Launched in November 2007 this international journal is the first to give serious academic consideration to the art and craft of the soundtrack. Featuring contributions from leading academics and respected industry practitioners, including several oscar winners, The Soundtrack is rigorous yet accessible to the interested lay reader

Published by Intellect Books

This timely new journal launches in April 2008. Submissions are now being sought for its early issues. It seeks to map the arena of war, conflict and terrorism in this intensively mediated age. It will explore the cultural, political and technological transformations in media-military relations, journalistic practice and new media and their impact on the public, policy and the outcomes of warfare.

Published by Sage Publications

This edited collection maps current thinking and practice to assess the extent to which the consumer, as opposed to the voter, should be elevated to a central position within our understanding of the relationship between the public and political spheres. The volume offers an overview of how consumerism has been applied to our understanding of political and voter behaviour. It then develops this analysis, offering essays that explore contrasting critical perspectives on the topic.

Published in 2008

To defend democracy against terror, demagogy and boredom, political leadership needs to develop as emotional management. Richards offers a model for a new style of leadership, based on the idea of 'emotional governance' - deliberate and sophisticated attention to the emotional dynamics of the public.
The model is explored in a detailed study of public emotion around terrorism, but has wider application, including engaging with increasingly indifferent but vulnerable electorates.

Published by Palgrave

Allan offers important insights into key debates concerning how journalism is evolving on the internet. Using a diverse range of examples, he shows how the forms, practices and epistemologies of online news are gradually becoming conventionalized, and assesses the implications for journalism's future. The rise of online news is examined with regard to the reporting of a series of major news events. Topics include the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, the September 11 attacks, election campaigns, and the war in Iraq.

Published by Open University Press

In this progressive book Pullen analyses reality shows such as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, The Real World and An American Family to chart an evolution in gay identity. The book explores gay people in the domestic arena, as teens, couples and parents and argues that within these entertainments gay people as social actors are political agents helping create a view of gay men as both creative producers and responsible social agents.

Published by McFarland

Dr. Moon explores critical thinking and provides practical guidance for improving student learning and supporting the teaching process. Key themes include: different approaches to critical thinking with an emphasis on a practical use in the classroom; links between learning, thinking and writing; critical thinking and assessment; class environments; and staff knowledge and development; Teachers in all disciplines in post-compulsory education will find this approach to defining and improving students' critical thinking skills invaluable.

Published by Routledge

ITV's innovative flagship current affairs programme ran from 1956 to 1992. Here Pat Holland gives an accessible insight into the pressures and controversy surrounding its coverage of Northern Ireland, Apartheid and Gibraltar. Not only a valuable modern history The Angry Buzz raises issues vital to contemporary current affairs broadcasting post 9/11.

Published by I B Tauris & Co Ltd

Histories of British broadcasting suggest that the BBC was never seriously challenged until the coming of ITV in 1955. This book counters that view, telling the now near secret, history of commercial radio between 1920 and 1939. Long before the Sixties ‘pirates’ continental based stations, funded by British and American sponsors, battled with ‘Auntie’ for the hearts and minds of the listening public.

Published by John Libbey

A straightforward and easy introduction to the basic techniques of industry standard software RenderMan. This book provides an excellent grounding with plenty of illustrations and hands-on examples. Ian Stephenson explains how scenes are described, illustrates (among other things) how to create surfaces; colour; lighting; shadows; and depth of field and introduces the techniques involved in creating shaders, applying textures and using global illumination.

Published by Springer-Verlag London Ltd

This unique thoroughly cross-referenced volume provides a broad overview of 85 years of British radio, from the earliest technical breakthroughs to modern digital developments. The alphabetically arranged entries cover not only the BBC but also focus on its under-represented competitors, the independents and the pirates.

Published by Scarecrow Press

On January 7 1894, Frederic P. Ott stood before the world's first movie camera and sneezed. But the forty-five frames of 'Record of a Sneeze' show nothing. The droplets and globules of Ott's explosion were too fast, too many or too small. Novelist Lawrence Norfolk and artist Neal White have reconstructed that missing sneeze employing the most recent developments in computer technology. The resulting photographs of the sneeze in space are shown with the original film and a commentary linking the two centuries.

Published by Book Works

Using the British General Election of 2005 as a case study, this collection focuses on three important elements: the products offered by the parties; the campaign communication; and the perceptions, reactions and attitudes of the voters. This analysis, the first of its kind, allows us to understand how marketing informs the disparate elements of a campaign to understand if politics has entered a market-oriented phase. To what extent has marketing become the new political ideology, and what affect this is having on the voter perceptions of the parties?

Published by Manchester University Press

Media, Risk and Science is an examination of Science journalism and the disturbing alchemy by which science is made ‘newsworthy’. It unravels the media portrayal of environmental risks, HIV-AIDS, food scares (such as BSE and GM foods) and human cloning. It also takes into account the effects of ‘psuedo-science’ absorbed into popular thinking via programmes like The X-Files and Star Trek.

Published by Open University Press

In this timely book Moloney further develops his theory of PR as weak propaganda and argues that all theories of communication need to take into account the power relation of those communicating. In an academic landscape still dominated by belief in PR as a neutral or benign force Moloney's critical perspective is a welcome invitation to look again.

Published by Routledge

Vector analysis is a powerful tool in describing and solving a wide range of geometric problems, many of which arise in computer graphics. These may be in the form of describing lines, surfaces and volumes, which may touch, collide, intersect, or create shadows upon complex surfaces. This book provides a complete introduction to the relatively new science of vector analysis, placing each topic in the context of practical application within computer graphics.

Published by Springer