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Media Studies

What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest

Hendershot Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226326788, ISBN: HB: 9780226326771, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 32 halftones, 3 line illus.

The rise of right-wing broadcasting during the Cold War has been mostly forgotten today. But in the 1950s and '60s you could turn on your radio any time of the day and listen to diatribes against communism, civil rights, the United Nations, fluoridat...

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Media Studies

Neurology

Field Guide to a New Meta-Field Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide

Stafford Barbara Maria

ISBN: PB: 9780226770550, ISBN: HB: 9780226770543, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
368 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 80 halftones

Barbara Stafford is a pioneering art historian whose research has long helped to bridge the divide between the humanities and cognitive sciences. In "A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field", she marshals a distinguished group of thinkers to forge a ground...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Selling Fear Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion

Nacos Brigitte L., Bloch-Elkon Yaeli, Shapiro Robert Y.

ISBN: PB: 9780226567198, ISBN: HB: 9780226567181, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
264 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 50 line illus.

While we've long known that the strategies of terrorism rely heavily on media coverage of attacks, "Selling Fear" is the first detailed look at the role played by media in counterterrorism – and the ways that, in the wake of 9/11, the Bush administra...

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Photography

Media Studies

No Caption Needed Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy

Hariman Robert, Lucaites John Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780226316123, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
432 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 53 halftones

In "No Caption Needed", Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subseq...

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Media Studies

Political Science

Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency

Sifry Micah L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300176766, Yale University Press, March 2011
176 pp., 19.6x12.8 cm

It's one of the biggest news stories for years. A charismatic, white-haired Australian sets up a website devoted to publishing leaked documents in the public interest, and then, allegedly with the aid of a disaffected American soldier, starts releasi...

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Media Studies

Freudian Robot Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious

Liu Lydia H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226486833, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 26 halftones

The identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? Lydia H. Liu offers here the first rigorous study of the political history of digital writing and its...

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