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24: Behind the Scenes
Go behind the scenes of the show that redefined action adventure for an insider's look at cast, crew, unscripted moments, and amazing stunts and effects captures by Director/Co-Executive Producer Jon Cassar, Cinematographer Rodney Charters and their 24 filmmaking colleagues. With a fine cast of recurring actors, a growing slate of guest stars and the show's unforgettable star, Kiefer Sutherland, who portrays the tenacious Jack Bauer, 24 is one of television's best-loved programs broadcast today. Featuring many behind-the-scenes photos by photographer/director Cassar, this compelling archive of candid shots and stories is a must-have item for 24 fans the world over. Included in this first-tim...
There's More to Fear than Fear Itself: Fears and Anxieties in the 21st Century
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. From concerns about the ‘other’ and the ‘unknown’ through to anxieties about crime and the apocalyptic and monstrous, these chapters traverse a contemporary landscape of social, cultural and existential fears. How do fictional narratives in literature, film and television programmes construct and entrench fears and anxieties? What can contemporary fears and anxieties tell us about the changing nature of the world? What is perceived as a threat? How do the media shape perceptions of those threats? Gun crime, gender equality, terrorism, technology, black holes, Ebola and the return of the dead are all seen to produce fear and anxiety. Reflecting on the things we have come to fear the most and exploring their specific constructions and implications, this volume brings new dimensions to our understanding of the fears and anxieties that permeate the contemporary West.
Hijacking History
How Bush's war commandeered history and exploited the anxieties of post-industrial America.
Production Culture
An investigation of the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angelesbased film and video production workers.
Stories From My Career
Stories From My Career is a compilation of 50 illustrated stories about the author's career as a college professor and media practitioner. Her career began in the 1960s when very few women were employed in either area and spanned six decades until her retirement. The initial stories take place in Pittsburgh, where she grew up, and Chicago, where she went to college, but most of the stories are centered in the Los Angeles area. A fair number also take place in other countries where she taught and consulted. The stories encompass topics such as combining career and family, the evolution of electronic technology, the civil rights movement, maternity leave practices, television production techniques, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, beginnings of cable TV, teaching challenges, media functions in developing nations, and career advice.
The Guide to The Orville
A full-color hardcover guide to the universe of Seth MacFarlane’s beloved sci-fi series—featuring page after page of technical detail, interstellar history, and character biographies! Explore exotic alien planets, adventure between innumerable stars, and get to know a diverse starship crew as they navigate their thrilling and mysterious universe. Captain Ed Mercer and his brave shipmates guide readers through the decks of the Orville, recounting their voyages through ship logs, and providing insightful commentary on the state of a changing galaxy. Dark Horse presents The Guide to The Orville, a jam-packed lore book collecting everything a new crewmember needs to know about the Planetary Union’s most remarkable ship!
Political Torture in Popular Culture
Political Torture in Popular Culture argues that the literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has been one of the defining dimensions of the torture debate that has taken place in the course of the post-9/11 global war on terrorism. The book argues that cultural representations provide a vital arena in which political meaning is generated, negotiated, and contested. Adams explores whether liberal democracies can ever legitimately perpetrate torture, contrasting assertions that torture can function as a legitimate counterterrorism measure with human rights-based arguments that torture is never morally permissible. He examines the philosophical foundations of ...
The Digital Dystopias of Black Mirror and Electric Dreams
This critical examination of two dystopian television series--Black Mirror and Electric Dreams--focuses on pop culture depictions of technology and its impact on human existence. Representations of a wide range of modern and futuristic technologies are explored, from early portrayals of artificial intelligence (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1921) to digital consciousness transference as envisioned in Black Mirror's "San Junipero." These representations reflect societal anxieties about unfettered technological development and how a world infused with invasive artificial intelligence might redefine life and death, power and control. The impact of social media platforms is considered in the contexts of modern-day communication and political manipulation.
The Quick, the Dead and the Revived
For well more than a century, Western films have embodied the United States' most fundamental doctrine--expansionism--and depicted, in a uniquely American way, the archetypal battle between good and evil. Westerns also depict a country defined and re-defined by complex crises. World War II transformed the genre as well as the nation's identity. Since then, Hollywood filmmakers have been fighting America's ideological wars onscreen by translating modern-day politics into the timeless mythology of the Old West. This book surveys the most iconic and influential Westerns, examines Hollywood stars and their political stripes and reveals the familiar Western tropes--which became elements in popular action, science fiction and horror films. This then sets the stage for the Western revival of the 1990s and a period of reinvention in the 21st century. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
The Book of Footy Lists
Football is a great argument starter, but how do you settle all of these arguments? THE BOOK OF FOOTY LISTS will list and rank, the great players, teams, matches, controversies and lots of lists of bests and worsts. Leading AFL identities including Simon Madden, Dermott Brereton and Glenn Archer submitted their lists, as have leading journalists, other football identities and also club supporters.
