Language Studies category: 15171 books
Wild Women, Wild Voices
Writing from Your Authentic Wildness
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Write to Celebrate, Heal, and Free the Wild Woman Within In her years as a writing coach, Judy Reeves has found twin urges in women: they yearn to reclaim a true nature that resides below the surface of daily life and to give it voice. The longing to express this wild, authentic nature is what informs...
Out on Assignment
Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century. Using extraordinary archival research, Alice Fahs unearths a richly networked community of female journalists drawn by the hundreds to major...
by Katherine H. Adams, Michael L. Keene
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie. Her work appeared in the Hearst papers—especially the San Francisco Examiner—and in fifty additional newspapers weekly through syndication. Black wrote 10,000 short pieces, as well as three books,...
by Jan Blommaert
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. The world has become a complex 'web' of villages, towns, neighbourhoods and settlements connected by material and symbolic ties in often...
Refiguring Melodrama in Film and Television
Captive Affects, Elastic Sufferings, Vicarious Objects
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
The notion of mode is critical in the reevaluation of melodrama. As a mode, melodrama appears not only as a dramatic genre pervaded by sensationalism, exaggerations, and moral polarities, but also as a cultural imaginary that shapes the emotional experience of modernity, characterized by anxiety,...
Think in Public
A Public Books Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions...
Outrage, Inc.
How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
From Derek Hunter—one of the most entertaining political writers today—comes an insightful, alarming look at how progressives have taken over academia, pop culture, and journalism in order to declare everything liberal great, and everything great, liberal.
Progressives love to attack conservatives...
Ascent of the A-Word
Assholism, the First Sixty Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
It first surfaced in the gripes of GIs during World War II and was captured early on by the typewriter of a young Norman Mailer. Within a generation it had become a basic notion of our everyday moral life, replacing older reproaches like lout and heel with a single inclusive category––a staple...
by Carole Gerson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
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Periodicals and Journalism
Carole Gerson
Chapter 6 shows how the rise of women’s journalism offered specific opportunities that coalesced in the founding of the Canadian Women’s Press Club in 1904.
The Journalistic Imagination
Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2007
Focusing on the neglected journalism of writers more famous for their novels or plays, this new book explores the specific functions of journalism within the public sphere, and celebrate the literary qualities of journalism as a genre.
Key features include:
an international focus taking...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
The Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory clearly and accessibly explains the major theoretical approaches now deployed in the study of the moving image, as well as defining key theoretical terms.
This dictionary provides readers with the conceptual apparatus to understand the often daunting...
Gendered Media
Women, Men, and Identity Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Gendered Media addresses the broad topic of gender and media, where 'gender' is not simply a shorthand for 'woman' but also embraces masculinitiy/ies, queer, lesbian and gay identities. Karen Ross provides the necessary historical context against which to read recent sex- and gender-based media phenomena...
by Gill Davies
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2004
Since its first publication, this essential guide to book commissioning has established itself as the one and only 'must-read' for any successful editor, and the core training text used both within publishing houses and on publishing courses worldwide.
In this new edition, Davies concentrates on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Key Readings in Journalism brings together over thirty essential writings that every student of journalism should know. Designed as a primary text for undergraduate students, each reading was carefully chosen in response to extensive surveys from educators reflecting on the needs of today’s journalism...