Download or read book For Fun and Profit written by Richard Butsch and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, leisure industries emerged to provide recreation and entertainment to Americans of all classes. Entertainment has become a multi-billion dollar industry. The essays collected here explore the transformation this wrought in leisure and analyze its effects on class relations in American society.
Download or read book Transnational Television Drama written by Elke Weissmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of British and American television drama since 1970 charts the increased transnationalisation of the two production systems. From The Forsyte Saga to Roots to Episodes , it highlights the close relationship that drives innovation and quality on both sides of the Atlantic.
Download or read book Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics written by Joshua D. Atkinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the rising role that alternative media play in contemporary mainstream political communication. The book focuses on three primary sites where such media have established growing influence in recent years: political parties, mainstream political news, and participatory media that allow for engagement.
Download or read book Popular Media Cultures written by L. Geraghty and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Media Cultures explores the relationship between audiences and media texts, their paratexts and interconnected ephemera. Authors focus on the cultural work done by media audiences, how they engage with social media and how convergence culture impacts on the strategies and activities of popular media fans.
Download or read book How to Write and Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit written by Robert W. Bly and published by Linden Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with income-generating ideas about creating a variety of saleable written works, this guide includes information for researching and writing effective, instructional materials and calling upon a variety of publishing channels, including magazines, traditional book publishers, self-publishing, and the Internet. The mechanics behind becoming a successful writer and information packager are presented in this resource that explores how to write and sell simple information in multiple formats, allowing writers to turn specialized knowledge into money-making books and products.
Download or read book Pleasure in Profit written by Laura Moretti and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response to readers’ hunger for books that promised them potent knowledge. However, traditional literary histories of this period position the writings of Ihara Saikaku at center stage, largely neglecting the breadth of popular prose. In the first comprehensive study of the birth of Japanese commercial publishing, Laura Moretti investigates the vibrant world of vernacular popular literature. She marshals new data on the magnitude of the seventeenth-century publishing business and highlights the diversity and porosity of its publishing genres. Moretti explores how booksellers sparked interest among readers across the spectrum of literacies and demonstrates how they tantalized consumers with vital ethical, religious, societal, and interpersonal knowledge. She recasts books as tools for knowledge making, arguing that popular prose engaged its audience cognitively as well as aesthetically and emotionally to satisfy a burgeoning curiosity about the world. Crucially, Moretti shows, readers experienced entertainment within the didactic, finding pleasure in the profit gained from acquiring knowledge by interacting with transformative literature. Drawing on a rich variety of archival materials to present a vivid portrait of seventeenth-century Japanese publishing, Pleasure in Profit also speaks to broader conversations about the category of the literary by offering a new view of popular prose that celebrates plurality.
Download or read book Writing Short Romance for Pleasure and Profit written by Sadie B. King and published by Sadie B. King. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the tips, tricks, and strategies to get your short romance into the hands of readers and earn the money you deserve! Packed full off information including: • My number one marketing tool that works every time. • The key actions that catapulted me to a six-figure income. • How to plan a series your readers will want to binge read. • Rapid release strategies for every author. • How to hit key romance beats in under 10,000 words. • Why your definition of success will differ from everyone else’s and how to use this knowledge to plan your badass author strategy. I’ll take you through the six steps to success as a short romance author! With over 120 short romance books published since 2019, I’ve learned a lot along the way. I’ve celebrated numerous successes, including becoming a USA Today Bestselling Author, seeing my books sit together at numbers one, two, three, and four in my chosen Amazon category, and watching my income climb to six figures as the strategies and tactics I’ve applied started to pay off. It’s been a heck of a journey, and one that I want to share with other authors so you too can achieve the success you deserve. I’ll share the strategies that worked, the ones that didn’t, the highs and lows, the cringy moments and the joyful ones on my journey to becoming a six-figure author.
Download or read book Readings in Social Research Methods written by Diane Kholos Wysocki and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2004 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader is designed to accompany any main text in research methods or as a stand-alone reader. It has been closely patterned on the range of topics covered in Earl Babbie's best selling texts, THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH, Tenth Edition and BASICS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH, Second Edition. The reader focuses on the core methodologies of the social research methods course and provides illustrations of those methods The articles describe real world applications and research and show students how research is conducted and reported.
Download or read book Media Analytics written by C. Ann Hollifield and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook takes a case study approach to media and audience analytics. Realizing the best way to understand analytics in the digital age is to practice it, the authors have created a collection of cases using datasets that present real and hypothetical scenarios for students to work through. Media Analytics introduces the key principles of media economics and management. It outlines how to interpret and present results, the principles of data visualization and storytelling, and the basics of research design and sampling. Although shifting technology makes measurement and analytics a dynamic space, this book takes an evergreen, conceptual approach, reminding students to focus on the principles and foundations that will remain constant. Aimed at upper-level students in the fast-growing area of media analytics in a cross-platform world, students using this text will learn how to find the stories in the data and how to present those stories in an engaging way to others. Instructor and Student Resources include an Instructor’s Manual, discussion questions, short exercises, and links to additional resources. They are available online at www.routledge.com/cw/hollifield.
Download or read book The Children s Culture Reader written by Henry Jenkins and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reader on children's culture
Download or read book Fantasy City written by John Hannigan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy City analyses the post-industrialist city as a site of entertainment. By discussing examples from a wide variety of venues, including casinos, malls, heritage developments and theme parks, Hannigan questions urban entertainments economic foundations and historical background. He asks whether such areas of fantasy destroy communities or instead create new groupings of shared identities and experiences. The book is written in a student friendly way with boxed case studies for class discussion.
Download or read book In Their Own Image written by Ted Merwin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jazz Age of the 1920s is an era remembered for illegal liquor, innovative music and dance styles, and burgeoning ideas of social equality. It was also the period during which second-generation Jews began to emerge as a significant demographic in New York City. In TheirOwn Image examines thegrowing cultural visibility of Jewish life amid this vibrant scene. From the vaudeville routines of Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, and Sophie Tucker, to the slew of Broadway comedies about Jewish life and the silent films that showed immigrant families struggling to leave the ghetto, images and representations of Jews became staples of interwar popular culture. Through the performing arts, Jews expressed highly ambivalent feelings about their identification with Jewish and American cultures. Ted Merwin shows how they became American by producing and consuming not images of another group, but images of themselves. As a result, they humanized Jewish stereotypes, softened anti-Semitic attitudes, and laid the groundwork for today's Jewish comedians. An entertaining look at the role popular culture plays in promoting the acculturation of an ethnic group, In Their Own Image enhances our understanding of American Jewish history and provides a model for the study of other groups and their integration into mainstream society.
Download or read book Communication Researchers and Policy making written by Sandra Braman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sourcebook on the multiple relationships between the communication research and policy making communities over the last hundred years. As the global information infrastructure evolves, the field of communication has the opportunity to renew itself while addressing the urgent policy need for new ways of thinking and new data to think about. Communication Researchers and Policy-making examines diverse relationships between the communication research and policy communities over more than a century and the issues that arise out of those interactions. The book provides primary material in the form of reports on such relationships spanning time periods, subject matter, policy issues, decision-making venues, and governments. The essays range from historical pieces on the importance of communication research since the beginning of systematic policy analysis and on the various roles that researchers can play to contemporary analyses of contributions of research to policy debates over network design and access, media violence, and advertising fraud. Substantial interstitial essays by the editor explore the impact of the policy context on communication theories and research practices, relationships between researchers and their institutional homes, the role of communication researchers as public intellectuals, and ways to maximize the impact of communication research on policy-making during this period of infrastructural transformation. The book includes an extensive bibliography.
Download or read book How to Write for Pleasure and Profit written by Warren Bower and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Century of the Leisured Masses written by David George Surdam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American living standards improved rapidly during the twentieth-century. The rise of leisure, both in terms of time allotted and in terms of consumption of leisure goods and services, was astounding. When social critic Thorstein Veblen penned Theory of the Leisured Class, Americans were just beginning to enjoy more and better leisure. In Century of the Leisured Masses, David George Surdam explores the growing role played by leisure in the daily lives of Americans and what factors contributed to this change.
Download or read book Pleasure Profit Proselytism written by J A Mangan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines aspects of sport which Britain nurtured within its own culture and also transmitted to overseas territories with the expansion of empire.
Download or read book Explorations in Critical Studies of Advertising written by James F. Hamilton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a thoughtful and wide-ranging exploration of approaches to the critical study of advertising. Current and impending practices of advertising have in many ways exceeded the grasp of traditional modes of critique, due at least in part to their being formulated in very different historical conditions. To begin to address this lag, this edited collection explores through critical discussion and application a variety of critical approaches to advertising. Authors address a variety of concrete examples in their chapters, drawing on existing research while presenting new findings where relevant. In order to maintain the relevance of this collection past this particular historical moment, however, chapters do not simply report on empirical work, but develop a theoretical argument.
