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Liveness is a persistent and much-debated concept in media studies. Until recently, it was associated primarily with broadcast media, and television in particular. However, the emergence of social media has brought new forms of liveness into effect. These forms challenge common assumptions about and perspectives on liveness, provoking a revisiting of the concept. In this book, Karin van Es develops a comprehensive understanding of liveness today, and clarifies the stakes surrounding the category of the 'live'. She argues that liveness is the product of a dynamic interaction between media institutions, technologies and users. In doing so, she challenges earlier conceptions of the notion, which tended to focus on either one of these contributors to its construction.   By analyzing the 'live' in four different cases Ð a live streaming platform, an online music collaboration website, an example of social TV, and a social networking site Ð van Es explores the operation of the category and pinpoints the conditions under which it comes into being. The analysis is the starting point for a broader reflection on the relation between broadcast and social media.

Social media --- Live television programs --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- Philosophy.

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"In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and ?cultural pragmatics? are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life. Central to his approach is a new model of social performance that combines elements from both the theatrical avant-garde and modern social theory. Alexander uses this model to shed new light on a wide range of social actors, movements and events: from Mao, Martin Luther King and Fanon to the Arab Spring and Black Lives Matter; from Marx and Keynes to the Great Recession; from Ayn Rand and Jean-Paul Sartre to Obama?s re-election in 2012. These and other examples show that social life is strikingly dramatic. Producing successful dramas determines the outcome of social movements and provides the keys to political power. Modernity has neither eliminated aura nor suppressed authenticity: on the contrary, they are available to social actors who can perform them in compelling ways. This volume further consolidates Alexander?s reputation as one of the most original social thinkers of our time. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, cultural studies and throughout the social sciences and humanities"--

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- Theater and society --- Political science --- Science politique --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- #SBIB:316.7c140 --- #SBIB:324h60 --- 316.32 --- 316.2 ALEXANDER, JEFFREY C. --- 316.32 Globale samenlevingsvormen --- Globale samenlevingsvormen --- Sociologische richtingen. Sociologische scholen. Sociologen--ALEXANDER, JEFFREY C. --- #SBIB:316.7C140 --- #SBIB:324H60 --- Cultuursociologie: cultuur en globale samenlevingen --- Politieke socialisatie --- Théâtre et société --- Philosophy --- Social science / media studies. --- Théâtre et société --- Sociology of culture --- 316.2 ALEXANDER, JEFFREY C --- Sociologische richtingen. Sociologische scholen. Sociologen--ALEXANDER, JEFFREY C

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When you think of British horror films, you might picture the classic Hammer Horror movies, with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and blood in lurid technicolor. Yet British horror has undergone an astonishing change and resurgence in the twenty-first century, with films that capture instead the anxieties of post-Millennial viewers. Tracking the revitalization of the British horror film industry over the past two decades, media expert Steven Gerrard also investigates why audiences have flocked to these movies. To answer that question, he focuses on three major trends: "hoodie horror" movies responding to fears about Britain's urban youth culture; "great outdoors" films where Britain's forests, caves, and coasts comprise a terrifying psychogeography; and psychological horror movies in which the monster already lurks within us. Offering in-depth analysis of numerous films, including The Descent, Outpost, and The Woman in Black, this book takes readers on a lively tour of the genre's highlights, while provocatively exploring how these films reflect viewers' gravest fears about the state of the nation. Whether you are a horror buff, an Anglophile, or an Anglophobe, The Modern British Horror Film is sure to be a thrilling read.

Horror films --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Guides & Reviews. --- Spookfests (Motion pictures) --- Motion pictures --- Haunted house films --- Monster films --- History and criticism. --- Britain. --- british horror. --- british. --- horror film. --- horror movies. --- scary movie.

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"A critical approach to the cultural function of news media, arguing that news is an institution that performs a function of social control under the guise of the Fourth Estate"--

Journalism --- Mass communications --- United States --- Journalistik --- Massmedia --- Politik och massmedia. --- Press and politics. --- Political aspects. --- Politiska aspekter. --- 1900-talet. --- 2000-talet. --- Förenta staterna. --- Mass media --- Press and politics --- Social control --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Writing (Authorship) --- Political aspects --- History --- Contrôle social --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism. --- 1900 - 2099 --- Communication --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news --- Social control. --- United States. --- Médias --- Presse --- Presse et politique --- Contrôle social --- Aspect politique --- United States of America

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"The film industry in Hollywood now employs a global mode of production run by massive media conglomerates that mobilize hundreds, sometimes thousands, of workers for each feature film or television series. Yet these workers and their labor remain largely invisible to the general audience. In fact, this has been a signal characteristic of Hollywood style for more than a hundred years: everything that matters happens onscreen, not off. Consequently, when it comes to movies and television, the voices heard most often are those belonging to talent and corporate executives. Those we hear least are the voices of labor, and it's that silence we aim to redress in the collection of interviews in this book. Drawing from the detailed and personal accounts in this collection, we offer three interrelated propositions about the current state and future prospects of craftwork and screen media labor: 1. Craftwork exists within an intricate and intimate matrix of social relations. 2. Hollywood craftwork today constitutes a regime of excessive labor. 3. Screen media production is a protean entity. We organized the collection into three sections: company town, global machine, and fringe city. The first section refers to Hollywood's historic roots as a core component of the motion picture business. The second section engages more directly with the spatial dynamics of film and television production to underscore the economic and political structures that are integrating distant locations into the studios' mode of production. We close with a section on the visual effects sector, in which stories shared by vfx artists, advocates, and organizers specifically illustrate how the industry today relies on marginal institutions to sustain its power and profitability"--Provided by publisher.

Motion picture industry --- Mass media and globalization. --- Employees --- Globalization and mass media --- Globalization --- Film industry (Motion pictures) --- Moving-picture industry --- Cultural industries --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- artists. --- behind the scenes. --- blue collar. --- business. --- conglomerates. --- craftwork. --- feature film. --- film industry. --- historic roots. --- history. --- hollywood. --- interviews. --- media. --- motion picture. --- movies. --- personal accounts. --- power. --- production. --- profitability. --- screen media. --- social relations. --- studios. --- style. --- television series. --- tv. --- vfx. --- visual effects. --- workers.