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Rethinking the Spectacle
Guy Debord, Radical Democracy, and the Digital Age
Spectacle is usually considered a superficial form of politics, which tries to distract and deceive a passive audience. It is difficult to see how this type of politics could be reconciled with the...
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Mediating Islam
Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia
Broadening an overly narrow definition of Islamic journalism, Janet Steele examines day-to-day reporting practices of Muslim professionals, from conservative scripturalists to pluralist cosmopolitans,...
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Political Elites in Canada
Power and Influence in Instantaneous Times
Political Elites in Canada offers a timely look at Canadian political powerbrokers and how they are adapting to a fast‑paced digital media environment. Elite power structures are changing...
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Network Sovereignty
Building the Internet across Indian Country
In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments. Given the significance of information...
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Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora
Korean Media in Vancouver and Los Angeles
Media for diasporic communities have emerged in major cities and reflect a multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual reality. But do these media serve their respective communities exclusively,...
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Reporting for China
How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World
While Western media are shrinking their foreign correspondent networks, Chinese media, for the first time in history, are rapidly expanding worldwide. The Chinese government is financing most of...
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Roy Andersson’s “Songs from the Second Floor”
Contemplating the Art of Existence
Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson’s celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival...
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Breaking News?
Politics, Journalism, and Infotainment on Quebec Television
In the thousand-channel universe, politicians must find innovative ways to reach citizens on television. Viewership for news and current affairs television programs has dropped dramatically. Meanwhile,...
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Going Public
The Art of Participatory Practice
Going Public responds to the urgent need to expand current thinking on what it means to co-create and to actively involve the public in research activities. Drawing on conversations with over...
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We Interrupt This Program
Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture
We Interrupt This Program tells the story of how Indigenous people are using media tactics or interventions in art, film, television, and journalism to disrupt Canada’s national narratives...
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Icons of Danish Modernity
Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen
Julie Allen utilizes the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) to explore questions of culture and national...
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The Audio Dictionary
The Audio Dictionary is a comprehensive resource, including historical, obsolete, and obscure as well as contemporary terms relating to diverse aspects of audio such as film and TV sound,...
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The Power of Song
Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution
The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic “Singing Revolution.” When attacked by...
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Verse Going Viral
China's New Media Scenes
Verse Going Viral examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first...
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Family Revolution
Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture
As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution—an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships....
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Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire
Colonial Relations, Humanitarian Discourses, and the Imperial Press
During the 1850s and 1860s, there was considerable anxiety among British settlers over the potential for Indigenous rebellion and violence. Yet, publicly admitting to this fear would have gone counter...
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The Celebration)'/>Thomas Vinterberg's Festen (The Celebration)
Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's searing film Festen (“The Celebration”) was the first film from the Dogme 95 stable. Adhering to Dogme's cinematic purity — no artificial lighting,...
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Lukas Moodysson’s Show Me Love
Lukas Moodysson is one of the most accomplished and unconventional filmmakers of his generation in Sweden. Moodysson, now well known for his English-language film Mammoth (2009) as well as...
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Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia
Fiction, Film and Social Change
Scandinavian popular novels and films have flourished in the last thirty years. In Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia, Andrew Nestingen argues that the growth and visibility of popular culture...
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Return to the Land of the Head Hunters
Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema
The first silent feature film with an "all Indian" cast and a surviving original orchestral score, Edward Curtis's 1914 In the Land of the Head Hunters was a landmark of early cinema. Influential...
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