Category: Media Studies

July 10, 2012

Capitalism and the History of the iPhone — An Excerpt from Moving Data

We continue our week-long focus on Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media with an excerpt from the book’s introduction by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau. In this section, Snickars and Vonderau explore what makes the iPhone distinct...

July 3, 2012

Featured Cover of the Week: Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity

From time to time, we like to showcase one of our covers. The above is from Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity, by Lauren Rabinovitz. The cover was designed by Julia Kushnirsky.

July 2, 2012

Henry Kissinger Exposed and More from The New York Times Op-ed Page

Now available in paper, All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some that Wasn’t): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page, by Jerelle Kraus, reveals the crucial role that art work has played in establishing the Times‘s op-ed page...

June 29, 2012

Olivier Assayas and Sonic Youth

We conclude our week-long focus on Olivier Assayas and the recently published A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord and Olivier Assayas, edited by Kent Jones, with a look at the director’s collaborations with Sonic Youth. Sonic Youth were one...

June 28, 2012

Olivier Assayas, 1968, and The Situationists

In a Film Comment interview on the occasion of the release of his film Carlos, Olivier Assayas discussed some of the politics that shaped the film as well. In particular, Assayas discusses how the Guy Debord and the Situationists affected...

June 27, 2012

The Films of Olivier Assayas

This week we are featuring a book by and about famed French director Olivier Assayas: A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord by Olivier Assayas and Olivier Assayas, edited by Kent Jones. Assayas’s films have been hailed by critics and...

June 15, 2012

The Editors of Best Business Writing on the Business Press and the Public Trust

Earlier this year, the Columbia Journalism Review and Public Business, organized a panel Has the Business Press Failed the Public Trust?. Among the panelists were Dean Starkman and Felix Salmon, two of the editors of The Best Business Writing 2012....

June 14, 2012

The Best Business Writing 2012 Sheds a Light on Patent Trolling

One of the more fascinating pieces in The Best Business Writing 2012 is When Patents Attack!, a story that was broadcast on NPR’s beloved “This American Life”. In the radio piece, Alex Blumberg and Laura Sydell investigate how patent lawyers...

June 13, 2012

The Audit on Bad Business Journalism

Columbia Journalism Review‘s The Audit, which features all the editors of The Best Business Writing 2012, not only celebrates excellence in business journalism but also criticizes its failures. One fault, detailed in a 2009 piece by Dean Starkman , is...

June 12, 2012

Dean Starkman on the Importance of Business Journalism for Democracy

“It’s not going overboard to say that great business writing is the vital link between the public and the institutions that shape our economic lives.”—Dean Starkman, The Best Business Writing 2012 The following is an excerpt from Dean Starkman’s introduction...

June 11, 2012

Book Giveaway! The Best Business Writing 2012

This week’s featured book is The Best Business Writing 2012, edited by Edited by Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, and Felix Salmon. The book is part of our exciting new series from Columbia Journalism Review Books. Contributors include...

May 29, 2012

Michael Haneke Wins at Cannes

The just-published The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia is the most recent book on the director whose film, Amour, was just awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes. The Cinema of Michael Haneke explores the director’s films such as Funny...