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  • The Hollywood Studio System

    A History

    by Douglas Gomery ...
    Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the 'dream factory' that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hollywood Studio System: A History is the first book to describe and analyse the complete development, classic operation, and reinvention of the global corporate entitles which produce and distribute most ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Movie History: A Survey

    Second Edition

    by Douglas Gomery, Clara Pafort-Overduin ...
    How can we understand the history of film? Historical facts don’t answer the basic questions of film history. History, as this fascinating book shows, is more than the simple accumulation of film titles, facts and figures. This is a survey of over 100 years of cinema history, from its beginnings in 1895, to its current state in the 21st century. An accessible, introductory text, Movie History: A ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Who Owns the Media?

    Competition and Concentration in the Mass Media industry

    by Benjamin M. Compaine, Douglas Gomery ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    This thorough update to Benjamin Compaine's original 1979 benchmark and 1982 revisit of media ownership tackles the question of media ownership, providing a detailed examination of the current state of the media industry. Retaining the wealth of data of the earlier volumes, Compaine and his co-author Douglas Gomery chronicle the myriad changes in the media industry and the factors contributing to ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Producing

    by Jon Lewis, Mark Lynn Anderson, Joanna E. Rapf, Saverio Giovacchini, Douglas Gomery, Bill Grantham, Toby Miller ...
    Series series Behind the Silver Screen Series
    Of all the job titles listed in the opening and closing screen credits, producer is certainly the most amorphous. There are businessmen (and women)-producers, writer-director- and movie-star-producers; producers who work for the studio; executive producers whose reputation and industry clout alone gets a project financed (though their day-to-day participation in the project may be negligible). The ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Coming of Sound

    by Douglas Gomery ...
    The coming of sound to film was an event whose importance can hardly be overestimated; sound transformed not only the Hollywood film industry but all of world cinema as well. As economic and film historian Douglas Gomery explains, the business of film became not only bigger but much more complex. As sound spread its power, the talkies became an agent of economic and social change through the globe ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Patsy Cline: the Making of an Icon

    by Douglas Gomery ...
    Patsy Cline remains a much beloved singer, even though she died in 1963. By 1996, Patsy Cline had become such an icon that The New York Times magazine positioned her among a pantheon of women celebrities who transcended any single cultural genre. A series of essays on "Heroine Worship" included Patsy Cline with such "feminine icons" as Eleanor Roosevelt, Martha Graham, Indira Gandhi, Aretha ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Death Trap

    by M. William Phelps ...
    The true-crime story of a bitter divorcée and the murder of her ex and his new wife, by the New York Times bestselling author of Cruel Death.It started when Alan Bates and his new wife arrived at his ex's house to pick up his two daughters for a weekend visit. Then two charred bodies were found in a burned-out car on a lonely Georgia road . . . and investigators pieced together a shattering story ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Ten-Cent Plague

    The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

    by David Hajdu ...
    This cultural history is a "well-reported account of the men and women who created the comic book and the backlash of the 1950s that nearly destroyed it" ( Entertainment Weekly ).In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created—in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. No sooner had this new ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Last Train to Memphis

    The Rise of Elvis Presley

    by Peter Guralnick ...
    Written with grace, humor, and affection, Last Train to Memphis has been hailed as the definitive biography of Elvis Presley—and the first to set aside the myths and focus on Elvis' humanity in a way that has yet to be duplicated."Elvis steps from the pages. You can feel him breathe. This book cancels out all others." —Bob DylanFrom the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust

    My Friendship with Patsy Cline

    by Loretta Lynn ...
    **Discover the never-before-told complete story of the remarkable relationship between country music icons Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn."Important and inspiring." —Miranda Lambert**Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends—country icons and sisters of the heart. For the first time ever Loretta tells their story: a celebration of their music and their relationship up until Patsy's tragic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Lion of Hollywood

    The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer

    by Scott Eyman ...
    Lion of Hollywood is the definitive biography of Louis B. Mayer, the chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—MGM—the biggest and most successful film studio of Hollywood’s Golden Age.An immigrant from tsarist Russia, Mayer began in the film business as an exhibitor but soon migrated to where the action and the power were—Hollywood. Through sheer force of energy and foresight, he turned his own modest studio ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain

    Tales of Romance and Tragedy

    by Grand Ole Opry, Robert K. Oermann ...
    The Grand Ole Opry has been home to the greatest legends of country music for over eighty years, and in that time it has seen some of conutry music's most dramatic stories unfold.We'll hear of the great love stories ranging from Johnny Cash and June Carter in the 1960s to Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, who married in 2005. We'll get the truth of the tragedies that led to the loss of three stars ... Read more

    $13.99 USD