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  • Making Music in Music City

    Conversations with Nashville Music Industry Professionals

    by John Markert ...
    Series series Charles K. Wolfe Music Series
    At least since the rise of the “Nashville sound” in the 1950s, Tennessee’s capital city has attracted numerous books and articles offering insight into the celebrity machine known as Music City. But behind the artist in the limelight are a host of support personnel and contributors who shape the artist’s music. Of these myriad occupations within the music industry, only two have received ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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  • Publishing Romance

    The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present

    by John Markert ...
    Romance novels have attracted considerable attention since their mass market debut in 1939, yet seldom has the industry itself been analyzed. Founded in 1949, Harlequin quickly gained market domination with their contemporary romances. Other publishers countered with historical romances, leading to the rise of "bodice-ripper" romances in the 1970s. The liberation of the romance novel's content ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Hooked in Film

    Substance Abuse on the Big Screen

    by John Markert ...
    Though drug use was widespread in the nineteenth century, the negative influence of narcotics was mostly unknown. Cinema of the early twentieth century was instrumental in making viewers aware of the harmful effects of drugs. Throughout the decades, images of drugs such as marijuana, LSD, and heroin in films impacted—both negatively and positively—the national perception of their use. In fact, the ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Post-9/11 Cinema

    Through a Lens Darkly

    by John Markert ...
    In contemporary society, cinema has become a primary way in which people gain knowledge about events taking place in the world. Films often go beyond news reports by showing in-depth, behind-the-scenes footage, whether in a documentary or recreated in fictional features. More than fleeting scenes of events shown on the nightly news, a film can influence people's feelings about war and what our ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • Spreadable Media

    Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture

    by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, Joshua Green ...
    Series Book 15 - Postmillennial Pop
    Spreadable Media maps fundamental changes taking place in our contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content. It contrasts “stickiness”—aggregating attention in centralized places—with “spreadability”—dispersing content widely through both formal and informal networks,some ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Chasing the Scream

    The Inspiration for the Feature Film "The United States vs. Billie Holiday"

    by Johann Hari ...
    The New York Times BestsellerWhat if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari's journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question--and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired the feature film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and the documentary series The Fix.One of Johann Hari's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Convergence Culture

    Where Old and New Media Collide

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA classic study on the dynamic between an individual and different media channelsConvergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, and where the powers of the media producer and the power of th... ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

    An American Nightmare

    by Don Davis ...
    Series series St. Martin's True Crime Classics
    The New York Times –bestselling true crime story of the notorious American serial killer.They smelled the foul odors. They heard the power saw buzzing in the dead of night but neighbors never imagined the horrors happening right next door.Tenants of the Oxford Apartments would never forget the hot sultry night of July 22, 1991. A panic-stricken young man—a pair of handcuffs still dangling from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Go Back to Where You Came From

    And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

    by Wajahat Ali ...
    “Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!”This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where, exactly? Fremont, California, where he grew up, but is now an unaffordable place to live? Or Pakistan, the country his parents left behind a half-century ago?Growing up living the suburban American ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Her Best-Kept Secret

    Why Women Drink-And How They Can Regain Control

    by Gabrielle Glaser ...
    For readers of Quit Like a Woman, this “engaging account of women and drink, [cites] fascinating studies about modern stressors…and evidence that some problem drinkers can learn moderation….Bound to stir controversy” (People).In Her Best-Kept Secret, journalist Gabrielle Glaser uncovers a hidden-in-plain-sight drinking epidemic. Using “investigative rigor and thoughtful analysis” (The Boston Globe ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The New Pearl Harbor Revisited

    9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé

    by David Ray Griffin ...
    This second edition contains a 30-page Afterword with additional material on the alleged hijackers, controlled demolition of the WTC, Sibel Edmonds, and the 9/11 Commission, plus a discussion of whether Standard Operating Procedures had been changed in June 2001. From a skeptical vantage-point, but also taking to heart the classic idea that those who benefit from a crime ought to at least be ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • What Editors Do

    The Art, Craft & Business of Book Editing

    Edited by Peter Ginna ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    Essays from twenty-seven leading book editors: "Honest and unflinching accounts from publishing insiders . . . a valuable primer on the field." — Publishers WeeklyEditing is an invisible art in which the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult ... Read more

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