This text explores a broad range of media-related topics as they pertain to China. The chapters provide detailed analyses of such issues as the increasing influence of advertisers; the efforts of the Communist party to direct editorial content; and the impact of Hong Kong television on Guanggzhou.

Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In his ground-breaking book, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective, examining the problem of sta...(展开全部)

Geographies of Media and Communication systematically analyzes the relationship between geography and communication and shows how geographical approaches open up familiar and unfamiliar aspects of communication for analysis and discussion. Introduces media and communication from a geographical viewpoint Guides students through familiar themes of the study of communication towar...(展开全部)

Geographies of Media and Communication systematically analyzes the relationship between geography and communication and shows how geographical approaches open up familiar and unfamiliar aspects of communication for analysis and discussion. Introduces media and communication from a geographical viewpoint Guides students through familiar themes of the study of communication towar...(展开全部)

朗諾．貝提格（Ronald V. Bettig） 美國賓州州立大學傳播學院副教授，在校教授傳播政治經濟學相關課程。著有《版權文化：知識產權的政治經濟學》（Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property）（1996），是最早以批判角度探討版權議題的書籍之一。曾以媒體所有權與媒體控制為主題發表無數篇期刊論文、專書篇章與會議論文。 琴．琳．霍爾（Jeanne Lynn Hall） 美國賓州州立大學傳播學院副教授，在校教授電影史、電影理論與電影批判等相關課程。她是《廣角鏡雜誌》（Wide Angle）的前任編輯，也曾在《電影期刊》（Cinema Journal）、《電影批判》（Film Criticism）、《電影季刊》（Film Quarterly）與《創意劇本》（C...(展开全部)

朗諾．貝提格（Ronald V. Bettig） 美國賓州州立大學傳播學院副教授，在校教授傳播政治經濟學相關課程。著有《版權文化：知識產權的政治經濟學》（Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property）（1996），是最早以批判角度探討版權議題的書籍之一。曾以媒體所有權與媒體控制為主題發表無數篇期刊論文、專書篇章與會議論文。 琴．琳．霍爾（Jeanne Lynn Hall） 美國賓州州立大學傳播學院副教授，在校教授電影史、電影理論與電影批判等相關課程。她是《廣角鏡雜誌》（Wide Angle）的前任編輯，也曾在《電影期刊》（Cinema Journal）、《電影批判》（Film Criticism）、《電影季刊》（Film Quarterly）與《創意劇本》（C...(展开全部)

Big Media, Big Money is a lively and scathing critique of the contemporary communications industry. With close readings of recent news events, Bettig and Hall look critically at the effects of "media merger mania" on the structure and content of the movie, music, and book publishing industries. They further explore challenges posed by the Internet and the effects of copyright c...(展开全部)

For the first time, this volume brings to the study of China the theoretical concerns and methods of contemporary critical cultural studies. Written by historians, art historians, anthropologists, and literary critics who came of age after the People's Republic resumed scholarly ties with the United States, these essays yield valuable new insights not only for China studies but...(展开全部)