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New from Harvard U. Press, Spring 1999

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THE INTERNET CHALLENGE TO TELEVISION
BRUCE M. OWEN
Television technology has begun to change at the same dizzying pace as computer software. What this will mean--for television, for computers, and for the popular culture where these video media reign supreme--is the subject of this timely book. A noted communications economist, Bruce Owen looks at the economic history of the television industry and at the effects of technology and government regulation on its organization. His book enables readers to peer into the future--at the likely effects of television and the Internet on each other and at the possibility of a convergence of the TV set, computer, and telephone.
March 1999
53 line illus., 7 tables / 384 pages
ISBN 0-674-87299-1
$29.95 / L18.50 cloth


THE WORLD THROUGH A MONOCLE
The New Yorker at Midcentury
MARY F. COREY
Today The New Yorker is one of a number of general-interest magazines published for a sophisticated audience, but in the post-World War II era the magazine occupied a truly significant niche of cultural authority. Balancing the consumption of goods with a social conscience which prized goodness, the magazine managed to provide readers with what seemed like a coherent and comprehensive value system in an incoherent world. A self-selected community of 250,000 readers, who wanted to know how to look and sound cosmopolitan, found in its pages information about everything from night spots and polo teams to Italian Communism, and French wine.
April 1999
256 pages
ISBN 0-674-96193-5
$25.95 / L15.95 cloth


WALTER BENJAMIN
Selected Writings, Volume 2: 1927-1934
MICHAEL W. JENNINGS, GENERAL EDITOR
In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of Selected Writings, covering the years 1927 to 1934, displays the full spectrum of Benjamin's achievements at this pivotal stage in his career.
Belknap Press
May 1999
14 halftones, 2 line illus. / 704 pages
ISBN 0-674-94586-7
$37.50 / L23.50 cloth


RED-HOT AND RIGHTEOUS
The Urban Religion of The Salvation Army
DIANE WINSTON
In this engrossing study of American religion, urban life, and commercial culture, Diane Winston shows how a (self-styled "red-hot") militant Protestant mission established a beachhead in the modern city. When The Salvation Army, a British evangelical movement, landed in New York in 1880, local citizens called its eye-catching advertisements "vulgar" and dubbed its brass bands, female preachers, and overheated services "sensationalist." Yet a little more than a century later, this ragtag missionary movement had evolved into the nation's largest charitable fund-raiser. Winston illustrates how the Army borrowed the forms and idioms of popular entertainments, commercial emporiums, and master marketers to deliver its message. She shows that Salvationists were at the center of debates about social services for the urban poor, the changing position of women, and the evolution of a consumer culture.
May 1999
33 halftones, 9 linecuts / 320 pages
ISBN 0-674-86706-8
$27.95 / L17.50 cloth


SHANGHAI MODERN
The Flowering of New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945
LEO OU-FAN LEE
A preeminent specialist in Chinese studies, Leo Ou-fan Lee gives us a rare wide-angle view of Shanghai culture in the making. He shows us the architecture and urban spaces in which the new commercial culture flourished, then guides us through the publishing and filmmaking industries that nurtured a whole generation of artists and established a bold new style in urban life known as modeng. In the work of six writers of the time, Lee discloses the reflection of Shanghai's urban landscape--foreign and familiar, oppressive and seductive, traditional and innovative. This work is a virtual genealogy of Chinese modernity from the 1930s to the present day.
Interpretations of Asia
August 1999
26 halftones / 416 pages
ISBN 0-674-80550-X / $49.95 / L30.95 cloth:
ISBN 0-674-80551-8 / $24.95 / L15.50 paper

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