Comparative Media History is a unique thematic textbook which introduces students to the key ideas underpinning media development. It is an essential first step to a better understanding of both the media industry today and the way in which it evolved over time.    The textbook compares developments and influences from a broad perspective, highlighting and contrasting different countries, industries and periods of history in order to encourage an understanding of cause and effect. In a style which is clear, accessible and provocative, Jane Chapman argues that most of the roots of today's media - even the globalizing impulse - lie in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The book emphasises continuity and certain decisive factors such as the social use of technology, the character of the institutions in which it is applied and the political approach of the specific countries involved.    The comparative element to this book, both across countries and industries, will enable students to reflect on key issues in media studies, including those of diversity, form, method and choice, both past and present. It will become an essential text for any student of the media and its history.  For more information about the book and the author, please see www.janechapman.co.uk

Comparative Media History: An Introduction: 1789 to the Present

History

Chapman, Jane L.

World

Polity

Comparative Media History is a unique thematic textbook which introduces students to the key ideas underpinning media development. It is an essential first step to a better understanding of both the media industry today and the way in which it evolved over time. The textbook compares developments and influences from a broad perspective, highlighting and contrasting different countries, industries and periods of history in order to encourage an understanding of cause and effect. In a style which is clear, accessible and provocative, Jane Chapman argues that most of the roots of today's media - even the globalizing impulse - lie in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The book emphasises continuity and certain decisive factors such as the social use of technology, the character of the institutions in which it is applied and the political approach of the specific countries involved. The comparative element to this book, both across countries and industries, will enable students to reflect on key issues in media studies, including those of diversity, form, method and choice, both past and present. It will become an essential text for any student of the media and its history. For more information about the book and the author, please see www.janechapman.co.uk

Documentary in Practice provides a unique approach to practical documentary-making. Through fascinating analysis of real-life production situations, Jane Chapman shows the challenges and issues faced during the filmmaking process by a range of both well-known and up-and-coming documentary-makers. She also brings her own personal experience as a seasoned documentary producer and teacher to advise on how students can gain invaluable insight from these projects. 
Throughout this compelling text, a variety of producers past and present provide their inside project stories and production records, including scripts, fundraising proposals, budgets, diagrams, post-production records and reviews. Across continents, every project and its makers are different whether they are famous names from the canon', television freelances, art-house directors, documentary-maker activists or first-time filmmakers but they all face a range of challenges: <ul> <li>how to connect visual approach to content idea 
</li> <li>morality of camera presence 
</li> <li>complaints and ethical challenges 
</li> <li>legal issues and censorship 
</li> <li>budgetary factors influencing choices 
</li> <li>conflict with commissioning editors</li> </ul>
 All students of media studies as well as aspiring documentary-makers will find this book a refreshing introduction to the choices available for filmmaking and the issues that may emerge during the process.

Documentary in Practice: Filmmakers and Production Choices

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Documentary in Practice provides a unique approach to practical documentary making. Through fascinating analysis of real life production situations, Jane Chapman shows the challenges and issues faced during the filmmaking process and advises on how students can gain invaluable insight from these projects.

Issues in Contemporary Documentary

Documentary is fast changing: with the digital revolution and theenormous increase in Internet usage, the range of information andoutlets for distribution continues to become more diverse. In thiscontext, are the traditional themes and frequently irreconcilablecritical positions of study still valid – or are theychanging, and if so, how? In short, what are the issues fordocumentary studies now? The starting point of Issues in Contemporary Documentary isthat although documentary history cannot be ignored, the genreneeds to be understood as complex, multi-faceted, and influenced bya range of different contexts. Jane Chapman brings to life thechallenges of contemporary documentary in an accessible way bybalancing theoretical discussion with use of cutting edge materialfrom Europe and North America and the developing world. Whilst the need for critical appraisal of documentary is greaterthan ever before, Chapman believes that future discourses arelikely to be shared between academics and specialist onlinecommunities as viewers become makers, and both categories may alsobecome activists. Maintaining all parties can benefit from anawareness of continuity and change, she predicts that activistdocumentary will increasingly become a category to follow in thefuture.Each chapter contains recent international case studies, and thecontent evolves thematically with definitions, representation,objectivity, subjectivity, censorship, authorial voice,reflexivity, and ethics as headings. This free standing, innovativestudy can also be used in conjunction with Documentary inPractice (Polity 2007) by the same author. The two booksprovide an essential 2 volume introduction for all students andscholars of film and media, plus those practitioners seekinginsight into their craft.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Issues in Contemporary Documentary is a fascinating new overview of a rich film-making tradition and the particular challenges that it faces in the current age.

This transnational, interdisciplinary study argues for the use of comics as a primary source. In recuperating currently unknown or neglected strips the authors demonstrate that these examples, produced during the World Wars, act as an important cultural record, providing, amongst other information, a barometer for contemporary popular thinking.

Comics and the World Wars: A Cultural Record (Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media)

Kerr, Andrew

Sherif, Adam

Hoyles, Anna

Historical Study & Educational Resources

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Comics, the Holocaust and Hiroshima breaks new ground for history by exploring the relationship between comics as a cultural record, historiography, memory and trauma studies. Comics have a dual role as sources: for gauging awareness of the Holocaust and through close analysis, as testimonies and narratives of childhood emotions and experiences.

Comics, the Holocaust and Hiroshima (The Holocaust and its Contexts)

Science & Math

Palgrave Pivot

Journalism Today: A Themed History

Journalism Today: A Themed History provides a cultural approach to journalism's history through the exploration of overarching concepts, as opposed to a typical chronological overview. Rich with illuminating stories and biographies of key figures, it sheds new light on the relationship between the press and society and how each has shaped the other. <ul>
<li>Thematic study of the history of journalism, examining the role of journalism in democracy, the influence of new technology, the challenge of balancing ethical values, and the role of the audience</li> <li>Charts the influence of the historical press for today’s news in print, broadcast, and new media</li> <li>Situates journalism in a rich cultural context with lively examples and case studies that bring the subject alive for contemporary readers</li> <li>Provides a comparative analysis of American, British, and international journalism</li> <li>Helpful feature boxes on important figures and case studies enhance student understanding of the development of journalism and news as we know it today, providing a convenient springboard for follow-up work.</li> </ul>

Nuttall, Nick

Wiley/Blackwell

Journalism Today: A Themed History provides a cultural approach to journalism's history through the exploration of overarching concepts, as opposed to a typical chronological overview. Rich with illuminating stories and biographies of key figures, it sheds new light on the relationship between the press and society and how each has shaped the other.  Thematic study of the history of journalism, examining the role of journalism in democracy, the influence of new technology, the challenge of balancing ethical values, and the role of the audience Charts the influence of the historical press for today’s news in print, broadcast, and new media Situates journalism in a rich cultural context with lively examples and case studies that bring the subject alive for contemporary readers Provides a comparative analysis of American, British, and international journalism Helpful feature boxes on important figures and case studies enhance student understanding of the development of journalism and news as we know it today, providing a convenient springboard for follow-up work.

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Comparative Media History: An Introduction: 1789 to the Present

Comparative Media History: An Introduction: 1789 to the Present

Documentary in Practice: Filmmakers and Production Choices

Documentary in Practice: Filmmakers and Production Choices

Issues in Contemporary Documentary

Issues in Contemporary Documentary

Comics and the World Wars: A Cultural Record (Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media)

Comics, the Holocaust and Hiroshima (The Holocaust and its Contexts)

Journalism Today: A Themed History

Journalism Today: A Themed History