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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Taylor |
| ISBN: | 0820465305 9780820465302 3631518528 9783631518526 |
| OCLC Number: | 62421344 |
| Description: | 418 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Series Title: | Europäische Hochschulschriften., Reihe XXX, Theater-, Film- und Fernsehwissenschaften ;, Bd. 89. |
| Responsibility: | Alan Taylor. |
Table of Contents:
Contents: Mainstream Film News Broadcasting - Visual Rhetorics - News Journalism - Fox News - Media Studies - Hollywood Histories - Radio Broadcasting - Representation - Media Law - U.S. Constitution - Corporate Mergers.
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George Clooney’s independent “Good Night and Good Luck” (2005) takes its important place in an established genre lineage that, since the 1970s, has concerned the developments in U.S. commercial news broadcasting. The film’s focused insight into the strident protests of renowned Edward E. Murrow against the dubious operations of the profiteering networks in the 1950s clearly alludes, as well, to contemporary concerns over the quality and direction of U.S. commercial news operations in the 21st Century. The film’s critical and commercial success confirm how relevant these issues remain for present-day audiences.
“We, the media…”: This 418-page study helpfully places “Good Night and Good Luck” in a deep historical context by focusing on thirteen Hollywood films that, from the 1970s to the 1990s, also assumed - in various ways - to represent the working practices of the U.S. corporate broadcast & cable news media.
The structured genre analysis is enriched by contextual histories which consider relevant legal, institutional and political interventions in the early development of the U.S. public media. This interdisciplinary approach is relevant in a study of film texts which themselves address vital contemporary concerns in media ownership, gender representation, mergers, free speech, new technologies, and the powers of market journalism itself.
This book is designed, therefore, to serve the related interests of media educationalists, specialists in film, and students of U.S. media law and broadcast news histories.
Case Study Films include: Network (1976); Broadcast News (1987); Quiz Show (1994); Up, Close and Personal (1996); Mad City (1997); The Insider (1999).
The Author: Alan Taylor is an hons. graduate of Keele University with postgraduate attainments in Media Education, Pedagogy, Cinema Studies and Filmmaking from London, Oxford, Mainz, and The London Film School respectively.
Since graduating from Oxford, the author has held managerial and lecturing posts in the U.K., Germany and Bulgaria, covering Cinema Studies, Screenwriting and Media Production.
Of late he has been Guest Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.
Current research and 2007 publication, "Jacobean Visions", also with Peter Lang, focuses on the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock & Jacobean Drama.
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