Book interviews tagged Media Studies
The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do about It
- ISBN: 978 1 59020 063 6
- featured in: Critical feminist media theory as parenting manualDecember 5, 2008
Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (revised and updated edition)
- ISBN: 978 0 8166 5494 9
- featured in: The line between culture and politics is exceptionally fluid—if it exists at allJanuary 20, 2009
Ad Women: How They Impact What We Need, Want, and Buy
- ISBN: 978 1 59102 672 3
- featured in: Retelling the History of AdvertisingFebruary 17, 2009
The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer
- ISBN: 978 0 8166 5157 3 pb
- featured in: Deconstructing the ghosts in the photographic machineFebruary 27, 2009
Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
- ISBN: 978 0 262 53306 5 pb
- featured in: Freedom makes control possible, necessary, and never enoughMarch 17, 2009
Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas: A Brief Romance
- ISBN: 978 0 292 71877 7
- featured in: Charting the latest development in Israeli cultural historyApril 21, 2009
Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown
- ISBN: 978 0 19 534205 5
- featured in: Appreciating what we might call the feminist mainstreamMay 29, 2009
Your Brain on Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez
- ISBN: 978 0292719347 hb
- featured in: The Latino comic book in the United States todayJune 10, 2009
Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda
- ISBN: 978 1603440745
- featured in: Presidents may be understood as failing in the short term, but actually succeeding in the longJune 29, 2009
On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition
- ISBN: 978 0807859407
- featured in: Tracking the transformation of a national cinema into a transnational audiovisual practiceJuly 6, 2009
On Tarzan
- ISBN: 978 0820332055
- featured in: Wanting to see if the pursuit of dilettantism and trivia can be intellectually fruitfulAugust 10, 2009
The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture
- ISBN: 978 0520255388 pb
- featured in: The history of comedy is that of the changing social patterns that produce and permit laughterAugust 14, 2009
Embodied Visions: Evolution, Emotions, Culture, and Film
- ISBN: 978 0195371314 hb
- featured in: How we process films by means of what I call the mental PECMA flowAugust 21, 2009
Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920
- ISBN: 978 0812241747
- featured in: A kind of prehistory of our own media-saturated cultureAugust 31, 2009
Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism
- ISBN: 978 0231520089 hb
- featured in: 9/11 in American filmmaking
September 9, 2009
Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
- ISBN: 978 0 7006 1547 6 hb
- featured in: Laypeople will be surprised by the very diversity of the hip-hop communitySeptember 30, 2009
The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience
- ISBN: 978 0520258426
- featured in: Intrigued by the carnal resonance between the film’s body and the viewer’sDecember 11, 2009
The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo)baroque Aesthetics
- ISBN: 978 0804769549
- featured in: Aesthetic experiences have a persistent potential to shape our thoughts, political endeavors, and sense of selfDecember 28, 2009
Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability?
- ISBN: 978 0230613294
- featured in: On the related crisis of youth and democracy
January 8, 2010
Performing South Africa's Truth Commission: Stages of Transition
- ISBN: 978 0253221452 pb
- featured in: There is unique performative potency in the conflation of theatricality and justiceFebruary 12, 2010
1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About
- ISBN: 978 0520252554
- featured in: I am not smashing together the high and the low just because I canFebruary 24, 2010
The Urban Spectator: American Concept Cities from Kodak to Google
- ISBN: 978 1584658030
- featured in: Media affect the nature of experience in and the physical layout of citiesMarch 8, 2010
American Modernism and Depression Documentary
- ISBN: 978 0195335682
- featured in: The Depression documentary book is not so much an act of witness as a deconstruction of witnessMarch 10, 2010
Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood
- ISBN: 978 1405126359
- featured in: She is the literary equivalent of the Mona Lisa’s smile: absence is her essenceMarch 17, 2010
On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper: Fear and the Media
- ISBN: 978 0813928944
- featured in: The media through a story of no political sides
April 12, 2010
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
- ISBN: 978 0226401188
- featured in: How to reconcile the realms of creative authorship and commercial lifeMay 10, 2010
Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
- ISBN: 978 0226473017
- featured in: The best dreams come from having been read to sleepMay 17, 2010
Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition
- ISBN: 978 0521896450
- featured in: How and why legendary figures are needed to tell historical storiesAugust 9, 2010
