wyszukanych pozycji: 46
Movies at Home: How Hollywood Came to Television
ISBN: 9780786440801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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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 (Dostawa przed świętami) 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 |
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 (Dostawa przed świętami) 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 |
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 (Dostawa przed świętami) 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 |
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 (Dostawa przed świętami) 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 |
Parking Cars in America, 1910-1945: A History
ISBN: 9780786470075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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 |
Piracy in the Motion Picture Industry
ISBN: 9780786414734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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 |
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 (Dostawa przed świętami) 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 |
Foreign Films in America: A History
ISBN: 9780786417643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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 |
Women and Bicycles in America, 1868-1900
ISBN: 9781476679853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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342,64 zł |
Age Discrimination by Employers
ISBN: 9780786410101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This work examines age discrimination as it relates to the employment sector in the US throughout the 20th century: how the issue has been treated by the media, the extent of age bias, how older workers were viewed, the reasons and rationales used by employers and responses of governments.
This work examines age discrimination as it relates to the employment sector in the US throughout the 20th century: how the issue has been treated by ...
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250,60 zł |
The Hatpin Menace: American Women Armed and Fashionable, 1887-1920
ISBN: 9781476662152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Between 1887 and 1920, the humble hatpin went from an unremarkable item in every woman's wardrobe, to a fashion necessity, to a dangerous weapon (it was said). Big hair and big hats of the era meant big hatpins, and their weaponized use sparked controversy. There were "good" uses of hatpins, such as fending off an attacker in the street. There were also "bad" uses, such as when a woman being arrested tried to stab a police officer.
But seriously: All those protruding pins seemed to threaten people everywhere in the public sphere. It did not sit well with the patriarchy, who responded...
Between 1887 and 1920, the humble hatpin went from an unremarkable item in every woman's wardrobe, to a fashion necessity, to a dangerous weapon (it w...
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220,33 zł |
The Sexual Harassment of Women in the Workplace, 1600 to 1993
ISBN: 9780786476152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) While sexual harassment of women in the workplace has only been discussed publicly in the mainstream media, to any extent, for less than two decades it is a pervasive problem that women have faced for centuries. This book looks at the history of that harassment from the 1600s to 1992, from long forgotten domestic servants in England of the 1600s to abused Japanese textile workers of 1900, to the media surrounded Anita Hill in 1991 America. Coverage is world-wide with emphasis on the United States and the period 1800 to the present. Sexual harassment cuts across time periods, countries,...
While sexual harassment of women in the workplace has only been discussed publicly in the mainstream media, to any extent, for less than two decades i...
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250,60 zł |
Begging in America, 1850-1940: The Needy, the Frauds, the Charities and the Law
ISBN: 9780786465699 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The poverty that drives people to begging has been a pressing social issue in this country since its inception. This historical book explores begging and beggars in the period 1850 to 1940, with emphasis on how the police, the courts, the media and private charity organizations dealt with the issue. Efforts to suppress mendicancy are explored, including legislation, police crackdowns, and public vouchers for meals and shelter. Of particular interest is the way in which media portrayals have guided public perception of mendicants.
The poverty that drives people to begging has been a pressing social issue in this country since its inception. This historical book explores begging ...
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311,76 zł |
Women and Capital Punishment in America, 1840-1899: Death Sentences and Executions in the United States and Canada
ISBN: 9780786438235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This book profiles the lives and cases of selected women sentenced to capital punishment in America between 1840 and 1899, most of whom were executed by hanging. The book is divided into chapters by decades, chronologically following the long and heated debate regarding women and capital punishment.
This book profiles the lives and cases of selected women sentenced to capital punishment in America between 1840 and 1899, most of whom were executed ...
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Taming the Automobile: Early Regulation of Motor Vehicles in America, 1895-1903
ISBN: 9781476694917 / Miękka / 2024 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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Endorsements in Advertising: A Social History
ISBN: 9780786420438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The use of endorsements and testimonials to sell anything imaginable is a modern development, though the technique is centuries old. Before World War I, endorsement ads were tied to patent medicine, and were left with a bad reputation when that industry was exposed as quackery. The reputation was well earned: claims of a product's curative powers sometimes ran opposite the endorser's obituary, and Lillian Russell once testified that a certain compound had made her ?feel like a new man.? Distrusted by the public, banished from mainstream publications, endorsements languished until around 1920,...
The use of endorsements and testimonials to sell anything imaginable is a modern development, though the technique is centuries old. Before World War ...
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250,60 zł |
Dying for Chocolate: Cordelia Botkin and the 1898 Poisoned Candy Murders
ISBN: 9781476683621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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128,54 zł |
Vending Machines: An American Social History
ISBN: 9780786413690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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 |
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 (Dostawa przed świętami) 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 |