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The Guide to United States Popular Culture
"To understand the history and spirit of America, one must know its wars, its laws, and its presidents. To really understand it, however, one must also know its cheeseburgers, its love songs, and its lawn ornaments. The long-awaited Guide to the United States Popular Culture provides a single-volume guide to the landscape of everyday life in the United States. Scholars, students, and researchers will find in it a valuable tool with which to fill in the gaps left by traditional history. All American readers will find in it, one entry at a time, the story of their lives."--Robert Thompson, President, Popular Culture Association. "At long last popular culture may indeed be given its due within ...
The Fundamentals of Crisis Management
A comprehensive and very informative work on how to manage crisis, The Fundamentals of Crisis Management is a handy book that every office library must have. It identifies the stages of crisis management and thoroughly describes the process of developing a crisis scenario and a scripted crisis exercise to equip organizations with the skills and tools necessary for effective crisis management and remediation. With concrete examples to illustrate key points, Dr. V. J. Marchesani provides virtually all the basic information there is to know about crisis management in this compact book, which also provides a template crisis management plan and standby statement that any business facing a crisis can easily utilize. A must-read for every member of a company or organization, whatever its size, from the worker who puts the lug nuts, to the big shot who makes the most important decisions, The Fundamentals of Crisis Management may prove to be a perfect guide to crisis management in this constantly changing world.
The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States
Winner, McGannon Communications Research Award, 2004 In 1971, the Sloan Commission on Cable Communications likened the ongoing developments in cable television to the first uses of movable type and the invention of the telephone. Cable's proponents in the late 1960s and early 1970s hoped it would eventually remedy all the perceived ills of broadcast television, including lowest-common-denominator programming, inability to serve the needs of local audiences, and failure to recognize the needs of cultural minorities. Yet a quarter century after the "blue sky" era, cable television programming closely resembled, and indeed depended upon, broadcast television programming. Whatever happened to th...
The Making of Exile Cultures
Using Iranian television as a case study, The Making of Exile Cultures explores the seemingly contradictory way in which immigrant media and cultural productions serve as the source both of resistance and opposition to domination by host and home country's social values while simultaneously acting as vehicles for personal and cultural transformation and the assimilation of those values.
The Cultural Studies Reader
The Cultural Studies Readeris essential reading for any student wanting to know how cultural studies developed, where it is now, and its future directions.
