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Business and Society in the New Social Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
As consumers, our access to—and appetite for—information about what and how we buy continues to grow. Powered by social media, increasingly we look at the companies behind the products and are disappointed when their actions do not meet our expectations. With engaged citizens acting as 24/7 auditors...
Insurmountable Simplicities
Thirty-Nine Philosophical Conundrums
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
"Perhaps not all the stories that follow are true. They could, however, be true, and the Reader is invited to ponder this."
So begins Insurmountable Simplicities, Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi's colorful incarnation of the many philosophical conundrums that hide in the wrinkles...
by John Pavlik
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
Digital technologies have fundamentally altered the nature and function of media in our society, reinventing age-old practices of public communication and at times circumventing traditional media and challenging its privileged role as gatekeepers of news and entertainment. Some critics believe these...
Audience Economics
Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
Focusing on the electronic media—television, radio, and the Internet—Audience Economics bridges a substantial gap in the literature by providing an integrated framework for understanding the various businesses involved in generating and selling audiences to advertisers. Philip M. Napoli presents...
The Novelist’s Lexicon
Writers on the Words That Define Their Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
At the renowned, international literary conference hosted by Villa Gillet and Le Monde, organizers asked more than seventy prominent authors to choose a word that opens a door to their work. Their musings, collected here for the first time, offer an extraordinary portrait of writing and reading from...
Religion and Film
Cinema and the Re-creation of the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Religion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing, mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing, and other production activities, film takes the world “out there” and refashions it. Religion achieves similar ends by setting...
Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History
The Rashidun Caliphs
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The story of the succession to the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661) is familiar to historians from the political histories of medieval Islam, which treat it as a factual account. The story also informs the competing perspectives of Sunni and Shi'i Islam, which read...
by Nabil Matar
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
Traveling to archives in Tunisia, Morocco, France, and England, with visits to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Spain, Nabil Matar assembles a rare history of Europe's rise to power as seen through the eyes of those who were later subjugated by it. Many historians of the Middle East believe Arabs and Muslims...
Muhammad's Grave
Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
In his probing study of the role of death rites in the making of Islamic society, Leor Halevi imaginatively plays prescriptive texts against material culture and advances new ways of interpreting highly contested sources. His original research reveals that religious scholars of the early Islamic period...
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Dispatches from the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph—a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by MichaelE. Mann and his colleagues, demonstrating...
Dreaming of Cinema
Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many worry film's capacity to record the real is fundamentally changing. Yet...
Deathwatch
American Film, Technology, and the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for the camera. Reading attractions-based cinema, narrative films, early sound cinema, and films using...
Indie
An American Film Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
America's independent films often seem to defy classification. Their strategies of storytelling and representation range from raw, no-budget projects to more polished releases of Hollywood's "specialty" divisions. Yet understanding American indies involves more than just considering films....
A Desert Named Peace
The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
In the mid-nineteenth century, French colonial leaders in Algeria started southward into the Sahara, beginning a fifty-year period of violence. Lying in the shadow of the colonization of northern Algeria, which claimed the lives of over a million people, French empire in the Sahara sought power through...