New Columbia titles in Film and Media Studies

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New Titles in Film and Media Studies
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Reality TV
Misha Kavka

     Paying attention to  stylistic connections as well as key concepts,
     this study breaks reality  television down into three main
"generations": the camcorder
     generation, the competition generation and the celebrity generation.
 Beginning
     with a consideration of the applicability of the term "genre"  for
this televisual
     hybrid, the book takes a transnational approach to  investigating the
forms and
     formats of reality TV framed by relevant  popular and critical
discourses.
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American Smart Cinema
Claire Perkins

    Tracing the emergence of smart cinema amidst the  texts and debates of
the 1990s
     'irony epidemic', the book describes the  unstable tone and 'double'
speech of such
     films as: The Royal Tenenbaums, Adaptation, The Squid and the Whale,
Palindromes,
     The Last Days of Disco, Flirt, Ghost World, Your Friends and
Neighbors, Donnie
     Darko, and The Savages.
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Media and Memory
Joanne Garde-Hansen

    Garde-Hansen offers analyses of representations  of memorable events,
media
    tools for remembering and forgetting, media  technologies for archiving
and the role
    of media producers in making  memories.  Theories of memory and media
are
    covered alongside an  accessible range of case studies focusing on
memory in
    relation to  radio, television, pop music, celebrity, digital media and
mobile phones.
    Ethnographic and production culture research, including  interviews
with members
    of the public and industry professionals, is also included.