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Price: £19.99
Pub date: 01/09/05 |
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Carnage and the Media
The Making and Breaking of News About Violence
Jean Seaton
'This marvellous work … could - and should - change the genre of media history' Peter Hennessy
What is the purpose of showing violence and disaster in the news? What does our seemingly endless appetite for extreme images tell us about ourselves? Are there some things we just shouldn't see?
Carnage and the Media is a gripping and perceptive examination of the relationship between news-makers and news-watchers, looking at how images of war and tragedy are presented to us by the media - and how we consume them. Jean Seaton, one of Britain's leading media experts, argues that print and TV news are central to the way in which we understand and respond emotionally to the world. She shows how our expectations of what kind of news is acceptable have changed, particularly in the levels of violence we now tolerate without question. And she traces the public representation of suffering from ancient Romans through Communist Russia to all those who avidly watch today's 'breaking news', demonstrating how the media theatre of cruelty vicariously appeals to dark aspects in all of us.
Carnage and the Media brilliantly explores our complex attitude towards the media, which, despite all its problems, Seaton argues, we must embrace as an essential part of a free society. |
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Price: £8.99
Pub date: 29/09/05 |
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Elusive Peace
How the Holy Land Defeated America
Ahron Bregman
Accompanying the new BBC TV series
The election of Ehud Barak as Israeli Prime Minister in 1999 inspired high hopes for peace in the Middle East. So where did it all go wrong? How did it open the way not to peace, but to further bloodshed?
The major BBC TV series and bestselling book The Fifty Years War were acclaimed as the most impartial and candid account of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Now, published to accompany a new three-part series, Elusive Peace brings these dramatic events up to date.
Drawing on exclusive, in-depth interviews with all the major players involved - including Clinton, Barak and Abu Mazen - Ahron Bregman gives the full inside story of the peace process: from secret Israeli-Syrian talks, through the summit at Camp David, the proposed Road Map and its collapse, to the construction of Ariel Sharon's controversial security wall. He brings to life tense behind-the-scenes negotiations, looks at how America tried, failed and then gave up on the process, and explains why Israelis and Arabs now seem to have abandoned hope of a settlement. |
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Price: £8.99
Pub date: 29/09/05 |
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The Unconscious
Sigmund Freud
Translated by Graham Frankland with a new Introduction by Mark Cousins
General Editor Adam Phillips
Formulations on the Two Principles of Psychic Functioning/Drives and their Fates/Repression/The Unconscious/Negation/Fetishism/The Splitting of the Ego in Defence Processes
One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives.
This volume contains a key statement about evidence for the unconscious and how it works, and major essays on the fundamentals of mental functioning. Freud explores how we are torn between the pleasure principle and the reality principle, how we often find ways both to express and to deny what we most fear, and why people so often need fetishes for their sexual satisfaction. These studies brilliantly illuminate our most basic drives and how they are transformed. |
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Price: £10.99
Pub date: 29/09/05 |
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On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia
Sigmund Freud
Translated by Shaun Whiteside
With an Introduction by Maud Ellmann
General Editor Adam Phillips
Totem and Taboo/Timely Reflections on War and Death/Mourning and Melancholia/Why War?
Written against a backdrop of brutal conflict and rising racism across Europe, these works are compelling explorations of the underlying forces that inspire modern neuroses and war. In Totem and Taboo, Freud describes the similarities between tribal rites and the obsessive behaviour of twentieth-century neurotics. Timely Reflections on War and Death outlines the way in which war strips away the veneer of civilization to reveal the savagery beneath, while Mourning and Melancholia considers modern man's ambivalent attitude towards death. And Why War, Freud's letter to Einstein, was composed in response to what he perceived to be the physicist's naïve pacifism and offers an unsparing, profoundly pessimistic, yet grimly persuasive portrait of human nature. |
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Price: £9.99
Pub date: 01/09/05 |
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Aspects of the Novel
E. M. Forster
Edited by Oliver Stallybrass with an introduction by Frank Kermode
First given as a series of lectures at Cambridge University, Aspects of the Novel is Forster's analysis of this great literary form. Here he rejects the 'historical' view of criticism - 'that demon of chronology' - that considers writers in terms of the period in which they wrote and instead asks us to imagine the great novelists at work together in a circular room. He discusses aspects of people, plot, fantasy and rhythm, making illuminating comparisons between such novelists as Proust and James, Dickens and Thackeray, Eliot and Dostoyevsky - the features shared by their books and the ways in which they differ. Written in a wonderfully engaging and conversational manner, this penetrating work of criticism is full of Forster's habitual irreverence, wit and wisdom.
In his new preface, Frank Kermode discusses the ways in which Forster's perspective as a novelist inspired his lectures. This edition also includes the original introduction by Oliver Stallybrass, a chronology, further reading, appendices and an index. |
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Price: £6.99
Pub date: 29/09/05 |
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Love's Labour's Lost
William Shakespeare
Edited with an introduction by John Kerrigan
General Editor: Stanley Wells
'The most beautiful of Shakespeare's comedies' Kenneth Branagh
A King and his lords form an austere academy, swearing to have no contact with women for three years. But when the Princess of neighbouring France arrives with her female attendants, their pledge is quickly placed under strain. Soon all are in smitten and confusion abounds, as each struggles to secretly declare his love in this comedy of deception, desire and mistaken identity.
This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and the Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to Love's Labour's Lost, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay by Nicholas Walton discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary.
For details of other new titles in the Penguin Shakespeare series published this month, visit www.penguinshakespeare.com |
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