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Book Media  Moguls  Megalomania

Download or read book Media Moguls Megalomania written by Ursula Owen and published by . This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Media Moguls

Download or read book Media Moguls written by Michael Palmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of a few powerful individuals in control of large sections of mass communication industries has coincided with world-wide media de-regulation. In the first book to take a close look at media moguls as a species, Jeremy Tunstall and Michael Palmer show how a handful of own-and-operate entrepreneurs run their empires with a highly eccentric and highly political management style. Individuals such as Berlusconi, Hersant, and Murdoch, in France, Germany, Italy, Britain and the US, are considered in the context of the changing European media industry. The book considers other, non-mogul trends: the emergence of a European media policy and a European-US-Japanese world media industry. Additional case studies focus on Reuters as a news-and-data super-agency and the part played by advertising and other media lobbies in shaping media policy.

Book Trust Ownership and the Future of News

Download or read book Trust Ownership and the Future of News written by Gavin Ellis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-29 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crumbling business models mean news media structures must change. Gavin Ellis explores the past and present use of newspaper trusts – drawing on case studies such as the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Pulitzer Prize winning Tampa Bay Times – to make the case for a form of ownership dedicated to sustaining high quality journalism.

Book Global Media

    Book Details:
  • Author : James D. White
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-09-05
  • ISBN : 1136090908
  • Pages : 467 pages

Download or read book Global Media written by James D. White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the processes of globalization, demonstrated through a comparative study of three television case histories in Asia. Also illustrated are different approaches to providing television services in the world: public service (NHK in Japan), state (CCTV in China) and commercial (STAR TV, based in Hong Kong). Through its focus, Global Media addresses a considerable lacuna in the media studies literature, which tends to have a heavy Western bias. It provides an original addition to the literature on globalization, which is often abstract and anecdotal, in addition to making a major contribution to comparative research in Asia. Finally, it offers a thoughtful causal layered analysis, with a concluding argument in favor of public service television.

Book The James Bond Movie Encyclopedia

Download or read book The James Bond Movie Encyclopedia written by Steven Jay Rubin and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nobody does 007 encyclopedias better than Bond historian Steven Jay Rubin. Buy this one. M's orders." —George Lazenby, James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service Packed with behind-the-scenes information, fascinating facts, trivia, bloopers, classic quotes, character bios, cast and filmmaker bios, and hundreds of rare and unusual photographs of those in front of and behind the camera Ian Fleming's James Bond character has entertained motion picture audiences for nearly sixty years, and the filmmakers have come a long way since they spent $1 million producing the very first James Bond movie, Dr. No, in 1962. The 2015 Bond title, Spectre, cost $250 million and grossed $881 million worldwide—and 2021's No Time to Die is certain to become another global blockbuster. The James Bond Movie Encyclopedia is the completely up-to-date edition of author Steven Jay Rubin's seminal work on the James Bond film series. It covers the entire series through No Time to Die and showcases the type of exhaustive research that has been a hallmark of Rubin's work in film history. From the bios of Bond girls in front of the camera to rare and unusual photographs of those behind it, no detail of the Bond legacy is left uncovered.

Book Celebrity Culture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ellis Cashmore
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2006-10-16
  • ISBN : 1134191421
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Celebrity Culture written by Ellis Cashmore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating and topical beginners guide, Ellis Cashmore explores the intriguing issue of celebrity culture: its origins, its meaning and its global influence. Covering such varied perspectives as fame addiction, the ‘celebrification’ of politics and celebrity fatigue, Cashmore analyzes the relationship celebrity has with commodification and the consumer society, and investigates the new media and the quest for self-perfection. Cashmore takes readers on a quest that visits the Hollywood film industry of the early twentieth century, the film set of Cleopatra in the 1970s, the dressing room of Madonna in the 1980s, the burial of Diana in the 1990s, and the Big Brother house of the early 2000s. Author of Beckham and Tyson, Cashmore collects research, theory, and case studies en route as he explores the intriguing issue of celebrity culture: its origins, its meaning, and its global influence. Including reviews of existing literature, and an outline of key contemporary topics, this absorbing book skilfully explains why we have become so captivated by the lives and loves of the celebrity and, in so doing, presents the clearest, most comprehensive, wide-ranging, and accessible account of celebrity culture to date.

Book Cultural History of Reading  2 volumes

Download or read book Cultural History of Reading 2 volumes written by Sara E. Quay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 1083 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about some books that makes them timeless? Cultural History of Reading looks at books from their earliest beginnings through the present day, in both the U.S. and regions all over the world. Not only fiction and literature, but religious works, dictionaries, scientific works, and home guides such as Mrs. Beeton's all have had an impact on not only their own time and place, but continue to capture the attention of readers today. Volume 1 examines the history of books in regions throughout the world, identifying both literature and nonfiction that was influenced by cultural events of its time. Volume 2 identifies books from the pre-colonial era to the present day that have had lasting significance in the United States. History students and book lovers alike will enjoy discovering the books that have impacted our world.

Book Anglo American Stage and Screen Drama

Download or read book Anglo American Stage and Screen Drama written by Mike Ingham and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-American Stage and Screen Drama analyses and discusses the contemporary role of stage and screen drama as a critical forum for progressive thinking in an increasingly polarised geopolitical world. The book addresses the cultural politics of socially engaged 21st century stage plays and films, and makes the case for drama as a sociopolitical forum, in which the complex and contentious issues that confront society can be explored and debated. It conceives of Anglophone political drama as a significant intervention in today’s culture wars, representing the latter as a convenient distraction from the ongoing depredations of neoliberalism. In the main part of the book selected case-study plays and films from each of the first two decades illustrate drama’s capacity to influence critical debate on social justice issues. All of the case-study texts under discussion express a powerful aesthetics of resistance to right-wing ideology, and promote inclusive and enlightened values. This broader orientation underlines drama’s role as a channel for critical agency in today’s putative post-socialist, post-democratic climate.

Book Media Culture

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Monaco
  • Publisher : New York : Dell Publishing Company
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Media Culture written by James Monaco and published by New York : Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1978 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nobody Does it Better

Download or read book Nobody Does it Better written by Edward Gross and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate oral history of the only gentleman secret agent with a license to kill... and thrill...telling the incredible, uncensored true stories of the James Bond franchise and spy mania. For over five decades, the cinematic adventures of James Bond have thrilled moviegoers. Now, bestselling authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross take you behind-the-scenes of the most famous and beloved movie franchise of all-time filled with reflections from over 150 cast, crew, critics and filmmakers who reflect on the impact of this legendary movie franchise as well as share their thoughts about their favorite (and least) favorite 007 adventures and spy mania which gripped fans the world over in the wake of the success of the James Bond films. From Russia--with love, course--to Vegas, from below the bright blue waters of the Bahamas in search of a missing nuclear weapon to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, from below the seas in Stromberg’s new Noah's Ark of Atlantis into orbit with Hugo Drax, Nobody Does It Better: The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of James Bond tells the amazing, true story of the birth of James Bond through the latest remarkable James Bond adventures as well as the Spy mania classics that enthralled the world. It’s Bond and Beyond from the critically acclaimed authors of the bestselling The Fifty-Year Mission and So Say We All. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Media International Australia

Download or read book Media International Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sports Culture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ellis Cashmore
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2003-10-04
  • ISBN : 113467581X
  • Pages : 522 pages

Download or read book Sports Culture written by Ellis Cashmore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a culture in which sports play an important role. The growth in broadcasting, merchandising, iconography and the commercialization of sports has led to an increasing interest in the emerging field of sports culture. This book examines individual issues, people, artefacts, events and organizations in their historical, social and cultural contexts. Coverage is wide-ranging with more than 170 entries including: aggression Bosman Case corruption drugs eating disorders Fever Pitch Field of Dreams Michael Jordan Don King left-handedness nationalism paternity racism Raging Bull rivalries tobacco The book also includes suggestions for further reading to help with further study, and a comprehensive index.

Book Animal Movies Guide

Download or read book Animal Movies Guide written by and published by Staci Wilson. This book was released on 2008-08-23 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book With Families in Mind

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  • Author : Willam John Hatten
  • Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
  • Release : 2017-09-13
  • ISBN : 1457558130
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book With Families in Mind written by Willam John Hatten and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Families in Mind, is a two part in depth explanation to the Introduction content of The Verses Absolute & Relative in Book 1. It was intended to be its Epilogue. As it grew too long, the author has made it a supplementary separate book. Along with conveying & expanding, the social concern the Author has, for the increasingly eroding/decaying family structure in the 21st century. In the Author’s spiritual acquired understanding of life, a mankind created & growing disaster for mankind’s spiritual evolution. A concern, that prompted the Introduction content in Book 1 and the content of this supplementary book, to expand & clarify that concern.

Book The Politics of American Foreign Policy

Download or read book The Politics of American Foreign Policy written by Peter Hays Gries and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “eye-opening analysis” explains how and why America’s culture wars and partisan divide have led to dysfunctional US policy abroad (The Atlantic). In this provocative book, Peter Gries challenges the view that partisan elites on Capitol Hill are out of touch with a moderate American public. Dissecting a new national survey, Gries shows how ideology powerfully divides Main Street over both domestic and foreign policy and reveals how and why, with the exception of attitudes toward Israel, liberals consistently feel warmer toward foreign countries and international organizations—and desire friendlier policies toward them—than conservatives do. The Politics of American Foreign Policy weaves together in-depth examinations of the psychological roots and foreign policy consequences of the liberal-conservative divide; the cultural, socio-racial, economic, and political dimensions of American ideology; and the moral values and foreign policy orientations that divide Democrats and Republicans. Within this context, the book explores why Americans disagree over US policy relating to Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, East Asia, and international organizations such as the UN.

Book Pakistan   Gulf Economist

Download or read book Pakistan Gulf Economist written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book With Every Mistake

Download or read book With Every Mistake written by Gwynne Dyer and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential collection contains the best of Gwynne Dyer’s writing on the post–September 11 world. Since 1973, writer, historian and filmmaker Gwynne Dyer has written a widely syndicated newspaper column on international affairs, regularly published in 45 countries. With Every Mistake is not only a collection of the very best of Dyer’s recent work, but an examination of how, time and again, the media skews fact and opinion, wielding formidable influence on how we all shape our own thoughts. And why is so much of the information wrong? Is it herd instinct, official manipulation, robber-baron owners with ideological obsessions — or just the conflict between the inherently bitty, short-term nature of news reporting and analysis and the longer perspectives needed to understand what is actually going on? How much misinformation stems from simple ignorance and laziness? With Every Mistake combines an examination of how powerful owners mould the agendas of the press with a self-critique of Dyer’s own columns from the three and a half years between 9/11 and the January 2005 election in Iraq. How hard is it to get things right, and why do so many people in the media get things wrong?