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Assault on the Small Screen

Author : Molly Ann Magestro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442253983
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Assault on the Small Screen written by Molly Ann Magestro and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last few decades, television programs have attempted to depict some of the more troubling elements of society with a more conscientious approach. Issues that networks were once reluctant to broadcast—such as sexual abuse, sexual assault, and rape—have become frequent plot points for many popular shows. Narratives that portray important social issues could potentially affect the ways individual viewers understand such incidents in the real world, so it is important to pay close and critical attention to the stories about rape that are broadcast to mass audiences. In Assault on the Small Screen: Representations of Sexual Violence on Prime Time Television Dramas, Molly Ann Magestro examines the ways in which police and legal dramas on network and cable channels portray rape narratives. In this discussion, the author focuses on eight successful shows—NCIS, Criminal Minds, CSI, The Closer, Rizzoli & Isles, Dexter, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, and The Good Wife. Each chapter offers a close reading and analysis of how one or more of the shows represent rape narratives and rape victims in ways that more or less address feminist understandings of rape and rape culture. The arguments in each chapter explore the specific narrative content of individual series rather than a single critical approach. Each of the eight shows considered within the book is the focus of its own argument, as the representations of rape narratives on television are as complex as issues surrounding rape can be in the real world. In a time when rape narratives are frequently making headlines, taking the time to examine and understand the messages broadcast by a medium as ubiquitous as television serves an important role in developing an understanding of rape culture. A significant step toward this understanding, Assault on the Small Screen will be of interest to scholars of film and television, media studies, gender studies, criminology, and sociology.

Small Screen, Big Feels

Author : Melissa Ames
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813180082
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Small Screen, Big Feels written by Melissa Ames and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While television has always played a role in recording and curating history, shaping cultural memory, and influencing public sentiment, the changing nature of the medium in the post-network era finds viewers experiencing and participating in this process in new ways. They skim through commercials, live tweet press conferences and award shows, and tune into reality shows to escape reality. This new era, defined by the heightened anxiety and fear ushered in by 9/11, has been documented by our media consumption, production, and reaction. In Small Screen, Big Feels, Melissa Ames asserts that TV has been instrumental in cultivating a shared memory of emotionally charged events unfolding in the United States since September 11, 2001. She analyzes specific shows and genres to illustrate the ways in which cultural fears are embedded into our entertainment in series such as The Walking Dead and Lost or critiqued through programs like The Daily Show. In the final section of the book, Ames provides three audience studies that showcase how viewers consume and circulate emotions in the post-network era: analyses of live tweets from Shonda Rhimes's drama, How to Get Away with Murder (2010–2020), ABC's reality franchises, The Bachelor (2002–present) and The Bachelorette (2003–present), and political coverage of the 2016 Presidential Debates. Though film has been closely studied through the lens of affect theory, little research has been done to apply the same methods to television. Engaging an impressively wide range of texts, genres, media, and formats, Ames offers a trenchant analysis of how televisual programming in the United States responded to and reinforced a cultural climate grounded in fear and anxiety.

Small-Screen Souths

Author : Lisa Hinrichsen
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807167150
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Small-Screen Souths written by Lisa Hinrichsen and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sixteen essays that capitalize on recent innovations in cultural studies, media studies, and American studies, Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television assesses a diverse televisual archive to demonstrate how television studies can offer new critical possibilities for analyzing the complex histories of gender, sexuality, class, and race in the U.S. South. Small-Screen Souths analyzes historical and current depictions of the South and the way such depictions have influenced popular conceptions of the region.

Small-Screen Shakespeare

Author : Peter Cochran
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443869694
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Small-Screen Shakespeare written by Peter Cochran and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small-Screen Shakespeare is a guide to all the Shakespeare productions available for viewing on computer or TV. From Beerbohm Tree’s silent scene from King John, to Helen Mirren as Prospera and Simon Russell Beale as Falstaff, Peter Cochran gives an expert opinion on the best and the worst, basing his judgements on a lifetime of viewing, teaching, acting and directing. The book covers films, television productions, plays on YouTube, and DVDs of videoed stage productions, as well as cinematic Shakespearean spin-offs such as Throne of Blood and Joe Macbeth. The book is composed of five sections: one on film directors who have specialised in Shakespeare; one on screen versions of individual plays; one on films remaking Shakespeare’s plots in a different idiom; one on films which contain creative references to Shakespeare; and a final review of two famous stage productions.

Death on the Small Screen

Author : Jonathan F. Bassett
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147668801X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Death on the Small Screen written by Jonathan F. Bassett and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mortality remains a taboo topic in much of Western society, but death and violence continue to be staples of popular television. We can better understand the appeal of violence by investigating psychological theories surrounding anxiety about death and the defenses we use to manage that anxiety. This book examines five recent television series--Game of Thrones,The Punisher, Jessica Jones, Sons of Anarchy and Hannibal--and shows how fictional characters' motivations teach viewers about both the constructive and destructive ways we try to deal with our own mortality. Instead of dismissing violent television as harmless entertainment or completely condemning it as a dangerous trigger of hostile behavior, this book shows its effects on viewers in a more nuanced manner. It provides a new perspective on the enjoyment of violent television, enhancing fans' appreciation and sparking ongoing discussions about their value to both the individual and society.

Martial Culture, Silver Screen

Author : Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080717470X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Martial Culture, Silver Screen written by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martial Culture, Silver Screen analyzes war movies, one of the most popular genres in American cinema, for what they reveal about the narratives and ideologies that shape U.S. national identity. Edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and Matthew E. Stanley, this volume explores the extent to which the motion picture industry, particularly Hollywood, has played an outsized role in the construction and evolution of American self-definition. Moving chronologically, eleven essays highlight cinematic versions of military and cultural conflicts spanning from the American Revolution to the War on Terror. Each focuses on a selection of films about a specific war or historical period, often foregrounding recent productions that remain understudied in the critical literature on cinema, history, and cultural memory. Scrutinizing cinema through the lens of nationalism and its “invention of tradition,” Martial Culture, Silver Screen considers how movies possess the power to frame ideologies, provide social coherence, betray collective neuroses and fears, construct narratives of victimhood or heroism, forge communities of remembrance, and cement tradition and convention. Hollywood war films routinely present broad, identifiable narratives—such as that of the rugged pioneer or the “good war”—through which filmmakers invent representations of the past, establishing narratives that advance discrete social and political functions in the present. As a result, cinematic versions of wartime conflicts condition and reinforce popular understandings of American national character as it relates to violence, individualism, democracy, militarism, capitalism, masculinity, race, class, and empire. Approaching war movies as identity-forging apparatuses and tools of social power, Martial Culture, Silver Screen lays bare how cinematic versions of warfare have helped define for audiences what it means to be American.

Rape-Revenge Films

Author : Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476686491
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Rape-Revenge Films written by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often considered the lowest depth to which cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film is broadly dismissed as fundamentally exploitative and sensational, catering only to a demented, regressive demographic. This second edition, ten years after the first, continues the assessment of these films and the discourse they provoke. Included is a new chapter about women-directed rape-revenge films, a phenomenon that--revitalized since #MeToo exploded in late 2017--is a filmmaking tradition with a history that transcends a contemporary context. Featuring both famous and unknown movies, controversial and widely celebrated filmmakers, as well as rape-revenge cinema from around the world, this revised edition demonstrates that diverse and often contradictory treatments of sexual violence exist simultaneously.

Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics

Author : Lori L. Montalbano
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498573843
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics written by Lori L. Montalbano and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics: The Past and Future of Political Access explores the ways in which cultural expression is represented in American politics as it intersects with issues of gender, race, and the construction of social identity. Specifically, this body of work examines how representations in the media and larger culture can establish and diminish the status of diverse communities of American politicians. Contributors analyze the rhetorical and performative changes that have occurred in America as it has shifted politically from growing acceptance and tolerance to an obscure—and often hostile—conservative ideology. This book contributes to the growing dialogue surrounding American politics by citing specific cases of gender and race-based infringements of the current political system, as purported by media and party players. This book will be especially useful to scholars of political science, media studies, gender studies, and critical race studies.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Author : American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781590318737
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Big Pictures on the Small Screen

Author : Alvin H. Marill
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Big Pictures on the Small Screen written by Alvin H. Marill and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, US networks began to commission feature-length dramas expressly for television, and the genres that became known as "Movies Made for Television" and the "mini-series" emerged. This volume covers the important landmarks in the genre, from the earliest TV movies, through "Roots", to "Rome".

Writing Australian History on Screen

Author : Jo Parnell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 166690869X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Writing Australian History on Screen written by Jo Parnell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Writing Australian History on Screen reveals the depths in Australian history from convict times to the present day. The essays convey perspectives of Australian history on screen taken from an Australian viewpoint in a way that offers insights and an understanding of the unique Australian history and sense of identity"--

George Washington on Screen

Author : Leigh Ehlers Telotte
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476649294
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book George Washington on Screen written by Leigh Ehlers Telotte and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most moving narratives from the American Revolution is the first presidential administration and the many precedents set by George Washington. While media historians have extensively analyzed screen portrayals of the more sensational events of America in the 1750s to the 1790s, far less attention has been paid to portrayals of the first presidency and the character of George Washington in film, television and other formats. This book addresses that gap by providing the most comprehensive analysis of the character of George Washington on screen. Divided into two parts, the book begins with an analysis of how the Washington character has evolved through time and screen media, from early silent films to modern multimedia products. In Part II, a filmography documents each piece of screen media that features a representation of Washington. It includes silent films, theatrical films, cartoons, television and screen media from the 21st century, such as streaming, video games and multimedia presentations. Arranged alphabetically, each entry includes format type, production details, crew and cast lists and a brief description of Washington's character in relation to the plot.

The 28th Gate: Volume 5

Author : Christopher C. Dimond
Publisher : UDW Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1948619040
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book The 28th Gate: Volume 5 written by Christopher C. Dimond and published by UDW Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter is back in Season III! But the Dagger isn’t the only Civilization shuttle in the gate ring. After the devastating betrayal, Hunter and the Independent Militia are struggling to keep Maunhouser from enslaving the entire gate ring. But the arrival of The Observer from Civilization might not mean the help they were hoping for. Whether fetching equipment The Observer needs, training insurrection cells on corp worlds, or searching for a saboteur on the Celestial, Hunter has plenty to stay busy. But will it be enough to keep Maunhouser at bay as they begin massing their ships for a war-ending assault? Find out now in The 28th Gate: Volume 5! Set in a far distant future, The 28th Gate is a series of tales that will appeal of fans of space marines, space fleets, and military hard science fiction. The series consists of eight volumes spread across four seasons telling the story of Hunter’s struggles against the AAA corporation that created him. Each volume contains six episodic novelettes each with the action, character, and plotting of a complete story all crammed into an espresso-like package, while each season chronicles a different arc in the overall epic.

Covering Violence

Author : Roger Simpson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231508568
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Covering Violence written by Roger Simpson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reporting on violence is one of the most problematic features of journalistic practice-the area most frequently criticized by the public and those on the receiving end of that coverage. Now in its second edition, Covering Violence remains a crucial guide for becoming a sensitive and responsible reporter. Discussing such topics as rape and the ethics of interviewing children, the book gives students and journalists a detailed understanding of what is happening "on the scene" of a violent event, including where a reporter can go safely and legally, how to obtain the most useful information, and how best to interview and photograph victims and witnesses. This second edition takes our turbulent postmillennium history into account and emphasizes the consequences of frequent exposure to traumatic events. It offers new chapters on 9/11 and terrorism, the Columbine school shootings, and the photographing of violent events, as well as additional profiles of Vietnamese American, Native American, and African American journalists. More essential than ever, Covering Violence connects journalistic practices to the rapidly expanding body of literature on trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and secondary traumatic stress, and pays close attention to current medical and political debates concerning victims' rights.

Assault on Kapustin Yar

Author : Stephen W. Killam
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781456898465
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Assault on Kapustin Yar written by Stephen W. Killam and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In winter 1944 the Nazis complete a pair of atomic bombs, the Manhattan Project is woefully behind schedule, and a derelict spacecraft from the future crash lands in Russia. Sixty years later the Russians have constructed a top secret military base called Kapustin Yar around the wreckage. The Guardians of the Timeline discover that in the aftermath of a major conflict one of their team has been lost in time and meet a mysterious group of people who cause each member to question the paradox of freewill and predestination. The newcomers are as passionate about preserving the timeline and finding the missing team member as the Guardians. They combine forces and embark on an adventure that takes them from the desert of Iraq, to the caves of Easter Island, to a life or death race against time on the freeways of Los Angeles, and ultimately to an assault on Kapustin Yar. There they seek access to the remains of the spaceship that crashed sixty years before so that core members of the team may embark on a mission to ensure that events in 1944 transpire as they should and the timeline is preserved. Assault on Kapustin Yar is the third book in the Guardians of the Timeline series.

The Case for Television Violence

Author : Jib Fowles
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1452221677
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book The Case for Television Violence written by Jib Fowles and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-09-20 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Case for Television Violence is a dense, dry and devastating dissection that surely counts as one of the most important books about American culture to appear in the last decade." --Andrew O′Hehir, "The Myth of Media Violence," Salon.com, 3/17/05 The Case for Television Violence makes the provocative argument that television violence has been misinterpreted. Rather than undermining the social order, television supports it by providing a safe outlet for aggressive impulses. Media scholar Jib Fowles challenges the conventional wisdom by: 1) demonstrating that the scientific literature does not say what many believe it says; 2) calling attention to the viewing habits and behaviors of the reader and those the reader knows; 3) explaining that the anti-violence critique is most profitably understood as the signature issue in the conflict between high and popular culture and 4) situating the arrival of televised violence within the historical context of the disallowance of traditionally sanctioned targets of aggression. The Case for Television Violence will intrigue scholars and students of Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Politics and Mass Communication.

Crime Types

Author : Dean A. Dabney
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1454828455
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Crime Types written by Dean A. Dabney and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending original text with research, Crime Types: A Text Reader provides a conceptually driven examination of the major types of modern crime: homicide and assault; violent sex crimes; robbery, burglary, and property crime; public order crime; and crimes within complex organizations. The author, known for his publications as well as his scholarship, uses engaging original text to introduce and conclude chapters as well as headnotes to highlight major themes, findings, and links to the broader framework. This innovative conceptual framework helps students understand the behavioral, cognitive, cultural, and social facets of different types of crime. Twenty-five selected readings from diverse voices bring the concepts to life and provide in-depth applications of the text's material. Features: full description and dynamic readings on the crime types of most concern to society homicide and assault violent sex crimes robbery, burglary, property crime public order crime crimes within complex organization provocative conceptual framework for understanding of patterns of offending, victimization, crime settings, and societal responses diverse voices and compelling writing add real-life immediacy and authenticity to the study of the dominant social, behavioral, cognitive, and cultural dimensions of crime headnotes to each reading highlight major conceptual themes, findings, and links to the broader framework discussion questions engage readers in broader questions of cause, response, and prevention key terms included for each chapter wide-ranging references to major resources for further reading and research stellar authorship widely published and highly regarded scholar special interests in criminal justice, organizational culture within law enforcement agencies, forms of deviance and criminal behaviors in organizational settings, and qualitative research methods