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This textbook for students and teachers of media studies in higher education takes the reader beyond introductory material. This is not a reader of previously published material but a collection with a web-enhanced instructional design built into its format.

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The intifada, which began in December 1987, has become one of the longest running confrontations within the broad context of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Rather, it is about communication and the intifada: what people have been saying, thinking, and writing about the conflict and about the messages being produced by the mass media.

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A new study of the creation of French history, experience and identity since the Revolution.

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The cinema is France's major cultural institution and a key expression of national identity at home and abroad. This volume brings together the work of leading visual culture scholars from the UK, France and the US who examine the sources and expressions of French national identity in film.

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The cinema is France's major cultural institution and a key expression of national identity at home and abroad. This volume brings together the work of leading visual culture scholars from the UK, France and the US who examine the sources and expressions of French national identity in film.

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For many the daily grind can feel like a trap - work, gym, drinks, shops, home, bed, work. She falls into a hidden community who teach her how to build a life using the things that others throw away, and finds that life on the margins amounts to so much more than you might think.

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During the American Civil War, political ideology was the most important determinant of French journalistic attitudes. Conservatives usually supported the South while Liberals usually supported the North. rather, both Conservatives and Liberals used the issue of slavery as a device to garner support.

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The main corpus of film adaptation thus far has focused on films based on canonical literature. This book takes the next step by discussing various modes of film adaptation from older media to new, focusing on the computer-generated reconstructions of popular narratives and characters along with other forms of convergence such as the Internet.

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Discusses emerging modes of film adaptation, focusing on the computer-generated reconstructions of popular narratives and characters with other forms of convergence such as the Internet.

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This volume looks at how Leif Eiriksson's visit to Vinland around the year 1000 has been reimagined in the modern era, taking on a range of media from scholarly works on history and mythology to novels, films and comic books. More broadly, it asks why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone. -- .

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This volume focuses on Appalachians as a case study of internal migration in developed countries. While earlier works have concentrated on the migration process, jobs, housing, and ethnic group formation in urban settings, this volume addresses the important issues of health, environment, and education in the urban Appalachian context.

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Identifies the most controversial issues facing the media profession today, including the monopolistic control of the media by conglomerates, tabloid journalism, paparazzi, plagiarism, and Internet censorship.

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This one-volume reference provides a comprehensive overview of gambling in the Americas, examining the history, morality, market growth, and economics of the gaming industry.

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This book explores how after 20 years of existence, virtual world games have evolved: the social landscapes within digital worlds have become rigid and commodified, and "play" and "fun" have become rational and mechanical products.

Twenty million people worldwide play Massively Multi-Player Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs).

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Games and Gaming provides a comprehensive overview of this media and how it permeates global culture in the twenty-first century.