Current Events
Against All Enemies
The [Bush] administration has squandered the opportunity to eliminate al Qaeda....A new al Qaeda has emerged and is growing stronger, in part because of our own actions and inactions.
Power Without Responsibility
The sixth edition of this title is a guide for all those involved with the production and consumption of the media. It includes up-to-date analysis of new media and legislation, New Labour conservatism and coverage of Scottish and Welsh devolution.
Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change
With a case study of the Asian community in Southall, Marie Gillespie examines how television and video are being used to recreate cultural traditions and catalyse cultural change in such communities.
Introductory History of British Broadcasting
This is an accessible and concise history of British radio and television. The book considers key issues in broadcasting including its growth and evolution, its establishments and its relationship to social and political institutions.
Making of Citizens
The Making of Citizens explores the impact of contemporary new programming on the young, asking why it is failing to capture the interest and attention of young viewers.
Visible Fictions
Ellis questions the assumption that cinema and television are interchangeable media. He sees cinema and broadcast TV not as competitive media, but as distinct forms, able to play interdependent social roles.
Talk on Television
In an examination of talk shows such as Kilroy and The Oprah Winfrey Show the authors analyse the `experts' contribution, the conventions of the genre and the dangers and oppportunities of televised public debates.
Profit and Pleasure
In Profit and Pleasure, Rosemary Hennessy develops a new understanding of sexual identities as they are linked to lived material realities, capitalism in particular.
Hearing Film
Hearing Film offers the first critical examination of music in the films of the 1980s and 1990s and looks at the burgeoning role of compiled scores in the shaping of a film.
Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare
Examines the current state of guerrilla warfare and terrorism around the world, indicates how they may develop in the future and surveys the methods currently used and being developed for countering their activities.