Primetime Politics: The Truth about Conservative Lies, Corporate Control, and Television Culture
In this insightful new book, media critic Philip Green explores the true nature of television and the effect this TV addiction has on American democracy. He argues that mainstream shows are little more than extended commercials, dominated by advertising interests and designed to be as habit-forming as possible. Programming is controlled by conglomerates afraid of losing market share or upsetting advertisers, leading to television news, dramas, and sitcoms that uphold conservative values at the expense of controversial opinions. The result is a system that stifles debate, isolates viewers, and favors right-wing agendas. To make the system serve a true democracy, Green proposes ending the private monopoly of public airspace and making the television market a true free market.
Survivor - Season One: The Greatest And Most Outrageous Moments
It's the phenomenon that changed television forever and added the phrases Tribal Council and Immunity Challenge to our national vocabulary. Now travel back to unspoiled Pilau Tiga and relive the unforgettable first season of Survivor. This collector's video, featuring never-seen-before footage that couldn't be shown on television, begins with the arrival of 16 strangers to the South China Seas and follows the castaways' 39 day quest for a $1,000,000 payday. All the exciting adventure. All the cutthroat competition. All the ruthless intrigue. All on one sensational cassette.
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All the Math You'll Ever Need: A Self-Teaching Guide by Steve Slavin, ISBN 0471317519
Completely updated and redesigned to be upbeat, encouraging, and non-intimidating--topics cover the basics needed in everyday life, such as multiplication and division, discounts, and interest rates.
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Tuning in to Young Viewers: Social Science Perspectives on Television by Tannis M. Macbeth, ISBN 0803958269
Media effects - a key area of media studies - is traditionally provocative and often controversial. Contemporary issues such as violence on television and children's dependence on television are continually debated.
Tuning In to Young Viewers provides a much needed, up-to-date overview of the key topics in television use and effects. It is designed in both style and organization as an upper-level text for courses in communication and psychology and is written by scholars well-known to both fields, in particular for their work concerning media influences.
Tuning in to Young Viewers: Social Science Perspectives on Television by Tannis M. Macbeth, ISBN 0803958269
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All the Math You'll Ever Need: A Self-Teaching Guide by Steve Slavin, ISBN 0471317519
Completely updated and redesigned to be upbeat, encouraging, and non-intimidating--topics cover the basics needed in everyday life, such as multiplication and division, discounts, and interest rates.
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Cisa Exam Cram: Certified Information Systems Auditor
Want an affordable yet innovative approach to studying for the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) 2005 exam? CISA 2005 Exam Cram 2 is your solution. You will have the essential material for passing the CISA 2005 exam right at your fingertips. All exam objectives are covered and you'll find practice exams, exam alerts, notes, tips and cautions to help guide you through your exam preparation. A CD also provides you with a video introduction to the exam and complete explanations of answers to the practice questions from Certified Tech Trainers (CTT). As a special bonus, you will receive $75 in discounts on CTT products and services. For your smartest, most efficient way to get certified, choose CISA 2005 Exam Cram 2.
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History and the Media
History is everywhere in the media. Television viewers can spend every evening watching a different historian expound upon Empire, Witchcraft, the Civil War or Royal Mistresses or go to the cinema and watch reconstructions of the Second World War, American Civil War or Imperial China. Even current affairs reporting on television, radio or in newspapers implicitly or explicitly includes historical explanations. This book examines the boom in history in television and film, newspapers and radio and the constraints and opportunities it offers. Leading historians and high profile broadcasters, such as Melvyn Bragg, Simon Schama, Tristram Hunt, Ian Kershaw and David Puttnam, drawn on their personal experiences to explore the problems and highlights of representing history in the media.
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Entertaining Politics: New Political Television and Civic Culture
Contrary to arguments that television is detrimental to democracy, Entertaining Politics explores the role of new political television in shaping a changing civic culture. Jeffrey P. Jones shows how viewers understand and make use of the increasingly blurred lines between 'serious' and 'entertainment' programming and argues that alarmist critics who predict the end of politics in the age of television have misconstrued the role of the medium and the commitment of audiences to both TV and public life.
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Judy Garland: The Day-By-Day Chronicle of a Legend
The world has yet to see another star like Judy Garland--a movie, television and singing icon. This biography recounts every significant day of her astounding career in show business, from her first appearance on stage when she was two years old, to her misunderstood final years. A trove of rare Judy material, the book includes concert set lists, testimonials from friends and critics, transcripts of radio and television performances, selections from interviews and press conferences, rare photographs, and much more.
Judy Garland: The Day-By-Day Chronicle of a Legend
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