John Fiske (developer)
John Fiske may refer to: * John Fiske (philosopher) (1842–1901), American philosopher and historian * John Fiske (media scholar) (1939–2021), author and Professor Emeritus at the University Wisconsin-Madison * John Safford Fiske (1838–1907), U.S. diplomat involved in a sex scandal See also * Jack Fisk (born 1945), American movie professional * John Fisk (died 2004), American radio personality * Jonathan Fisk Jonathan Fisk (September 26, 1778 – July 13, 1832) was an American lawyer and politician who served as United States Representative for the third District of New York. Early life Fisk was born in Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, ...

John Fiske (philosopher)
John Fiske (March 30, 1842 – July 4, 1901) was an American philosopher and historian. He was heavily influenced by Herbert Spencer and applied Spencer's concepts of evolution to his own writings on linguistics, philosophy, religion, and history. Biography John Fiske was born Edmund Fiske Green at Hartford, Connecticut, March 30, 1842. He was the only child of Edmund Brewster Green, of Smyrna, Delaware, and Mary Fiske Bound, of Middletown, Connecticut. His father was editor of newspapers in Hartford, New York City, and Panama, where he died in 1852, and his widow married Edwin W. Stoughton, of New York, in 1855. On the second marriage of his mother, Edmund Fiske Green assumed the name of his maternal great-grandfather, John Fiske. As a child, Fiske exhibited remarkable precocity. He lived at Middletown with his grandmother during childhood, and prior to his entering college he had read widely in English literature and history, had excelled in Greek and Latin work, and had studied ...
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John Fiske (media Scholar)
John Fiske (September 12, 1939 – July 12, 2021) was a media scholar and cultural theorist who taught around the world. His primary areas of intellectual interest included cultural studies, critical analysis of popular culture, media semiotics, and television studies. He was the author of eight academic books, including ''Power Plays, Power Works'' (1993), ''Understanding Popular Culture'' (1989), ''Reading the Popular'' (1989), and the influential ''Television Culture'' (1987). Fiske was also a media critic, examining how cultural meaning has been created in American society, and how debates over issues such as race have been handled in different media. Careers Born in Bristol, England, Fiske was educated in Britain. He received a BA (Honors) and MA in English Literature from Cambridge University, where he studied under the renowned leftist literary and cultural critic and activist Raymond Williams, who influenced Fiske's intellectual thinking throughout his life. While at C ...
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John Safford Fiske
John Safford Fiske (January 18, 1838 – June 11, 1907) was a Consul of the United States at Leith, Scotland, who was involved in a sex scandal, and therefore forced to leave his post. Biography John Safford Fiske was born on January 18, 1838, in Ashtabula, Ohio, the son of Isaac Hubbard Fiske (1811–1877) and Mary Safford (1816–1876). He attended Williston Seminary, in Easthampton, Massachusetts and in 1859 went to Yale College, graduating in 1863. From 1863 to 1864 he worked as a deputy clerk in Albany for the New York State Senate. In 1865 he was a private tutor near New York City. In October 1867 he was nominated by President Andrew Johnson the United States consul in Leith, Scotland. While abroad Fiske was involved in the scandal concerning Ernest Boulton and Frederick Park. In 1868, when Boulton and Park were in Edinburgh, Fiske had an affair with Boulton. After Boulton went back to London, Fiske continued to send him love letters. In 1870 Fiske was in London, where he ...
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Jack Fisk
Jack Fisk (born December 19, 1945) is an American production designer and director. As a production designer, he is known for his collaborations with Terrence Malick, designing all of his first eight films including ''Badlands (film), Badlands'' (1973), ''Days of Heaven'' (1978), ''The Thin Red Line (1998 film), The Thin Red Line'' (1998), and ''The Tree of Life (film), The Tree of Life'' (2011). His other credits include ''Phantom of the Paradise'' (1974), ''Carrie (1976 film), Carrie'' (1976), ''Eraserhead'' (1977), ''Heart Beat (film), Heart Beat'' (1980), ''The Straight Story'' (1999), ''Mulholland Drive (film), Mulholland Drive'' (2001), ''Water for Elephants (film), Water for Elephants'' (2011), and ''The Master (2012 film), The Master'' (2012). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design for ''There Will Be Blood'' (2007) and ''The Revenant (2015 film), The Revenant'' (2015). Fisk made his directorial debut with ''Raggedy Man'' (1981) and went on to d ...
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John Fisk
John Fisk (died December 20, 2004) was an American radio personality based in New York City, associated with the Pacifica Foundation's WBAI-FM. During the 1970s and 1980s Fisk was the host of ''Digressions'', a weekly late-night free form radio Free-form, or free-form radio, is a radio station programming format in which the disc jockey is given total control over what music to play, regardless of music genre or commercial interests. Freeform radio stands in contrast to most commercia ... show on WBAI. Fisk also served as broadcast consultant to the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church for over twenty years, producing broadcasts of Poetry Project readings for WBAI. References *Greg Fuchs "John Fisk, 1943-2004" ''Boog City'' (Feb. 2005) (retrieved September 16, 2009). *R. Paul Martin, "John Fisk 1946-2004"(retrieved September 16, 2009). Radio personalities from New York City Year of birth missing 2004 deaths {{US-radio-bio-stub ...
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