http://hdl.handle.net/2436/8716 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:00:15 GMT 2013-05-23T11:00:15Z http://hdl.handle.net/2436/51160 Title: The Utopias and Dystopias of Generation X Authors: McDonald, Paul Abstract: THE BOOK: The book explores the fundamental and multifaceted dialectic between utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares within American culture. The utopian mindset in constructing and imagining different futures for society is reflected in a wide range of differential cultural texts and narratives such as novels, short stories, political discourses and treatises, journalism and scholarly and intellectual debates. Often these combine social criticism and satire, political rhetoric, religious belief systems, and biblical metaphors. Approaching the topic from various angles and throughout different historical periods, the essays in this volume collectively show how fascinating and rewarding the exploration of this utopian discourse of for an understanding of American culture. Description: European Contributions to American Studies Series Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/51160 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2436/51158 Title: News Values Authors: Brighton, Paul; Foy, Dennis Abstract: Written by two practitioner-academics (who between them have more than fifty years of news industry experience), News Values analyses the shape of the news industry - a world of rolling news and multimedia platforms, and a world where broadcast news is increasingly considered another element of show business. Detailed chapters include critiques of existing theories, close study of the newspaper, radio, television and internet news channels, plus informative chapters on the many factors that shape the news we read, watch and hear including the role of the citizen journalist, user-generated content, spin doctors, and the new wave of press barons. Further chapters provide detailed analysis of the way in which the same story is treated across different media channels, and how journalists and editors work to keep breathing new life into rolling news stories. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/51158 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27794 Title: From Crossroads to Wife Swap: Learning from audiences Authors: Hobson, Dorothy Abstract: This article reflects on my research and publications from early interest in women as audience at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, through the publication of Crossroads: The Drama of a Soap Opera (Methuen 1982), including other publications up to my recent book Soap Opera (Polity 2003). The paper also covers the period during the 1980's and 1990)s when I worked as a broadcasting consultant and addresses some of the issues involved in this work. The academic development cites various audience studies: women, young unemployed men, young male offenders, black youths, and young schoolgirls. It highlights the findings of this research which has resulted in the evolution of my theory of individual readings of televisual forms. Finally the article cites Carey (2005) who concurs with my findings in 1982 of the supremacy of the audience in defining the popular as art. (Manchester University Press) Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27794 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27792 Title: Channel 4: The Early Years and the Jeremy Isaacs Legacy Authors: Hobson, Dorothy Abstract: In November 2007, Channel 4 will be twenty-five years old. Today, such TV events as the 'Big Brother/Jade Goody Affair' have put the channel itself at the centre of public debate. Yet during its foundation years on British screens, Channel 4 was seen as more controversial and dangerous than this. Published for Channel 4's 25th anniversary, this book explores the channel's most important foundation period, under its inspirational first Chief Executive, Jeremy Isaacs. Charged by Parliament to be innovative, experimental, and educational, the new channel had to attract audiences and make a space for new voices. Did it fulfill its brief? It also assesses the legacy of the channel and asks: has it changed the nature of British television, and has the enfant terrible grown up, or is it still a youthful rebel? Dorothy Hobson had unique access to Channel 4 and the team involved in developing it, the ITV companies and fledgling independent producers over its foundation years. Accessibly written, her book uses the words and stories of those involved, and vividly reviews the new channel's successes, problems, adversities, as well as audiences' and press responses to television's new baby and its programmes. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27792 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z