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Communications And Media Studies Newletter 2012 Fall, Communications & Media Studies
Communications And Media Studies Newletter 2012 Fall, Communications & Media Studies
Communication and Media Studies Newsletter
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On Radio: Up From The Boneyard: Local Media, It's Digital Death And Rebirth [Part 1], Tim Anderson
On Radio: Up From The Boneyard: Local Media, It's Digital Death And Rebirth [Part 1], Tim Anderson
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
Is there any such thing as local digital media? Looking at the case of local podcasts, Tim Anderson argues that people indeed do, and always have, inscribed the local in their digital media creations.
Engaging Wumb's Community Beyond Broadcast, Patricia Monteith
Engaging Wumb's Community Beyond Broadcast, Patricia Monteith
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
WUMB-FM, UMass Boston's National Public Radio affiliate, has a listenership of more than 100,000 people weekly. Through its 7 station network, WUMB has a reach that extends through the greater Boston area and beyond into 4 neighboring New England States. Via the Internet, WUMB reaches listeners in all 50 states and 113 countries. As a media outlet for the University, WUMB engages in a variety of community service activities throughout the Greater Boston Area and beyond, acting as an independent non-profit media organization focused on serving the needs of the university's local, regional and virtual constituents. WUMB draws upon these …
Marked Woman (1937) And The Dialectics Of Art Deco In The Classical Gangster Genre, Drew Todd
Marked Woman (1937) And The Dialectics Of Art Deco In The Classical Gangster Genre, Drew Todd
Faculty Publications
In this article, I analyse the function of Art Deco designs in the 1930s gangster genre and, in particular, Warner Brothers' Marked Woman (Bacon, 1937). Like many gangster films of the period, it associates high-style Art Deco with excess and the criminal underworld. My findings, however, reveal a tension between the film's moralist stance and its visual excess. Compelling visual signifiers of leisure, style and social mobility, the modern designs are free to circumvent the film's critical message and reinforce American capitalist ideologies. My analyses underscore Art Deco as an emblematic style of commercial modernity. Marked Woman and other gangster …