books by Henry Jenkins     books:     Henry Jenkins      The Culture of Violence James Cain, Henry Jenkins, ... University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2002 Gregory Green builds homemade book and suitcase bombs, Leon Golub paints monumentally trenchant street scenes, Richard Misrach shoots color photographs of Playboy magazines used for target practice, and Sue Williams sculpts a heartbreakingly abused woman in fetal position. The Culture of Violence presents a broad, multicultural, interdisciplinary ...             Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Media Consumers in a Digital Age Henry Jenkins NYU Press, 2006 All together now Henry Jenkins provides an excellent step away from our normal expectations of media philosophers. Coming in between the doom-and-gloom media affect tradition and the corporate schlock Jenkins writes (and speaks!) for the fans. The book is a collection of articles ...             Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Star Trek and Doctor Who (Popular Fiction Series) Henry Jenkins Routledge, 1995 Insightful but overly academic An academic, though interesting look at the opinions of various viewers in regards to the world's two most famous sci-fi television shows, Doctor Who and Star Trek. The Doctor Who section explores viewer reactions to (if I'm not mistaken) the Jon Pertwee story "The ...             Classical Hollywood Comedy (Afi Film Readers) Routledge, 1994 Classical Hollywood Comedy applies the recent return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywod comedy, as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in the field. This anthology combines detailed case studies of specific films and filmmakers, with overviews of general theoretical and questions. The ...             Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide Henry Jenkins NYU Press, 2008 Focused on Media, Art, Culture, Less So on Social Networks I come late to this book, published in 2006. I do not regret it. It is a bit too focused on media, art, and "culture" for me, but I cannot penalize the author for being a master of arcane tid-bits. This book is a collection of previously published articles reworked ...             Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication) Henry Jenkins Routledge, 1992 Dining at the Television Buffet Jenkins starts by dispelling the stereotype of the media fan as teenaged geek in Spock ears, and explores the very real and dynamic interactions between fans and their media. He has a clear understanding of the subject and a good relationship with the people whose ...             The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture Henry Jenkins NYU Press, 2006 A Favorite Whether you are a researcher of popular culture or simple an aficionado of popular narratives, Henry Jenkin's works are must reads. This is no exception.             Democracy and New Media (Media in Transition) The MIT Press, 2004 Digital technology is changing our politics. The World Wide Web is already a powerful influence on the public's access to government documents, the tactics and content of political campaigns, the behavior of voters, the efforts of activists to circulate their messages, and the ways in which topics enter the public discourse. The essays collected ...             Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition (Media in Transition) The MIT Press, 2003 The essays in Rethinking Media Change center on a variety of media forms at moments of disruption and cultural transformation. The editors' introduction sketches an aesthetics of media transition?patterns of development and social dispersion that operate across eras, media forms, and cultures. The book includes case studies of such earlier media ...             From Barbie® to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games The MIT Press, 2000 An important, excellent book I enjoyed this book very much, and am glad I own a copy. It addresses a fundamental problem in the computer industry: the fact that computer games are almost exclusively made by and geared towards men. The book addresses this question through a variety of articles ...             Just Us: Overcoming and Understanding Homicidal Loss and Grief Wanda Henry-Jenkins Centering Corp, 1996 Just-Us: two small words which define the plight and capture the essence of what it feels like to be survivors of murder victims. This book is for anyone who has experienced the homicidal loss of a loved one.             The Children's Culture Reader Henry Jenkins NYU Press, 1998 A Children's Culture Reader This is an interesting book, but in some chapters it tends to focus more on the historical role of the child than it addresses current social issues that are of concern in our society. Some of the contributing authors also offer highly subjective perspectives on ...             What Made Pistachio Nuts? Henry Jenkins Columbia University Press, 1992 Lively and highly readable, What Made Pistachio Nuts? examines what Henry Jenkins calls the anarchistic tradition of American film comedy. Anarchistic comedies of the 1930s mock the social order and celebrate the creativity and impulsiveness of their protagonists in a form of clowning that ultimately reestablishes the status quo. Jenkins ...             Interacting with Babylon 5: Fan Performances in a Media Universe Kurt Lancaster University of Texas Press, 2001 Much of the pleasure of science fiction and fantasy stems from the genres' ability to transport fans into imaginary worlds that often feel more "real" than ordinary life. This pioneering book uses the insights of performance theory to explore how fans of the television show "Babylon 5" actively immerse themselves in its imaginary environment by ...             Christian Jankowski: Frankenstein Set (Christoph Keller Editions) Henry Jenkins, Martin Breutigam, ... JRP|Ringier, 2008 Christian Jankowski's films, photographs and sculptures make ingenious play with the vocabulary of the horror movie, a genre traditionally inimical to high art treatment. But Jankowski loves to thwart exclusion, and has built a singular oeuvre from his imaginative takes on horror. In Playing Frankenstein (2006) Jankowski found a young actor who ...          products you might be interested in search for books communication, frankenstein, interacting, participatory, performances, understanding      toavi.com    web we recommend Dining at the Television Buffet randomly chosen book: Privacy-Enhanced Business: Adapting to the Online Environment