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American Television Abroad: Hollywood's Attempt to Dominate World Television
ISBN: 9780786476169 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Once the major Hollywood studios got over their loathing of television as an entertainment medium, they moved quickly to dominate both domestic and international programming. In the United States, the eight major studios controlled an overwhelming majority of all programming by the early 1950s. Their efforts in foreign markets were not quite so successful, but by the 1990s U.S. distributors controlled about 75 percent of the international television trade.
Once the major Hollywood studios got over their loathing of television as an entertainment medium, they moved quickly to dominate both domestic and in...
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250,60 zł |
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Extras of Early Hollywood: A History of the Crowd, 1913-1945
ISBN: 9780786473304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pity the extras. Mostly overlooked and forgotten. Especially those in the major Hollywood films 1913 to 1945--right through the dream factory's golden era. The struggles of extras to unionize were followed by internal struggles as the extras fought for a voice within that union. It is a story about too few jobs for far too many extras, some of whom were lured to Hollywood by what seemed to be rags-to-riches tales of stardom but were likely little more than industry publicity plants. Once lured to the film capital the reality was much different: low pay, little or no work, ripoffs from private...
Pity the extras. Mostly overlooked and forgotten. Especially those in the major Hollywood films 1913 to 1945--right through the dream factory's golden...
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250,60 zł |
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The Electric Car in America, 1890-1922: A Social History
ISBN: 9781476676715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The electric vehicle seemed poised in 1900 to be a leader, even the dominant force, in the early American car market. They were clean, odorless, noiseless and they were mechanically simple, compared to their rivals. Yet just two decades later the electric car was dead. This book explores this early history of the electric car.
The electric vehicle seemed poised in 1900 to be a leader, even the dominant force, in the early American car market. They were clean, odorless, noise...
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311,76 zł |
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Actors Organize: A History of Union Formation Efforts in America, 1880-1919
ISBN: 9780786432837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This work offers a detailed history of American actors' attempts to unionize in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Actors' unions of this period faced a staggering amount of struggles, including a heavy industry reliance on the blacklist, severe media attacks on individual actors, and the frequent formation of illegitimate company unions. This work focuses specifically on the two main unions of the time, the White Rats Actors' Union of America and the Actors' Equity Association. The author chronicles the formation of the unions along with their achievements in the following...
This work offers a detailed history of American actors' attempts to unionize in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Actors' unions of t...
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250,60 zł |
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Parking Cars in America, 1910-1945: A History
ISBN: 9780786470075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With its decentralized urban areas, pollution, and mostly inadequate public transit systems, today's America pays a heavy price for its auto dependency. This volume explores one of the more pressing aspects of the automobile problem--storage--from 1910 to the end of the World War II, contrasting the reality and perception of car parking as found in the pages of the popular newspapers and magazines of that period. From early bans on street parking to street widening efforts to the introduction of parking lots, garages, and parking meters, it chronicles attempts to accommodate the...
With its decentralized urban areas, pollution, and mostly inadequate public transit systems, today's America pays a heavy price for its auto dependenc...
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189,45 zł |
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Piracy in the Motion Picture Industry
ISBN: 9780786414734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Corings and comodules are fundamental algebraic structures, which can be thought of as both dualisations and generalisations of rings and modules. Introduced by Sweedler in 1975, only recently they have been shown to have far reaching applications ranging from the category theory including differential graded categories through classical and Hopf-type module theory to non-commutative geometry and mathematical physics. This is the first extensive treatment of the theory of corings and their comodules. In the first part, the module-theoretic aspects of coalgebras over commutative rings are...
Corings and comodules are fundamental algebraic structures, which can be thought of as both dualisations and generalisations of rings and modules. Int...
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250,60 zł |
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Masquerading in Male Attire: Women Passing as Men in America, 1844-1920
ISBN: 9781476673615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Looks at women who passed themselves off as men for a variety of reasons. This book is about a large number of women who were engaged in individual revolt against an obscenely unfair economic system that discriminated openly and egregiously against women. For virtually all the women profiled in this book the act of passing as a man was an act of rebellion against patriarcy.
Looks at women who passed themselves off as men for a variety of reasons. This book is about a large number of women who were engaged in individual re...
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311,76 zł |
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Foreign Films in America: A History
ISBN: 9780786417643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Foreign films once enjoyed a position of prominence on American theater screens. By the start of World War I, however, the United States' film industry was strong enough to challenge that foreign presence and foreign films in American have been insignificant ever since. For about a century, the Hollywood cartel has dominated the production, distribution, and exhibition of movies domestically and around the world. This work traces the history of the foreign film in America from its domination in the early days to its low standing in the present, looking at the attempts made by foreign...
Foreign films once enjoyed a position of prominence on American theater screens. By the start of World War I, however, the United States' film industr...
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250,60 zł |
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Women and Bicycles in America, 1868-1900
ISBN: 9781476679853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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342,64 zł |
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Movies at Home: How Hollywood Came to Television
ISBN: 9780786440801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The relationship of Hollywood and television, initially turbulent, has ultimately been profitable from the first sally in what was expected to be a war of attrition, up through the soliciting of movies by major networks, independent stations, basic cable networks, premium cable channels, pay-per-view systems and even the corner video store.
The relationship of Hollywood and television, initially turbulent, has ultimately been profitable from the first sally in what was expected to be a wa...
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189,45 zł |
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Vending Machines: An American Social History
ISBN: 9780786413690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have existed for a couple of thousand years. The earliest reference to a vending machine was made by Hero--a Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer who probably lived in Alexandria during the first century a.d.--who described and illustrated a coin-operated device to be used for vending sacrificial water in Egyptian temples. Completely automatic, the device was set in operation by the insertion of a five-drachma coin. This work traces the history of the vending machine from its inception to its...
Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have existed for a couple of thousand years. The earliest re...
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250,60 zł |
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The Women Who Got America Talking: Early Telephone Operators, 1878-1922
ISBN: 9781476669045 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When the need for telephone operators arose in the 1870s, the assumption was that they should all be male. Wages for adult men were too high, so boys were hired. They proved quick to argue with the subscribers, so females replaced them. Women were calmer, had reassuring voices and rarely talked back. Within a few years, telephone operators were all female and would remain so. The pay was low and working conditions harsh. The job often impaired their health, as they suffered abuse from subscribers in silence under pain of dismissal. Discipline was stern--dress codes were mandated, although...
When the need for telephone operators arose in the 1870s, the assumption was that they should all be male. Wages for adult men were too high, so boys ...
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189,45 zł |
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America Brushes Up: The Use and Marketing of Toothpaste and Toothbrushes in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780786447541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Deals with the toothpaste and toothbrush industries from 1900 to 2008. This book shows that during these years, America moved from a nation of people who mostly cleaned their teeth with homemade powders to one that used such professional names as Colgate Platinum Whitening Toothpaste, often applied with an electric toothbrush.
Deals with the toothpaste and toothbrush industries from 1900 to 2008. This book shows that during these years, America moved from a nation of people ...
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189,45 zł |
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Tipping: An American Social History of Gratuities
ISBN: 9780786442461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From its beginnings in Europe to its development as a quintessentially American trait, this work provides a social history of tipping customs and how the United States became a nation of tippers.
From its beginnings in Europe to its development as a quintessentially American trait, this work provides a social history of tipping customs and how ...
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220,33 zł |
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Suntanning in 20th Century America
ISBN: 9780786423941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The suntan experienced a profound change in the last century. Considered a mark of the lower class for hundreds of years, tanning became a fad in the early 1920s and remains popular today. The tan, though, was much more thana matter of fashion, enjoying at first a boost from the medical establishment. Opinions ranging from hard science to quackery lauded the suntan as something of a panacea. Near the end of World War II, however, researchers increasingly warned against the hazards of overexposure to the sun, and a large new industry developed?sunscreen. Americans? current paradoxical...
The suntan experienced a profound change in the last century. Considered a mark of the lower class for hundreds of years, tanning became a fad in the ...
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250,60 zł |
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Anti-Kissing in America, 1876-1922
ISBN: 9781777037031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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60,72 zł |
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Lie Detectors: A Social History
ISBN: 9780786416189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The polygraph, most commonly known as the lie detector, was created and refined by academics in university settings with support from a few early police agencies. This work is a history of the polygraph, from the experimental work of the late 1800s that led directly to its creation, until the present. It covers early lie detectors and their inventors from the 1860s to the early 1920s, their use by the police and other law enforcement agencies in the 1930s and their use in Cold War America in the 1940s and 1950s. It then discusses the government's use of the polygraph in the 1960s, the PSE, a...
The polygraph, most commonly known as the lie detector, was created and refined by academics in university settings with support from a few early poli...
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189,45 zł |
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Shoplifting: A Social History
ISBN: 9780786409082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Shoplifting is a practice that has been engaged in for centuries, but it was only after the Civil War that the prevalence of shoplifting and societal awareness of it, became significant. In the 1860s the typical shoplifter was from the lower classes; by 1900 it was an upper-class woman who shoplifted from a huge department store "because" she was a "kleptomaniac," and in the 1960s it was teenagers stealing for kicks. Shoplifting: A Social History looks at the activity of shoplifting for the last 140 years: the types of people singled out as the principal offenders, retailers' ambivalent...
Shoplifting is a practice that has been engaged in for centuries, but it was only after the Civil War that the prevalence of shoplifting and societal ...
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189,45 zł |
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Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance in America, 1862-1920
ISBN: 9780786496242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Because of the 2013 revelations of Edward Snowden we have all come to understand that, with regard to all ectronic communications, we are mostly all surveilled most of the time. It all started about 150 years ago on the battlefields of America during the Civil War when each side tapped the telegraph lines to spy on the other side. It continued in 1895 when the New York Police Department began to tap telephone lines. It was 20 years before that fact became public knowledge and by then the NYPD was so busy tapping that they had a separate room set aside for that purpose. The practice of tapping...
Because of the 2013 revelations of Edward Snowden we have all come to understand that, with regard to all ectronic communications, we are mostly all s...
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189,45 zł |
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Payola in the Music Industry: A History, 1880-1991
ISBN: 9780786476145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Payola is as old as the music industry and continues today. Contrary to popular belief, the acceptance of payola is legal. (Only the nonreporting of it would be illegal.)
The recipients of payola and the reasons behind it are discussed decade-by-decade. The early bribes to the minstrel groups and vaudeville players are traced, as are modern-day payments to disc jockeys and radio station program directors, where drugs are often given instead of cash. Particular attention is paid to 1959 and 1960 when federal investigators attempted to eradicate the practice.
Payola is as old as the music industry and continues today. Contrary to popular belief, the acceptance of payola is legal. (Only the nonreporting of i...
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189,45 zł |
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