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  • Whose Doctor? Reflections on a Time Lord

    by Adam Ford ...
    Nine of Australia's finest authors examine their relationship to Doctor Who from all angles. From letters begging to be allowed to write for the show and poems about step-families bonding over mutual love of the Doctor, to examinations of how New Who subverts the male gaze and introductory lectures to aspiring companions, this collection presents a range of unique and personal takes on Britain's ... Read more

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  • Locating Imagination in Popular Culture

    Place, Tourism and Belonging

    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media.Centred around the concept of imagination, the authors demonstrate how popular culture and media are becoming ... Read more

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  • Big Ban Theory: Elementary Essence Applied to Technetium, Columbo, Model of Modern Major General, Pirates of Penn’s Aunts, and Magical ME 3nd, 4th, & 6th, Volume 43

    by Rod Island ...
    Series series Big Ban Theory
    This volume grouped 3 smaller volumes of the "Magical ME" Series together since they were short. Much of the content was fluff so it really isn't necessary reading them. I would just suggest sticking with the Elemental Chapters of Technetium. Volume 43 is a continuation of Volume 42. It cites a Psychic Prediction regarding Leonardo DiCaprio "Cheering" Orlando Bloom hitting Justin Bieber vs. ... Read more

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  • Queere Fanfictions - Queere Utopien?

    Hetero- und Homonormativität in Fanfictions zu US-Vampir-Serien

    by Denise Labahn ...
    Series Book 30 - Critical Studies in Media and Communication
    Wie verhandeln Fans von Vampir-Serien in ihren Texten Themen wie Geschlecht, Sexualität, Familie oder Beziehungen? Und bringen sie in ihren Geschichten queere Utopien hervor? Denise Labahn untersucht die Aus- und Verhandlungen von Hetero- und Homonormativität durch Fans am Beispiel von Fanfictions zu den TV-Serien »Vampire Diaries«, »Buffy« und »True Blood« sowie einer Online-Gruppendiskussion mit ... Read more

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  • Visual Methodology in Migration Studies

    New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions

    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access book explores the use of visual methods in migration studies through a combination of theoretical analyses and empirical studies. The first section looks at how various visual methods, including photography, film, and mental maps, may be used to analyse the spatial presence of migrants. The second section addresses the processual building of narratives around migration, thereby ... Read more

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  • Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World

    Series series Routledge Research in Disability and Media Studies
    This book tells the stories of disabled people who have been influential in creating modern mass media.Through the voices of key disabled media makers and collaborators, the author highlights the ways in which their contributions are changing society’s understanding of disability and shaping mass media and culture. Spanning a range of media formats – television/streaming productions, performances, ... Read more

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  • Television Can Blow Me

    by James Donaghy ...
    As television descends ever further into a bacchanalian orgy of industry gladhanding, ass kissing and nut guzzling, Aerial Telly is the one website you can rely upon to call it exactly how it is.More hopelessly corrupt TV critics were spotted lunching with worthless TV talent Chernobyls than ever before in 2011 and the shamelessly compromised hacks who return half-cut to their soulless showhomes ... Read more

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  • Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance

    A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere

    Series series Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
    This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and literary ... Read more

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  • The Cultural Politics of Affect and Emotion

    A Case Study of Chinese Reality TV

    by Wei Dong ...
    Series Book 28 - Critical Studies in Media and Communication
    Against the background of the media commercialization reform since the 1990s in China and drawing on the case of »X-Change« (2006-2019), Wei Dong investigates the affective meaning-making mechanism in the multimodal text of Chinese reality TV. The focus lies on the ways in which emotions are appropriated and disciplined by regimes of power and identity, and the ways in which affect - in this case ... Read more

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  • Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television

    Mediating Post-Soviet Difference

    Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It ... Read more

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  • Turkish Drama Serials

    The Importance and Influence of a Globally Popular Television Phenomenon

    by Miriam Berg ...
    The extraordinary global success of Turkish drama serials is a significant development in contemporary popular culture. This book presents comparative audience data from three different regions to explore its ramifications across the Global South. We learn how this phenomenon has transformed Turkey—a Muslim-majority country—into the world’s second-largest producer of scripted television serials, ... Read more

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  • Visión Estratégica: Transformando la Televisión Regional en Colombia - Un Enfoque Integral para Políticos, Directores de Canales, Universidades e Inversores

    by Juan Álvarez ...
    Este libro se presenta como una guía exhaustiva que aborda la transformación necesaria para los canales de televisión regional en Colombia, dirigida a un público diverso que incluye políticos, directores de canales, universidades e inversores. Se inicia con una introducción que contextualiza el panorama actual de la televisión regional en Colombia, destacando la importancia de factores ... Read more

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  • Digital Peripheries

    The Online Circulation of Audiovisual Content from the Small Market Perspective

    Series series Springer Series in Media Industries
    This is an open access book. Media industry research and EU policymaking are predominantly tailored to large (and, in the latter case, Western) European markets. This open access book addresses the specific qualities of smaller media markets, highlighting their vulnerability to global digital competition and outlining survival strategies for them. New online distribution models and new trends in ... Read more

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  • Liz Tells Frank What Happened In...

    Series Book 1 - Liz Tells Frank What Happened In...
    For the last two years, to spare her friend Frank from some of pop culture's weirdest atrocities, writer Liz Shannon Miller (G4's "Attack of the Show") has been catching him up on the movies, television and books he's missed: Stuff every person ought to know about, but maybe not actually experience for themselves.This edition, with a foreword by the eponymous Frank Smith, contains 20 of "Liz Tells ... Read more

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  • Mothers on Mothers

    Maternal Readings of Popular Television

    From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and motherhood appear on television today. Drawing on questionnaires completed by mothers across the UK, this book sheds new light on the varied and diverse ways in which expectant, new and existing mothers make sense of popular representations of motherhood on television. The volume ... Read more

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  • The Mediatization of the O.J. Simpson Case

    From Reality Television to Filmic Adaptation

    Series Book 102 - Edition Medienwissenschaft
    F. Scott Fitzgerald once said: »Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.« In the 1990s, nobody fell deeper than O.J. Simpson. Once considered a national treasure, the athlete was accused of brutally slaying his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman on June 12, 1994. Within days, the media and public developed an unprecedented obsession with the story, turning a murder ... Read more

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  • Entertaining German Culture

    Contemporary Transnational Television and Film

    Series Book 27 - Film Europa
    Audiences for contemporary German film and television are becoming increasingly transnational, and depictions of German cultural history are moving beyond the typical post-war focus on Germany’s problematic past. Entertaining German Culture explores this radical shift, building on recent research into transnational culture to argue that a new process of internal and external cultural reabsorption ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After

    Series series Framing Film Festivals
    This is an open access book. This edited collection aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider what happens when festivals can’t happen; while films have found new (temporary) channels of distribution (most often in the forms of digital releases), the festival format ... Read more

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  • Quotable Quotes: Actresses From The Past

    The current generation of actresses may be great and talented, but there will always be a place in everyone's hearts for the actresses of the past. These are the people that, during the 1900's, redefined the movies that we see today. From what was once a small silent movie attraction, they helped turn it into a thriving business that now generates billions of dollars every year. Compiled and ... Read more

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  • What You Really Need to Know About Apple TV

    by Paul Stevens ...
    Curious about Apple TV? What exactly is it and what will it bring you compared to your present TV set up? Look no further than this simple free guide which will put you on a path to a vastly improved entertainment experience! ... Read more

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  • Binging Family

    Die Konzeption von Familie in der Video-on-Demand-Serie

    by Jakob Kelsch ...
    In diesem Open-Access-Buch zeigt Jakob Kelsch, wie sich in der US-amerikanischen TV-Serie der 1950er und 1960er Jahre der Mythos der patriarchal-strukturierten Kernfamilie als Ideal des familiären Zusammenlebens herausbildete. Trotz Phasen der Dekonstruktion und der zunehmenden Repräsentation problematischer und ethnisch wie sozial diverser Familienverhältnisse erweist sich dieser Mythos bis heute ... Read more

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  • „Beyond the Wall”: Game of Thrones aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive

    Edited by Anna Gamper, Thomas Müller ...
    Dieses Open-Access-Buch beleuchtet das Serienphänomen „Game of Thrones“ aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven: Die rechtswissenschaftliche trifft auf die sprach-, musik-, literatur- und sozialwissenschaftliche, ferner die (kunst-)historische, psychologische und theologische Perspektive. Die Beiträge zeigen auf, dass die Serie reiche Anknüpfungspunkte für die wissenschaftliche ... Read more

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  • Blue Buddha: 2014 Preview

    Blue Buddha Press, the publishing company behind Tower of the Hand: A Flight of Sorrows and the It Is Known series, collects all of its ebook releases into one comprehensive catalogue, including an overview and extensive sample of each title. Even better, a number of future releases are included, providing readers with a sneak peek at the books they'll be devouring up until this summer.A Song of ... Read more

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  • Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture

    In this open access book, seventeen scholars discuss how contemporary Scandinavian art and media have become important arenas to articulate and stage various forms of vulnerability in the Scandinavian welfare states. How do discourses of privilege and vulnerability coexist and interact in Scandinavia? How do the Scandinavian countries respond to vulnerability given increased migration? How is ... Read more

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