Download or read book Hit Makers written by Derek Thompson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Enthralling - full of 'aha' moments about why some ideas soar and others never get off the ground. This book picks up where The Tipping Point left off." —Adam Grant Nothing “goes viral.” If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a word-of-mouth success in today’s crowded media environment, you’re missing the real story. Each blockbuster has a secret history—of power, influence, dark broadcasters, and passionate cults that turn some new products into cultural phenomena. Even the most brilliant ideas wither in obscurity if they fail to connect with the right network, and the consumers that matter most aren't the early adopters, but rather their friends, followers, and imitators -- the audience of your audience. In his groundbreaking investigation, Atlantic senior editor Derek Thompson uncovers the hidden psychology of why we like what we like and reveals the economics of cultural markets that invisibly shape our lives. Shattering the sentimental myths of hit-making that dominate pop culture and business, Thompson shows quality is insufficient for success, nobody has "good taste," and some of the most popular products in history were one bad break away from utter failure. It may be a new world, but there are some enduring truths to what audiences and consumers want. People love a familiar surprise: a product that is bold, yet sneakily recognizable. Every business, every artist, every person looking to promote themselves and their work wants to know what makes some works so successful while others disappear. Hit Makers is a magical mystery tour through the last century of pop culture blockbusters and the most valuable currency of the twenty-first century—people’s attention. From the dawn of impressionist art to the future of Facebook, from small Etsy designers to the origin of Star Wars, Derek Thompson leaves no pet rock unturned to tell the fascinating story of how culture happens and why things become popular. In Hit Makers, Derek Thompson investigates: * What Taylor Swift, the printing press, and the laugh track have in common * The secret link between ESPN's sticky programming and the The Weeknd's catchy choruses * How advertising critics predicted Donald Trump * The 5th grader who accidentally launched "Rock Around the Clock," the biggest hit in rock and roll history * How Barack Obama and his speechwriters think of themselves as songwriters * How Disney conquered the world—but the future of hits belongs to savvy amateurs and individuals * The French collector who accidentally created the Impressionist canon * Quantitative evidence that the biggest music hits aren’t always the best * Why almost all Hollywood blockbusters are sequels, reboots, and adaptations * Why one year--1991--is responsible for the way pop music sounds today * Why another year --1932--created the business model of film * How data scientists proved that “going viral” is a myth * How 19th century immigration patterns explain the most heard song in the Western Hemisphere
Download or read book Echo written by Paul Panhuysen and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inleidingen tot en beginselverklaringen van kunstenaars die een geïntegreerde vorm van geluidskunst en beeldende kunst nastreven.
Download or read book Hexen 2039 written by Suzanne Treister and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosalind Brodsky, the alter ego of artist Suzanne Treister, is a delusional time traveller who believes herself to be working at the Institute of Militronics and Advanced Time Interventionality in the twenty-first century. HEXEN 2039 charts Brodsky's scientific research in the development of new mind control technologies through a series of drawings, diagrams and photographs. By turns baroque, challenging, comic, elegant, mysterious and intriguing, these works uncover or construct links between conspiracy theories, occult groups, Chernobyl, witchcraft, the US film industry, British Intelligence agencies, Soviet brainwashing, and behaviour control experiments of the US Army and its Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (PSYOP), in light of alarming new research in contemporary neuroscience. In addition, an essay by Richard Grayson examines Treister's practice in detail. As a whole, this fascinating and complex body of work questions the way we look at history and the future, science, technology, politics, and narrative. A rich and engaging book, HEXEN 2039 is part artist's monograph and part chilling premonition of the future, echoing the world of graphic novels and computer games. The book also includes a 62 x 53 cm poster.
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Download or read book Making News written by Gaye Tuchman and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1980-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, Making News is Gaye Tuchman's exploration into the study in the construction of reality. The Professor of Sociology at Queens College and City University of New York, Tuchman's latest work is one to cherish. As described by Todd Gitlin of Contemporary Sociology, Making News is "simply the most comprehensive book on the social construction of news by an American sociologist to date."
Download or read book Aprender Italiano Textos Paralelos F cil de ouvir F cil de ler Curso de udio N o 2 written by Polyglot Planet and published by Polyglot Planet. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O EASY READER - CURSO DE ÁUDIO DE ITALIANO N.º 2 FÁCIL DE OUVIR - FÁCIL DE LER - FÁCIL DE APRENDER Este é o nosso mais recente e definitivo curso para aprender idiomas. É relativamente novo na aprendizagem de Italiano ou precisa de rever as suas competências linguísticas? Deseja não só falar como um falante nativo, mas também compreendê-los claramente? Bem-vindo a Polyglot Planet. Fornecemos-lhe as ferramentas certas, energia, e motivação para compreender e falar Italiano com confiança. Aprenda a falar Italiano quase instantaneamente com os nossos textos “Easy Reader” e gravações “Easy Audio”. Aprenderá a utilizar o Italiano do dia a dia duma forma consistente e eficaz, e sem precisar de conhecimento prévio de gramática ou de estruturas de frases. E não apenas isso! Também aprenderá vocabulário chave, frases e conjugações num ambiente estruturado, concebido para o ajudar a construir uma fundação sólida que nunca esquecerá. Com os nossos “Aprenda Italiano - Cursos Easy Reader | Easy Audio”, aprenderá rapidamente a ouvir e falar ao nível necessário para conversar com um falante nativo. O nosso tutor de áudio ajudá-lo-á a aperfeiçoar a sua pronúncia e compreender a gramática, evitando ao mesmo tempo a fastidiosa leitura de livros didáticos. Você estará a falar Italiano minutos depois de fazer o nosso curso! São fornecidas traduções como guia para o ajudar a fazer associações de palavras, comparar estruturas de frases, e aprender vocabulário novo. O nosso material é agradável, atual, e feito para si. Aprender Italiano pode ser bastante divertido - compre já este curso e comece a falar Italiano hoje!
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society written by Michael Edwards and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadly speaking, The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society views the topic of civil society through three prisms: as a part of society (voluntary associations), as a kind of society (marked out by certain social norms), and as a space for citizen action and engagement (the public square or sphere).
Download or read book Sergio Leone written by Christian Uva and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spectacle, myth, fable - these words instantly leap to mind when considering director Sergio Leone's celebrated films. His popularization of the Spaghetti Western genre, through works like A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), continues to have a profound impact on filmmakers worldwide. In this exciting new study, Italian film scholar Christian Uva explores a side of Leone's works rarely before discussed: the political. Grappling with the contradictions between Leone's politically critical cinematic eye and his aversion to ideological classification, Sergio Leone: Cinema as Political Fable makes sense of how the director's internal political tensions shaped the radical themes of his Western fables. Looking at Leone and his films through a number of lenses, the book examines the elements of Italian history and identity interwoven in the director's stories, provides cultural context for a career spanning from Italy's fascist regime to Leone's death in 1989, and discusses the influences that formed Leone's directorial identity. Uva focuses in particular on the postmodernist theory behind Leone's works, revealing the critical basis of his stylistic and narrative innovations and newly analyzing the most iconic sequences from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1967), Duck, You Sucker (1971), and Once Upon a Time in America (1984). An admirably thorough take on the man and his works, Sergio Leone: Cinema as Political Fable provides fresh perspective on a director long-established in cinema canon.
Download or read book The Book Publishing Industry written by Albert N. Greco and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004-11-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an innovative and detailed overview of the book publishing industry, including details about the business processes in editorial, marketing and production. The work explores the complex issues that occur everyday in the publishing in
Download or read book Selling Sounds written by David Suisman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-31 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Tin Pan Alley to grand opera, player-pianos to phonograph records, David Suisman’s Selling Sounds explores the rise of music as big business and the creation of a radically new musical culture. Around the turn of the twentieth century, music entrepreneurs laid the foundation for today’s vast industry, with new products, technologies, and commercial strategies to incorporate music into the daily rhythm of modern life. Popular songs filled the air with a new kind of musical pleasure, phonographs brought opera into the parlor, and celebrity performers like Enrico Caruso captivated the imagination of consumers from coast to coast. Selling Sounds uncovers the origins of the culture industry in music and chronicles how music ignited an auditory explosion that penetrated all aspects of society. It maps the growth of the music business across the social landscape—in homes, theaters, department stores, schools—and analyzes the effect of this development on everything from copyright law to the sensory environment. While music came to resemble other consumer goods, its distinct properties as sound ensured that its commercial growth and social impact would remain unique. Today, the music that surrounds us—from iPods to ring tones to Muzak—accompanies us everywhere from airports to grocery stores. The roots of this modern culture lie in the business of popular song, player-pianos, and phonographs of a century ago. Provocative, original, and lucidly written, Selling Sounds reveals the commercial architecture of America’s musical life.
Download or read book Art Practice as Research written by Graeme Sullivan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Art Practice as Research' presents a compelling argument that the creative and cultural inquiry undertaken by artists is a form of research. The text explores themes, practice, and contexts of artistic inquiry and positions them within the discourse of research.
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Download or read book Aprender Italiano Textos Paralelos F cil de ouvir F cil de ler Curso de udio N o 1 written by Polyglot Planet and published by Polyglot Planet. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O EASY READER - CURSO DE ÁUDIO DE ITALIANO N.º 1 FÁCIL DE OUVIR - FÁCIL DE LER - FÁCIL DE APRENDER Este é o nosso mais recente e definitivo curso para aprender idiomas. É relativamente novo na aprendizagem de Italiano ou precisa de rever as suas competências linguísticas? Deseja não só falar como um falante nativo, mas também compreendê-los claramente? Bem-vindo a Polyglot Planet. Fornecemos-lhe as ferramentas certas, energia, e motivação para compreender e falar Italiano com confiança. Aprenda a falar Italiano quase instantaneamente com os nossos textos “Easy Reader” e gravações “Easy Audio”. Aprenderá a utilizar o Italiano do dia a dia duma forma consistente e eficaz, e sem precisar de conhecimento prévio de gramática ou de estruturas de frases. E não apenas isso! Também aprenderá vocabulário chave, frases e conjugações num ambiente estruturado, concebido para o ajudar a construir uma fundação sólida que nunca esquecerá. Com os nossos “Aprenda Italiano - Cursos Easy Reader | Easy Audio”, aprenderá rapidamente a ouvir e falar ao nível necessário para conversar com um falante nativo. O nosso tutor de áudio ajudá-lo-á a aperfeiçoar a sua pronúncia e compreender a gramática, evitando ao mesmo tempo a fastidiosa leitura de livros didáticos. Você estará a falar Italiano minutos depois de fazer o nosso curso! São fornecidas traduções como guia para o ajudar a fazer associações de palavras, comparar estruturas de frases, e aprender vocabulário novo. O nosso material é agradável, atual, e feito para si. Aprender Italiano pode ser bastante divertido - compre já este curso e comece a falar Italiano hoje!
Download or read book Postcolonial Images written by Roy Armes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to North African film.
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