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  • It’s All Been There Before

    What We Can Learn about the Coronavirus from Pandemic Movies

    by Denis Newiak ...
    Since the beginning of the Coronavirus crisis, our lives have completely changed: Shutdowns, working in home offices, contact restrictions, daily bulletins from virologists, protest movements, and conspiracy fantasies seem to have become part of our new everyday life. Could we have been prepared for this? Totally. It’s all been there before: in the movies. Science fiction films and series have ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Lonelinesses of Modernity

    A Theory of Modernization as an Age of Isolation

    by Denis Newiak ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Modernity presents itself as an age of increasing social disintegration: secularization and rationalization, urbanization and globalization, individualization and digitalization make it difficult for communities today. Modernity comes with desirable promises that make it attractive, but it does not come free: Its price is escalating modern loneliness. Denis Newiak tells a cultural history of ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television

    by Debbie Olson, Joseph V. Giunta, Cory Jobb, Cijo Joy, Suniti Madaan, Elaine Morton, Denis Newiak, Nick Petrov, Matthew Smith, Monica Sousa0, Ingrid E. Castro1 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    This collection examines the child’s role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television.. By exploring the function of child characters within a dystopian framework, this volume illustrates how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often works to reaffirm the “rightness” of past systems of social order. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Better Living through TV

    Contemporary TV and Moral Identity Formation

    by Steven A. Benko, Jill B. Delston, John Hillman, Douglas L. Howard, Matt Hummel, Alisa Johnson, Eleanor Jones, Dutton Kearney, Leigh Kellmann Kolb, Matilde Accurso Liotta0, Denis Newiak1, Douglas Rasmussen2, James Rocha3, James Shelton4, Martin Shuster5, Martina Vanzo6, H. Peter Steeves7 ...
    Watching television need not be a passive activity or simply for entertainment purposes. Television can be the site of important identity work and moral reflection. Audiences can learn about themselves, what matters to them, and how to relate to others by thinking about the implicit and explicit moral messages in the shows they watch. Better Living through TV: Contemporary TV and Moral Identity ... Read more

    $34.89 USD

  • Television Studies and Research on Series

    Theory, history and present of (post-)televisual seriality

    Edited by Denis Newiak, Dominik Maeder, Herbert Schwaab ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Television series enjoy an unbroken - popular as well as scholarly - attention. It is surprising, however, that in works on seriality in media and cultural studies, approaches to television studies and television history still play a rather minor role. Yet seriality should always be thought of in terms of television, since the two have always been inextricably interwoven - economically, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Conspiracy Ideologies in Films and Series

    Explanatory Approaches and Opportunities for Intervention

    Edited by Denis Newiak, Anastasia Schnitzer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Corona as a staged instrument of oppression, secretly kept vaccination deaths or politicians drinking children's blood: at the latest since the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic, conspiracy ideologies are booming and harm social peace and democratic will formation through their dogmatism. So-called conspiracy theories generate systematic distrust of legitimate political institutions and can ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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  • What Do We Really Know About Herta Herzog?

    Exploring the Life and Work of a Pioneer of Communication Research

    Edited by Elisabeth Klaus, Josef Seethaler ...
    The book for the first time explores in-depth the life and work of Herta Herzog (1910–2010), an Austrian-American social psychologist. Herzog spent most of her working life in the United States, where she moved to in the 1930s, following her first husband Paul Lazarsfeld into migration and working with him at the famous Office of Radio Research in Princeton and Columbia. The chapters by scholars ... Read more

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  • Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology

    From Phenomenology to Critical Theory

    by Professor Babette Babich ...
    Gunther Anders' Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive exploration of the ground-breaking work of German thinker Gunther Anders. Anders' philosophy has become increasingly prescient in our digitised, technological age as his work predicts the prevalence of social media, ubiquitous surveillance and the turn to big data. Anders' ouevre also explored the technologies of nuclear power and ... Read more

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  • Body Modern

    Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject

    by Michael Sappol ...
    A poster first printed in Germany in 1926 depicts the human body as a factory populated by tiny workers doing industrial tasks. Devised by Fritz Kahn (1888–1968), a German-Jewish physician and popular science writer, “Der Mensch als Industriepalast” (or “Man as Industrial Palace”) achieved international fame and was reprinted, in various languages and versions, all over the world. It was a new ... Read more

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  • The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School

    by Marco Abel ...
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    Questions, Themes, and Approaches

    Edited by Professor Herman Paul ...
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    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023What are the humanities? As the cluster of disciplines historically grouped together as “humanities” has grown and diversified to include media studies and digital studies alongside philosophy, art history and musicology to name a few, the need to clearly define the field is pertinent.Herman Paul leads a stellar line-up of esteemed and early-career scholars to ... Read more

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