Understanding Cultural Globalization
Author: Paul Hopper
Edition: First
Publisher: Polity
Pages: 240
Price: £50.00 and £15.99
ISBN 9780745635576 and 5583
Hopper, reader in the School of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Brighton, aims to offer a comprehensive introduction to critical debates around cultural globalisation.
Blogging
Author: Jill Walker Rettberg
Edition: First
Publisher: Polity
Pages: 184
Price: £45.00 and £13.99
ISBN 9780745641331 and 1348
Blogging has profoundly influenced not only the nature of the internet today but also the nature of modern communication, despite being a genre invented less than a decade ago. Rettberg, associate professor in the department of linguistic, literary and aesthetic studies at the University of Bergen, has produced a key text for an emerging field.
Gender and Everyday Life
Author: Mary Holmes
Edition: First
Publisher: Routledge
Pages: 176
Price: £60.00 and £17.99
ISBN 9780415423489 and 3496
Gender is illustrated with a range of familiar and contemporary examples ranging from 19th-century fashions in China and Britain to discussions of what a Barbie doll can tell us about gender in America. Covering key sociological and feminist ideas about gender, Holmes, of the department of sociology at Australia's University of Flinders, considers the strengths and limitations of each approach.
Native Features: Indigenous Films from Around the World
Author: Houston Wood
Edition: First
Publisher: Continuum
Pages: 240
Price: £55.00 and £16.99
ISBN 9780826428448 and 8455
In the first book-length examination of this subject, Wood explores the varying contexts in which indigenous film-making takes place and demonstrates how indigenous films challenge some of the basic assumptions of viewers while using national cinemas as their models.
Postcolonial African Cinema: Ten Directors
Authors: David Murphy and Patrick Williams
Edition: First
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Pages: 2
Price: £55.00 and £15.99
ISBN 9780719072024 and 2031
This volume brings together ideas from a range of disciplines to combine the in-depth analysis of individual films and bodies of work by individual directors, touching on choice of subject matter, aesthetic strategies and ideological stance.
Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice
Author: Chris Barker
Edition: Third
Publisher: Sage
Pages: 552
Price: £70.00 and £22.99
ISBN 9781412924153 and 4160
This accessible text details the theoretical foundations and developments of cultural studies. It includes a new chapter on electronic media and "digital" culture and new material on the creative industries, culture jamming, new feminism and "raunch culture". Barker is associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales.
Strategic Management in the Media: Theory to Practice
Author: Lucy Kung
Edition: First
Publisher: Sage
Pages: 256
Price: £70.00 and £21.99
ISBN 97814129031 and 3134
Kung, of Jonkoping International Business School in Sweden, offers an introduction to strategy within a media-management context. Part one provides an overview of the media industry from a strategic management perspective, and part two analyses a number of strategic topics central to the media sector.