Cameras Should Not Be Allowed in the Supreme Court

There are understandable reasons for televising U.S. Supreme Court arguments. It is reasonable for the American public to want to understand the thinking behind so many important decisions, and other governmental branches have allowed electronic media access, as have lower courts. Such access, however, would be misleading, as oral arguments would receive attention that is disproportionate to their significance. For many justices, oral arguments play an insignificant role in their decision making, and the remarks they make during such arguments may not be indicative of their actual stances. Televising the Court\u27s oral arguments, may result in undue attention for those justices with the sharpest wit, leading to a misrepresentation of the Court. Furthermore, the Supreme Court is already more open than the executive and legislative branches, rendering the televising of its arguments unnecessary. Although there would be some benefits to televising the Court\u27s proceedings, the potentially harmful results are far more numerous

Watching Marginal Bodies: Representation of the Transgender Identity on Turkish Media

The world in which we live is seen, on the one hand as a global village in some sense and, on the other, as a divided geography. In other words, it is localized and ghettoized simultaneously. The everyday life that transforms rapidly and in an amorphous notion bears testimony to the rise of new identities and belongings as well as new opposition and disengagement. This dilemma generates new and different notion of tension and conflict. Body and gender are considerably significant paradigms in terms of showing and representing this sense of physical, mental and ideological separation; so much so that they change continuously in the shade of freedom and security deadlock. As for media, they do not merely capture but formalized the social events and collective facts. They manipulate the viewer perception and attitudes. From institutional and traditional to individual, digitalized and social media, they redefine the meaning of distant and ambivalent identities and design some clichés about them. That is why this paper is an attempt to describe the representation of marginal identities in Turkish media mainly through television channels, newspapers, internet and films that may stimulate the controversial relationship between normals and deviant and between insider and outsider. For this purpose, in this study, it is focused on the question of how Turkish media display and represent the transvestites

Not frozen! The unresolved conflicts over Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh in light of the crisis over Ukraine

Since 2014 German and European attention has been largely absorbed by the annexation of Crimea, the war in Donbas and the crisis in relations with Russia. Yet the eastern neighbourhood also contains four unresolved territorial conflicts, which have in some respects developed very dynamically since 2014. The authors of this study examine the role of Russia in these conflicts, the political background, the relevant actors and their interests, and the connection between conflict level and geopolitical context. Together they produce a nuanced picture of the arc of conflict in the EU’s eastern neighbourhood. Their verdict in all four cases is that the conditions for constructive conflict regulation have deteriorated since 2014. Alongside the geopolitical context, local factors are also significant. Russia plays an ambivalent role, instrumentalising all four conflicts to preserve its influence in the affected states, but without enjoying full control of the dynamics. The authors recommend the EU pursue a nuanced policy of conflict regulation that takes into account context-sensitive local factors as well as the international context. The medium-term goals of such a policy range from the preservation of existing channels of interaction (Transnistria) through de-isolation (Abkhazia and South Ossetia) to de-escalation and conflict prevention (Nagorno-Karabakh). (author's abstract

Found, Featured, then Forgotten: U.S. Network TV News and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War

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MSS0178. Memphis Search for Meaning Committee records finding aid

The Memphis Search for Meaning Committee records document the strike in Memphis by the city\u27s sanitation workers from February to April 1968, the activities of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis prior to his assassination, and the aftermath. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, publications, documents, correspondence, ephemera, oral interviews, and film and videotape footage

Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age

From Ken Burns’s documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from A&E’s Biography series to CNN, television has become the primary source for historical information for tens of millions of Americans today. Why has television become such a respected authority? What falsehoods enter our collective memory as truths? How is one to know what is real and what is imagined—or ignored—by producers, directors, or writers? Gary Edgerton and Peter Rollins have collected a group of essays that answer these and many other questions. The contributors examine the full spectrum of historical genres, but also institutions such as the History Channel and production histories of such series as The Jack Benny Show, which ran for fifteen years. The authors explore the tensions between popular history and professional history, and the tendency of some academics to declare the past “off limits” to nonscholars. Several of them point to the tendency for television histories to embed current concerns and priorities within the past, as in such popular shows as Quantum Leap and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. The result is an insightful portrayal of the power television possesses to influence our culture. Winner of the 2001 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Outstanding Textbook given by the Popular Culture Association Offers much food for thought in this highly visual age. —Alliance (OH) Review As an example of well-reasoned, original research, Television Histories makes an important contribution to the study of the medium. —Anthony Slide, Classic Images This book is even more timely and provocative because much of the material discussed is being rebroadcast now that digital television is opening even more new channels. —Choice An engrossing collection that slides the thorny subject of television, history, and memory under a microscope. . . . Digs deep into a contemporary phenomenon, and its many conclusions are right on target. —Film & History Helps those of us who care about history think more clearly about how television can shape historical thinking among our friends, neighbors, and students. —Florida Historical Quarterly Television Histories, a pioneer work, weaves an inspired and informed interdisciplinary analysis of television and history. The chapters are enlightening, readable, and entertaining; the editors and the authors have produced a work that enriches and strengthens the study of film and history. —Michael Schoenecke The stuff serious thinkers in a media age should read, mark and remember. —Rockland (ME) Courier-Gazette An insightful and important addition to the literature that sheds light on an often controversial subject for professional historians. —Southern Historian Most of the essays are likely to be of considerable value to any attentive student of television. —Television Quarterly Working from the thesis that people learn about history through television more than any other medium, Edgerton and Rollins look at what TV subliminally teaches us by what is shows and does not show. —Varietyhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_film_and_media_studies/1020/thumbnail.jp

How Have Depictions in Cinema, Television Series and Comic Books Reflected the Use and Proliferation of Surveillance in Contemporary Society Following the 9/11 Attacks?

Seminal novels such as George Orwell's 1984 have voiced the concerns regarding the proliferation of mass surveillance in society. Since the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington and the subsequent 'War on Terror', state surveillance has escalated. Cinema, Television Series and comic book format provide a means for engagement with such issues in contemporary society through both academic and non-academic discussion. These examples of modes that help define popular culture, assists in the theorising of surveillance through metaphor, reference and image. Many more people have encountered George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four in one of its many iterations than have read the works of Bentham, Foucault or Deleuze and so popular culture makes for a linkage between everyday perceptions and the academic discourse. Analysing the fictional worlds created in the film The Dark Knight, the Television series of Westworld and Person of Interest as well the narratives found in comic book form such as Verax and The Machine Never Blinks, this project compares such created depictions with our modern and technologically driven panoptic world. The aim is to see through the lens philosophical lens provided by Bentham, Foucault and Deleuze, if and how those portrayals have permeated, modified or perhaps defined understandings of contemporary and ubiquitous surveillance

Bias in the news: network television coverage of the 1972 election campaign

(print) xv, 213 p. ; 26 cmPreface xiii -- 1. Bias and News Programming 3 -- 2. Studying News Coverage of the 1972 Campaign 17 -- 3. How the Candidates Fared during the Campaign 47 -- 4. Issue Coverage during the Campaign 77 -- 5. Political Parties in the 1972 Campaign Coverage 111 -- 6. Alternative Techniques of Analysis : Ratings and Themes 145 -- 7. Specific Issues and Sources in News Coverage 165 -- 8. Campaign 1972 through the Eyes of Television News 187 -- Index 20