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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

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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Media Studies

Political Science

News that Matters Television and American Opinion, Updated Edition

Iyengar Shanto, Kinder Donald R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226388588, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtrusively altered the order and emphasis of news stories in selected television broadcasts. Their resulti...

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Media Studies

General

Starring Mandela and Cosby Media and the End(s) of Apartheid

Krabill Ron

ISBN: PB: 9780226451893, ISBN: HB: 9780226451886, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During the worst years of apartheid, the most popular show on television in South Africa – among both Black and White South Africans – was "The Cosby Show". Why did people living under a system built on the idea that Black people were inferior and th...

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Media Studies

News at Work Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance

Boczkowski Pablo J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226062808, ISBN: HB: 9780226062792, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 12 tables, 7 halftones

Before news organizations began putting their content online, people got the news in print or on TV and almost always outside of the workplace. But nowadays, most of us keep an eye on the headlines from our desks at work, and we have become accustome...

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Biography & Memoires

Media Studies

Early Royko Up Against It in Chicago

Royko Mike

ISBN: PB: 9780226730776, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
232 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Combining the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko became a Chicago institution – in Jimmy Breslin's words, "the best journalist of his time".Early Royko: Up Against It in Chicago" will restore to print the...

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Media Studies

Metaphysics of Media Toward an End of Postmodern Cynicism and the Construction of a Virtuous Reality

Fallon Peter K.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662025, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, May 2010
275 pp., 23x15 cm

In "The Metaphysics of Media", award-winning media critic Peter K. Fallon tackles the complicated question of how a succession of dominant forms of media have supported – and even to some extent created – different conceptions of reality. To do so, h...

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