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Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition examines contemporary Russian television genres in the age of transition from broadcast to post-broadcast television. Focusing on critical debates and the m …

Americans are obsessed with celebrities. While our fascination with fame intensified throughout the twentieth century, the rise of the weekly gossip magazine in the early 2000s confirmed and fueled o …

When Art Spiegelman’s Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. …

Slated as ‚the next big thing in tech‘, augmented reality promises to take the screen out of our hands and wrap it around the world via ’smart spectacles‘. As a pervasive, invisible interface between …

As the end of December draws near, Facebook routinely sends users a short video entitled ‚Your Year on Facebook‘. It lasts about a minute and brings together the images and posts that received the hi …

Mothers on American television takes an in-depth look at how motherhood is represented on some of the most popular television series produced this century. Adopting a feminist, Marxist, cultural stud …

In the twenty-first century, promotion is everywhere and everything has become promotable: everyday goods and organizations, people and ideas, cultures and futures. This engaging book looks at the ri …

Search engines have become a key part of our everyday lives. Yet there is growing concern with how algorithms, which run just beneath the surface of our interactions online, are affecting society. Th …

‚If it bleeds, it leads.‘ The phrase captures television news directors‘ famed preference for opening newscasts with the most violent stories they can find. And what is true for news is often true fo …

Film noir reflects the fatalistic themes and visual style of hard-boiled novelists and many émigré filmmakers in 1940s and 1950s America, emphasizing crime, alienation, and moral ambiguity. In The Ph …