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Doublespeak: From Revenue Enhancement to Terminal Living : How Government, Business, Advertisers, and Others Use Language to Deceive You

by William Lutz
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Publisher: Harpercollins (1989-11)
ISBN: 0060161345
EAN: 9780060161347
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 290 pages
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Invasions of privacy: Notes from a celebrity journalist

by Marian Christy
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Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co (1984)
ISBN: 0201103362
EAN: 9780201103366
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 212 pages
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Narrative and Media

by Rosemary Huisman, Julian Murphet, Anne Dunn (Editor: Helen Fulton)
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press (2006-01-30)
ISBN: 0521617421
EAN: 9780521617420
Binding/Media: Paperback - 342 pages
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Narrative and Media applies contemporary narrative theory to media texts, including film, television, radio, advertising, and print journalism. Drawing on research in structuralist and post-structuralist theory, as well as functional grammar and image analysis, the book explains the narrative techniques which shape media texts and offers interpretive tools for analysing meaning and ideology. Each section looks at particular media forms and shows how elements such as chronology, character, and focalization are realized in specific texts. As the boundaries between entertainment and information in the mass media continue to dissolve, understanding the ways in which modes of story-telling are seamlessly transferred from one medium to another, and the ideological implications of these strategies, is an essential aspect of media studies.

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Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News

by Tucker Carlson
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Publisher: Warner Books (2003-10)
ISBN: 0446529761
EAN: 9780446529761
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 256 pages
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Political pundit Tucker Carlson cracks sharp and wise on all things Wash- ington with the acerbic wit and razor-sharp insight that have made him a beloved conservative commentator. Proclaimed by NewYork magazine as the pundit most likely to succeed in these Bushian years, Tucker Carlson anchors the right side of CNN's Crossfire aisle. An unabashed beltway insider whose profile is unmatched, Carlson stands ready to pounce on anyone and everyone who dares enter the political fray. Now, he applies his deft and amusing perspective to the goings-on in our nation's capital. Whether it's the towel-snapping prowess of the President or the dumbfounding exploits of his predecessor, there is no sacred ground. A wild and informative ride behind the scenes of a cable newsman, Carlson's debut covers his beat with equal parts hilarity and insight in a jocular review that both exposes and defends the absurdity that underlies the world of politics.

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Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times

by Robert W. McChesney
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Publisher: New Press, The (2000-10)
ISBN: 1565846346
EAN: 9781565846340
Binding/Media: Paperback - 448 pages
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The first paperback edition of a myth-breaking book on media, from one of today's most reputable and insightful media historian/critics. Winner of Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize, Rich Media, Poor Democracy challenges the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information "choices" is a democratic one. Robert McChesney, whom Marc Crispin Miller calls "the greatest of our media historians," argues that the major beneficiaries of the so-called Information Age are wealthy investors, advertisers, and a handful of enormous media, computer, and telecommunications corporations. This concentrated corporate control, McChesney maintains, is disastrous for any notion of participatory democracy. Combining unprecedented detail on current events with historical sweep, in a book Noam Chomsky calls a "rich and penetrating study," McChesney chronicles the waves of media mergers and acquisitions in the late 1990s. He reviews the corrupt and secretive enactment of public policies surrounding the internet, digital television, and public broadcasting. He also addresses the gradual and ominous adaptation of the First Amendment as a means of shielding corporate media power and the wealthy, and he debunks the myth that the market compels media firms to "give the people what they want." In an eye-opening call to action, McChesney warns that we must organize politically to restructure the media if we want democracy to endure.

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Robert McChesney makes no bones about it: he is a democrat with a small "d," and in this book, Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times, that spells leftist. As a media scholar (McChesney is a communications professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), he is primarily concerned with "the contradiction," as he puts it, "between a for-profit, highly concentrated, advertising-saturated, corporate media system and the communication requirements of a democratic society." As a citizen, he favors resolving this contradiction through measures that would make your average CEO's skin crawl: massive government subsidies for nonprofit journalism, vigorous antitrust litigation aimed at media conglomerates, and robust regulation of corporate broadcasters.

If your politics lie anywhere to the right of Ralph Nader's, in other words, don't come to this book looking for validation. But for a stimulating, nuanced, and rigorously researched presentation of the case for overhauling the current media regime, look no further. McChesney displays a sure grasp of today's fast-evolving, high-tech mediascape, and his arguments about how to shape its future evolution (especially his critique of the now-prevalent idea that corporations deserve First Amendment rights) unfold with an often-startling common sense. Whether or not you agree with his prescriptions in the end, McChesney's sweepingly expansive notions of democracy--and of the importance of media within it--demand to be reckoned with. --Julian Dibbell

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Ten Thousand Bullets: The Cinematic Journey of John Woo

by Christopher Heard
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Lone Eagle Publishing Company (1999-12)
ISBN: 158065021X
EAN: 9781580650212
Binding/Media: Paperback - 288 pages
Edition: 1
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John Woo, Hollywood's hottest action film director, the man behind the scenes of Face/Off, Broken Arrow, The Killer, and the upcoming sequel to Mission Impossible, has made a remarkable transition from his Hong Kong roots to his current American success.

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The Visual Culture Reader

by (Editor: Nicholas Mirzoeff)
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Publisher: Routledge (1998-12-24)
ISBN: 0415141346
EAN: 9780415141345
Binding/Media: Paperback - 560 pages
Edition: 1st
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Visual culture is concerned with visual events in which information, meaning or pleasure is sought by the consumer in the encounter with visual artefacts, from oil paintings to the internet. The diverse essays collected here constitute a comprehensive exploration of the emerging interdisciplinary field of visual culture, and examine why modern and postmodern culture place such a premium on rendering experience in visual form.

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