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Tools of their tools : communications technologies and American cultural practice / edited by Grzegorz Kosc and Krzysztof Majer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Telecommunication--Social aspects--United States.
- Telecommunication.
- Telecommunication--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book explores the role of communication technologies in American cultural practice over the last 150 years. Communication technologies are here understood to include audio and visual reproduction technologies, analogue telecommunications such as tradi
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; HOARDING THE GOLD; THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN RADIO; INTERPRETING THE NEW DEAL; IS ANYBODY LISTENING? VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AND THEIR TV DEBATES; STILL CHEATING US SOFTLY; AMERICAN WAR ON TERROR IN SLEEPER CELL; THE MESSAGE IS THE MASSAGE; NEW MEDIA; FAN CULTURE IN THE INTERNET; HUNTING FOR RACISM-ONLINE CITIZEN CRITICS' REVIEWS OF KEVIN MACDONALD'S THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND; NEGOTIATING THE VIRTUAL; FROM THE VISIBLE TO THE VISUAL; TRANSGENERIC TENDENCIES AND MULTIMEDIAL GENRES IN THE POETRY OF T. S. ELIOT AND THE FRENCH SYMBOLISTS
- NOSTALGIC AVANT-GARDESELECTRONIC FLOATING OPERA AND CHALLENGES OF FICTIONAL NAVIGATION IN JOHN BARTH'S NOVEL COMING SOON!!! A NARRATIVE; AI AND LITERATURE; THE ACTUAL AND VIRTUAL IDENTITY OF CORMAC MCCARTHY; HOW FAR DO WE HAVE TO GO?; THE FUTURE GROWLS; CALLING THE ONE YOU LOVE; HOME CALLING / CALLING HOME; THE GRAPHIC REVOLUTION AND REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN AMERICAN MAGAZINES, 1880-1900; TECHNOLOGY FOR THEATER; "INCOHERENT NARRATIVE, JAGGED TECHNIQUE, DISTURBING INTENSITY OF EMOTIONS..."; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-41360-0
- 9786612413605
- 1-4438-1141-6
- OCLC:
- 390399851
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