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Handbook of Visual Communication: Theory, Methods, and Media

Sheree Josephson, James D. Kelly, Ken Smith (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2005), xxiii, 493 pp.

"The second edition of this already-classic text has been completely revised to reflect the metamorphosis of communication in the last 15 years and the ubiquity of visual communication in our modern mediated lifestyle. 13 major theories of communication are defined by the top experts in their fields ... more

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The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African Conflict

Don Foster, Paul Haupt, Marésa De Beer

Capetwon; Oxford: Institute of Justice and Reconciliation; HSRC Press; James Currey (2005), xii, 364 pp.

"If the dominant media stereotype portrays perpetrators as monsters, as ‘Prime Evil’, then the dominant academic image is the opposite. It paints them as ordinary people (gender ignored, but assumed as male) diligently under sway of modern bureaucratic compartmentalisation (the banality of evil ... thesis), or as obedient to authority and conforming to social pressures (the situationist thesis). No monsters here, just ordinary people under rather extraordinary circumstances. The moral message: we co uld all potentially become perpetrators, depending on the situation. There is a competing view: the perpetrator as a willing, even eager, executioner driven by strong negative emotions against the ‘other’. The scholarly world presents us with antagonistic perspectives. What picture do we get from narrative approaches, from stories told by those actually responsible for politically-related violence? First, there are only a few narrative studies. Second, they also paint competing pictures. On the one hand, is a picture of the perpetrator as a victim – of organisational routines, hierarchies, pressures and secrecy, and of dominant ideologies, as well as brutal initiation rites which instil the practice of obedience to authority. These narrative studies support the situationist and ordinary person line of explanation. They also correct the erstwhile neglect of gender issues by placing emphasis on masculinity as an important ingredient. On the other hand, the South African storytelling studies by Marks (2001), Straker (1992) and Campbell (1992) throw up a different picture. While victims in one sense – of Bantu education, poverty and violence at the hands of both state security agents and older vigilante groups – they are also action-oriented moral crusaders in defence of their communities and in politically-minded offensive against the apartheid state and its allies. Once again, we have contrasting and competing pictures of those responsible for political violence. In these particular storytelling perspectives, differences are partly due to the different positions of protagonists across the dividing line of power: state security personnel on the one hand and resistance activists on the other. Apart from the conflicting images from varying epistemological perspectives and different theoretical angles, the very label or category of a ‘perpetrator’ is more muddied, contested and problematic than a first glance would suggest. We described seven grey areas which challenge or disrupt the dominant binaries of victim-perpetrator and the triangular view of dramatis personae: perpetrator – ‘victim’ – bystander/observer. Moreover, in Chapter 4, we raise a number of moral quandaries or dilemmas in the study of those responsible for violence, which again dislodge the simple and tidy categories. Therefore a central component of the present study aims to problematise and disrupt the complacency of the very label and category of ‘perpetrator’. What should be done? In the face of these competing images and explanations we carve out a ‘third space’ beyond, or perhaps better, between the theoretical antagonisms of situationism versus agency (willing killers); among the grey areas between category labels of victim/perpetrator/bystander. Rather than this being seen as an alternative position, it should be read as an attempt at synthesis. Instead of the oppositional pairing of ‘either-or’, it should be seen in terms of the inclusive pairing ‘both-and’ (Foster, 1999).We argue that those responsible for violence should be regarded as potentially both victim and perpetrator, as well as both subject to circumstances/influences and active initiators." (Conclusion, page 321-322) more

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Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Toward a Democratic Accommodation

Quentin J. Schultze

East Lansing: Michigan State University Press (2003), 440 pp.

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African Video Film Today

Foluke Ogunleye (ed.)

Manzini (SZ): Academic Publisher (2003), xiii, 162 pp.

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Las telenovelas: Cómo son, cómo se escriben

Eduardo Adrianzén Herran

Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2001), 262 pp.

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Fernsehen als Mythos: Poetik eines narrativen Erkenntnissystems

Joan Kristin Bleicher

Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag (1999), 347 pp.

"Die Autorin beschreibt die spezifische ästhetische Erscheinungsform des Fernsehens, die Vermittlungsstruktur seiner Inhalte, narrative Vermittlungsformen und seine kollektive mediale Wirkung. Dabei wird erstmals die Vielzahl der vorliegenden Publikationen zu Teilaspekten der Fernsehvermittlung in ... more

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Die Kunst des Drehbuchlesens

Oliver Schütte

Bergisch Gladbach: Bastei Lübbe (1998), 239 pp.

"Eine Einführung in die Drehbuchanalyse und -bewertung für Dramaturgen, Produzenten, Lektoren und Redakteure mit anschaulichen Beispielen aus Deutschland. Schütte ist Leiter der Masterschool Drehbuch in Postdam und hat dort die Seminare "Kunst des Drehbuchlesens" entwickelt." (Verlagsbeschreibung ... more

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To be Continued ... Soap Operas Around the World

R. Allen (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (1995), ix, 398 pp.

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El relato televisivo

Daniel Prieto Castillo

Mendoza: Ediciones Culturales de Mendoza (1995), 84 pp.

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"Ich hab' so schön geweint": Telenovelas in Mexiko

Gisela Klindworth

Saarbrücken: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik (1995), iv, 354 pp.

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Serial Fiction in TV: The Latin American Telenovela. with an Annotated Bibliography of Brazilian Telenovelas;Ficção seriada na TV: As telenovelas latinoamericanas. Com uma bibliografia da telenovela brasileira

Anamaria Fadul (ed.)

São Paulo: School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo (1993), 251 pp.

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Narrativa audiovisual

Jesús García Jiménez

Madrid: Cátedra (1993), 423 pp.

"[Este libro9 es un manual universitario, denso y sin concesiones que aborda su objeto de un modelo completo, racional, metódico y ordenado. Su articulación interna estriba en tres partes sucesivas: la primera se propone una organización conceptual de la disciplina; la segunda aborda el estudio d ... more

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Television Culture

John Fiske

London: Routledge (1993), 353 pp.