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Media Semiotics - Jonathan Bignell - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Media Semiotics - Jonathan Bignell - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Media semiotics is a lucid investigation of the critical approach in contemporary media studies. Using examples such as Big Brother and Billy Elliot, Jonathan Bignell steps easily from basic concepts to more complex theories, while devoting chapters to specific media forms. New material in this second edition includes sections on men''s style magazines, docusoaps and ''reality TV'', digital interactive television, and mobile phone text messaging.This study begins by explaining the concept of the sign and the ideological roles of media in contemporary culture. The book then scrutinises advertisements, glossy magazines, daily newspapers, TV programmes, recent films and interactive media, with each chapter containing close analyses of particular examples. Key strands in critical theory which are allied to semiotics, such as ideology and psychoanalytic theory are explored. Media semiotics moves on to discuss the challenges to established semiotic methods posed by audience studies and postmodernism, and considers ''new media'', including computer games, the Internet and the World Wide Web.

DKK 185.00
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The Classic Novel - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Classic Novel - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen.. An emerging area of interest - the relationship between film and literature and the way cinema and television have translated classic novels into moving pictures from the 30s to the 90s.. A wide-ranging but focused collection that is bang up to date and free of media jargon that looks at both the film and the book.. Includes discussion of: The English Patient, Pride and Prejudice and Middlemarch, Pickwick Papers, Dracula, Dickens, Conrad, Hardy and Waugh.

DKK 193.00
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Granada Television - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Granada Television - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Unique, readable first hand accounts of one of the most significant periods in British television history. Introductory essay from leading academic Julia Hallam (University of Liverpool), sets the creation of Granada in the context of British broadcasting history and of television as it is today. Provides an insight into the culture of Granada TV during its pioneering early years, from the perspectives of writers, producers, directors, technicians and presenters.. An illustrious collection of contributors, to name a few; Lord Isaacs, Lord MacDonald, Lord Birt, Michael Parkinson, Michael Apted, Stan Barstow, Nick Elliott, Victoria Wood, Kenith Trodd, Jack Rosenthal, Charles Sturridge, Anna Ford, Chris Kelly and Alan Plater. Concerns the production of such legendary programmes as World in Action,''Brideshead Revisited, Coronation Street, A Family at War and What the Papers Say.

DKK 229.00
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Fictional Television and American Politics - Jack Holland - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Fictional Television and American Politics - Jack Holland - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

‘Like one of the brilliant television shows analysed in the text, this book grips the reader from the very first page and draws them into a fascinating, incisive, thoughtful and utterly compelling analysis of television, culture and politics. I simply could not put it down. If you want to better understand the bewildering nature of American political life today, you couldn’t do much better than this amazing book. It demonstrates how television and politics mutually constitute each other, no more so than in the Reality TV politics of the current Trump administration. This book makes clear that to understand American politics, you have to understand television. Hugely recommended.’ Richard Jackson, University of Otago, New Zealand ‘Jack Holland's account of how fictional television shapes the world politics of the US in the twenty first century marks a major advance in the analysis of international relations and cultural politics. On the one hand, his analysis demonstrates how fictional television enables us to make sense of who we are, our places in the world, and how we should interact with others. On the other, he reveals the discursive war of position that resonates through the formal politics of the American presidency and those of our fictional televisual worlds. In doing so, Holland ensures that readers will never look at world politics, or their favourite television shows, in quite the same way again.’ Kyle Grayson, Newcastle University We live in a golden age of fictional television, while our politics has never been so controversial. This book explores that relationship, asking what it is that some of America’s most popular TV shows have to say about its politics. Perhaps, like the author, you have gasped at Game of Thrones and balked at Breaking Bad . This book illustrates how, far from being outside of politics, shows such as these are deeply political, helping to fill our world with meaning. To this end, the book analyses Game of Thrones, House of Cards, The West Wing, Homeland, 24, Veep, The Wire, The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad . These are all politically consequential shows that shape how we feel and think about world politics.

DKK 759.00
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Representing Ethnicity in Contemporary French Visual Culture - Joseph Mcgonagle - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Representing Ethnicity in Contemporary French Visual Culture - Joseph Mcgonagle - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

The issue of ethnicity in France, and how ethnicities are represented there visually, remains one of the most important and polemical aspects of French post-colonial politics and society. Representing ethnicity in contemporary French visual culture is the first book to analyse how a range of different ethnicities have been represented across contemporary French visual culture. Via a diverse series of case studies – ranging from the internationally acclaimed film Amélie to France's popular TV series Plus belle la vie – it explores how ethnicities have been represented in contemporary France across a wide variety of different media, including film, photography, television and the visual arts. Four chapters examine distinct areas of particular importance within contemporary France: national identity, people of Algerian heritage, Jewishness and France's second city Marseille. Representing ethnicity in contemporary French visual culture will appeal to a wide range of readers. Its innovative, interdisciplinary approach and novel subject matter will complement university courses that focus on contemporary French society and visual culture. It will interest those researching and studying French and European film, photography and television, ethnicity in post-colonial France and visual culture generally.

DKK 804.00
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Nordic Gothic - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Nordic Gothic - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV series, and new media. The volume gives an overview of Nordic Gothic fiction in relation to transnational developments and provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. Nordic Gothic creates an understanding of a ubiquitous but hitherto under-researched cultural phenomenon by showing how the Gothic narratives make visible cultural anxieties haunting the Nordic countries and their welfare systems, and how central these anxieties are for the understanding of identities and ideologies in the Nordic region. It examines how figures from Nordic folklore and mythology function as metaphorical expressions of Gothic themes, and also how universal Gothic figures such as vampires and witches are used in the Nordic context. The Nordic settings, and especially the Nordic wilderness, are explored from perspectives such as ecocriticism and postcolonialism and subcategories such as Gothic crime, Gothic humour, troll Gothic and geriatric Gothic are defined and discussed. Furthermore, the phenomenon of transcultural adaptation is investigated, using the cases of Lars von Trier’s Riget and John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Låt den rätte komma in, two seminal works of contemporary Nordic Gothic.

DKK 804.00
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The British Monarchy on Screen - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

The British Monarchy on Screen - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Moving images of the British monarchy, in fact and fiction, are almost as old as the moving image itself, dating back to an 1895 dramatic vignette, The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Led by Queen Victoria, British monarchs themselves appeared in the new ''animated photography'' from 1896. Half a century later, the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II was a milestone in the adoption of television, watched by 20 million Britons and 100 million North Americans. At the century''s end, Princess Diana''s funeral was viewed by 2.5 billion worldwide. Historians have argued that the power of the image has bolstered the British monarchy as its political power has waned, but media scholars have been slow to examine how that power has been secured by royal self-promotion, entrepreneurial deference, narrative sympathy, reportorial discretion and spectacular exhibition. In the first book-length examination of film and television representations of this enduring institution, distinguished scholars of media and political history analyse the screen representations of royalty from Henry VIII to ''William and Kate''. Among their concerns are the commercial value of royal representations, the convergence of the monarch and the movie star, and the historical use of the moving image to maintain the Crown''s legitimacy. Seventeen essays by international commentators examine the portrayal of royalty in the ''actuality'' picture, the early extended feature, amateur cinema, the movie melodrama, the Commonwealth documentary, New Queer Cinema, TV current affairs, the big screen ceremonial and the post-historical boxed set. These contributors include Ian Christie, Elisabeth Bronfen, Andrew Higson, Steven Fielding, Karen Lury, Glyn Davis, Ann Gray, Jane Landman, Victoria Duckett, Jude Cowan Montague, James Downs, Barbara Straumann, Deirdre Gilfedder, Jo Stephenson, Ruth Adams, Erin Bell, Basil Glynn and Nicola Rehling.A long over-due contribution to film and television studies, this collection will become an essential resource for scholars and students of British media and political history.

DKK 848.00
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