Bücher der Reihe Comedia

Investigates both the cultural specificity of television soap operas and their reception in other cultures, covering soap production and soap watching around the world. This book includes contributions on the nature of soap as a media text and the history of the serial narrative as a form.

A comprehensive empirical and theoretical study of broadcast news throughout the world, which examines the effects of syndication and questions whether this fiercely competitive business satisfies the democratic demands of its audience.

This is a book about the music of the Caribbean - from calypso and ska through to Reggae and Caribbean club culture.

In a series of interlinked essays encompassing music (baroque and rock), architecture, urban planning and literature, Iain Chambers weaves together a critique of Western humanism, exploring issues of colonization and migration, language and identity.

Television and Common Knowledge considers how television is and can be a vehicle for well-informed citizenship in a fragmented modern society.

Describes, analyses and interprets a complex process of change, delivering a critical account of the digitisation process as a multifaceted whole.

The 'eventization' of the media is increasingly important for the marketing and appreciation of popular media texts. Media Events gives readers an understanding of the major debates in this high-profile area of media and cultural research.

The Place of Media Power focuses on an area neglected in previous studies of the media: the meetings between ordinary people and the media.

Clearly structured in five thematic sections, this book presents a set of interlinked essays which discuss and examine the key debates in the fields of media and cultural studies. It is suitable for media students.

This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected world, national understandings of culture have become insufficient. He explores the implications of boundary-crossings and long-distance cultural flows.

Examines the advertising process from within the agency. The author shows how advertising has become the idiom for the enterprise culture as the old suspicions against the industry have disappeared.

Exploring the power and capabilities of video, this text describes how viewers have found a new cultural relationship through electronic recording. The study considers the roles of distributors, censors, technicians, reviewers and exhibitors as well as viewers.

Examines television and media studies theory and studies the textual and social role of parody in offering critical commentary on other television programs and genres. This book uses the favourite Springfield family as a case study.

This book explores the debates surrounding technological change, from the politics of education to questions of identity centred around the figure of the cyborg.

A representative selection of Hall's enormously influential writings on cultural studies and Hall's engagement with urgent and abiding questions of 'race', ethnicity and identity.

The explosion of the use of VCRs in the home has provided the most significant new form of home entertainment since television. Gray discusses the experiences of women using VCRs and the social and cultural background to ownership.

This documents and analyses the 'Dynasty phenomenon', the hotly debated success of the Hollywood-made soaps which it is said heralded a profound transformation of European television.

With a case study of the Asian community in Southall, Marie Gillespie examines how television and video are being used to recreate cultural traditions and catalyse cultural change in such communities.

A survey of the changes in the advertising industry in the last 20 years including coverage of the emergence of international conglomerates and the diversification of the agencies into public relations and media buying.

This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology. Through ten especially commissioned essays, by some of the leading scholars in the field of contemporary photography studies, a range of key topics are discussed including: the meaning of software in the production of photograph; the nature of networked photographs; the screen as the site of photographic display; the simulation of photography in the videogame; photography, ubiquitous computing and technologies of ambient intelligence; developments in vernacular photography and social media; the photograph and the digital archive; the curation and exhibition of the networked photograph; the dominance of the image bank in commercial and advertising photography; the complexities of citizen photojournalism. A recurring theme addressed throughout is the nature of 'photography after photography' and the paradoxical nature of the medium in the 21st century; a time when the traditional technology of photography has become defunct while there is more 'photography' than ever. This is an ideal book for students studying photography and digital media.

A well-established author draws ideas from a range of disciplines, and provides an accessible and challenging guide to ways of thinking about media and communications in modern life. A core text for higher undergraduate and post-graduate courses.