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Media scholars attempt to assess how the media informs and shapes the way we view our lives. This book explores the multiple influences of television in a media landscape that is becoming increasingly fractured.

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This book covers a variety of topics on newspaper and television coverage including the media and voting in presidential elections, coverage of the 1980 debates, the primaries, polls, economics and energy issues, print and broadcast coverage as compared with the 1976 and 1972 elections, and the influence of TV treatment of the campaign on voting behavior.

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This volume brings together original analyses about how the Middle East is depicted on U.S. television news. Its revealing studies also show how broadcasting on Middle Ease issues has changed in recent years. These studies offer important and provocative findings regarding crucual issues in Middle East coverage.

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This work offers an interpretation of the myths that shape television images and reinforce this culture's dominant ideology. It provides histories of all television genres and connects developments within each genre to political, social and cultural shifts in the larger society.

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This work offers an interpretation of the myths that shape television images and reinforce this culture's dominant ideology. It provides histories of all television genres and connects developments within each genre to political, social and cultural shifts in the larger society.

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This book focuses on television as a form of virtual reality, the most recent in a long evolution of artistic technologies. Drawing on storyworld theory, it examines TV subjects including title sequences, childrens television, science fiction and postapocalyptic programs, and the relationship between television and the postmodern condition.

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This book uses a theory-based inquiry of the nuanced religious messages in the TV series Supernatural, which presents religious themes through horror and fantasy to show a Christianity without Christ. It uncovers how entertainment television provides a conduit for religious messages that speak to the role of contemporary American faith.

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Focuses upon contemporary expressions and representations of televisual sex, discussing British, US and Asian television, to engage with ideas of gender, genre and dramatic politics.

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Focuses upon contemporary expressions and representations of televisual sex, discussing British, US and Asian television, to engage with ideas of gender, genre and dramatic politics.

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Social media has brought about a revolution in fan culture, from fan uprisings to save programs to groups and pages dedicated to mourning lost programs and characters. This edited collection examines how fans use social media in regard to television programming, characters, narrative, and various types of interactions, as well as how television uses social media to engage fan cultures.

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Award-winning author and former New York Times reporter reveals the link between teenage marijuana use and mental illness, and a hidden epidemic of violence caused by the drug.

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This collection charts the effects of hurricane Katrina upon American cultural identity; it does not merely catalogue the trauma of the event but explores the ways that such an event functions in and on the literature that represents it.

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This collection charts the effects of hurricane Katrina upon American cultural identity; it does not merely catalogue the trauma of the event but explores the ways that such an event functions in and on the literature that represents it.

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You can shop anywhere you like - as long as it's Tesco. The inexorable rise of supermarkets is big news, but have we really taken on board what this means for our daily lives, and of our children This book analyses this subject. It states how the supermarkets (Tesco in particular) have brought: Banality; Ghost towns; and, a Supermarket State.

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Pulitzer prize-winning, globally bestselling author of The World is Flat charts America's fall from power and influence - and assesses its paths ahead

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In this classic work - her first - Tannen brilliantly tackles crucial interactions, looking at conversations with colleagues, bosses, friends and family. Engaging, accessible and absolutely compelling, Tannen once again shows us what's really shaping - or breaking- our relationships with others.

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A collection of essays, which focus not on individual and family behavior but on a complex set of processes that have been at work over a long period, degrading the inner cities and, inevitably, the nation as a whole.

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Focusing on the general content of mass entertainment, with a particular emphasis on the cinema, this volume describes developments in the United States during the decade of the Great Depression. After a couple of introductory chapters that give a general overview of American life and discuss the "d