Screening the Nonhuman : Representations of Animal Others in the Media 9781498513753, 9781498513746

The Semiotics of Animal Representations 9789042038271, 9789401210720

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The Media Gaze: Representations of Diversities in Canada 077482137X, 9780774821377

While Canada is known for its official commitment to diversity, a close look at the country's media reveals that li

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Screening Torture: Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination 9780231526975

Before 9/11, films addressing torture outside of the horror/slasher genre depicted the practice in a variety of forms. I

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Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature 9780812201369

Animal Characters follows five species through the literature of early modern Europe. The horse, the parrot, the cat, th

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Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies 9780826495495, 0826495494

This book examines the ways in which the media represents language-related issues, but also how the media's use of

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Language in the Media: Representations, identities, ideologies 9781350063358, 9781350063389, 9781350063372

Examining the ways in which the media represents language-related issues and how it shapes and constructs what people th

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Occidentalism in Iran: Representations of the West in the Iranian Media 9780755609017, 9781784531621

Negative portrayals of the West in Iran are often centred around the CIA-engineered coup of 1953, which overthrew Prime

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Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk: Screening the End of Tourism 1317228006, 9781317228004

In today’s world, the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters has been at the forefront of national and inter

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Popular Trauma Culture : Selling the Pain of Others in the Mass Media 9780813551289, 9780813551296, 2010049961

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Screening Fears: On Protective Media 1942130872, 9781942130871

A historical and theoretical investigation of the unexpected ways screen-based media protect and excite viewers’ fears a

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