books by Toby Miller     books:     Toby Miller      A Companion to Film Theory (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies) Wiley-Blackwell, 2004 This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject. Provides a major collection of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film ...             Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader Wiley-Blackwell, 2002 Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader brings together classic statements and contemporary views that illustrate how everyday culture is as much a product of policy and economic determinants as it is of creative and consumer impulses.             Television Studies British Film Institute, 2002 This work outlines the theories and approaches to the study of television in an accessible form for students. It is divided into four sections - forms of knowledge, audiences, gender and race. It discusses many television texts including "Star Trek", "Kung Fu" and "Sesame Street".             Cultural Policy (Core Cultural Theorists, 39) Toby Miller, George Yudice Sage Publications Ltd, 2002 Hitherto, cultural theory and empirical work on culture have outstripped cultural policy. This book rectifies the peculiar imbalance in the field of Cultural Studies by offering the first comprehensive and international work on cultural policy. Fully alive to the challenges posed by globalization it addresses a wide range of central topics ...             A Companion to Cultural Studies (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies) Wiley-Blackwell, 2006 Experts from five continents provide a thorough exploration of cultural studies, looking at different ideas, places and problems addressed by the field. Brings together the latest work in cultural studies and provides a synopsis of critical trends Showcases thirty contributors from five continents Addresses the key topics in the field, the ...             Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (The Americas) Jacobo Timerman University of Wisconsin Press, 2002 Siempre la misma pregunta I won't give a synopsis of the book b/c everyone else has already done that for you. What I can say about this book is that it is an impetus. After you read it, you'll most likely be hungry for more information about this brutal time in a seemingly well-developed ...             Global Hollywood: No. 2 Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, ... British Film Institute, 2004 Why is Hollywood so successful? Overwhelming almost every other national cinema and virtually extinguishing foreign cinema in the multicultural United States, Hollywood seems powerful around the globe. This book draws from political economy, cultural studies, and cultural policy analysis to highlight the material factors underlining this apparent ...             Cultural Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and Television in a Neoliberal Age Toby Miller Temple University Press, 2006 What does it mean to be a "citizen" today, in an age of unbridled consumerism, terrorism, militarism, and multinationalism? In this passionate and dazzling book, Toby Miller dares to answer this question with the depth of thought it deserves. Fast-moving and far-ranging, "Cultural Citizenship" blends fact, theory, observation, and speculation in a ...             Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention Toby Miller Ohio State University Press, 2008 Life is very much a project in the United States?but not a straightforwardly individual one. A duality of individual free choice and disciplinary institutional governance is the grand national paradox. Simply being?leading life without a bumper sticker avowing one?s elective institutional affinities?seems implausible in a country consumed by the ...             Globalization and Sport: Playing the World Toby Miller, Geoffrey A Lawrence, ... Sage Publications Ltd, 2001 Sport is the most universal feature of popular culture. It crosses language barriers and slices through national boundaries, attracting both spectators and participants, to a common lingua franca of passions, obsessions and desires. This book brings to light the connections between sport and culture. It argues that although sport is ...             The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and ... Toby Miller The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993 "This is a major work on the connection of theoretical to political practice under postmodernity. At once rigorous and readable, its academic concerns will be both accessible and useful to readers asking -- as contemporary readers indomitably do -- what these debates in cultural theory have to do with the conduct of theirsocial lives." -- Meaghan ...             The Avengers Toby Miller British Film Institute, 1997 This book is needed! What makes "The Avengers" one of the most popular spy/action shows ever produced? How has the naive conception of a show, that started by two male lead actors, turned to be an outstanding, successful outlet for daring, witty, subversive and sexy aspects? All the ...             Sportsex Toby Miller Temple University Press, 2002 "Sportsex" examines the landscape of sports writ globally. And it is about the way sport allows men and women but mostly men to consider their looks, their vitality, and their relationship to their gender in ways that would be considered taboo in any other context. Miller pays particular attention to the way celebrity is considered around the ...             Film and Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies) Wiley-Blackwell, 2000 Providing a collection of some of the most provocative and influential writings of film theory in the past thirty years, this anthology aims to provide a polylogue among theorists, deprovincializing the subject. Film Theory multiplies the perspectives and positions, the situations and locations, from which film theory is spoken.             Technologies of Truth: Cultural Citizenship and the Popular Media (Technologies of Truth) Toby Miller University of Minnesota Press, 1998 In a complex and media-saturated world, what is the value of truth? Author Toby Miller provides a pithy examination of how television, magazines, film, and museums influence the way our society conceptualizes such issues as citizenship, democracy, nationhood, globalization, truth, and fiction. 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