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Power Plays Power Works

Power Plays Power Works

John Fiske

A new introductory essay by former Fiske student Black Hawk Hancock entitled ‘Learning How to Fiske: Theorizing Power, Knowledge, and Bodies in the 21st Century’ elucidates Fiske’s methods for today’s students, providing them with ...
Understanding Popular Culture

Understanding Popular Culture

John Fiske

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining ‘Why Fiske Still Matters’ for today’s students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and ...
Introduction to Communication Studies

Introduction to Communication Studies

John Fiske

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining ‘Why Fiske Still Matters’ for today’s students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Elana Levine, ...
Reading the Popular

Reading the Popular

John Fiske

In Reading the Popular, John Fiske analyzes these popular "texts" to reveal both their explicit and implicit (and often opposite) meanings and uses, and the social and political dynamics they reflect.
Television Culture

Television Culture

John Fiske

In this book, John Fiske looks at television’s role as an agent of popular culture, and goes on to consider the relationship between this cultural dimension and television’s status as a commodity of the cultural industries that are ...
Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction

Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction

Harold E. Hinds

UNDERSTANDING POPULAR CULTURE John Fiske Popular culture, from John Fiske' s neo-Marxist, post-structuralist, and British cultural studies perspectives, is not composed of the products of the mass culture industries in patriarchal ...
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Andover Theological Seminary. Alumni Association

Daniel Taggart Fiske, D.D. Son of (Deacon) Ebenezer Fiske and Hannah Tirrill ; born at Shel- burne, Mass., March 29, 1819; fitted for college at Fellenberg Academy, Greenfield, Mass., and at a select school at Heath, Mass. ; was graduated ...
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Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of Essex County, ...

Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of Essex County, ...

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... Jonathan French Stearns, John Pike, Henry Augustus Woodman Enoch Pond, Jr., . Henry Boynton Smith, John Phelps Cowles, Benjamin Franklin Hosford. Horatio Merrill, Calvin Emmons Park, John Moor Prince, Daniel Taggart Fiske, David ...
50 Simple Things You Can Do to Fight the Right

50 Simple Things You Can Do to Fight the Right

Earthworks Group

Joann Houghton Joel Dee Kevin Mieras Ed Greevy Doug Fiske John Koivula Tor Bejnar Peter Hansell John D. Pearce Valda Whitman Merryl Weber Gail James Margaia Forcier-Call 189 Alaina Smith Randy Schutt Somer Waters TPFlynn ...
Reading Television

Reading Television

John Fiske

In this edition, Hartley reflects on recent developments in television studies, and includes suggestions for further reading.
The Unseen World and Other Essays

The Unseen World and Other Essays

John Fiske

"What are you, where did you come from, and whither are you bound?"—the question which from Homer's days has been put to the wayfarer in strange lands—is likewise the all-absorbing question which man is ever asking of the universe of ...
The American Revolution

The American Revolution

John Fiske

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
The Tillinghasts in America: The First Four Generations

The Tillinghasts in America: The First Four Generations

Wayne G. Tillinghast

This date would appear to be relatively accurate as John's will was signed on 4 December 1690 and was proved on 7 March 1690/1 (Fiske, Gleanings from Newport Court Files [note 16], document #7). 62. Dorothy Higson White, Descendants ...
John Fiske (Classic Reprint)

John Fiske (Classic Reprint)

Thomas Sergeant Perry

About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.
American Television: New Directions in History and Theory

American Television: New Directions in History and Theory

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42. John Fiske,p.52. 43. See LynnC. Spangler, “Buddies and Pals:A Historical Overview of Male Friendships onPrimetime Television,” apaper presented at the 1988Speech Communication Association annual convention. Sheargues (p. 2) that ...
Sailing Uncharted Waters JES 4

Sailing Uncharted Waters JES 4

John Fiske

Featuring Stories by the Morld's Greatest Authors The Joint European Series ( JES) of Classics off.”/was the term coined to represent those titles and issues printed across Europe – which included versions in German, Swedish and Dutch.
Popular Culture: A Reader

Popular Culture: A Reader

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A Reader Raiford Guins, Omayra Zaragoza Cruz. Chapter. 1. 9. John. Fiske. Popular. Discrimination. Films such as Ishtar with major stars, huge budgets, and expensive marketing still fail at the box office. Four out of five new prime time TV ...
Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions

Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions

Stacy Takacs

Harold E. Hinds, Jr., Marilyn F. Motz, and Angela M.S. Nelson (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006). 36 John Fiske, Television Culture (New York: Routledge, 1987), 239. 37 Joke Hermes, Reading Women's Magazines ...
Battleground: A-N

Battleground: A-N

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Boston: Unwin and Hyman, 1989a; Fiske, John, Understanding Popular Culture, Boston: Unwin and Hyman, 1989b; Gray, Jonathan, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington, eds. Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated. New York: ...
Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones

Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones

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Carol Vernallis's contribution, "Strange People, Weird Objects: The Nature of Narrativity, Character, and Editing in Music Videos," takes as a point of departure the ways in which some theorists (e.g., John Fiske) have analyzed videos as ...
The Fig Orchard

The Fig Orchard

Layla Fiske

In a tradition-bound Middle Eastern village, Nisrina Huniah, a fifteen-year-old girl, marries Jabran Yusef, a man of her father's choosing, but falls in love on the night they are wed.
Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture

Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture

Susan T Fiske

The book that came first remains first.' -Daniel Gilbert, Harvard University, UK 'This latest edition of the best overview of social cognition research somehow succeeds in lifting the bar higher still for its competitors.
The American Genealogist

The American Genealogist

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Hulinq Genealogyi Descendants of James and Margaret Huling of Newport, Rhode Island, and Lewes, Delaware, compiled by Esther Littleford Woodworth- Barnes and edited by Jane Fletcher Fiske, FASG (Clemson SC 1984), cloth, xiv+ 692 ...

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