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Call No: 409.1(73) BIG
Author: Huston, Aletha C
Edition: Pbk. ed
Place: Lincoln
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: viii, 195 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Series: Child, youth, and family services
Subject: SOCIETY AND TV. USA; SOCIAL GROUPS AND TV. USA; SOCIAL GROUPS ON TV. USA; VIEWERS. USA; ADVERTISING. USA; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF TV. USA; CHILDREN, EFFECTS OF TV ON. USA
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-180) and indexes
ISBN: 0803272634 (pbk.)
LON: 10620946

Call No: 630 THO
Author: Thomas, Allan James
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: 2018
PhysDes: vi, 271 pages ; 24 cm.
Series: Plateaus
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; THEORY; VIEWERS; DELEUZE, GILLES
Summary: Examination of how philosopher Gilles Deleuze addressed philosophical issues by using cinema. Looks at the types of philosophical issues that Deleuze turned to cinema to answer, and why he chose cinema to tackle these issues rather than just use philosophy alone
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-262) and index.
ISBN: 9781474432795
Contents: 1 Introduction: The Problem of Cinema -- 2 The Interval as Disaster -- 3 Movement, Duration and Difference -- 4 What Use is Cinema to Deleuze? -- 5 Genesis and Deduction -- 6 The Thought of the World -- 7 The Night, the Rain -- 8 Conclusion: The Crystal-Image of Philosophy -- References; Index.

Call No: 761 SMA
Author: Smaill, Belinda
Source: UK
Place: Basingstoke, England
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: vii, 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: ASIAN COUNTRIES; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; CHILDREN IN FILMS; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARIES. AUSTRALIA; EMOTION IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; IDENTITY IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; IMMIGRATION IN FILMS AND TELEVISION; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; REALITY TV; SEX IN FILMS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; THEORY; VIEWERS; WOMEN FILMMAKERS; LOVELACE, LINDA; BORN INTO BROTHELS: CALCUTTA'S RED LIGHT KIDS (II/US, Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman, 2004); CORPORATION, THE (CN, Jennifer Abbott & Mark Achbar, 2003); DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET, THE (UK, Kim Longinotto, 2002); DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE (UK, Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini, 1998); ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM (US, Alex Gibney, 2005); FINISHED PEOPLE, THE (AT, Khoa Do, 2003); FIX: THE STORY OF AN ADDICTED CITY (CN, Nettie Wild, 2002); INSIDE DEEP THROAT (US, Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato, 2005); LETTERS TO ALI (AT, Clara Law, 2004); SADNESS: A MONOLOGUE BY WILLIAM YANG (AT, Tony Ayres, 1999); SEX: THE ANNABEL CHONG STORY (CN, Gough Lewis, 1999)
Summary: "The Documentary: Politics, Emotion, Culture proposes that emotions such as pleasure, hope, pain, empathy or nostalgia play a powerful role in the circulation and reception of documentaries. Emotion shapes how political issues and individuals are represented and perceived in documentary and it is crucial to how we engage with the vicissitudes of the public sphere. In the past documentary has been popularly perceived in ways that align it with education, science, history and the rational realm. This frame has never been adequate for understanding the broad array of styles and themes that can be seen in the documentary genre. Focusing on the question of subjectivity, Smail analyses various different kinds of individuals that can be found in documentaries, such as the female porn star, the politically disenfranchised, children, and the documentary auteur. She envisages an interdisciplinary approach to documentary drawing on scholarship from not only film studies, but also gender studies, queer theory, cultural theories of affect, critical race studies, political theory and pyschoanalysis. " -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-209) and index
ISBN: 9780230237513 (hbk.)
Contents: -- list of illustrations -- acknowledgments -- part one: documentary and pleasure -- 1: introduction: representation and documentary emotion -- 2: pleasure and disgust: desire and the female porn star -- part two: pain and the other -- 3: Injury, identity and recognition: Rize and Fix: the story of an addicted city -- 4: women, pain and the documentaries of Kim Longinotto -- part three: the labour of authorship: caring and mourning -- 5: loss and care: Asian Australian documentary -- 6: civic love and contemporary dissent documentary -- part four: past, present and future: hope and nostalgia -- 7: children, futurity and hope: Born into Brothels -- 8:nostalgia, historical time and reality television: the idol series -- epilogue -- notes -- bibliography -- index --

Call No: 410.8 MOR
Author: Morley, David
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Comedia Publishing Group
PubDate: 1986
PhysDes: 178 p. ; 22 cm
Series: Comedia series ; no. 37
Subject: VIEWERS; VIEWERS. UK; FAMILY AND TV
Summary: "In this detailed study of television viewing among families from different cultural backgrounds, David Morley develops many of the themes of his earlier work on 'The Nationwide Audience' . This book extends that work into new territory, examining the different ways in which television is actually watched within the context of family life. Here television viewing is situated firmly within the politics of the living room and the structure of power relations within the family. This book looks at: who watches which types of television programmes with what kinds of attention - and why, who gets to choose which programmes the family will watch - and whose hand is on the automatic channel control device , who watches in silence - and who talks about what they watch to whom, how television fits in with domestic work, childcare and leisure interestes. Drawing on new work in the fields of Family Therapy and Social work, as well as the established traditions of media and communications studies, this book offers a new model for understanding television as a domestic medium. The analysis offered here, as to how television viewing is inextricably bound up with the complexities of family life, has radical implications for broadcasters, advertisers, students and teachers of the media understand their work - and for everyone concerned with the lpace of television in the home. " -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Bibliography: p. [176]-178.; Introduction by Stuart Hall
ISBN: 090689073X
Contents: -- introduction -- foreword -- 1: understanding the use of television -- 2: television in the family -- 3: research development from 'decoding' to viewing context -- 4: objectives, methodology and sample design -- 5: family interviews: (i) unemployed families (ii) c2 families (iii) c1 families (iv) b families -- 6: television and gender -- afterword -- notes --

Call No: 233.933 BEN
Author: Benson-Allott, Caetlin Anne
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: New York Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., in association with Loyola University New Orleans, The Atlantic, Georgia Tech Center for Media Studies
PubDate: 2015
PhysDes: xx, 157 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Series: Object lessons
Subject: REMOTE CONTROL; VIEWERS; TECHNOLOGY AND TV; TELEVISION
Summary: "While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. By emphasizing volume control, channel shifting, and multi-function management, they tell a story about our experience of mass media, culture, and domestic life. Remote controls reveal the deep impact electronics design has on our self-perception and world-view. This book offers lively analyses of the remote control's material, literary, and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory can change the way we occupy our houses, interact with our families, and experience the world. From the first wired radio remotes of the 1920s to infrared universal remotes, from the homemade TV controllers to the Apple Remote, remote controls shape our media devices and how we live with them"--
Notes: Formerly CIP. Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781623569976
Donation: Senses of Cinema

Call No: 761NIC
Author: Nichols, Bill
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 1991
PhysDes: xx, 313 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; BODY IN FILMS; COMMENTARY; DEATH IN FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; GAZE IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; IDEOLOGY IN FILMS; INTERVIEWS IN FILMS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; TRUTH IN FILMS; VIEWERS
Summary: "Representing Reality examines the styles, strategies, and structures of documentary film. It does not offer a general survey of documentary film history so much as a conceptual overview of the form itself: what qualities of cinema underpin it, what institutional structures sustain it, what rhetorical operations inform it, what interpretive perspectives encompass it. How these questions arrange themselves into recurrent patterns and preoccupations [is] the central focus." -- Taken from preface.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-296) and index; Filmology: p. [297]-304
ISBN: 0253340608 (alk. paper); 0253206812 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 91002637; 8905992
Contents: Axes of orientation: I. The domain of documentary -- II. Documentary modes of representation -- III. Axiographics: ethical space in documentary film -- Documentary: a fiction (un)like any other: IV. Telling stories with evidence and arguments -- V. Sticking to reality: rhetoric and what exceeds it -- VI. The fact of realism and the fiction of objectivity -- Documentary representation and the historical world: VII> Pornography, ethnography, and the discourses of power / Christian Hansen, Catherine Needham, Bill Nichols -- VIII. Representing the body: questions of meaning and magnitude

Call No: 410 MOR
Author: Morley, David
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: viii, 325 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: BROADCASTING; VIEWERS
Summary: " In Television, Audiences, and Cultural Studies David Morley draws upon a rich body of empirical work to examine the emergence, development and future of television audience research. Reconceptualizing the study of idealogy within the broader context of domestic communications, this book illuminates the role of the media in articulating public and private spheres of experience and in the social organization of space, time, and community. It will prove essential reading both for students new to the field, and for those already familiar with the debates. " -- ABSTRACT
Notes: Cover title: Television, audiences & cultural studies; Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-311) and index
ISBN: 0415054443
Contents: -- acknowlegements -- part 1: theoretical frameworks -- part 2: class, ideology and interpretation -- part 3: gender, domestic leisure, and viewing practices -- part 4: methodological issues -- part 5: television, technology and consumption -- part 6: between the private and the public --

Call No: 410.82 NUG
Author: Nugent, Michael
CorpAuthor: Macquarie University
Source: AT
Place: Sydney, N.S.W.
Publisher: Macquarie University
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: 59 pages ; 30 cm
Subject: VIDEO RECORDERS; VIDEO, FILMS ON. AUSTRALIA; VIEWERS. AUSTRALIA; HOME EXHIBITION. AUSTRALIA; HOME EQUIPMENT; HOME VIDEO. AUSTRALIA
Summary: "This thesis is to serve as a history of the Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) in Australia. It has been done because while there are numerous histories relating to other aspects of Australian media, the history of the VCR itself remains little more than an aspect of narratives focused on other phenomena. This was done through extensive examination of discursive sources, such as popular magazines, newspapers and trade journals. By reading these publications over the course of several years, I have been able to identify several trends unfolding over time, noting how popular conceptions of the technology have changed. By comparing these with work done on the history of home video in other countries, it allows for a greater understanding of what is unique to Australia’s history with the VCR. Perhaps the most significant finding is that the idea of what a VCR can offer is perpetually changing. What began as a simple means to record and playback programmes from television broadcasts quickly became a key part of commercial film distribution fundamentally altered the way in which people experience their television sets. As such, a struggle for position by producers, distributors and consumers erupted, as it irrevocably changed media in Australia." FROM ABSTRACT
Notes: Thesis paper -- ringbound -- includes acknowledgements and bibliography
Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The VCR in the public sphere -- Chapter 3. The VCR in the domestic sphere -- Chapter 4. The legacy of the VCR

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Subject: VIEWERS. AUSTRALIA

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Subject: VIEWERS. UK

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Subject: VIEWERS. USA