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Author |
: David Marc |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2010-11-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812202717 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812202716 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Demographic Vistas by : David Marc
In Demographic Vistas, David Marc shows how we can take television seriously within the humanist tradition while enjoying it on its own terms. To deal with the barrage of messages from television's chaotic history, Marc adapts tools of theatrical and literary criticism to focus on key personalities and genres in ways that reward serious students and casual viewers alike. This updated edition includes a new foreword by Horace Newcomb and a new introduction by the author that discusses the ways in which the nature of television criticism has changed since the book's original publication in 1984. A new final chapter explores the paradox of the diminishing importance of over-the-air broadcasting during the period of television's greatest expansion, which has been brought about by complex technologies such as cable, videocassette recorders, and online services.
Author |
: David Marc |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0812215605 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780812215601 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Demographic Vistas by : David Marc
"Quite simply, a tour de force--a wonderful synthesis of history and criticism."--Daniel Czitrom, author of Media and the American Mind "A cooly sophisticated analysis . . . of American televsion."--American Studies International In Demographic Vistas, David Marc shows how we can take television seriously within the humanist tradition while enjoying it on its own terms. To deal with the barrage of messages from television's chaotic history, Marc adapts tools of theatrical and literary criticism to focus on key personalities and genres in ways that reward serious students and casual viewers alike. This updated edition includes a new foreword by Horace Newcomb and a new introduction by the author that discusses the ways in which the nature of television criticism has changed since the book's original publication in 1984. A new final chapter explores the paradox of the diminishing importance of over-the-air broadcasting during the period of television's greatest expansion, which has been brought about by complex technologies such as cable, videocassette recorders, and online services. From reviews of the first edition-- "Demographic Vistas analyzes television in the tradition of a Gilbert Seldes or Michael Arlen. Exhibiting fluency in television history, theories of culture, and American literature, the book offers a thoughtful, idiosyncratic interpretation of television's life so far in American culture."--Critical Studies in Mass Communication "Marc does a good job of drawing links between the American literary tradition and television themes, which illustrate that television texts are not isolated from the critical mainstream of American creative efforts. . . . These links illustrate that television texts offer themselves to much the same analytical forms as any other literary endeavor."--Southern Speech Communication Journal David Marc is Adjunct Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, and Visiting Professor, School of Theater, Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles.
Author |
: Walt Whitman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 100 |
Release |
: 1871 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0023255073 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Democratic Vistas by : Walt Whitman
Author |
: Marlene Park |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:39000005508515 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Democratic Vistas by : Marlene Park
Author |
: Walt Whitman |
Publisher |
: University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages |
: 215 |
Release |
: 2009-04-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781587299230 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1587299232 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Democratic Vistas by : Walt Whitman
"Written in the aftermath of the American Civil War during the ferment of national Reconstruction, Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas remains one of the most penetrating analyses of democracy ever written. Now available for the first time in a facsimile of the original 1870-1871 edition, with an introduction and annotations by noted Whitman scholar Ed Folsom that illuminate the essay's historical and cultural contexts, this searing analysis of American culture offers readers today the opportunity to argue with Whitman over the nature of democracy and the future of the nation." --Book Jacket.
Author |
: Micah Cash |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2022-11-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0998029378 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780998029375 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Waffle House Vistas by : Micah Cash
This second edition has been "resequenced and expanded to include over 40 new photographs made from 2020-2022 with new essays by Beth McKibben and Mike Jordan"--https://www.micahcash.com/wafflehousevistas.
Author |
: Oscar Harkavy |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 351 |
Release |
: 2013-06-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781475799064 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1475799063 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Curbing Population Growth by : Oscar Harkavy
Oscar Harkavy offers a unique insider's view of the fascinating world of population politics. Chapters trace the growth of the movement as well as the various foundations, governments, and intergovernmental organizations which were an integral part of it from its beginning in the 1950s, through its growth during the 60s and 70s, to the present. Topics include the role of social science in understanding the causes and effects of population growth; reproductive research and contraceptive development; and the politics of family planning, sex education, and abortion in the United States.
Author |
: Walt Whitman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 1888 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015006980489 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Democratic Vistas by : Walt Whitman
Author |
: Michael Cunningham |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2007-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374706241 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374706247 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Specimen Days by : Michael Cunningham
In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a young woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story that takes place at the height of the industrial revolution, as human beings confront the alienating realities of the new machine age. "The Children's Crusade," set in the early twenty-first century, plays with the conventions of the noir thriller as it tracks the pursuit of a terrorist band that is detonating bombs, seemingly at random, around the city. The third part, "Like Beauty," evokes a New York 150 years into the future, when the city is all but overwhelmed by refugees from the first inhabited planet to be contacted by the people of Earth. Presiding over each episode of this interrelated whole is the prophetic figure of the poet Walt Whitman, who promised his future readers, "It avails not, neither time or place . . . I am with you, and know how it is." Specimen Days is a genre-bending, haunting, and transformative ode to life in our greatest city and a meditation on the direction and meaning of America's destiny. It is a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today.
Author |
: Christophe Z. Guilmoto |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 341 |
Release |
: 2015-12-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319247830 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319247832 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemporary Demographic Transformations in China, India and Indonesia by : Christophe Z. Guilmoto
This book examines the profound demographic transformation affecting China, India, and Indonesia, where 40% of the world's people live. It offers a systematic, comparative approach that will help readers to better understand the changing social and regional recomposition of the population in these regions. The chapters present a detailed investigation and mapping of regional trends in mortality, fertility, migration and urbanization, education, and aging. Throughout, the analysis carefully considers how these trends affect economic and social development. Coverage also raises global, theoretical questions about the singular ways in which each of these three countries have achieved their demographic transition. As the authors reveal, demographic trends seem to be somewhat linear and anticipatable, providing Asia’s three demographic giants and their governments a formidable advantage in planning for the future. But the evolution of human mobility in China, India, and Indonesia, closely intertwined as it is with changing economic conditions, appears less predictable and ranks high among the major challenges to demographic knowledge in the coming decades. Offering an insightful look into the components, implications, and regional variations of a changing population, this book will appeal to social scientists, demographers, anthropologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, and specialists in Asian studies.