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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Norsk lovtidende ...: Utgit efter offentlig foranstaltning

Norsk lovtidende ...: Utgit efter offentlig foranstaltning

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Necrology ...

Necrology ...

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 ...
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.
Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom

Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom

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Psychological Science in the Courtroom Eugene Borgida, Susan T. Fiske ... theory” (TMT; Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1986; Pyszczynski, Greenberg, Solomon, Arndt, & Schimel, 2004; Solomon, Greenberg, & Pyszczynski, 1991).
Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction

Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction

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Chapter 1 PART I Chapter 2 Chapter 3 PART II Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Contributors Introduction: A Wide-Angle Lens on the Psychology of Social Class 1 Hazel Rose Markus and Susan T. Fiske PERVASIVE IDEAS AND SOCIAL CLASS ...
Gender and Race Inequality in Management: Critical Issues, ...

Gender and Race Inequality in Management: Critical Issues, ...

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Susan T. Fiske and Hazel Rose Markus. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation . kusserow, Adrie. Forthcoming. When hard and soft clash: Class-based individualisms in Manhattan and Queens. In Facing social class: Social psychology of ...
Rattling Rocco

Rattling Rocco

Susan Clare Anderson

Susan Clare Anderson. Rattling Rocco Edited By Tanya Miller Copyright © 2015 by Susan Clare Anderson. 721486 ISBN: Softcover. Written and Illustrated By SUSAN CLARE ANDERSON “Is there anything we can do?” asked Leramy, looking ...
Susan Seddon Boulet: The Goddess Paintings

Susan Seddon Boulet: The Goddess Paintings

Susan Seddon Boulet

Susan Seddon Boulet: The Goddess Paintings brings together the magnificent paintings of Susan Seddon Boulet with insightful, scholarly text by Michael Babcock, a San Francisco Bay Area writer who has studied mythology extensively.
Faux Chic

Faux Chic

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... The Glidden Company, 78 Steve Gross & Susan Daley, 52 (bottom); 69 Steve Gross & Susan Daley/Gwen Griffith, Design, 42 Steve Gross & Susan Daley/ Rebecca Purcell, Design, 109 Steve Gross & Susan Daley/Gayle Spannaus, Design, ...
THE SUSAN SMITH MURDER TRIAL: WHY SUSAN, WHY?

THE SUSAN SMITH MURDER TRIAL: WHY SUSAN, WHY?

Ronald Williams Sr.

said if Susan Smith hadn't told the sheriff she drowned her two kids, some manin oraround South Carolina would have gone to jail behind Susan Smith's lie. Thejuror also saidthe way them two little babies were sitting in theback seatof that car, ...
Spirit Willing: A Savannah Haunting

Spirit Willing: A Savannah Haunting

Susan B. Johnson

Jacket photo by Nancy Heffernan Author photo by Fred A. Johnson Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Johnson, Susan B. (Susan Belt), 1 934- Spirit willing : a Savannah haunting / by Susan B. Johnson. — I st ed. p. cm.
Susan Carter, the Orphan Girl, etc

Susan Carter, the Orphan Girl, etc

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... in their places; and Susan Carter is coming, and Mary Andrews, and Susan Bell and—but I can't recollect all the names; perhaps you are one P And, as she said this, she looked her earnestly in the face, saying, 'Why, you are Susan Carter , ...
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 ...
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: ...
Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve ...

Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve ...

David Fiske

A companion to the classic African-American autobiographical narrative, Twelve Years A Slave, this work presents fascinating new information about the 1841 kidnapping, 1853 rescue, and pre- and post-slavery life of Solomon Northup. • For ...
Solomon Northup's Kindred: The Kidnapping of Free Citizens ...

Solomon Northup's Kindred: The Kidnapping of Free Citizens ...

David Fiske

CONTEMPORARY PUBLICATIONS Solomon Northup's narrative, originally published in 1853, provides the most detailed firsthand account of a kidnapping victim available. Two annotated editions of his book have been published, over 100 ...
The Myth of Indigenous Caribbean Extinction: Continuity and ...

The Myth of Indigenous Caribbean Extinction: Continuity and ...

T. Castanha

Fiske, Amos Kidder. TheWest Indies:A History of the Islandsof the West Indian Archipelago, Together withan ... Grounds,Richard A., George E.Tinker, and DavidE. Wilkins,eds. Native Voices: AmericanIndian Identityand Resistance. Lawrence: ...
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 ...
Reading Television

Reading Television

John Fiske

In this edition, Hartley reflects on recent developments in television studies, and includes suggestions for further reading.
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 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 ...

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