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Academic And Non-Academic Games, Bjorn Ingvoldstad
Academic And Non-Academic Games, Bjorn Ingvoldstad
Bridgewater Review
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Martha Stewart's Graphic Design For Living, Melanie Mcnaughton
Martha Stewart's Graphic Design For Living, Melanie Mcnaughton
Bridgewater Review
A living brand or a force of darkness, Martha Stewart is an indomitable figure in 20thcentury domestic life and her place in North American domestic history is tied to the success of Martha Stewart Living, the flagship publication of the Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) empire. The success of Living is tied to its graphic design. Living typographically enacts the values it argues for by fusing traditional elements with modern edges to present a vision of homemaking that is soft and appealing yet also a statement of skilled precision and quality. Tacking between broad, more theoretical analysis and close …
Cultural Commentary: The Danger Of Danger, William C. Levin
Cultural Commentary: The Danger Of Danger, William C. Levin
Bridgewater Review
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Can China Import Western Ideas?, Fang Deng
The Last Word: Reality Into Fiction - 1984, Nancy L. Street
The Last Word: Reality Into Fiction - 1984, Nancy L. Street
Bridgewater Review
Television programming In the United States is transforming our society. Unaware of its incursions, Americans literally “buy into” dramatized patterns of behavior. From the evening news to advertising to prime-time drama like “Dynasty” or “Matt Houston” the distinctions between reality and fiction are blurred if not obliterated. Drama becomes reality; reality, e.g., the news, becomes drama. Contemporary American television posits a world view impacting on interpersonal interactions, family structure, cultural transmission, political decision-making, war and what it means “to know.”