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Approaches 21st-century Westerns with a specific focus on genre and gender.
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Sue Matheson
The John Ford Encyclopedia is the first reference volume devoted to one of the greatest directors in American cinema. In addition to highlighting all of the films, entries in this…
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Outstanding film and television directors drew inspiration from antiquity when creating the Wild West, and the Graeco-Roman values and influences in their work have shaped our conceptions of the West…
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Western archetypes remain important emblems of the American experience, relating a complex and coded narrative about heroism and morality, masculinity and femininity, westward expansion and technological progress, and assimilation and…
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The only person to receive four Academy Awards for best director, John Ford is considered by some to be America’s greatest homegrown filmmaker. This book looks at the two genres…
Explores the changing roles of women to the Western and offers new approaches to what has been a male-centred genre
Editorial
Revealing: A wealth of original research - by Richard Lance Keeble
Papers
The Independent Press Standards Organisation: Standard setter or complaints pacifier? - by Chris Frost Immersing in accessibility…
This book offers various cases of "literary recycling" that set the term free from the derogatory vision that associates it with repetition and creative exhaustion. It studies recycling as a…
Western culture may have enshrined North as a touchstone by which all other directions are defined, but the North is not one but a number of Netherlands; like all frontiers…
A frontier place, Canada’s North is an interface in which competing educational, historical, and cultural paradigms collide, intersect, and coalesce. The unique nature of this Northern mosaic rests upon the…
Traditional Knowledge for ethical reporting on Indigenous communities: A cultural compass for social justice - by Ann Auman and Alana Pollack Kanahele Moral agency in sports journalism: A phenomenological…
Challenging power through scholarship - by Donald Matheson
‘It’s not easy to do a WikiLeaks’: A cypherpunk approach to global media ethics - by Patrick D. Anderson Gatekeeper…
Special issue in honour of Brian Winston
‘The transformative academic’ - by Richard Lance Keeble
Humans as cultural beings in theory and practice - by Clifford G. Christians…
By providing theoretical knowledge alongside practical guidance and resources, this book helps those involved in university teaching guide students through their experiences and develop into autonomous, reflective learners.
Outline for a social ethics of film reviewing - after Pierre Bourdieu - by Steven Maras Trump scoop blown off course: The struggle for autonomy in international journalism -…
EditorialHow brave investigative journalism can become a source of hope - by Richard Lance Keeble
Reporting corruption: An ethical imperative for Latin American journalists - by Antonio Castillo…
Virtue epistemology and journalistic objectivity - by Ben Gibran Loss, awakening and American exceptionalism: A moment in contemporary US political communication - by Kristin Demetrious Trauma seeks trauma: One…
Special issue:
Women in sport: The media ethics
Guest edited by Roger Domeneghetti
Goalden girls? An analysis of English newspaper coverage of the England national team at UEFA Women’s…
ICE annual conference, 2018: Special issueAnti-social media?
A grand final curtain - and then goodbye to ICE, by John Mair
Open discourse: A media theory for the…
ES: A journal committed to reflection and promoting ethical action - by Richard Lance Keeble
Collaborative reflection and trauma: Narrative writing as a healing intervention - by Anna…
Flexibility and Pedagogy in Higher Education examines the practical application of flexibility in learning through the creation and development of online learning communities. It provides best practice examples for educators…
In The American Civil War on Film and TV: Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color, Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller bring together nineteen…
