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Book A History of Broadcasting in the United States  The Image Empire

Download or read book A History of Broadcasting in the United States The Image Empire written by Erik Barnouw and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the iQSo's, in a frontier atmosphere of enterprise and sharp struggle, an American television system took shape. But even as it did so, itspioneers pushed beyond American borders and became programmers to scores of other nations. In its first decade United States television was already a world phenomenon. Since American radio had for some time had international ramifications, American images and sounds were radiatingfrom transmitter towers throughout the globe. They were called entertainment or news or education but were always more. They were a reflection of a growing United States involvement in the lives of other nationsan involvement of imperial scope. The role of broadcasters in this American expansion and in the era that produced it is the subject matter of The Image Empire, the last of three volumes comprising this study.

Book Images and Empires

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul S. Landau
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2002-10-28
  • ISBN : 9780520229495
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Images and Empires written by Paul S. Landau and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-10-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. It assembles a wide-ranging collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world fairs, and museum exhibits.

Book Empire of Pictures

Download or read book Empire of Pictures written by Sönke Kunkel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cold War historiography, the 1960s are often described as a decade of mounting diplomatic tensions and international social unrest. At the same time, they were a period of global media revolution: communication satellites compressed time and space, television spread around the world, and images circulated through print media in expanding ways. Examining how U.S. policymakers exploited these changes, this book offers groundbreaking international research into the visual media battles that shaped America's Cold War from West Germany and India to Tanzania and Argentina.

Book Empire of the  B s

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  • Author : Dave Jay
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-01-16
  • ISBN : 9780957535268
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Empire of the B s written by Dave Jay and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film producer Charles Robert Band is one of the last great B-movie survivors - a genuine pioneer who, over four decades, forged such a unique path through the no man's land of independent genre cinema that many thought him more than capable of seizing legendary indie producer Roger Corman's long-held crown as 'King of the B Movies.' The 1970s through to the late 1980s was the last great 'golden age' for the B-movie community, and with a non-stop series of grind house classics like 'Laserblast', 'Parasite', 'Re-Animator' and 'Dolls' for his company Empire Pictures, it was also the era that saw Charles Band take his rightful place in the indie hall of fame as the true Emperor of the 'B's. This is Band's officially-authorised helter-skelter story, and that of the mad company he kept

Book Picturing Paul in Empire

Download or read book Picturing Paul in Empire written by Harry O. Maier and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauline Christianity sprang to life in a world of imperial imagery. In the streets and at the thoroughfares, in the market places and on its public buildings and monuments, and especially on its coins the Roman Empire's imperial iconographers displayed imagery that aimed to persuade the Empire's diverse and mostly illiterate inhabitants that Rome had a divinely appointed right to rule the world and to be honoured and celebrated for its dominion. Harry O. Maier places the later, often contested, letters and theology associated with Paul in the social and political context of the Roman Empire's visual culture of politics and persuasion to show how followers of the apostle visualized the reign of Christ in ways consistent with central themes of imperial iconography. They drew on the Empire's picture language to celebrate the dominion and victory of the divine Son, Jesus, to persuade their audiences to honour his dominion with praise and thanksgiving. Key to this imperial embrace were Colossians, Ephesians, and the Pastoral Epistles. Yet these letters remain neglected territory in consideration of engagement with and reflection of imperial political ideals and goals amongst Paul and his followers. This book fills a gap in scholarly work on Paul and Empire by taking up each contested letter in turn to investigate how several of its main themes reflect motifs found in imperial images.

Book Images of the Ottoman Empire

Download or read book Images of the Ottoman Empire written by Charles Newton and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman Empire was one of the world's great powers. Generations of travelers, explorers, traders, tourists, scientists and artists were drawn to these magical lands. Whether depictions of contemporary life in the bustling street, the court, the harem, or elegiac evocations of the ruins of antiquity, the hundred images selected here by artists from David Roberts and Edward Lear to John Frederick Lewis bring a largely vanished world vividly to life.

Book The Image of the Black in Western Art  From the  Age of Discovery  to the Age of Abolition   artists of the Renaissance and Baroque

Download or read book The Image of the Black in Western Art From the Age of Discovery to the Age of Abolition artists of the Renaissance and Baroque written by David Bindman and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of art that showcases visual tropes of masters with their adoring slaves and Africans as victims and individuals.

Book Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema

Download or read book Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema written by Prem Chowdhry and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empirico-historical inquiry into the empire cinema in Hollywood and Britain during the turbulent 1930s and 1940s. It shows how the empire cinema constructed the colonial world, its rationale for doing so, and the manner in which such constructions were received by the colonized people.

Book New York  Empire City

Download or read book New York Empire City written by David Stravitz and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City between the wars comes gloriously to life in this fascinating collection of 100 historical photographs of its notable streetscapes and landmarks. These rare photographs are accompanied by informative captions and an insightful essay by architectural historian Christopher Gray.

Book Culture and International History

Download or read book Culture and International History written by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the perspectives of 18 international scholars from Europe and the United States with a critical discussion of the role of culture in international relations, this volume introduces recent trends in the study of Culture and International History. It systematically explores the cultural dimension of international history, mapping existing approaches and conceptual lenses for the study of cultural factors and thus hopes to sharpen the awareness for the cultural approach to international history among both American and non-American scholars. The first part provides a methodological introduction, explores the cultural underpinnings of foreign policy, and the role of culture in international affairs by reviewing the historiography and examining the meaning of the word culture in the context of foreign relations. In the second part, contributors analyze culture as a tool of foreign policy. They demonstrate how culture was instrumentalized for diplomatic goals and purposes in different historical periods and world regions. The essays in the third part expand the state-centered view and retrace informal cultural relations among nations and peoples. This exploration of non-state cultural interaction focuses on the role of science, art, religion, and tourism. The fourth part collects the findings and arguments of part one, two, and three to define a roadmap for further scholarly inquiry. A group of" commentators" survey the preceding essays, place them into a larger research context, and address the question "Where do we go from here?" The last and fifth part presents a selection of primary sources along with individual comments highlighting a new genre of resources scholars interested in culture and international relations can consult.

Book Empire

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Heyday Books
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9781597143349
  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book Empire written by and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inlandia Institute, Riverside, California; Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, California State University, San Bernardino."

Book The Image Empire

Download or read book The Image Empire written by Erik Barnouw and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Empire of the Self

Download or read book The Empire of the Self written by Christopher Star and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Star uncovers significant points of contact between Seneca and Petronius, two important Roman writers long thought to be antagonists. In The Empire of the Self, Christopher Star studies the question of how political reality affects the concepts of body, soul, and self. Star argues that during the early Roman Empire the establishment of autocracy and the development of a universal ideal of individual autonomy were mutually enhancing phenomena. The Stoic ideal of individual empire or complete self-command is a major theme of Seneca’s philosophical works. The problematic consequences of this ideal are explored in Seneca’s dramatic and satirical works, as well as in the novel of his contemporary Petronius. Star examines the rhetorical links between these diverse texts. He also demonstrates a significant point of contact between two writers generally thought to be antagonists—the idea that imperial speech structures reveal the self.

Book Images of Empire

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  • Author : Loveday Alexander
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 1991-09-01
  • ISBN : 0567543552
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Images of Empire written by Loveday Alexander and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Images of Empire colloquium held in Sheffield in 1990, an international team of scholars met to explore some of the conflicting images generated by the Roman Empire. The articles reflect interests as diverse as those of the scholars themselves: Roman history and archaeology, Jewish Studies, Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament and Patristics are all represented. All are focused on a single theme, the importance of which is increasingly recognized, not only for the historian, but for everyone interested in the political complexities of our post-imperial world.

Book Iconography of the New Empire

Download or read book Iconography of the New Empire written by Servando D. Halili and published by UP Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a postcolonial reading of the American invasion and colonization of the Philippines in 1898. It considers how nineteenth-century American popular culture, specifically political cartoons and caricatures, influenced American foreign policy. These sources, drawn from several U.S. libraries and archives, show how race and gender ideologies significantly influenced the move of the U.S. to annex the Philippines. The book not only includes a significant collection of political cartoons and caricatures about Filipinos, it also offers an alternative interpretation of the reasons why the U.S. ventured into colonial expansion in Asia.

Book An Empire for the Masses

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  • Author : William Howard Schneider
  • Publisher : Praeger Pub Text
  • Release : 1982-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780313230431
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book An Empire for the Masses written by William Howard Schneider and published by Praeger Pub Text. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empire and Identity in Guizhou

Download or read book Empire and Identity in Guizhou written by Jodi L. Weinstein and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-10-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical investigation describes the Qing imperial authorities� attempts to consolidate control over the Zhongjia, a non-Han population, in eighteenth-century Guizhou, a poor, remote, and environmentally harsh province in Southwest China. Far from submitting peaceably to the state�s quest for hegemony, the locals clung steadfastly to livelihood choices�chiefly illegal activities such as robbery, raiding, and banditry�that had played an integral role in their cultural and economic survival. Using archival materials, indigenous folk narratives, and ethnographic research, Jodi Weinstein shows how these seemingly subordinate populations challenged state power.