Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media and digital technologies? Since its first appearance, Philip Auslander’s groundbreaking book has helped to reconfigure a new area of study. Looking at specific in...(展开全部)

Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Society addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media? By looking at specific instances of live performance such as theatre, rock music, sport and courtroom testimony, Liveness offers penetrating insights into media...(展开全部)

The Second Edition of this bestselling text takes a unique approach to the study of mass communication and cultural studies by examining media as a whole - newspapers, books, magazines, radio, television, film - and its relationship with culture and society. Rather than viewing each major medium separately, authors Lawrence Grossberg, Ellen Wartella, D. Charles Whitney, and J. ...(展开全部)

赫尔曼•鲍辛格（Hermann Bausinger，1926— ），德国著名的民俗学家和日耳曼语言文学研究家，1960—1992年任图宾根大学经验文化学研究所所长，是第二次世界大战以后民俗学从古文化研究转向当代日常生活研究的首倡者和重要推动者。著有《技术世界中的民间文化》、《“民间诗歌”的形式》、《民俗学：从古代研究到文化分析》等书。其中最具开创性的学术著作《技术世界中的民间文化》在国际学术界产生了广泛而持久的影响，已被译成英语、法语、意大利语、日语和韩语等多种文字。鲍辛格对民俗学的传统领域即民间叙事和方言也有深入的研究，曾担任《童话全书》的主编。1993年获得马堡大学的“格林兄弟奖”，2009年被授予“巴登－符腾堡州杰出贡献勋章”。

The first of two classic studies that examined the daily life of a typical small american city-in actuality, Muncie, Indiana-in the mid-1920s, using the approach of social anthropology. Of enduring interest to students of SOCIOLOGY (740), these works inspired an acclaimed six-part television series. Foreword by Clark Wissler; Index.

This is an introduction to one of the most exciting new interdisciplinary fields of research: cultural memory studies. Who was Maurice Halbwachs, and what are the 'social frameworks of memory'? What can Aby Warburg's work tell us about the 'memory of art'? How do Pierre Nora's lieux de memoire connect history and memory? Where does the ancient art of memory meet the neuroscienc...(展开全部)

This is an introduction to one of the most exciting new interdisciplinary fields of research: cultural memory studies. Who was Maurice Halbwachs, and what are the 'social frameworks of memory'? What can Aby Warburg's work tell us about the 'memory of art'? How do Pierre Nora's lieux de memoire connect history and memory? Where does the ancient art of memory meet the neuroscienc...(展开全部)

The past decade has seen an extraordinarily intense period of experimentation with computer technology within the performing arts. Digital media has been increasingly incorporated into live theater and dance, and new forms of interactive performance have emerged in participatory installations, on CD-ROM, and on the Web. In Digital Performance, Steve Dixon traces the evolution o...(展开全部)

In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan's identity at home and abroad. In the American context, the word otaku is best translated as 'geek' - an ardent fan with highly specializ...(展开全部)

Using ingenious research methods, the contributors to this book explore the search for meaning among ordinary people in China today. The subjects of these vivid essays span the social spectrum from hip young entrepreneurs to sweatshop workers and homeless beggars. The issues are equally diverse, ranging from domestic violence to homosexuality to political corruption. Throughout...(展开全部)