The urban structure of vision embodied in cinema, the tension between citizenship and the presentation of self, the problematic concept of community, the function of urban space in memory, narrative and architecture, and the metaphors which shape the modern city are all discussed in this text.

A timely reference guide to the global communications revolution explores key issues of the information age and offers forecasts about future trends as it covers such topics as censorship, Web sites, cellular phones, online education, television, computers and computing, advertising, new technologies, and the future of print media. Original. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Close Up was the first English-language journal of film theory. Published between 1927 and 1933, it billed itself as "the only magazine devoted to film as an art," promising readers "theory and analysis: no gossip." The journal was edited by the writer and filmmaker Kenneth Macpherson, the novelist Winifred Bryher, and the poet H...read more

Product Description: A glance at current higher education curricula reveals cinema courses in departments of history, and seminars on comics and romantic fiction in contexts stretching from sociology to modern languages. All this signals a new and welcome legitimacy for popular cultural studies...read more

What sort of institution is education? In this iconoclastic study, James Donald restores the school to its proper place at the heart of post-Enlightenment culture and politics. He traces the emergence of education as an apparatus designed—forlornly—to shape the souls of citizens. He also draws illuminating analogies between education and broadcasting, showing how both conjure up publics and structure the everyday lives of individuals.To balance this focus on the institution of cultural norms, Donald emphasizes the dynamics of fantasy and desire in their negotiation. He therefore juxtaposes the normative practices of education and broadcasting against more transgressive forms of popular culture: pornography, racist thrillers like Fu Manchu, vampire films, and what he calls the vulgar sublime. Finally, drawing on postmodern debates about community and democracy, he sketches a context for reforms in broadcasting and presents a provocative alternative to orthodox progressive ideas about education from the primary school to the university.

Blending cultural studies and political analysis, this interdisciplinary text both illuminates and moves forward debates over ′race′ and its meanings in contemporary society and in educational and social policy. (view table of contents)

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