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Grandma's Knicker Tree

By: Barbie Robinson

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A charming story about the importance of gardens, of grandparents and of families doing things together. When our dads say, 'Money doesn’t grow on trees you know,' Grandma smiles and says, 'Mmm, but knickers do.' WHAT?! Grandma’s got an underpants tree? She sure has and you know what else? It blooms all year round with all kinds of knickers to suit everyone in the family. But one morning, Grandma finds her precious tree has been attacked, with knickers strewn all over the garden. Grandpa and the grandkids spring into action, setting up an after dark stakeout. Will the kids be able to stay awake long enough to find out whodunnit?

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For Pity Sake Publishing

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0648758761

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What Journalism Could Be

By: Barbie Zelizer

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What Journalism Could Be

By: Barbie Zelizer

What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual prism long championed by one of journalisms leading contemporary scholars. A former reporter, media critic and academic, Barbie Zelizer charts a singular journey through journalisms complicated contours, prompting readers to rethink both how the news works and why it matters. Zelizer tackles longstanding givens in journalisms practice and study, offering alternative cues for assessing its contemporary environment. Highlighting journalisms intersection with interpretation, culture, emotion, contingency, collective memory, crisis and visuality, Zelizer brings new meaning to its engagement with events like the global refugee crisis, rise of Islamic State, ascent of digital media and twenty-first-century combat. Imagining what journalism could be involves stretching beyond the already-known. Zelizer enumerates journalisms considerable current challenges while suggesting bold and creative ways of engaging with them. This book powerfully demonstrates how and why journalism remains of paramount importance.

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339

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509507884

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9781509507887

Taking Journalism Seriously

News and the Academy

By: Barbie Zelizer

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Taking Journalism Seriously

News and the Academy

By: Barbie Zelizer

Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy argues that scholars have remained too entrenched within their own disciplinary areas resulting in isolated bodies of scholarship. This is the first book to critically survey journalism scholarship in one volume and organize it by disparate fields. The book reviews existing journalism research in such diverse fields as sociology, history, language studies, political science, and cultural analysis and dissects the most prevalent and understated research in each discipline.

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SAGE Publications

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145222191X

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9781452221915

The Changing Faces of Journalism

Tabloidization, Technology and Truthiness

By: Barbie Zelizer

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The Changing Faces of Journalism

Tabloidization, Technology and Truthiness

By: Barbie Zelizer

The Changing Faces of Journalism: Tabloidization, Technology and Truthiness brings together an array of top scholars who consider how contemporary journalism has wrestled with its changing parameters and who address how notions of tabloidization, technology and truthiness have altered our understanding of journalism.

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185

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Routledge

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1135968470

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9781135968472

Covering the Body

The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory

By: Barbie Zelizer

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Covering the Body

The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory

By: Barbie Zelizer

Covering the Body (the title refers to the charge given journalists to follow a president) is a powerful reassessment of the media's role in shaping our collective memory of the assassination--at the same time as it used the assassination coverage to legitimize its own role as official interpreter of American reality. Of the more than fifty reporters covering Kennedy in Dallas, no one actually saw the assassination. And faced with a monumentally important story that was continuously breaking, most journalists had no time to verify leads or substantiate reports. Rather, they took discrete moments of their stories and turned them into one coherent narrative, blurring what was and was not "professional" about their coverage.

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307

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University of Chicago Press

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0226979717

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9780226979717

About to Die

How News Images Move the Public

By: Barbie Zelizer

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About to Die

How News Images Move the Public

By: Barbie Zelizer

Due to its ability to freeze a moment in time, the photo is a uniquely powerful device for ordering and understanding the world. But when an image depicts complex, ambiguous, or controversial events--terrorist attacks, wars, political assassinations--its ability to influence perception can prove deeply unsettling. Are we really seeing the world "as it is" or is the image a fabrication or projection? How do a photo's content and form shape a viewer's impressions? What do such images contribute to historical memory? About to Die focuses on one emotionally charged category of news photograph--depictions of individuals who are facing imminent death--as a prism for addressing such vital questions. Tracking events as wide-ranging as the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, and 9/11, Barbie Zelizer demonstrates that modes of journalistic depiction and the power of the image are immense cultural forces that are still far from understood. Through a survey of a century of photojournalism, including close analysis of over sixty photos, About to Die provides a framework and vocabulary for understanding the news imagery that so profoundly shapes our view of the world.

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428

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Oxford University Press

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0199780811

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9780199780815

Keywords In News And Journalism Studies

By: Zelizer, Barbie,Allan, Stuart

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Keywords In News And Journalism Studies

By: Zelizer, Barbie,Allan, Stuart

Covers four inter-related subject areas: news and journalism theories, practices, environments and technologies. Different genres of reporting are covered such as business, crime, environmental, fashion, lifestyle, investigative, science, sports and war journalism.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335221831

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9780335221837

The Making of Sacagawea

A Euro-American Legend

By: Donna J. Kessler,Donna Barbie Kessler

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The Making of Sacagawea

A Euro-American Legend

By: Donna J. Kessler,Donna Barbie Kessler

Kessler supplies both the biography of a legend and an explanation of why that legend has endured. Sacagawea is one of the most renowned figures of the American West. A member of the Shoshone tribe, she was captured by the Hidatsas as a child and eventually became one of the wives of a French fur trader, Toussaint Charbonneau. In 1805 Charbonneau joined Lewis and Clark as the expedition's interpreter. Sacagawea was the only woman to participate in this important mission, and some claim that she served as a guide when the expedition reached the upper Missouri River and the mountainous region. Although much has been written about the historical importance of Sacagawea in connection with the expedition, no one has explored why her story has endured so successfully in Euro-American culture. In an examination of representative texts (including histories, works of fiction, plays, films, and the visual arts) from 1805 to the present, Kessler charts the evolution and transformation of the legend over two centuries and demonstrates that Sacagawea has persisted as a Euro-American legend because her story exemplified critical elements of America's foundation myths-especially the concept of manifest destiny. Kessler also shows how the Sacagawea legend was flexible within its mythic framework and was used to address cultural issues specific to different time periods, including suffrage for women, taboos against miscegenation, and modern feminism.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817309284

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9780817309282

Remembering to Forget

Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye

By: Barbie Zelizer

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Remembering to Forget

Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye

By: Barbie Zelizer

There is no more gruesome and tragic record in the history of the twentieth century than the photographs taken at the liberation of the concentration camps in Germany after World War II. Our memory of the Holocaust has been shaped by these images, and they are seared into our collective consciousness as brutal evidence of the atrocity of war and the evil of which humanity is capable. In her new book, Barbie Zelizer reveals the unique significance of the concentration camp photographs while being mindful of Leon Wieseltier's call to be strangers to these images. "If we are not strangers," he wrote, "if the names of the killers and the places of the killing and the numbers of the killed fall easily from our tongues, then we are not remembering to remember, but remembering to forget." Zelizer shows how the photographs have become the basis of our memory of the Holocaust and how they have affected our presentations and perceptions of contemporary history's subsequent atrocities.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226979725

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9780226979724

Grandma's Knicker Tree

By: Barbie Robinson

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Grandma's Knicker Tree

By: Barbie Robinson

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Grandma's Knicker Tree

Grandma's Knicker Tree

What Journalism Could Be

What Journalism Could Be

Taking Journalism Seriously

Taking Journalism Seriously

The Changing Faces of Journalism

The Changing Faces of Journalism

Covering the Body

Covering the Body

About to Die

About to Die

Keywords In News And Journalism Studies

Keywords In News And Journalism Studies

The Making of Sacagawea

The Making of Sacagawea

Remembering to Forget

Remembering to Forget

Grandma's Knicker Tree

Grandma's Knicker Tree

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