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The Seventh Edition includes the latest developments in pretrial practice while enhancing the useful features of previous editions. The 2007 amendments to the federal rules are covered throughout, and the sections on pleading have been updated to discuss federal court pleading requirements in light of Bell Atlantic v. Twombly. Law professors and students praise the book's comprehensive coverage, thorough analysis of rules and procedures, balanced presentation of theories and skills, enjoyable writing style, and helpful questions and problems. It reflects 21st-century practice with the growing use of electronic discovery and court orders, the expanded use of pre-hearing discovery and motions in arbitrations and administrative hearings, and new procedural rule and case law developments across the spectrum of pretrial practice..
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Mass Communication Research and Theory offers advice from some of the best-known and most published experts in the field on all the major techniques used in mass communication research. This text combines mass communication theory with detailed descriptions of the various research methods, covering everything from content analysis to survey research, historical and legal research, and qualitative studies. The most outstanding feature of the text is that it brings together the field experts, with each chapter written by an expert on the particular topic. Mass Communication Research and Theory supports chapters on research ethics and research presentation that further distinguish it from competitors..
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'Why do I like soap operas?' Laura Stempel Mumford asks, and her answer emerges in a feminist analysis of soap opera that participates in current debates about popular culture, television, and ideology. She argues that the conventional daytime soap has an implicit and at times explicit political agenda that cooperates in the 'teaching' of male dominance and the related oppressions of racism, classism, and heterosexism so that they seem inevitable. Unlike other critics of the genre, Mumford situates her argument within her own history as a soap opera viewer and her struggle to reconcile her pleasure in the genre with a recognition of the form's repressive tendencies.Mumford blends theory, criticism, and personal practice into a detailed analysis of the genre and its viewers: the different levels of viewer competence crucial to understanding soap opera narratives; how soaps blur the boundaries between public and private spheres to construct a particular kind of community; the functions of clusure in programs' narratives and viewer expectations about particular storylines; the paternity mystery, a fictional restatement of the power of the father; and, various elements surrounding soap operas, such as fan magazines, network programming strategies. "All My Children", "General Hospital", "Another World", "One Life to Live", "Days of Our Lives", and "The Young and the Restless": a close reading of their texts will also answer some larger questions about television and its place in the broad landscape of popular culture..
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This heavily illustrated volume features behind-the-scenes production shots and cast photos from current popular soaps alongside cult and long-running serials from the past. A specially created "family tree' of soap creators and their shows and interviews with leading writers, producers, actors, and directors further illuminate the birth and growth of this television staple. 140 illustrations, 60 in color..
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After nearly half a century of working in the world of international politics and foreign relations, John Stempel brings a unique perspective on the question of how to understand foreign policy and participate effectively to improve decisions that will determine how we live with the rest of the world. Whether as a citizen, aspiring participant in foreign affairs, or a jaded veteran of wars and peacekeeping, Common Sense and Foreign Policy will help you understand the complexities of the subject, stimulate you to find useful information and increase your cross-cultural understanding..
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Tom Stempel has spent more than fifty years sitting in the dark, watching movies and his fellow filmgoers, listening to their comments and reactions In American Audiences on Movies and Moviegoing, Stempel goes beyond the comments of professional reviewers, concentrating on the opinions of ordinary people.

He traces shifting trends in genre and taste, examining and questioning the power films have in American society. Stempel blends audience response with his own observations and analyzes box office results that identify the movies people actually went to see, not just those praised by the critics.

Avoiding statistical summary, he presents the results of a survey on movies and moviegoing in the respondents’ own words—words that surprise, amuse, and irritate. The result is a unique perspective on half a century of American cinema—from the audience’s point of view.

The moviegoers respond:

“All I can recall were the slave girls and the Golden Calf sequence and how it got me excited. My parents must have been very pleased with my enthusiasm for the Bible.” —On why a seven-year-old boy stayed up to watch The Ten Commandments

“I learned the fine art of seduction by watching Faye Dunaway smolder.” —A woman’s reaction to seeing Bonnie and Clyde at age fifteen

“Jesus said he would be back, he just didn’t say what he would look like.” —On E.T.

“Quasimodo is every seventh grader.” —On why The Hunchback of Notre Dame should play well with middle-schoolers

“A moronic, very ‘Hollywoody’ script, and a bunch of dancing teddy bears.” —On Return of the Jedi

“Big bad plane, big bad motorcycle, and big bad Kelly McGillis.” —On Top Gun

“I couldn’t help but think how Mad magazine would lampoon this.” —On The Exorcist.
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