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The Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting
The central issue of Michael Tracey's study is that public service broadcasting sadly has a limited future and that this is an indication of a real and deep-seated crisis within liberal democratic systems.
Para-Sites
Para-Sites, the penultimate volume in the Late Editions series, explores how social actors located within centers of power and privilege develop and express a critical consciousness of their own situations. Departing from the usual focus of ethnography and cultural analysis on the socially marginalized, these pieces probe subjects who are undeniably complicit with powerful institutional engines of contemporary change. In each case, the possibility of alternative thinking or practices is in complex relation to the subject's source of empowerment. These cases challenge the condition of cynicism that has been the favored mode of characterizing the mind-set of intellectuals and professionals, comfortable in their lives of middle-class consumption and work. In their effort to establish para-sites of critical awareness parallel to the levels of political and economic power at which they function, these subjects suggest that those who lead ordinary lives of modest power and privilege might not be parasites in relation to the systems they serve, but may be creating unique and independent critical perspectives.
Moral Panics
With the increasing number of moral panics in recent years triggered by incidents such as the Bulger case and the spread of AIDS, this book examines their wider significance particularly in terms of the functioning of the mass media.
Television, Tabloids, and Tears
I am Biberkopf, Rainer Werner Fassbinder declared, aligning himself with the protagonist of his widely seen television adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz. The statement provoked an unprecedented national debate about what constituted an acceptable German artist and who has the power to determine art. More than any recent German director, Fassbinder embodied this debate, and Jane Shattuc shows us how much this can tell us, not just about the man and his work, but also about the state of "culture" in Germany. It is fascinating in itself that Fassbinder, a highly controversial public f.
A Fatal Attraction
Cinzia Padovani takes an in-depth look at Italian public service broadcasting, covering its history, its role in Italian society, its relationship to the political party system, and its influence on cultural and linguistic unification in Italy.
When London Calls
For thousands of young Australians the tearful dockside farewell was a rite of passage as they boarded ships bound for London. For some the journey was an extended holiday, but for many actors, painters, musicians, writers and journalists, leaving Australia seemed to be the only path to personal and professional fulfilment. This book, first published in 2000, is a collective biography of those people who found themselves categorised as expatriates - people such as Leo McKern, Dame Joan Sutherland, Barry Tuckwell, Don Banks, Phillip Knightley, John Pilger, Peter Porter, Richard Neville, Jill Neville and 'megastars' Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer and Clive James. The book tells of choices they made about career and country, yet it is also a cultural history that traces shifts in the complex relationship between Australia and Britain, as the supposed colonial backwater began to develop its own cultural identity.
Consumption, Identity and Style
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Like Sparrows
Abbie Peterson, ready to spread her wings at twenty-two years old, leaves her home in southern Georgia and moves to a small town in North Carolina. It isn't long before she meets and falls in love with Michael Hammond, a handsome local bachelor. But when a terrifying tragedy strikes, Abbie must make a life-changing decision that separates her from Michael-possibly forever. In the midst of chaos and grief, Abbie meets Jackson Wells, a handsome law enforcement officer with a tragic past of his own. Jackson immediately falls in love with her and does everything in his power to protect her, including risking his own life for hers-but Abbie, lost and wounded by her own troubles, doesn't notice his advances until it's almost too late. Will Jackson's love be enough for Abbie to pick herself up and carry on, or will fate lead her back to Michael? In this romance, when a young woman's new life and love are torn apart, she struggles to determine what path leads to her true destiny.
Parliamentary Papers
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