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

*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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