wyszukanych pozycji: 46
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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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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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Beware the Masher: Sexual Harassment in American Public Places, 1880-1930
ISBN: 9780786479276 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book examines the history of sexual harassment in America's public places, such as on the streets and on public transit vehicles, in the period 1880 to 1930. Such behavior was referred to then as mashing with the harasser most commonly being called a masher. It began around 1880 as a response to the women's movement as females in America increased their efforts to gain more freedom of movement and greater independence.
Women going out and about on their own, or only with other women, threatened male dominance and control of society. One response by men was to turn to the sexual... This book examines the history of sexual harassment in America's public places, such as on the streets and on public transit vehicles, in the period 1...
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Policewomen: A History
ISBN: 9780786477050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book examines the history of policewomen from 1880 to 2012, particularly in the United States. It looks at the problems women had being accepted into the male police establishment and at the harassment and discrimination they often suffered from male officers.
For women in policing there were three distinct phases. First was acceptance into forces as police matrons, starting in about 1880 in a serious way. Second came their acceptance as policewomen (when that title was officially bestowed on them by employing forces), starting around 1910-1916. Third was the acceptance of female... This book examines the history of policewomen from 1880 to 2012, particularly in the United States. It looks at the problems women had being accepted ...
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Lynchings of Women in the United States: The Recorded Cases, 1851-1946
ISBN: 9780786458981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority of these women were black. This book examines the phenomenon of the lynching of women, which was a much more rare experience than the lynching of men. Over the same period covered in this text, more than 1,000 white men were lynched, while thousands of black men were murdered by mobs. Of particular importance in this examination is the role of race in lynching, particularly the increase in the number of black lynchings as the century progressed. Details are provided--when available--for the...
Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority of these women were black. This book examines the ph...
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128,54 zł |
Film Actors Organize: Union Formation Efforts in America, 1912-1937
ISBN: 9780786442768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This study looks at all the attempts to organize film actors into a union, starting from the earliest attempt in 1912 when the Actors' Equity Association seemed the best platform for such an effort, to the establishment of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) in 1933 as the best vehicle to represent film actors.
This study looks at all the attempts to organize film actors into a union, starting from the earliest attempt in 1912 when the Actors' Equity Associat...
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250,60 zł |
Ticket Scalping: An American History, 1850-2005
ISBN: 9780786428052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ticket scalping is as much an American staple as apple pie. Beginning as early as the mid?1800s, scalpers, known as ?sidewalk men, ? were charging all the traffic would bear for event tickets. Although these speculators were generally viewed as pariahs, legal attempts to limit their activities were far from successful. Over the years, as moral objections to scalping dimmed, the public became more tolerant as the practice became increasingly prevalent. This volume details the ways in which scalping has changed over the years from a one-man business to an agency-controlled enterprise. The book...
Ticket scalping is as much an American staple as apple pie. Beginning as early as the mid?1800s, scalpers, known as ?sidewalk men, ? were charging all...
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Age Discrimination by Employers
ISBN: 9780786410101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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250,60 zł |