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  • Entertainment Industries

    Entertainment as a Cultural System

    Edited by Alan McKee, Christy Collis, Ben Hamley ...
    Entertainment Industries is the first book to map entertainment as a cultural system. Including work from world-renowned analysts such as Henry Jenkins and Jonathan Gray, this innovative collection explains what entertainment is and how it works.Entertainment is audience-centred culture. The Entertainment Industries are a uniquely interdisciplinary collection of evolving businesses that openly ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • Chief Culture Officer

    How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation

    by Grant McCracken ...
    Trenchantly on point and bursting with insight, anthropologist Grant McCracken shows American corporations how keeping a finger on the pulse of contemporary cultural trends can change their business practices for the better -- and ahead of the curve.Levi-Strauss, the jeans and apparel maker, missed out on the hip-hop trend. They didn't realize that those kids in baggy jeans represented a whole new ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Screenwriting

    Creative Labor and Professional Practice

    by Bridget Conor ...
    Screenwriting: Creative Labor and Professional Practice analyzes the histories, practices, identities and subjects which form and shape the daily working lives of screenwriters.Author Bridget Conor considers the ways in which contemporary screenwriters navigate and make sense of the labor markets in which they are immersed.Chapters explore areas including:Screenwriting histories and myths of the ... Read more

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  • Making Media Matter

    Critical Literacy, Popular Culture, and Creative Production

    by Benjamin Thevenin ...
    This book is an essential resource for media educators working to promote critical thinking, creativity, and civic engagement through their teaching. Connecting theory and research with creative projects and analyses of pop culture, it models an integrated and practical approach to media education.In order to prepare learners to successfully navigate rapid shifts in digital technology and popular ... Read more

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  • New Hollywood Cinema

    An Introduction

    by Geoff King ...
    New Hollywood extends from the radical gestures of the 'Hollywood Renaissance' of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the current dominance of the corporate blockbuster. Geoff King covers new Hollywood dynamically and accessibly in this thoroughly modern introductory text. He discusses diverse films as well as the film-makers and film companies, focusing on the interactions between the film texts, ... Read more

    $31.29 USD

  • The Hollywood Family Film

    A History, from Shirley Temple to Harry Potter

    by Noel Brown ...
    Series series Cinema and Society
    The Hollywood family film is one of the most popular, commercially-successful and culturally significant forms of mass entertainment. This book is the first in-depth history of the Hollywood family film, tracing its development from its beginnings in the 1930s to its global box-office dominance today. Noel Brown shows how, far from being an innocuous amusement for children, the family film has ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Creative Documentary

    Theory and Practice

    by Erik Knudsen, Jerry Rothwell, Wilma de Jong ...
    What does it mean to be a documentary filmmaker in today's world? How are new technologies changing documentary filmmaking? What new forms of documentary are emerging?Recent technological developments have made the making and distribution of documentary films easier and more widespread than ever before. Creative Documentary: Theory and Practiceis an innovative and essential guide that ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • Film: The Essential Study Guide

    Edited by Ruth Doughty ...
    Providing a key resource to new students, Film: The Essential Study Guide introduces all the skills needed to succeed on a film studies course.This succinct, accessible guide covers key topics such as:Using the libraryOnline research and resourcesViewing skillsHow to watch and study foreign language filmsEssay writingPresentation skillsReferencing and plagiarismPractical Filmmaking</u... ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Video Revolutions

    On the History of a Medium

    by Michael Z. Newman, , Ph.D. ...
    Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a high-tech consumer gadget, a format for watching movies at home, a force for democracy, and the ultimate, ubiquitous means of documenting reality. In the twenty-first century, video is the name we give all ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Children's Film

    Genre, Nation, and Narrative

    by Noel Brown ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    Films for children and young people are a constant in the history of cinema, from its beginnings to the present day. This book serves as a comprehensive introduction to the children's film, examining its recurrent themes and ideologies, and common narrative and stylistic principles. Opening with a thorough consideration of how the genre may be defined, this volume goes on to explore how children's ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Quality TV

    Contemporary American Television and Beyond

    by Janet McCabe, Kim Akass ...
    Series series Reading Contemporary Television
    In his seminal book "Television's Second Golden Age", Robert Thompson described quality TV as 'best defined by what it is not': 'it is not "regular" TV'. Audacious maybe, but his statement renewed debate on the meaning of this highly contentious term. Dealing primarily with the post-1996 era shaped by digital technologies and defined by consumer choice and brand marketing, this book brings ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Writing and Producing Television Drama in Denmark

    From The Kingdom to The Killing

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    Offering unique insights into the writing and production of television drama series such as The Killing and Borgen, produced by DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Novrup Redvall explores the creative collaborations in writers' rooms and 'production hotels' through detailed case studies of Denmark's public service production culture. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD