Culture Officer

    How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation

    by Grant McCracken ...
    Trenchantly on point and bursting with insight, anthropologist Grant McCracken shows American corporations how keeping a finger on the pulse of contemporary cultural trends can change their business practices for the better -- and ahead of the curve.Levi-Strauss, the jeans and apparel maker, missed out on the hip-hop trend. They didn't realize that those kids in baggy jeans represented a whole new ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers

    Exploring Participatory Culture

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    Brings together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumersHenry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • It's Not TV

    Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era

    Edited by Marc Leverette, Brian L. Ott, Cara Louise Buckley ...
    Since first going on the air in 1972, HBO has continually attempted to redefine television as we know it. Today, pay television (and HBO in particular) is positioned as an alternative to network offerings, consistently regarded as the premier site for what has come to be called "quality television."This collection of new essays by an international group of media scholars argues that HBO, as part ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Media, Gender and Identity

    An Introduction

    by David Gauntlett ...
    Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities?The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Television Entertainment

    by Jonathan Gray ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world’s most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a box, it is deeply embedded in everyday life, in how we think, what we think and care about, and who we think and care about it with.But is television entertainment art? Why do so many love it and so many hate or fear it? Does it ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Hollywood Family Film

    A History, from Shirley Temple to Harry Potter

    by Noel Brown ...
    Series series Cinema and Society
    The Hollywood family film is one of the most popular, commercially-successful and culturally significant forms of mass entertainment. This book is the first in-depth history of the Hollywood family film, tracing its development from its beginnings in the 1930s to its global box-office dominance today. Noel Brown shows how, far from being an innocuous amusement for children, the family film has ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Legitimating Television

    Media Convergence and Cultural Status

    by Michael Z Newman, Elana Levine ...
    Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative renaissance, with critics hailing the rise of Quality series such as Mad Men and 30 Rock. ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Mad Men

    Dream Come True TV

    Edited by Gary R. Edgerton ...
    Series series Reading Contemporary Television
    Don and Betty Draper live in a picture-perfect world. He is a hard-living advertising executive - a 'mad man' - on the fast track. She's a Bryn Mawr graduate and former fashion model, now a suburban princess, mother of three children. If they've everything, why are they so unhappy? Why is their dream come true not enough? This book explores, analyses, celebrates the world of "Mad Men" in all its ... Read more

    $28.19 USD