Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life (Adler Anthony Curtis)(Paperback)

Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life (Adler Anthony Curtis)(Paperback)

What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological call to go 'back to the things themselves' when these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a televised life that is not ours to live, celebrities who

The Phenomenology of Religious Life (Heidegger Martin)(Paperback)

The Phenomenology of Religious Life presents the text of Heidegger's important 1920-21 lectures on religion. The volume consists of the famous lecture course Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion, a course on Augustine and Neoplatonism, and notes for a course on The Philosophical

Crime, Media and Culture (Martin Greg)(Paperback)

Working broadly from the perspective of cultural criminology, Crime, Media and Culture engages with theories and debates about the nature of media-audience relations, examines representations of crime and justice in news media and fiction, and considers the growing significance of digital

Windows on the Sixties - Exploring Key Texts of Media and Culture(Pevná vazba)

Key media reference points of the 1960s, including The Avengers, This Sporting Life, Panorama, The Apartment and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, are the focus of this book. Each chapter addresses common issues of contexts of production and reception, of genre, style and aesthetics and the

Understanding Games and Game Cultures (Richardson Ingrid)(Paperback)

Digital games are one of the most significant media interfaces of contemporary life. Games today interweave with the social, economic, material, and political complexities of living in a digital age. But who makes games, who plays them, and what, how and where do we play? This book explores the

The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night (Haden-Guest Anthony)(Paperback)

The Last Party is Anthony Haden-Guest's account of Studio 54 and the legendary New York nightlife scene of the '70s and '80s, now available as an IconIt Classic.Vivid, nonstop, and revealing, The Last Party is as packed with as much sparkle, scandal, and celebrity as Studio

Phenomenology (Engelland Chad)(Paperback)

A concise and accessible introduction to phenomenology, which investigates the experience of experience.This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise and accessible introduction to phenomenology, a philosophical movement that investigates the experience of experience

Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology (Starn Orin)(Paperback)

Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present, and future. The contributors, all leading figures in anthropology today, reflect back on the 'writing culture'

Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children's Media Culture (Bak Meredith A.)(Paperback)

Traveling Soul: The Life of Curtis Mayfield (Mayfield Todd)(Paperback)

Society of Midland Authors Literary Award Winner Curtis Mayfield was one of the seminal vocalists and most talented guitarists of his era, and his music played a vital role in the civil rights movement: 'People Get Ready' was the black anthem of the time. In Traveling Soul, Todd Mayfield tells his

The 360 Gaze: Immersions in Media, Society, and Culture (Stiegler Christian)(Pevná vazba)

A comprehensive study of the pervasive role of immersion and immersive media in postmodern culture, from a humanities and social sciences perspective. Virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and other modes of digitally induced immersion herald a major cultural and economic shift in

Dialectical Perspectives on Media, Health, and Culture in Modern Africa (Akwala Alfred O.)(Pevná vazba)

Presents research on the impact of media, and especially new media, on health and culture. Highlighting topics including civic engagement, gender stereotypes, and interpersonal communication, this book is designed for students, multinational organisations, diplomats, expatriates, and

Tropic of Orange (Yamashita Karen Tei)(Paperback)

An apocalypse of race, class, and culture, fanned by the media and the harsh L.A

The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body (Dolezal Luna)(Paperback)

The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body investigates the concept of body shame and explores its significance when considering philosophical accounts of embodied subjectivity. Body shame only finds its full articulation in the presence (actual or imagined) of others

Acoustic Territories, Second Edition: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (LaBelle Brandon)(Paperback)

The revised edition of Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sounding and listening, and discusses how sound studies may illuminate understandings of

The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia (Salamon Gayle)(Paperback)

What can the killing of a transgender teen can teach us about the violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity?The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brian McInerney in their junior high school classroom in

Death of a Superhero (McCarten Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

A novel about the celebration of the transience of life, the eternal difficulty of love and a hilarious riff on our 21st-century infatuation with movies and the superhero

Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (Husserl Edmund)(Paperback)

The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Husserl's last great work, is important both for its content and for the influence it has had on other philosophers. In this book, which remained unfinished at his death, Husserl attempts to forge a union between phenomenology and

Snapshot Versions of Life (Chalfen Richard)(Paperback)

Snapshot Versions of Life is an important foray into the culture of photography and home life from an anthropologist's perspective. Examining what he calls 'Home Mode' photography, Richard Chalfen explores snapshots, slide shows, family albums, home movies, and home videos, uncovering what people

Club Cultures - Music, Media and Subcultural Capital (Thornton Sarah)(Paperback / softback)

aeo A highly innovative contribution towards the study of popular culture which focuses on the youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves. aeo Written in a highly accessible style and illustrated with case studies, the author examines the development of club cultures or 'taste

Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism and Social Media (Gilroy-Ware Marcus)(Paperback)

Filling The Void is a book about how the cultures and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under

No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien (Cronin Anthony)(Paperback)

First published in 1989 No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien was the first full-length biography of Flann O'Brien. Rich in background, anecdote and social history, it is an extraordinary portrait of a writer and his times, perceptive, sympathetic and authoritative. Flann O'Brien

The Mediated Construction of Reality: Society, Culture, Mediatization (Couldry Nick)(Paperback)

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp,

Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty (Mukherjee Rahul)(Paperback)

In Radiant Infrastructures Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclear power plants and cellular phone antennas in India-what he calls radiant infrastructures-creates environmental publics: groups of activists, scientists, and policy makers who use media to influence public opinion