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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “frederick wasser”
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  • Twentieth Century Fox

    by Frederick Wasser ...
    Series series The Routledge Hollywood Centenary Series
    This is the first scholarly history of Fox from its origins in 1904 to the present. It builds upon research and histories of individual periods to describe how one company responded to a century-long evolution of the audience, nationally and globally.In the beginning, William Fox grabbed a once-in-a-millennium opportunity to build a business based on a genuinely new art form. This study explores ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Steven Spielberg's America

    by Frederick Wasser ...
    Series series America Through the Lens
    Steven Spielberg is known as the most powerful man in New Hollywood and a pioneer of the contemporary blockbuster, America’s most successful export. His career began a new chapter in mass culture. At the same time, American post war liberalism was breaking down. This fascinating new book explains the complex relationship between film and politics through the prism of an iconic filmmaker.Spielberg ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Veni, Vidi, Video

    The Hollywood Empire and the VCR

    by Frederick Wasser ...
    Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
    A funny thing happened on the way to the movies. Instead of heading downtown to a first-run movie palace, or even to a suburban multiplex with the latest high-tech projection capabilities, many people's first stop is now the neighborhood video store. Indeed, video rentals and sales today generate more income than either theatrical releases or television reruns of movies.This pathfinding book ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    Creativity and Getting Your Films Made

    by Howard Suber ...
    Letters to aspiring directors, producers, screenwriters, and other creatives from one of the world's leading teachers of film. Suber emphasizes that what is required of a professional in the world of film is not just technique, but an understanding and ability to deal with the realities of how films get made. ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Oprah Winfrey Mini Biography

    by eBios ...
    Series series Mini Biographies
    Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The New New Journalism

    Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft

    by Robert Boynton ...
    Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the New Journalism movement, Robert S. Boynton sits down with nineteen practitioners of what he calls the New New Journalism to discuss their methods, writings and careers.The New New Journalists are first and foremost brilliant reporters who immerse themselves completely in their subjects. Jon Krakauer accompanies a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Documentary Film

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Patricia Aufderheide ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes readers along the diverse ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Startup Game

    Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs

    by William H. Draper ...
    The Startup Game is the first up-close look at how the relationship between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs is critical to enhancing the success of any economy.Entrepreneurs drive the future, and the last several decades have been a thrilling ride of astounding, far-reaching innovation. Behind this transformative progress are also the venture capitalists - who are at once the investors, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Life: The Movie

    How Entertainment Conquered Reality

    by Neal Gabler ...
    The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything—news, politics, religion, high culture—into one vast public entertainment.Neal Gabler calls them "lifies," those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media and the national conversation for weeks, months, even years: the death of Princess Diana, the trial of O.J. Simpson, ... Read more

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  • Friend Of A Friend . . .

    Understanding the Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life and Your Career

    by David Burkus ...
    What if all the advice we’ve heard about networking is wrong?What if the best way to grow your network isn’t by introducing yourself to strangers at cocktail parties, handing out business cards, or signing up for the latest online tool, but by developing a better understanding of the existing network that’s already around you?We know that it’s essential to reach out and build a network. But did ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Superheroes!

    Capes, Cowls, and the Creation of Comic Book Culture

    by Laurence Maslon, Michael Kantor ...
    Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, the Avengers, the X-Men, Watchmen, and more: the companion volume to the PBS documentary series of the same name that tells the story of the superhero in American popular culture.Together again for the first time, here come the greatest comic book superheroes ever assembled between two covers: down from the heavens—Superman and the Mighty Thor ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Everything Filmmaking Book

    From Script to Premiere -a Complete Guide to Putting Your Vision on the Screen

    by Barb Karg, Jim Van Over, Rick Sutherland ...
    Series series Everything® Series
    Filmmaking is a notoriously difficult field to break into—a script’s chance of making it to production is a staggering 1 in every 140,000. But the millions of aspiring filmmakers can up their odds with The Everything Filmmaking Book. This engaging, easy-to-follow guide takes readers step-by-step through the filmmaking process, including:-Writing a marketable script-Understanding all aspects of pre ... Read more

    $2.99 USD