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[Commlist] New books: TV Snapshots / Cinema Illuminating Reality / The Digital Evangelicals / A Primer for Teaching Digital History

Thu Sep 15 16:41:10 GMT 2022




*TV Snapshots***

An Archive of Everyday Life

*Lynn Spigel***

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*DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS*

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478018285/tv-snapshots/_*

“In this brilliant book Lynn Spigel examines TV snapshots as an activity, hobby art, expressive medium, and a thing people did with TV, convincingly arguing for the importance of thinking about how photography and TV work together. She reorients TV studies away from programs and questions of spectatorship toward an exploration of the home as a ‘theater of everyday life,’ offering a diverse picture of how people use TV, what the medium means, and where and how people live. I love this book and can’t wait to teach it.” *- Pamela Robertson Wojcik, author of /The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975/*//

In /TV Snapshots/, Lynn Spigel explores snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s. Like today’s selfies, TV snapshots were a popular photographic practice through which people visualized their lives in an increasingly mediated culture. Drawing on her collection of over 5,000 TV snapshots, Spigel shows that people did not just watch TV: women used the TV set as a backdrop for fashion and glamour poses; people dressed in drag in front of the screen; and, in pinup poses, people even turned the TV setting into a space for erotic display.**

*Lynn Spigel*is Frances E. Willard Professor of Screen Cultures at Northwestern University and author of /Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs/, also published by Duke University Press, /TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television/, and /Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America/.

*August 2022 | 336pp | 9781478018285 | PB | £22.99*
**Price subject to change.

*Cinema Illuminating Reality***

Media Philosophy through Buddhism

*Victor Fan***

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*UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS*

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781517909925/cinema-illuminating-reality/_*

“A stunning and provocative sequel to the invaluable /Cinema Approaching Reality/, this book is at once audacious and scrupulous, a Promethean leap of critical imagination as substantively grounded as Talmudic exegesis. Victor Fan deftly and relevantly engages thinkers from Nāgārjuna to Deleuze without reducing these inquiries to an Asian fusion buffet, maintaining lucid explications of Buddhist tenets while daring cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogues that will engage the philosopher and the cinephile.”*—Earl Jackson, Asia University*

How can a philosophical discourse generated in Asia help us reframe and renew cinema and media theory? /Cinema Illuminating Reality/ provides a possible way to do this by using Buddhist ideas to examine the intricate relationship between technicity and consciousness in the cinema. The resulting dialogue between Buddhism and Euro-American philosophy is the first of its kind in film and media studies.

*Victor Fan*is reader in film and media philosophy in the Department of Film Studies, King’s College London. He is author of /Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory/(Minnesota, 2015) and /Extraterritoriality: Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media/.

*March 2022 | 328pp | 9781517909925 | PB | £25.99**

*Price subject to change.

*The Digital Evangelicals***

Contesting Authority and Authenticity After the New Media Turn

*Travis Warren Cooper*

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*INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS*

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780253062260/the-digital-evangelicals/_*

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When it comes to evangelical Christianity, the internet is both a refuge and a threat. It hosts Zoom prayer groups and pornographic videos, religious revolutions and silly cat videos. Platforms such as social media, podcasts, blogs, and digital Bibles all constitute new arenas for debate about social and religious boundaries, theological and ecclesial orthodoxy, and the internet's inherent danger and value.

In /The Digital Evangelicals,/Travis Warren Cooper locates evangelicalism as a media event rather than as a coherent religious tradition by focusing on the intertwined narratives of evangelical Christianity and emerging digital culture in the United States. He focuses in particular on two dominant media traditions: media sincerity, immediate and direct interpersonal communication, and media promiscuity, communication with the primary goal of extending the Christian community regardless of physical distance. Cooper, whose work is informed by ethnographic fieldwork, traces these conflicting paradigms from the Protestant Reformation through the rise of the digital and argues that the tension is culminating in a crisis of evangelical authority. What counts as authentic interaction? Who has authority over the circulation of information?**

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*Travis Warren Cooper*is Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington.

*August 2022 | 378pp | 9780253062260 | PB | £34.00**

*Price subject to change.

*A Primer for Teaching Digital History***

Ten Design Principles

*Jennifer Guiliano*

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*DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS*

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*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478017684/a-primer-for-teaching-digital-history/ <https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478017684/a-primer-for-teaching-digital-history/>_*

“For many instructors, the thought of teaching ‘digital history methods’ conjures up the fear that because one doesn’t know how to program, one cannot teach ‘digital.’ Offering a remarkable array of principles, strategies, and digital assignment ideas while effectively explaining how to move from analog research methods and considerations to digital approaches, this book counters such fears.” *— Erin Bush, Assistant Professor of US and Digital History, University of North Georgia*

/A Primer for Teaching Digital History/is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching digital history for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their pedagogy. It can also serve those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, as well as teachers who want to incorporate digital history into their history courses. Offering design principles for approaching digital history that represent the possibilities that digital research and scholarship can take, Jennifer Guiliano outlines potential strategies and methods for building syllabi and curricula.//

/Jennifer Guiliano/is Associate Professor of History at IUPUI and author of /Indian Spectacle: College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America/.

*Design Principles for Teaching History | May 2022 | 264pp | 9781478017684 | PB | £21.99**
*Price subject to change.

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