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This intriguing book explores why spectacular films involving Biblical figures or set in Biblical times have been a staple of filmmaking since talkies began.

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Although much has been written about the golden days of radio, Entrepreneurs of Profit and Pride is the first book to examine the black radio industry.

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An examination of soap opera sources, structure and response, particularly from the critical viewpoints of psychology, both archetypal and empirical, and popular culture, specifically narratology and feminism, that uncover the true nature of the genre.

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A collection of essays on television authorship. Rather than assigning one author to individual television texts, the contributors probe the relationship between the various authors at work within the institutional, cultural and economic settings that characterize the television industry.

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This important new study of the political uses of popular music, from the era of slavery to the present traces the search for individual identity, freedom, and dignity as it has been expressed in popular music.

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Based on an analysis of over 200 newscasts aired during the first six years of the Reagan administration, this book offers an account of the ways in which news media escalate public panic about terrorism, encouraging support for US policy rather than building sympathy for terrorists.