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Places Trollope's work in the wider context of nineteenth century culture - an area of growing interest in literary studies - and combines three aspects, the Victorian novel, media history and gender issues. By applying feminist criticism the book challenges the traditional view of Trollope as a conservative.
War has always been close to the centre of British culture, but never more so than in the period since 1850. This text explores the way in which images of battle, both literary and visual, have been constructed in British fiction and popular culture since this time.
Written against a backdrop of recent bloody conflicts, this book brings together case studies and legal analysis of the steps that the United Nations, NATO and other organisations have taken to build pluralist and independent media in the wake of massive human rights violations.
This volume examines the phenomenon of laddishness and the cult of the girlie in film, TV, advertising, music, politics, literature and society. It interprets these trends as a nostalgic longing for a pre-feminist society.
This study of Magreb's erratic encounter with democratization illuminates the complex encounters between civil society and the authorities in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. It examines the role of the media in particular as contested, but often compliant, terrain between governments and dissidents.
This study of Magreb's erratic encounter with democratization illuminates the complex encounters between civil society and the authorities in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. It examines the role of the media in particular as contested, but often compliant, terrain between governments and dissidents.
Many observers believe that it has sometimes been the mass media which has been the sole catalyst of change since 1985. How could a vast and complex sector of society change even in part from being a docile servant of the government to an initiator of explosive changes in society? This book traces the details of this enormous change.
An analysis of the emerging cultural characteristics of women's activities on the Internet across the developed and the developing world. Contributors demonstrate how the Internet can empower women working within very different cultural environments to inform and change global cultures.
Written explicitly for social and political activists, and educators, this book presents a history of the Internet, a guide to progressive uses of the Internet and an account of how NGOs and others have been using information and communication technology (ICT) for social and political change.
The future of communication and cultural literacy, reading, and the book in the 21st century is investigated along a wide spectrum, from multimedia packages to reading on the World Wide Web.