"Napoleon Bonaparte is often credited with saying that ‘an army marches on its stomach’. A hundred years after his time, the soldiers of the Great War would do little marching. Instead, they would fight their battles from cold, muddy trenches, looking out across No Man’s Land towards another set of trenches that housed the enemy. It is one of the remarkable successes of the war that they rarely went hungry. During the war, the army gre ..."
"This fourth edition of Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts is an indispensible guide to the most important terms in the field. It offers clear explanations of the key concepts, exploring their origins, what they’re used for and why they provoke discussion. The author provides a multi-disciplinary explanation and assessment of the key concepts, from ‘authorship’ to ‘censorship’; ‘creative industries’ to ‘network t ..."
""A short text that challenges universities to address new networked and digital knowledge platforms, networked practices of knowledge production and new systems of knowledge sharing and certification"--"
"Is this the right book for me? A comprehensive guide to writing poetry Write Poetry - and Get It Published is a user-friendly and comprehensive guide written by two well-published poets that will prove indispensible if you're seeking creative guidance, inspiration and practical advice. Covering everything from mood, style and tone to poetry on the internet, this fully updated edition will help you find your voice. Containing straightfo ..."
""This guide to the emerging language of creative industries field is a valuable resource for researchers and students alike. Concise, extensively referenced, and accessible, this this is an exceptionally useful reference work." - Gauti Sigthorsson, Greenwich University "There could be no better guides to the conceptual map of the creative industries than John Hartley and his colleagues, pioneers in the field. This book is a clear, comp ..."
""This guide to the emerging language of creative industries field is a valuable resource for researchers and students alike. Concise, extensively referenced, and accessible, this this is an exceptionally useful reference work." - Gauti Sigthorsson, Greenwich University "There could be no better guides to the conceptual map of the creative industries than John Hartley and his colleagues, pioneers in the field. This book is a clear, comp ..."
"Communication, Cultural and Media Studies is an introductory guide for those who need to "come to terms'' with the fields of communications and cultural studies. More 300 entries introduce the reader to key points in the areas, as well the historical underpinnings of each concept, and provides references for further reading. This edition contains more than 70 new entries, with existing entries revised to maintain currency with new devel ..."
Creative Industries(1st Edition) by JohnHartley, Wiley-Blackwell Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2005 by Wiley-Blackwell Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-0148-6, ISBN: 1-4051-0148-2
"Creative Industries is a daring collection of essays that charts the noisy revolution that is transforming the production, consumption, and understanding of culture in the all-wired era. It brings together seminal essays written across traditional and new media, industry sectors, and national contexts to demonstrate that content still drives a value-neutral, knowledge economy. Chronicles the way mass culture is produced, packaged and ci ..."
Popular Reality(1st Edition) Journalism and Popular Culture by Dr JohnHartley Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1996 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-0-340-58489-7, ISBN: 0-340-58489-0
"This work provides theoretical analysis and historical detail to reconceptualize the significance of modern journalism from the point of view of its greatest creation - popular readerships. It traces the links between journalism, politics and popular culture, showing how liberty, fraternity and equality are unthinkable without suburbia, sexualization and kissing. The book also provides a critique of academic and professional discourses ..."
"For as Belsey has argued, 'Realism is plausible not because it reflects the world,
but because it is constructed out of what is (discursively) familiar' (1980, p. 47). A
newsphoto or video image of Anna Ford is not 'really' Anna Ford, it is Anna Ford ..."
"An ambitious rendering of the digital future from a pioneer of media and cultural studies, a wise and witty take on a changing field, and our orientation to it * Investigates the uses of multimedia by creative and productive citizen-consumers to provide new theories of communication that accommodate social media, participatory action, and user-creativity * Leads the way for new interdisciplinary engagement with systems thinking, complex ..."
Television Truths Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture by JohnHartley 304 Pages, Published 2008 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-0-470-69335-3, ISBN: 0-470-69335-5
"It was rescripted into the 1999 teen movie Ten Things I Hate About You, set at “
Padua High School” and starring “Kat Stratford” (Julia Stiles), “Patrick Verona” (
Heath Ledger), and Kat's cute sister Bianca (Larisa Oleynik).3 The Taming of the
Shrew was indigenized in places culturally even more remote from Elizabethan
London than a Tacoma high school. For instance, it was successfully produced in
Moscow in 1937–8 by Alexei Popov, P ..."
"The first book of its kind to celebrate the annual phenomenon that is the art of external Christmas decoration.In households and neighbourhoods throughout the land, elaborate plans are already underway for winter wonderlands of multi-coloured light sequences, lit-from-within inflatable snowmen and a riot of Father Christmases and attendant reindeer. Christmas Houses pays homage to the growing phenomenon of yuletide house-bling, capturin ..."
"After all, you are not playing against the house but against other Poker players.
They are no more likely to get good hands than you are. So, follow the guidelines
you are comfortable with, be patient, relax, and have fun.To get ... Remember,
this is entertainment, and winning is only a bonus. ... tobeunsporting to yell to the
stranger at the other end of the table to “Go ahead and call me, you know I
always bluff!” and exhortations ..."
Uses of Television(1st Edition) by JohnHartley Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 1999 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-08509-0, ISBN: 0-415-08509-8
"How does television function within society? Why have both its programmes and its audiences been so widely denigrated? Taking inspiration from Richard Hoggarts classic study The Uses of Literacy, John Hartleys new book is a lucid defence of the place of television in our lives, and of the usefulness of television studies. Hartley re-conceptualizes television as a transmodern medium, capable of reuniting government, education and media, ..."
"Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies is a book to help you `come to terms' with terms. Communication and Cultural Studies says new things in new ways, resulting in not only new words, concepts and theories, but also in the reworking of concepts and terms from a wide-range of established disciplines. Key Concepts provides a practical and accessible guide to this exciting field.This second edition forms a multi-disciplinary ..."
Tele-ology(1st Edition) Studies in Television (Paperback) by JohnHartley Paperback, 245 Pages, Published 1992 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-06818-5, ISBN: 0-415-06818-5
"Studies in Television John Hartley. own specific purposes. Among ... The first, elaborated in relation to cinema and associated largely with the journal Screen in the 1970s, is applied by John Ellis to television. Here the audience is imagined as ..."
Understanding News by JohnHartley Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1982 by Methuen Publishing Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-416-74550-4, ISBN: 0-416-74550-4
"Corner, John and Hawthorn, Jeremy, eds (1980) Communication Studies: an
Introductory Reader, London, Arnold. Culler, Jonathan (1976) Saussure, London,
Fontana. Curran, James, Gurevitch, Michael and Woollacott, Janet, eds (1977) ..."