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Comic Books Incorporated

How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood

By: Shawna Kidman

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Comic Books Incorporated

How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood

By: Shawna Kidman

Comic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens. Comic books wielded their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business for half a century before moving to the center of mainstream film and television production. This extraordinary history begins at the medium’s origin in the 1930s, when comics were a reviled, disorganized, and lowbrow mass medium, and surveys critical moments along the way—market crashes, corporate takeovers, upheavals in distribution, and financial transformations. Shawna Kidman concludes this revisionist history in the early 2000s, when Hollywood had fully incorporated comic book properties and strategies into its business models and transformed the medium into the heavily exploited, exceedingly corporate, and yet highly esteemed niche art form we know so well today.

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University of California Press

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0520297555

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Television News and Human Rights in the US & UK

The Violations Will Not Be Televised

By: Shawna M. Brandle

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Television News and Human Rights in the US & UK

The Violations Will Not Be Televised

By: Shawna M. Brandle

Does the CNN Effect exist? Political communications scholars have debated the influence of television news coverage on international affairs since television news began, especially in relation to the coverage of massive human rights violations. These debates have only intensified in the last 20 years, as new technologies have changed the nature of news and the news cycle. But despite frequent assertion, little research into the CNN Effect, or whether television coverage of human rights violations causes state action, exists. Bridging across the disciplines of human right studies, comparative politics, and communication studies in a way that has not been done, this book looks at television news coverage of human rights in the US and UK to answer the question of whether the CNN Effect actually exists. Examining the human rights content in television news in the US and UK yields insights to what television news producers and policy makers consider to be human rights, and what, if anything, audiences can learn about human rights from watching television news. After reviewing 20 years of footage using three different types of content analyses of American television news broadcasts and two different types of British news broadcasts, and comparing those results with human rights rankings and print news coverage of human rights, Shawns M. Brandle concludes that despite rhetoric from both countries in support of human rights, there is not enough coverage of human rights in either country to argue that television media can spur state action on human rights issues. More simply, the violations will not be televised. A welcome and timely book presenting an important examination of human rights coverage on television news.

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Routledge

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1317439651

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Comic Books Incorporated

How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood

By: Shawna Kidman

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How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood

By: Shawna Kidman

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Comic Books Incorporated

Comic Books Incorporated

Television News and Human Rights in the US & UK

Television News and Human Rights in the US & UK

Comic Books Incorporated

Comic Books Incorporated

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