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Fighting Over The Founders: How We Remember The American Revolution, Andrew Schocket
Fighting Over The Founders: How We Remember The American Revolution, Andrew Schocket
Andrew M Schocket
The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation’s founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source of powerful founding myths, and remains the most accessible and most contested event in U.S. history: more than any other, it stands as a proxy for how Americans perceive the nation’s aspirations. Americans’ increased fascination with the Revolution over the past two decades represents more than interest in the past. It’s also …
Critical Animal And Media Studies: Communication For Nonhuman Animal Advocacy, Nuria Almiron, Matthew Cole, Carrie Freeman
Critical Animal And Media Studies: Communication For Nonhuman Animal Advocacy, Nuria Almiron, Matthew Cole, Carrie Freeman
Carrie P Freeman
ABSTRACT: Suitable for a media studies graduate or upper level undergraduate course (or a critical animal studies course), this book aims to put the speciesism debate and the treatment of non-human animals on the agenda of critical media studies and to put media studies on the agenda of animal ethics researchers. Contributors examine the convergence of media and animal ethics from theoretical, philosophical, discursive, social constructionist, and political economic perspectives. The book is divided into three sections: foundations, representation, and responsibility, outlining the different disciplinary approaches’ application to media studies and covering how non-human animals, and the relationship between humans …
Consuming Nature: Mass Media And The Cultural Politics Of Animals And Environments, Carrie Packwood Freeman, Jason Jarvis
Consuming Nature: Mass Media And The Cultural Politics Of Animals And Environments, Carrie Packwood Freeman, Jason Jarvis
Carrie P. Freeman
The commercially-driven mass media package human identity and all our surrounding environment for daily consumption in the public sphere. It is of critical importance whether media choose to ignore humanity’s responsibility toward the natural world and simply have us consume it as a product, or whether they actively cultivate ecological responsibility and newfound respect toward animals as fellow sentient beings. This chapter explores the necessity, potential, and challenges of relying on the media (journalism, television, advertising, film, radio, internet, etc.) to inspire the social change needed to reverse the destructive behaviors and beliefs that are contributing to our global ecological …
Sex, Lies And Marketing: Miramax And The Development Of The 'Quality Indie' Blockbuster, Alisa Perren
Sex, Lies And Marketing: Miramax And The Development Of The 'Quality Indie' Blockbuster, Alisa Perren
Alisa Perren
The August 1989 release of sex, lies, and videotape by Miramax marked a turning point in American independent cinema. In fact, the film should be perceived as central to the development of New Hollywood aesthetics, economics, and structure. sex, lies, and videotape ushered in the era of the “indi blockbusters—films that, on a smaller scale, replicate the exploitation marketinig and box-office performance of the major studio high-concept event pictures. On a cost-to-earning ration, Steven Soderbergh’s creation –with its $1.1 million dollar budget and $24 million plus in North America box office—was a better investment than Batman, which—at an investment of …
A Big Fat Indie Success Story? Press Discourses Surrounding The Making And Marketing Of A "Hollywood" Movie, Alisa Perren
A Big Fat Indie Success Story? Press Discourses Surrounding The Making And Marketing Of A "Hollywood" Movie, Alisa Perren
Alisa Perren
In this article, I dissect three primary claims made in mainstream publications about My Big Fat Greek Wedding. First, by examining the film's production, distribution, and exhibition history, I complicate assertions that the film can be labeled "the most successful independent of all time." Second, I challenge the assumption that films such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding are rarely made anymore by Hollywood. I suggest that such arguments are based on narrow definitions of Hollywood and its product. Third, I problematize the declarations that My Big Fat Greek Wedditig represents a triumph in innovative "grassroots" marketing tactics and appealing …
Fishing For Animal Rights In "The Cove": A Holistic Approach To Animal Advocacy Documentaries, Carrie Freeman
Fishing For Animal Rights In "The Cove": A Holistic Approach To Animal Advocacy Documentaries, Carrie Freeman
Carrie P Freeman
The Oscar-winning 2009 documentary "The Cove" serves as a thrilling and poignant advocacy tool promoting activism to save free-roaming dolphins off the coast of Japan from kidnapping, enslavement in marine parks, and slaughter for meat. This essay evaluates the ethical and social justice implications of The Cove not just for dolphins but for the animal rights movement as a whole, particularly in terms of how it could challenge the ethicality of humans killing any nonhuman animals for food. Strategic media recommendations are made for how animal protection advocates could better deconstruct the human/animal dualism that is at the root of …
Girls On Screen: How Film And Television Depict Women In Public Relations, Jane Johnston
Girls On Screen: How Film And Television Depict Women In Public Relations, Jane Johnston
Jane Johnston
This paper explores how women in public relations have been depicted in the popular culture forms of film and television. With some reference to early screen depictions, it focuses primarily on film and television from the past two decades, analysing women in a variety of public relations roles in the 1990s and 2000s. The study looks at nine leading television series and movies from the United States and United Kingdom to examine how women in public relations are portrayed, and also collates the data from previous studies to develop a profile of how depictions have changed since the 1930s. Primarily, …
Mario Van Peebles’S Panther And Popular Memories Of The Black Panther Party, Kristen Hoerl
Mario Van Peebles’S Panther And Popular Memories Of The Black Panther Party, Kristen Hoerl
Kristen Hoerl
The 1995 movie Panther depicted the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense as a vibrant but ultimately doomed social movement for racial and economic justice during the late 1960s. Panther’s narrative indicted the white-operated police for perpetuating violence against African-Americans and for undermining movements for black empowerment. As such, this film represented a rare source of filmic counter-memory that challenged hegemonic memories of U.S. race relations. Newspaper reports and reviews of Panther, however, questioned this film’s veracity as a source of historical information. An analysis of these reviews and reports indicates the challenges counter-memories confront in popular culture.
L.I.E., The Believer, And The Sexuality Of The Jewish Boy, Steven Carr
L.I.E., The Believer, And The Sexuality Of The Jewish Boy, Steven Carr
Steven A Carr PhD
No abstract provided.
Wretched Refuse: Watching New York Ethnic Slum Films In The Aftermath Of 9/11, Steven Carr
Wretched Refuse: Watching New York Ethnic Slum Films In The Aftermath Of 9/11, Steven Carr
Steven A Carr PhD
No abstract provided.
Hollywood, The Holocaust, And World War Ii, Steven Carr
Hollywood, The Holocaust, And World War Ii, Steven Carr
Steven A Carr PhD
No abstract provided.
Mass Murder, Modernity, And The Alienated Gaze, Steven Carr
Mass Murder, Modernity, And The Alienated Gaze, Steven Carr
Steven A Carr PhD
No abstract provided.
From 'Fucking Cops!' To 'Fucking Media!': 'Bonnie And Clyde' (1967) For A Sixties America, Steven Carr
From 'Fucking Cops!' To 'Fucking Media!': 'Bonnie And Clyde' (1967) For A Sixties America, Steven Carr
Steven A Carr PhD
No abstract provided.
Hollywood And The Holocaust: Real Reactions From The Film Industry, Steven Carr
Hollywood And The Holocaust: Real Reactions From The Film Industry, Steven Carr
Steven A Carr PhD
No abstract provided.
Teaching The Holocaust Through Film, Steven Carr
Teaching The Holocaust Through Film, Steven Carr
Steven A Carr PhD
No abstract provided.
The Holocaust In The Text: Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables' And The Allegorical Film Adaptation, Steven Carr
The Holocaust In The Text: Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables' And The Allegorical Film Adaptation, Steven Carr
Steven A Carr PhD
No abstract provided.
Producing Filmed Entertainment, Alisa Perren
Business As Unusual: Conglomerate-Sized Challenges For Film And Television In The Digital Arena, Alisa Perren
Business As Unusual: Conglomerate-Sized Challenges For Film And Television In The Digital Arena, Alisa Perren
Alisa Perren
No abstract provided.
Audience Interpretations Of "Crash", Debbie Owens
Audience Interpretations Of "Crash", Debbie Owens
Debbie Owens
Introduction: Does The World Really Need One More Field Of Study?, Alisa Perren
Introduction: Does The World Really Need One More Field Of Study?, Alisa Perren
Alisa Perren
No abstract provided.
Money For Nothing: Behind The Business Of Pop Music, Kembrew Mcleod
Money For Nothing: Behind The Business Of Pop Music, Kembrew Mcleod
Kembrew McLeod
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music. Producer and Director. (49 minutes) Northampton, MA: Media Education Foundation.