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Uncomfortable Television

Author : Hunter Hargraves
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478024194
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Uncomfortable Television written by Hunter Hargraves and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audiences with novelistic seriality and cinematic aesthetics. Yet this television is also more perverse: it bombards audiences with misogynistic and racialized violence, graphic sex, substance abuse, unlikeable protagonists, and the extraordinary exploitation of ordinary people. In Uncomfortable Television, Hunter Hargraves examines how television makes its audiences find pleasure through feeling disturbed. He shows that this turn to discomfort realigns collective definitions of family and pleasure with the values of neoliberal culture. In viscerally violent dramas, cringeworthy ironic comedies, and trashy reality programs alike, televisual unease trains audiences to survive under late capitalism, which demands that individuals accept a certain amount of discomfort, dread, and irritation into their everyday lives. By highlighting how discomfort has been central to the reorganization and legitimization of television as an art form, Hargraves demonstrates television’s role in assimilating viewers into worlds marked by precarity, perversity, and crisis.

Tragedy Plus Time

Author : Philip Scepanski
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 147732254X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy Plus Time written by Philip Scepanski and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the most solemn moments in recent American history, comedians have tested the limits of how soon is “too soon” to joke about tragedy. Comics confront the horrifying events and shocking moments that capture national attention and probe the acceptable, or “sayable,” boundaries of expression that shape our cultural memory. In Tragedy Plus Time, Philip Scepanski examines the role of humor, particularly televised comedy, in constructing and policing group identity and memory in the wake of large-scale events. Tragedy Plus Time is the first comprehensive work to investigate tragedy-driven comedy in the aftermaths of such traumas as the JFK assassination and 9/11, as well as during the administration of Donald Trump. Focusing on the mass publicization of television comedy, Scepanski considers issues of censorship and memory construction in the ways comedians negotiate emotions, politics, war, race, and Islamophobia. Amid the media frenzy and conflicting expressions of grief following a public tragedy, comedians provoke or risk controversy to grapple publicly with national traumas that all Americans are trying to understand for themselves.

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

Author : Emmanuel Acho
Publisher : Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book
ISBN 13 : 125080048X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man written by Emmanuel Acho and published by Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man” “You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. “There is a fix,” Acho says. “But in order to access it, we’re going to have to have some uncomfortable conversations.” In Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man, Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, many white Americans are afraid to ask—yet which all Americans need the answers to, now more than ever. With the same open-hearted generosity that has made his video series a phenomenon, Acho explains the vital core of such fraught concepts as white privilege, cultural appropriation, and “reverse racism.” In his own words, he provides a space of compassion and understanding in a discussion that can lack both. He asks only for the reader’s curiosity—but along the way, he will galvanize all of us to join the antiracist fight.

Media Studies

Author : Sarah Casey Benyahia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136259864
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Media Studies written by Sarah Casey Benyahia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together key writings with original textbook material, the second edition of Media Studies: The Essential Resource explains central perspectives and concepts within Media Studies. Readers are introduced to a range of writing on media topics promoting an understanding of the subject from both contemporary and historical perspectives. The text is split into three parts covering Analysis and Perspectives, Media Audiences and Ecologies and Creativities. The key areas of study are discussed, with accessible readings from essential theoretical texts and fully supported with an author commentary. Theoretical perspectives are used to analyse contemporary media forms and activities direct students to interrogate readings further and apply their learning. Encouraging critical and analytical study, Media Studies: The Essential Resource helps students to understand the main theories and theorists within Media Studies.

How To Watch Television

Author : Ethan Thompson
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814771726
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book How To Watch Television written by Ethan Thompson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines social and cultural phenomena through the lens of different television shows We all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ Rather, criticism uses the close examination of a television program to explore that program’s cultural significance, creative strategies, and its place in a broader social context. How to Watch Television brings together forty original essays from today’s leading scholars on television culture, writing about the programs they care (and think) the most about. Each essay focuses on a particular television show, demonstrating one way to read the program and, through it, our media culture. The essays model how to practice media criticism in accessible language, providing critical insights through analysis—suggesting a way of looking at TV that students and interested viewers might emulate. The contributors discuss a wide range of television programs past and present, covering many formats and genres, spanning fiction and non-fiction, broadcast and cable, providing a broad representation of the programs that are likely to be covered in a media studies course. While the book primarily focuses on American television, important programs with international origins and transnational circulation are also covered. Addressing television series from the medium’s earliest days to contemporary online transformations of television, How to Watch Television is designed to engender classroom discussion among television critics of all backgrounds.

Entertaining television

Author : Su Holmes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526101602
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Entertaining television written by Su Holmes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining television challenges the idea that the BBC in the 1950s was elitist and ‘staid’, upholding Reithian values in a paternalistic, even patronising way. By focusing on a number of (often controversial) programme case studies – such as the soap opera, the quiz/ game show, the ‘problem’ show and programmes dealing with celebrity culture - Su Holmes demonstrates how BBC television surprisingly explored popular interests and desires. She also uncovers a number of remarkable connections with programmes and topics at the forefront of television today, ranging from talk shows, 'Reality TV', even to our contemporary obsession with celebrity. The book is iconclastic, percipient and grounded in archival research, and will be of use to anyone studying television history.

The Gallup Poll

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Gallup Poll written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1977

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1977 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Television's Marquee Moon

Author : Bryan Waterman
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441186050
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Television's Marquee Moon written by Bryan Waterman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

A Boy Named Shel

Author : Lisa Rogak
Publisher : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780312353599
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book A Boy Named Shel written by Lisa Rogak and published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever biography of the one-of-kind author who created The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for Young Adults)

Author : Michael Bennett
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642590797
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for Young Adults) written by Michael Bennett and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, an organizer, and a change maker. He's also one of the most humorous athletes on the planet, and he wants to make you uncomfortable. Bennett adds his voice to discussions of racism and police violence, Black athletes and their relationship to powerful institutions like the NCAA and the NFL, the role of protest in history, and the responsibilities of athletes as role models to speak out against injustice. Following in the footsteps of activist-athletes from Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepernick, Bennett demonstrates his outspoken leadership both on and off the field. Written with award-winning sportswriter and author Dave Zirin, Sitting Down to Stand Up is a sports book for young people who want to make a difference, a memoir, and a book as hilarious and engaging as it is illuminating.

Ringmaster

Author : Abraham Josephine Riesman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982169451
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Ringmaster written by Abraham Josephine Riesman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive biography of Vince McMahon, former WWE chairman and CEO, is “riveting, essential reading” (Rick Perlstein, New York Times bestselling author) as it charts his rise from rural poverty to the throne of one of the world’s most influential media empires. Featuring exclusive interviews with more than 150 people who witnessed, aided, and suffered from his ascent. Even if you’ve never watched a minute of professional wrestling, you are living in Vince McMahon’s world. In his four decades as the defining figure of American pro wrestling, McMahon was the man behind Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, John Cena, Dave Bautista, Bret “The Hitman” Hart, and Hulk Hogan, to name just a few of the mega-stars who owe him their careers. For more than twenty-five years, he has also been a performer in his own show, acting as the diabolical “Mr. McMahon”—a figure who may have more in common with the real Vince than he would care to admit. Just as importantly, McMahon is one of Donald Trump’s closest friends—and Trump’s experiences as a performer in McMahon’s programming were, in many ways, a dress rehearsal for the 45th President’s campaigns and presidency. McMahon and his wife, Linda, are major Republican donors. Linda was in Trump’s cabinet. McMahon makes deals with the Saudi government worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And for generations of people who have watched wrestling, he has been a defining cultural force and has helped foment “the worst of contemporary politics” (Kirkus Reviews). Ringmaster built on exclusive interviews with more than 150 people, from McMahon’s childhood friends to those who accuse him of destroying their lives. “Smart, entertaining, impressively reported, and beautifully written. Wrestling fans will devour it, but everyone who wants to better understand this crazy country and one of its truly original characters ought to read it” (Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life).

The Myth of Post-Racialism in Television News

Author : Libby Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317607260
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Post-Racialism in Television News written by Libby Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the written and unwritten requirements Black journalists face in their efforts to get and keep jobs in television news. Informed by interviews with journalists themselves, Lewis examines how raced Black journalists and their journalism organizations process their circumstances and choose to respond to the corporate and institutional constraints they face. She uncovers the social construction and attempted control of "Blackness" in news production and its subversion by Black journalists negotiating issues of objectivity, authority, voice, and appearance along sites of multiple differences of race, gender, and sexuality.

10,000 Dreams Interpreted

Author : Gustavus Hindman Miller
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780760705254
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book 10,000 Dreams Interpreted written by Gustavus Hindman Miller and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997-02-26 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes index.

Uncomfortable

Author : Brett McCracken
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433554283
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Uncomfortable written by Brett McCracken and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does your church make you uncomfortable? It’s easy to dream about the “perfect” church—a church that sings just the right songs set to just the right music before the pastor preaches just the right sermon to a room filled with just the right mix of people who happen to agree with you on just about everything. Chances are your church doesn’t quite look like that. But what if instead of searching for a church that makes us comfortable, we learned to love our church, even when it’s challenging? What if some of the discomfort that we often experience is actually good for us? This book is a call to embrace the uncomfortable aspects of Christian community, whether that means believing difficult truths, pursuing difficult holiness, or loving difficult people—all for the sake of the gospel, God’s glory, and our joy.

Federal Tax Rules Applicable to Tax-exempt Organizations Involving Television Ministries

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Federal Tax Rules Applicable to Tax-exempt Organizations Involving Television Ministries written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How to Get Into Television, Radio and New Media

Author : Kimberley Stewart-Mole
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826467317
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (673 download)

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Book Synopsis How to Get Into Television, Radio and New Media by : Kimberley Stewart-Mole

Download or read book How to Get Into Television, Radio and New Media written by Kimberley Stewart-Mole and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-03-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly every job in television and radio is highly sought after. This resource explains exactly what a prospective employee needs to know, how the media industries work, what range of jobs is available, what each job entails, and what you need to do to land the job of your choice.