Research

Chromatic Cinema: a history of screen color
By Richard Misek, University of Bristol 
 
Chromatic Cinema provides the first wide-ranging historical overview of screen color, exploring the changing uses and meanings of color in moving images, from hand painting in early skirt dance films to current trends in digital color manipulation.
 
·       Offers both a history and a theory of screen color in the first full-length academic study of this subject ever published
 

Media Houses
Architecture, Media, and the Production of Centrality
Eds. Staffan Ericson & Kristina Riegert, Södertörn University Sweden
 

The Citizen in Communication
Re-visiting traditional, new and community
media practices in South Africa

Nathalie Hyde-Clarke (ed)
ISBN:  978 0 70217 778 1

The Citizen in Communication is a compilation of contemporary, accessible material from reputable academics with an interest in the South African media, and the changes that are currently impacting on the public’s ability to engage with it.

International Journalism and Democracy:
Civic Engagement Models from Around the World, Routledge Research: New
York.

Angela Romano (ed.) 2010,

Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada.

by Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern

UBC Press

The journal Politics and Culture announces "Bioculture: Evolutionary Cultural Studies,"
a special issue guest edited by Joseph Carroll.

The issue may be found here:

http://www.politicsandculture.org/2010/04/28/contents-2/

Table of Contents:

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
1. The Evolutionary Turn in Psychology and the Humanities

Don't Look Now: British Cinema of the 1970s
Edited by Paul Newland
ISBN 9781841503202 pb £19.95, $35

While postwar British cinema and the British new wave have received much scholarly attention, the misunderstood period of the 1970s has been comparatively ignored. Don’t Look Now uncovers forgotten but richly rewarding lms, including Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now and the lms of Lindsay Anderson and Barney Platts-Mills.

Cinema and Landscape: Film, Nation and Cultural Geography
Edited by Graeme Harper  and Jonathan Rayner
ISBN 9781841503097 pb £14.95, $25

KEY FEATURES

New Issue
Policy & Internet
http://www.policyandinternet.org

/La era del drama en televisión. Perdidos, CSI: Las Vegas, El ala oeste de la Casa
Blanca, Mujeres desesperadas y House/
(/The era of drama in TV. Lost, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The West Wing, Desperate
Housewives and House/)

March, 2010
UOC Press
Barcelona (Spain)
259 pages
By Anna Tous-Rovirosa
Prologue: Professor Roman Gubern

This book starts from the empirical analysis of five drama series: /The West Wing/, NBC:
1999-2006;/ Lost/, ABC: 2004-2010; /Desperate Housewives/, ABC: 2004-/; House, M.D.,