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Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
In times of global capitalist crisis we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx) and social rebellions as a reaction to the commodification and instrumentalization of everything. On one hand,...
To Be Published October 21st 2013 by Routledge
The Social Media Handbook explores how social media are changing disciplinary understandings of the internet and our everyday lives. In addition to person-to-person social networking services like Facebook and Twitter, this volume considers a broad range of networked information services that...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and "social media" such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour and Karl Marx, Christian Fuchs attempts to answer that question, crafting a systematic critical theorisation of labour as performed in the...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
Providing textual analysis of 12 feature films written and directed by filmmakers who explore aspects of the Chicano cultural movement, this book discusses films including Cheech and Chong's Still Smokin' (1983), El Norte (1985), and Break of Dawn (1988). The text analyzes the portrayal of Chicano,...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
During the interwar period cinema and literature seemed to be at odds with each other, part of the continuing struggle between mass and elite culture which so worried writers such as Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot and the Leavises. And this cultural divide appeared to be sharp evidence of a deeper...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years. The author traces the changing perceptions of cinema and its social transition from a modernist invention to a...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
Of all the pioneers of the cinema, the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein has exerted the most enduring hold on the popular imagination. Eisenstein worked with many people in different parts of the world. This book offers a unique portrait of the director based on the personal recollections of...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concerned with working-class conditions and struggle, and discusses them within the context of the debate on the social significance of the feature film....
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
A historian’s view of the relationship between American history and the American film industry the book is a witty and perceptive account of Hollywood and its films in the years from the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe to the end of the war in Korea, It describes how film makers and...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
