Nyu Press: 1737 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Forty original contributions on what we should all be watching next.
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...
It's One O'Clock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride
A Radio Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2005
One of the most beloved radio show hosts of the 1940s and 1950s, Mary Margaret McBride (1899—1976) regularly attracted between six and eight million listeners to her daily one o'clock broadcast. During her twenty years on the air she interviewed tens of thousands of people, from President Harry...
Open TV
Innovation beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
How the internet transformed television
Before HBO’s hit show Insecure, Issa Rae’s comedy about being a nerdy black woman debuted as a YouTube web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, her response to the absence of diverse black characters on the small screen. Broad City, a feminist...
Divorced from Reality
Rethinking Family Dispute Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Over the past thirty years, there has been a dramatic shift in the way the legal system approaches and resolves family disputes. Traditionally, family law dispute resolution was based on an “adversary” system: two parties and their advocates stood before a judge who determined which party was...
Make Art Not War
Political Protest Posters from the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
An extraordinarily visceral collection of posters that represent the progressive protest movements of the twentieth Century.
Two of the most recognizable images of twentieth-century art are Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” and the rather modest mass-produced poster by an unassuming illustrator,...
Comic Book Crime
Truth, Justice, and the American Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Superman, Batman, Daredevil, and Wonder Woman are iconic cultural figures that embody values of order, fairness, justice, and retribution. Comic Book Crime digs deep into these and other celebrated characters, providing a comprehensive understanding of crime and justice in contemporary American comic...
By Any Media Necessary
The New Youth Activism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The participatory politics and civic engagement of youth in the digital age.
Read Online at connectedyouth.nyupress.org
There is a widespread perception that the foundations of American democracy are dysfunctional, public trust in core institutions is eroding, and little is likely to...
by Janet Staiger
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Media Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audiences make meaning out of mass media. It synthesizes in plain language social scientific, linguistic, and cultural studies approaches to film and television as communication media.
Janet Staiger traverses...
Fandom, Second Edition
Identities and Communities in a Mediated World
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
A completely updated edition of a seminal work on fans and communities
We are all fans. Whether we follow our favorite celebrities on Twitter, attend fan conventions such as Comic Con, or simply wait with bated breath for the next episode of our favorite television drama—each of us is a fan.
Recognizing...
Cable Guys
Television and Masculinities in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
From the meth-dealing but devoted family man Walter White of AMCs Breaking Bad, to the part-time basketball coach, part-time gigolo Ray Drecker of HBOs Hung, depictions of male characters perplexed by societal expectations of men and anxious about changing American masculinity have become standard...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Every major political and social dispute of the twentieth century has been fought on the backs of our children, from the economic reforms of the progressive era through the social readjustments of civil rights era and on to the current explosion of anxieties about everything from the national debt...
The Wow Climax
Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2006
Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)
Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their acts-a final moment of peak spectacle following a gradual building of audience's emotions. Viewed by most critics as vulgar and sensationalistic, the vaudeville aesthetic...
Postcards from Auschwitz
Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials
Each year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of "Holocaust tourism" and what role do its...
Straights
Heterosexuality in Post-Closeted Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Since the Stonewall Riots in 1969, the politics of sexual identity in America have drastically transformed. It’s almost old news that recent generations of Americans have grown up in a culture more accepting of out lesbians and gay men, seen the proliferation of LGBTQ media representation, and witnessed...