Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory (Thompson Ethan)(Paperback)

Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory (Thompson Ethan)(Paperback)

Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory is the first edited volume devoted to the Peabody Awards Collection, a unique repository of radio and TV programs submitted yearly since 1941 for consideration for the prestigious Peabody Awards. The essays in this volume explore the

How to Watch Television, Second Edition (Thompson Ethan)(Paperback)

A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the present We all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it 'good' or 'bad.' Rather, criticism

The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (Taylor Diana)(Paperback)

In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and

Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives (Assmann Aleida)(Paperback)

How to Watch Television, Second Edition (Thompson Ethan)(Pevná vazba)

A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the present We all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it 'good' or 'bad.' Rather, criticism

Community Archives: The Shaping of Memory (Bastian Jeannette A.)(Pevná vazba)

How do archives and other cultural institutions such as museums determine the boundaries of a particular community, and of their own institutional reach, in constructing effective strategies and methodologies for selecting and maintaining appropriate material evidence? This book offers guidance on

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage: Construction, Transformation and Destruction (Apaydin Veysel)(Paperback)

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror,

Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All (Thompson Christina)(Paperback / softback)

A book that perfectly balances memoir and history, interweaving a cross-cultural love story with the larger history of the colonial

Digital Memory and the Archive (Ernst Wolfgang)(Paperback)

In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and

Invention of the Television (Beevor Lucy)(Paperback / softback)

Provides an introduction to the history and development of the television and explains how a television works. Includes information on some of the inventors who were influential in the invention of the

The Ghost: A Cultural History (Owens Susan)(Paperback)

Now in paperback, this is a new cultural history of the ghost--one of the most popular and pervasive subjects worldwide. Spanning from the medieval period to today, the book includes a wide range of artists and writers, including Hogarth, Blake, Rossetti, Shakespeare, Pepys, Shelley, and Dickens

Community Archives, Community Spaces - Heritage, Memory and Identity(Paperback / softback)

This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement, expanding the definition of community archives to include sites such as historical societies, social movement organisations and community centres, and explore new definitions of what community archives might encompass, particularly

Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies (Assmann Jan)(Paperback)

In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as an individual one, he argues that memory has a cultural dimension too. He develops a persuasive

Constructions of Cultural Identities in Newsreel Cinema and Television After 1945 (Imesch Kornelia)(Paperback)

Newsreel cinema and television served as an important tool in the shaping of political spheres and the construction of national and cultural identities up to the 1960s. Today's potent televisual forms were furthermore developed in and strongly influenced by newsreels, and much of the archived

New Directions in Social and Cultural History (Noakes Lucy)(Paperback)

What does it mean to be a social and cultural historian today? In the wake of the 'cultural turn', and in an age of digital and public history, what challenges and opportunities await historians in the early 21st century? In this exciting new text, leading historians reflect on key developments in

Cultural History of Memory(Mixed media product)

How has understanding of memory evolved over the past 2,500 years? How has our collective memory been influenced and expressed by politics, culture, philosophy and science? In a work that spans over 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 64 experts, each contributing their overview

Catalonia a Cultural and Literary History (Eaude Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Presents a cultural history of Catalonia, exploring the distinctive nature of Catalan identity through the perspectives of political struggle, a vibrant literary tradition and world-famous innovations in architecture and the visual

Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Huyssen Andreas)(Paperback)

This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas-Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New

How Belfast Got the Blues: A Cultural History of Popular Music in the 1960s (McLaughlin Noel)(Paperback)

Highly original and fascinating cultural and political history told through Belfast's popular music scene in the 1960s in the context of Northern Ireland's sociopolitical milieu. With particular emphasis on Van Morrison, Them, and Ottilie Patterson; also features the Peter Whitehead film of The

Paranoid Visions: Spies, Conspiracies and the Secret State in British Television Drama (Oldham Joseph)(Paperback)

Paranoid visions explores the history of the spy and conspiracy genres on British television, from 1960s Cold War series through 1980s conspiracy dramas to contemporary 'war on terror' thrillers. The dramas analysed include Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Edge of Darkness, A Very British Coup and

Picture Cycle (Tupitsyn Masha)(Paperback)

A multigenre investigation of the personal and cultural annals of memory, identity, and spectatorship, both on and off the screen.In exchange for studying what each fraudulent cell looks like under a merciless commercial and commodified lens, viewers enable late-capitalism to run more smoothly by

From the Mountaintop - An archive history of Batley RLFC (Roe John)(Paperback / softback)

The rich archive history of Batley Cricket, Athletic and Football Club - from its birth in 1880 through joining the breakaway Northern Union, which subsequently became rugby league, to the current Bulldogs. All of which makes the 'Gallant Youths' one of the oldest clubs in the world, playing on a

My Year of Meats (Ozeki Ruth)(Paperback)

A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love--the breakout hit by the celebrated author of A Tale for the Time Being and The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozeki's mesmerizing debut novel

The Division of the World: On Archives, Empires and the Vanity of Borders (Zimmermann Martin)(Paperback)

A photographer and a historian explore a vast archive of Spanish colonial history. At a time when Western nations are being urged to confront their colonial past, this book examines a major archive, revealing the scale of the Spanish colonial enterprise in South and Central America. Established