Tag: TV

July 10, 2023

Politics Is a Joke! How TV Comedians Are Remaking Political Life

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Free Download S. Robert Lichter, Jonathan S. Morris, "Politics Is a Joke!: How TV Comedians Are Remaking Political Life"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0813347173, 0367097605 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 1.3 mb
Does late night political humor matter? Are late-night comedians merely entertaining, or do they have the power to influence the way we think about politics and politicians? Politics Is a Joke! situates late night comedy in the historical context of political humor and demonstrates how the public turn to this venue for political information, and are in turn affected by it.

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July 7, 2023

The Greengrocer and His TV The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring

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Free Download Paulina Bren, "The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring"
English | 2010 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 0801447674, 0801462150, 0801476429 | PDF | 1,8 mb
The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders employed the medium to achieve "normalization," pitching television stars against political dissidents in a televised spectacle that defined the times. The Greengrocer and His TV offers a new cultural history of communism from the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution that reveals how state-endorsed ideologies were played out on television, particularly through soap opera-like serials. In focusing on the small screen, Paulina Bren looks to the "normal" of normalization, to the everyday experience of late communism.

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July 6, 2023

Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communications

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Free Download Guangtao Zhai, Hua Yang, "Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communications"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811922659 | PDF | pages: 560 | 70.8 mb
This book presents revised selected papers from the 18th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2021, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2021.

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