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Media Studies

Reclaiming Fair Use How to Put Balance Back in Copyright (Second Edition)

Aufderheide Patricia, Jaszi Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226374192, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the increasingly complex and combative arena of copyright in the digital age, record companies sue college students over peer-to-peer music sharing, YouTube removes home movies because of a song playing in the background, and filmmakers are denied...

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Media Studies

TVs of Tomorrow How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs

Gross Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780226519975, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones

In 1968 a team of scientists and engineers from RCA announced the creation of a new form of electronic display that relied upon an obscure set of materials known as liquid crystals. At a time when televisions utilized bulky cathode ray tubes to produ...

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History of Art

Media Studies

Image Science Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226565842, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's "Iconology" helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the modern humanities. Along with his subsequent "Picture Theory" and "What Do Pictures Want?", Mitchell's no...

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Philosophy

Media Studies

What Philosophy Wants from Images

Rodowick D. N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226513195, ISBN: HB: 9780226513058, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema – or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works of film, video, and moving image i...

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Media Studies

Africa

Gogo Breeze Zambia's Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech

Englund Harri

ISBN: PB: 9780226498935, ISBN: HB: 9780226498768, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

When Breeze FM, a radio station in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired schoolteacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketing success that would follow. A self-styled grandfather on air, Gogo Breeze seeks intimacy ove...

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Film Studies

Media Studies

Transmedium Conceptualism 2.0 and the New Object Art

Stewart Garrett

ISBN: PB: 9780226500904, ISBN: HB: 9780226500874, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 2 line drawings

If you attend a contemporary art exhibition lately, you're unlikely to see much traditional painting or sculpture. Indeed, artists today are preoccupied with what happens when you leave behind assumptions about particular media – such as painting, or...

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Philosophy

Media Studies

New Television The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre

Shuster Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226503950, ISBN: HB: 9780226503813, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Even though it's frequently asserted that we are living in a golden age of scripted television, television as a medium is still not taken seriously as an artistic art form, nor has the stigma of television as "chewing gum for the mind" really disappe...

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Media Studies

Combative Politics The Media and Public Perceptions of Lawmaking

Layton Atkinson Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226441924, ISBN: HB: 9780226441894, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 46 halftones, 24 line drawings, 32 tables

From the Affordable Care Act to No Child Left Behind, politicians often face a puzzling problem: although most Americans support the aims and key provisions of these policies, they oppose the bills themselves. How can this be? Why does the American p...

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General

Media Studies

Social Media – New Masses

Baxmann Inge, Beyes Timon, Pias Claus

ISBN: PB: 9783037346426, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2017
376 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 48 halftones

Mass gatherings are at the center of contemporary discussions about community formation, communication, and social control. As new digital technologies and social media platforms have emerged, the concept of the mass gathering has evolved in parallel...

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Photography

Media Studies

Afterimages Photography and U.S. Foreign Policy

Kennedy Liam

ISBN: HB: 9780226337265, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones

In 2005, photographer Chris Hondros captured a striking image of a young Iraqi girl in the aftermath of the killing of her parents by American soldiers. The shot stunned the world and has since become iconic – comparable to the infamous photo by Nick...

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