The Dominion of Signs: Television, Advertising and Other New Zealand Fictions 9781775581789, 1775581780

If you have ever wondered what led to the rise and fall of New Zealand's Telethon, or pondered the appeal of Metro

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English Pages 172 Year 2013

The Dominion of Signs: Television, Advertising and Other New Zealand Fictions
9781775581789, 1775581780

Tracing commercials from the late 1940s, when they made their first appearance, to the early 1990s, Rutherford focuses o

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These poems, written over fifty years, address such subjects as the celerity of time, old age, art, literary acquaintanc

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Huang Fan burst onto Taiwan's literary scene in the 1980s, publishing pointed urban portraits and political satires

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The persistent popularity of the detective narrative, new obsessions with psychological and supernatural disturbances, a

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Tracing commercials from the late 1940s, when they made their first appearance, to the early 1990s, Rutherford focuses o

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From Tono-Bungay to Mad Men - how fiction has treated the omnipresent influence of advertising.

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The last 20 years have witnessed an unprecedented flourishing of cultural expression in Scotland, regarded by some as a

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*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *In

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New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introd

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“Making Film and Television Histories” approaches film and television texts as primary historical media with the potenti

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