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The Carnival of Images

Brazilian Television Fiction

By: Michele Mattelart,Armand Mattelart

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The Carnival of Images

Brazilian Television Fiction

By: Michele Mattelart,Armand Mattelart

In creating and developing the new genre of the televised novela, a one-hour long dramatic serial, the Brazilian television industry grew, in less than 15 years, from an insignificant player in the international market to one of the largest, most influential in the world. In the first book in English to explore the phenomenon of the telenovela Michele and Armand Mattelart challenge accepted views of the world dominance of United States television and probe the socioeconomic impact of this new genre on a third world country. Using the telenovela and its impact on the medium world-wide, the authors document the important changes in the international circulation of television programs and in the way television is perceived theoretically as a subject of research. The book traces the development of the novela in a country that, in the early 1960s, did not have any nationwide media and later--from 1964 to the 1970s--was ruled by a military dictatorship. It further analyzes the formation of the genre and its mode of production, placing the novela's appearance and development in its cultural, institutional, and economic context. The authors look at the peculiar contradictory relation between the genre's creators and developers--generally left wing intellectuals--and the manipulations required to construct a television industry in a highly competitive marketplace. The book begins with a description of the economic, institutional, and cultural context which produced the genre. It explores the world of soap operas, the development of a national television industry, and the beginnings of an urban consumer society in Brazil. The authors include a valuable and detailed study of the mode of production of the telenovela, placing both the form and content of the genre in their specific economic and institutional context. The book goes on to examine the relationship between the genre and its wider social and cultural environment, explaining its immense popularity and the social function it fulfills. Finally, the authors link the study of Brazilian television to wider debates in media and cultural studies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313368627

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The Invention of Communication

By: Armand Mattelart

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The Invention of Communication

By: Armand Mattelart

A tour of the multiple usages and systems that each historic period puts forth in the name of communication. This genealogy maps the many means by which humans interact - from cataloguing others, to asserting power over them, to working together with them to build new forms of community. Included are topics such as the elaboration of warfare as a logistic; the rise of professional societies of propaganda and national propagation; the history of universal expositions and world fairs; the birth of documentary and film out of physiological investigations in the 19th century; the development of press and the popular novel; and the origins of American social science. The history runs from the circuits of exchange to the circulation of goods, people and messages, from the construction of railroads to the emergence of long-distance communication. The author brings a clarifying perspective to the ideologies and theories that accompany these transformations.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816626979

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9780816626977

Mapping World Communication

War, Progress, Culture

By: Armand Mattelart

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Mapping World Communication

War, Progress, Culture

By: Armand Mattelart

The task of this book is to reconstruct the genealogy of the sphere of world communication. We will follow a multidimensional approach, analyzing the ways in which technologies and networks have taken root since the nineteenth century and have ceaselessly pushed back to light the concepts, doctrines, theories, and controversies that have marked the construction of the scientific field known as international communications.

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316

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816622620

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9780816622627

The Globalization of Surveillance

By: Armand Mattelart

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The Globalization of Surveillance

By: Armand Mattelart

Video surveillance, public records, fingerprints, hidden microphones, RFID chips: in contemporary societies the intrusive techniques of surveillance used in daily life have increased dramatically. The “war against terror” has only exacerbated this trend, creating a world that is closer than one might have imagined to that envisaged by George Orwell in 1984. How have we reached this situation? Why have democratic societies accepted that their rights and freedoms should be taken away, a little at a time, by increasingly sophisticated mechanisms of surveillance? From the anthropometry of the 19th Century to the Patriot Act, through an analysis of military theory and the Echelon Project, Armand Mattelart constructs a genealogy of this new power of control and examines its globalising dynamic. This book provides an essential wake-up call at a time when democratic societies are becoming less and less vigilant against the dangers of proliferating systems of surveillance.

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Polity

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0745645119

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9780745645117

The Information Society

An Introduction

By: Armand Mattelart

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The Information Society

An Introduction

By: Armand Mattelart

The impact of the `information society' are multiform and transdisciplinary. There are few areas of social, political and economic life that have not been affected or challenged by the new technologies of information and communication. In this short introduction, Armand Mattelart unpacks the notion of the information society, and examines why it has become the dominant paradigm for social change in the 21st Century. Critically, he also asks why the notion has come to dominant in the absence of any critical examination of the conditions under which it has been produced. Combining a long-term historical and geopolitical perspective, Mattelart questions the axioms used to legitimate the Information Society and critically assesses the ways in which it has been conceptualised as a theoretical concept as well as policy making tool. This introduction will be of interest to all students of media and communication, as well as social scientists in general.

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SAGE

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0761949488

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9780761949480

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The Privatisation of Public Space

By: Armand Mattelart

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The Privatisation of Public Space

By: Armand Mattelart

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1134942389

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Networking the World, 1794-2000

By: Armand Mattelart

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Networking the World, 1794-2000

By: Armand Mattelart

In the age of satellites and the Internet, worldwide communication has become increasingly unified amid overblown claims about the redemptive possibilities of international networks. But this rhetoric is hardly new. As Armand Mattelart demonstrates in Networking the World, 1794-2000, globalization and its attendant hype have existed since road and rail were the fastest way to move information. Mattelart plates contemporary global communication networks into historical context and shows that the networking of the world began much earlier than many assume, in the late eighteenth century. He argues that the internationalization of communication was spawned by such Enlightenment ideals as universalism and liberalism, and examines how the development of global communications has been inextricably linked to the industrial revolution, modern warfare, and the emergence of nationalism. Throughout, Mattelart eloquently argues that discourses of better living through globalization often mask projects of political, economic, and cultural domination.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816632871

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Networking the World, 1794-2000

By: Armand Mattelart

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By: Armand Mattelart

In the age of satellites and the Internet, worldwide communication has become increasingly unified amid overblown claims about the redemptive possibilities of international networks. But this rhetoric is hardly new. As Armand Mattelart demonstrates in Networking the World, 1794-2000, globalization and its attendant hype have existed since road and rail were the fastest way to move information. Mattelart plates contemporary global communication networks into historical context and shows that the networking of the world began much earlier than many assume, in the late eighteenth century. He argues that the internationalization of communication was spawned by such Enlightenment ideals as universalism and liberalism, and exmines how the development of global communications has been inextricably linked to the industrial revolution, modern warfare, and the emergence of nationalism. Throughout, Mattelart eloquently argues that discourses of better living through globalization often mask projects of political, economic, and cultural domination.

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U of Minnesota Press

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081663288X

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Theories of Communication

A Short Introduction

By: Armand Mattelart,Michèle Mattelart

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Theories of Communication

A Short Introduction

By: Armand Mattelart,Michèle Mattelart

This introduction to communication theory offers an historical account of the development of all major theoretical approaches by summing up the range of existing theories, and explaining how and why the diverse currents of thought emerged.

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0761956476

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The Information Society

An Introduction

By: Armand Mattelart

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The Information Society

An Introduction

By: Armand Mattelart

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The Invention of Communication

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0816626979

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Theories of Communication

A Short Introduction

By: Armand Mattelart,Professor Armand Mattelart,Michèle Mattelart

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Theories of Communication

A Short Introduction

By: Armand Mattelart,Professor Armand Mattelart,Michèle Mattelart

This textbook provides students with a concise introduction to the development of communication theory. Written in an engaging style, it offers an account of the development of all the major theoretical approaches in communication and media studies. The book summarizes clearly and methodically the range of existing theories; explains how and why the diverse currents and schools of thought emerged; and contextualizes all the major approaches, including those of cultural studies and political economy, in their historical, social and intellectual setting. Theories of Communication is an essential text for all students of media, communication and cultural studies. It will also be welcomed by anyone seeking to understand the changes that have accompanied the rise of the so-called information society'.

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1446232441

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Mapping World Communication

War, Progress, Culture

By: Armand Mattelart

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War, Progress, Culture

By: Armand Mattelart

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0816622620

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The Globalization of Surveillance

By: Armand Mattelart

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The Privatisation of Public Space

By: Armand Mattelart

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First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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The Carnival of Images

The Carnival of Images

The Invention of Communication

The Invention of Communication

Mapping World Communication

Mapping World Communication

The Globalization of Surveillance

The Globalization of Surveillance

The Information Society

The Information Society

Advertising International

Advertising International

Networking the World, 1794-2000

Networking the World, 1794-2000

Networking the World, 1794-2000

Networking the World, 1794-2000

Theories of Communication

Theories of Communication

The Information Society

The Information Society

The Invention of Communication

The Invention of Communication

Theories of Communication

Theories of Communication

Mapping World Communication

Mapping World Communication

The Globalization of Surveillance

The Globalization of Surveillance

Advertising International

Advertising International

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