A traveler’s guide to the stars

A brief guide to the real science of interstellar travelWith known exoplanets now numbering in the thousands and initiatives like 100 Year Starship and Breakthrough Starshot advancing the idea of interstellar travel, the age-old dream of venturing forth into the cosmos and perhaps even colonizing...

All the news that's fit to sell

That market forces drive the news is not news. Whether a story appears in print, on television, or on the Internet depends on who is interested, its value to advertisers, the costs of assembling the details, and competitors' products. But in All the News That's Fit to Sell, economist James Hamilt...

Bollywood’s corporeal turn

This book, titled Bollywood’s Corporeal Turn: Aesthetic Response and Diasporic Memory, prizes Bollywood cinema out of its local and national context and brings a phenomenological critical awareness of it as cinema qua cinema.

Fictional television and american politics

This book explores the relationship between fictional television and American world politics in the period from 9/11 through to the presidency of Donald J. Trump. This period comprises a second golden age for fictional TV. The book therefore explores some of the best TV of all time across two dec...

Godzilla

Joss whedon

A comprehensive analysis of Whedon’s role in shaping the twenty-first-century TV landscape, featuring unique access to drafts of scripts and other source material. The book offers both detailed assessments of individual episodes and overarching histories of production. An essential and timely con...

Russian tv series in the era of transition

This book examines major Russian TV series focusing on three major issues: Russian television’s transition to digital post-broadcast visual economy, Russian television’s integration into global television markets and their genre systems, and major shifts in representation of gender and sexuality...

Satire, comedy and mental health

Satire, Comedy, and Mental Health examines how satire helps to sustain good mental health in a troubled socio-political world. Through an interdisciplinary dialogue and a close analysis of satire in various media, the book argues that satire helps us cope in a sick world through its ambiguous com...

Shinji higuchi special effect's field notes

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