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Prof. John Hartley
This book illustrates that mediated popular culture and science-based knowledge systems, entangled and compromised as both have become, are still a robust crucible for system change for the future when…
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"Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series" by John Hartley is a collection of poems that provides a delightful and humorous exploration of Yorkshire dialect and culture. Hartley, a Yorkshireman himself, was known…
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Having nearly but not quite set Bolton, Manchester, England, The World alight with his first band the Irony Board, John Hartley packed his musical alter ego Johny Nocash into a…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
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This book shows how far both imaginative and factual media are already exploring the unintended consequences of population-wide digital literacy and social networks, promising a step-change in the growth of…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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R. Scott Harnsberger
Providing a detailed annotated bibliography and research guide to the Stieglitz Circle and four of its leading members-Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Max Weber-this new sourcebook offers a…
John L Murphy
Collin Hartley’s mundane day-to-day life is peeling away with each passing moment, as the things around him slowly dissolve into non-existence.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
When Wilf wanted something to kill time during lunchtimes, he didn't anticipate his boredom might lead to sharing the stage with the greatest band of a generation. But neither did…
The Politics of Pictures is a history of looking from Aristotle to the meaning of picnics. Hartley investigates popular media reality, showing how pictures and texts are powerful political forces…
News depends for its effect on a culturally shared language, and this book concentrates on ways we can decode its messages without simply reproducing their underlying assumptions.
A collection of Hartley’s writings on television which includes his views on TV as a global and local force and TV as a corporate and domestic, political and artistic object…
How does television function within society? Why have both its programmes and its audiences been so widely denigrated? Taking inspiration from Richard Hoggart’s study The Uses of Literacy, John Hartley’s…
Seets i' Paris, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in…
'The View From Orlando Bridge' is the first football book written by John Hartley, following the 2018 publication of his musical memoir 'Capturing The Wry, published by i40Publishing and long-since…
John Hartley captures the essence of Yorkshire through his beautiful and evocative poetry. With masterful use of the local dialect and vivid descriptions of the region's landscape and people, this…
Reproduction of the original: Seets I’ Paris by John Hartley
Out of Tune is the second anthology of poetry published by John Hartley, following the success of Seasonal Adjustments.
John grew up reading the works of McGough, Larkin, Rosen, Hughes…
Seasonal Adjustments is the first collection of poems written by John Hartley. Taking the reader through the year with a mix of humour and reflection, the anthology considers themes including…
At the heart of this book lies a reappraisal of humanities research and its use in understanding the conditions of a consumer-led society
‘Cultural studies will never be the same again. Whether you’re new to the field or a tired old jade, [it] will have you sitting bolt upright in your seat…brimming with…
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An insightful look at the varying types of food eaten during the Great War and the differences in quality between the ordinary troops on the front lines and the officers…
The story is told from the Battalion s formation in 1908 to its disbandment in the 1920s
Now in its fifth edition, this pioneering volume of Routledge’s ‘Key Concepts’ series offers clear explanations of key concepts, showing where they came from, what they are used for, and…
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An ambitious rendering of the digital future from a pioneer of media and cultural studies, a wise and witty take on a changing field, and our orientation to it.
Creative Industries is a daring collection of essays that charts the noisy revolution that is transforming the production, consumption, and understanding of culture in the all-wired era.
Bringing together seminal essays written across traditional and new media, industry sectors, and national contexts, Creative Industries chronicles the way mass culture is produced, packaged and circulated in a technology-enabled…
Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride.
