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Sex Work in Popular Culture
Price:
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487548636
Pub Date: July 2023
This book examines movies, TV shows, and documentaries to reveal how sex work connects to women’s experiences of gender, power, and labour.
The End of the CBC?
Price:
$40.95
ISBN: 9781487593520
Pub Date: February 2020
After almost 90 years, the CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster, has reached a crossroads. This book examines the political, economic, social, media, and cultural forces that have pushed the CBC to the point where it must be reimagined and re-invented.
Mafia Movies
A Reader, Second Edition
Price:
$52.00
ISBN: 9781487520137
Pub Date: July 2019
Mafia Movies: A Reader provides incisive interpretations of over fifty films and television programs about the Italian and Italian-American Mafias.
The Adman’s Dilemma
From Barnum to Trump
Price:
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487522988
Pub Date: August 2018
Engaging with literature on advertising, philosophy, psychology, and cultural theory, as well as a range of fictional and nonfictional "texts", The Adman’s Dilemma traces the trajectory of the adman from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Europe Un-Imagined
Nation and Culture at a French-German Television Channel
Price:
$45.95
ISBN: 9781442628793
Pub Date: August 2017
Damien Stankiewicz’s ground-breaking ethnographic study of the various contexts of media production work at ARTE (the newsroom, the editing studio, the screening room), reveals how ideas about French, German, and European culture coalesce and circulate at the channel.
Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Paradoxes of Cultural Translation
Price:
$38.95
ISBN: 9781487520557
Pub Date: February 2017
Kyle Conway’s textual analysis and in-depth research, including interviews from the show’s creator, executive producers, writers, and CBC executives, reveals the many ways Muslims have and have not been integrated into North American television.
Broadcasting Policy in Canada, Second Edition
Price:
$49.95
ISBN: 9781442628236
Pub Date: December 2015
The second edition of Broadcasting Policy in Canada offers a comprehensive overview of the policies that provide the foundation for the Canadian broadcasting system, including discussion of topics such as Canadian content, media regulation, and program financing.
Post-TV
Piracy, Cord-Cutting, and the Future of Television
Price:
$45.95
ISBN: 9781442614529
Pub Date: March 2015
In Post-TV, Michael Strangelove explores the viewing habits and values of the post-television generation, one that finds new ways to exploit technology to find its entertainment for free, rather than for a fee.
The Sopranos
Born Under a Bad Sign
Price:
$42.95
ISBN: 9781442615717
Pub Date: June 2014
In The Sopranos: Born under a Bad Sign, Franco Ricci presents an insightful analysis of the groundbreaking HBO series and its complex psychological themes
Digital Currents
How Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News
Price:
$91.00
ISBN: 9781442647770
Pub Date: February 2014
Rena Bivens takes the reader inside TV newsrooms to explore how news organisations are responding to the paradigmatic shifts in media and communication practices.
On Location
Canada's Television Industry in a Global Market
Price:
$49.95
ISBN: 9780802085481
Pub Date: June 2005
On Location fills a major gap in contemporary media and cultural studies debates that question the connections between the politics of place, culture, and commerce within the larger context of cultural globalization.
Culture, Communication and National Identity
The Case of Canadian Television
Price:
$57.00
ISBN: 9780802067722
Pub Date: October 1990
A European multilingual society, without a shared culture or common European audio-visual sphere and with viewers watching foreign television, can survive successfully as a political entity – just as Canada has.
The Public Eye
Television and the Politics of Canadian Broadcasting, 1952-1968
Price:
$56.00
ISBN: 9781442613164
Pub Date: March 1979
Frank Peers has unearthed a remarkable quantity of new material – from government documents, CBC records, interviews with key figures, and the records and manuscripts of a number of principals – and woven it into a fascinating and authoritative account of the state's involvement in broadcasting during these troubled years.

Sex Work in Popular Culture
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487548636
Pub Date: July 2023
This book examines movies, TV shows, and documentaries to reveal how sex work connects to women’s experiences of gender, power, and labour.
The End of the CBC?
$40.95
ISBN: 9781487593520
Pub Date: February 2020
After almost 90 years, the CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster, has reached a crossroads. This book examines the political, economic, social, media, and cultural forces that have pushed the CBC to the point where it must be reimagined and re-invented.
Mafia Movies
A Reader, Second Edition
$52.00
ISBN: 9781487520137
Pub Date: July 2019
Mafia Movies: A Reader provides incisive interpretations of over fifty films and television programs about the Italian and Italian-American Mafias.
The Adman’s Dilemma
From Barnum to Trump
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487522988
Pub Date: August 2018
Engaging with literature on advertising, philosophy, psychology, and cultural theory, as well as a range of fictional and nonfictional "texts", The Adman’s Dilemma traces the trajectory of the adman from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Europe Un-Imagined
Nation and Culture at a French-German Television Channel
$45.95
ISBN: 9781442628793
Pub Date: August 2017
Damien Stankiewicz’s ground-breaking ethnographic study of the various contexts of media production work at ARTE (the newsroom, the editing studio, the screening room), reveals how ideas about French, German, and European culture coalesce and circulate at the channel.
Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Paradoxes of Cultural Translation
$38.95
ISBN: 9781487520557
Pub Date: February 2017
Kyle Conway’s textual analysis and in-depth research, including interviews from the show’s creator, executive producers, writers, and CBC executives, reveals the many ways Muslims have and have not been integrated into North American television.
Broadcasting Policy in Canada, Second Edition
$49.95
ISBN: 9781442628236
Pub Date: December 2015
The second edition of Broadcasting Policy in Canada offers a comprehensive overview of the policies that provide the foundation for the Canadian broadcasting system, including discussion of topics such as Canadian content, media regulation, and program financing.
Post-TV
Piracy, Cord-Cutting, and the Future of Television
$45.95
ISBN: 9781442614529
Pub Date: March 2015
In Post-TV, Michael Strangelove explores the viewing habits and values of the post-television generation, one that finds new ways to exploit technology to find its entertainment for free, rather than for a fee.
The Sopranos
Born Under a Bad Sign
$42.95
ISBN: 9781442615717
Pub Date: June 2014
In The Sopranos: Born under a Bad Sign, Franco Ricci presents an insightful analysis of the groundbreaking HBO series and its complex psychological themes
Digital Currents
How Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News
$91.00
ISBN: 9781442647770
Pub Date: February 2014
Rena Bivens takes the reader inside TV newsrooms to explore how news organisations are responding to the paradigmatic shifts in media and communication practices.
On Location
Canada's Television Industry in a Global Market
$49.95
ISBN: 9780802085481
Pub Date: June 2005
On Location fills a major gap in contemporary media and cultural studies debates that question the connections between the politics of place, culture, and commerce within the larger context of cultural globalization.
Culture, Communication and National Identity
The Case of Canadian Television
$57.00
ISBN: 9780802067722
Pub Date: October 1990
A European multilingual society, without a shared culture or common European audio-visual sphere and with viewers watching foreign television, can survive successfully as a political entity – just as Canada has.
The Public Eye
Television and the Politics of Canadian Broadcasting, 1952-1968
$56.00
ISBN: 9781442613164
Pub Date: March 1979
Frank Peers has unearthed a remarkable quantity of new material – from government documents, CBC records, interviews with key figures, and the records and manuscripts of a number of principals – and woven it into a fascinating and authoritative account of the state's involvement in broadcasting during these troubled years.