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REGULATING THE PRESS
Tom O'Malley and Clive Soley
A free press is the cornerstone of democracy. But how free is the press
in a
world of converging technologies and crossmedia ownership, where in fact
the
press is closely controlled and regulated by media moguls in the
interests
of very specific corporate agendas? And how can the claims of a free
press
be reconciled with the ever more frequent media abuses of invasion of
privacy, jingoism, misrepresentation and propaganda?
Tom O'Malley and Clive Soley disentangle the facts of the matter from
the
half-truths and evasions of the bitter debate over press regulation,
setting
the issues in their historical context and exposing the numerous claims
and
counterclaims to close critical scrutiny. Focusing on issues of
principle
such as accuracy, misrepresentation and privacy, they re-examine the
ways in
which debates over press freedom versus regulation illuminate the
fundamental conflicts between a fully accountable press and the economic
imperatives of a so-called free market economy.
Altogether, Regulating the Press develops an argument for a radical
reappraisal of the framework governing the relationship between the
press
and the public.
Tom O'Malley is Principal Lecturer in Media at the University of
Glamorgan.
He has written extensively on press history and broadcasting policy and
is
the author of Closedown?: The BBC and Government Broadcasting Policy
(Pluto
Press, 1994).
Clive Soley has been MP for Hammersmith 1979-97 and Ealing, Acton
Shepherdıs
Bush since 1997.
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******** A NEW INTRO GUIDE TO FILM STUDIES*********
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FROM ANTZ TO TITANIC
Reinventing Film Analysis
Martin Barker
With Thomas AustinEverybody analyses films. Ordinary viewers, chatting
on
the way home afterwards. Reviewers, telling us just enough to tempt or
put
off. Critics, OEsituatingı films for us. Moralists, hunting for the
(harmful)
message. So what exactly is it that film academics do thatıs different?
Martin Barker and Thomas Austin provide a jargon-free, accessible and
student-friendly introduction to film analysis. They begin with a
discussion
about audience and a detailed case-study on four conflicting analyses of
Capraıs Itıs A Wonderful Life. The authors examine a range of popular
Hollywood films in a variety of genres, including Titanic, Deep Impact,
Sleepless in Seattle, The Lion King, Starship Troopers and The Usual
Suspects, and provide vivid demonstrations of what can and canıt be
achieved
with close textual analysis. The book ends by proposing a list of
measures
for assessing the adequacy of film analyses: measures intended to lay
the
basis of a way of doing film analysis which goes beyond
theoretically-predetermined and often obscurantist assertions.
Explicitly rejecting much of the theoretical baggage that dogs
contemporary
film analysis, Barker and Austin strip the subject down to its bare
essentials. The result is a provocative and timely reexamination of many
of
the basic tenets in film theory and analysis.
Martin Barker is Reader in Media Studies at Sussex University. He is the
author of numerous books and articles on media studies and popular
culture.
Thomas Austin lectures in film studies at Sussex University. He is the
author of Hollywood: Hype and Audiences, forthcoming from Manchester
University Press.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Films, Audiences and Analyses
2. Formalism and the Implied Audience
3. Usual Suspects, Unusual Devices
4. An Ant With Ideas
5. Titanic: A Knight To Remember
6. In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle
7. Like Food Processors, But Nasty
8. Dear Meg, Dearest Tom
9. A Very Deep Impact (with Thomas Austin)
10. Showing That It Is What It Is
Bibliography
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********ANNOUNCING A NEW BOOK ON FACTUAL TELEVISION*********
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FREAKSHOW
First Person Media and Factual Television
John Dovey
True confessions, fake films and docu-soaps - in the last ten years
factual
television has been transformed by an explosion of new genres. Freakshow
offers a serious look at OEreality TVı in an attempt to understand the
mass
mediaıs fascination with intimacy, deviancy, and horror.
Jon Dovey analyses reality TV in terms of the political economy of the
mass
media. He investigates the relationship between confessional television
and
our modern understanding of culture and identity. Is our fascination
with
the personal the only meaningful response to the complexity of our own
lives? Are the politics of the self the only alternative to the defunct
grand narratives of yesterday?
In concentrating not on the reception of these new television forms but
on
the choices, models and agendas which inform their production, Dovey
reveals
the relationships between social anxieties, economic pressures and their
specific inflections in media texts. In a critical analysis of media
industry practice, Dovey asks why directors can't stay out of range of
their
own cameras - and what is the role of the television of intimacy within
broadcasting.Martin Barker is
Jon Dovey is a writer, producer and senior lecturer in Cultural and
Media
Studies at the University of the West of England. He is the editor of
Fractal Dreams: New Media in Social Contact,
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Show me the Money
2. Klutz Films
3. Camcorder Cults
4. Firestarters - Re-viewing Reality TV
5. The Confessing Nation
6. McDox OER Us - Docu-soap and the Triumph of Trivia
7. Squaring Circles
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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