Living Room Wars - Rethinking Media Audiences by Ien Ang
$12.00 NZD
Category: Media | Reading Level: very good
Living Room Wars brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on television audiences, and, in response to recent criticisms of cultural studies, argues that it is possible to study audience pleasures and popular television in a way that is not naively populist. Ang examines how the makers and marketers of ...Show more
To Be Continued ... - Soap Operas Around the World by Robert C. Allen
$20.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Comedia Ser. | Reading Level: very good
To Be Continued... explores the world's most popular form of television drama; the soap opera. From Denver to Delhi, Moscow to Manchester, audiences eagerly await the next episode of As the World Turns, The Rich Also Weep or Eastenders. But the popularity of soap operas in Britain and the US pales in co ...Show more
William Russell Special Correspondent of The Times by Roger Hudson (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Catch and Kill - Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: good-very good
Ray: "Riveting. Compelling. The story of how Ronan Farrow held his ground against the powerful media establishment, unprincipled lawyers, public relations spinmasters, spies, to expose the sexual predations of Hollywood mogul Henry Weinstein. An Australian-born media executive tried to stop the book fro ...Show more
Equal: A Story of Women, Men & Money by Carrie Gracie
$12.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Equal is an inspiring, personal and campaigning book about how we should and can fight for equal pay and other kinds of equality in the workplace, by former BBC China editor Carrie Gracie. Gracie joined a group of high-profile BBC women who challenged the national broadcaster over equal pay after enforc ...Show more
Postmodern After-Images - A Reader in Film, Television and Video by Peter Brooker; Will Brooker
$20.00 NZD
Category: Media | Series: An\Arnold Publication Ser.
This reader examines familiar and fresh images of postmodernism, and looks forward to what is to follow, combining now classic statements from Frederic Jameson, Barbara Creed, Umberto Eco and E. Ann Kaplan with new perspectives on youth, gender and ethnicity. The introduction and headnotes draw out comm ...Show more
The Real War - The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War with a New Essay by Jonathan Schell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
Jonathan Schell's extraordinary on-the-scene writing about Vietnam has stood the test of time in our continuing attempt to understand how and why the United States went to war-and how and why it lost. In "The Village of Ben Suc" written "with skill that many a veteran reporter will envy" (New York Times ...Show more
Bylines - Memoirs of a War Correspondent by Lachie McDonald
$14.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good