Chicago's WLS Radio
ISBN: 9781531640248 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From its early days as the farmers companion to over a quarter century as the nations premier rock-and-roll station, WLS has touched the lives of millions of listeners. Many well-known celebrities, like Gene Autry, owe their careers to the Big 89, through the famous Saturday night program The National Barn Dance. Local personalities such as Dick Biondi, Larry Lujack, and John Records Landecker became household names thanks to Chicagos 50,000-watt blowtorch. The images in Chicagos WLS Radio scan the entire history of the station, featuring engaging hosts, the biggest stars, and lots of fun....
From its early days as the farmers companion to over a quarter century as the nations premier rock-and-roll station, WLS has touched the lives of mill...
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137,72 zł |
Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France, 1921-1939
ISBN: 9781107108677 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In December 1921, France broadcast its first public radio program from a transmitter on the Eiffel Tower. In the decade that followed, radio evolved into a mass media capable of reaching millions. Crowds flocked to loudspeakers on city streets to listen to propaganda, children clustered around classroom radios, and families tuned in from their living rooms. Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France, 1921 1939 examines the impact of this auditory culture on French society and politics, revealing how broadcasting became a new platform for political engagement, transforming the act of...
In December 1921, France broadcast its first public radio program from a transmitter on the Eiffel Tower. In the decade that followed, radio evolved i...
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448,56 zł |
I Love the Illusion: The Life and Career of Agnes Moorehead, 2nd edition (hardback)
ISBN: 9781593938710 / Angielski / Twarda / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the HARDBACK version. Lovers of old-time radio hold a special place in their heart for Agnes Moorehead. She was one of the busiest and most definitive actresses of that medium. The bottom line is that Agnes Moorehead is one of the few actresses who succeeded in every realm of show business: stage, radio, film, and television. The respect of her peers can be summed up in these statistics: four Academy Award nominations, seven Emmy nominations - with one win - two Golden Globe nominations - with two wins - and the Best Actress award from the New York Film Critics. This impressive, 400+...
This is the HARDBACK version. Lovers of old-time radio hold a special place in their heart for Agnes Moorehead. She was one of the busiest and most de...
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188,04 zł |
Reel Rangers: Texas Rangers in Movies, TV, Radio & Other Forms of Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781571688408 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For nearly a century the worlds most famous law enforcement body has inspired novelists, actors and filmmakers. From "The Lone Ranger" to "Walker, Texas Ranger," from Zane Greys "The Lone Star Ranger" to Larry McMurtrys "Lonesome Dove," Texas Rangers have been portrayed on the silver screen, network radio and television. John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Tom Mix, Clint Eastwood, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and a host of lesser Western stars each took his turn at depicting Texas Rangers. Decade by decade, movie by movies, "Reel Rangers" explores in detail rich popular that has dramatized the heroic...
For nearly a century the worlds most famous law enforcement body has inspired novelists, actors and filmmakers. From "The Lone Ranger" to "Walker, Tex...
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85,89 zł |
Teorie E Tecniche Di Conduzione Radiofonica
ISBN: 9781291291230 / Włoski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. L'Ebook ""Teorie e Tecniche di Conduzione Radiofonica"" e il primo manuale professionale per conduttori radiofonici. La struttura del libro segue un percorso didattico, partendo da una visione piu generale della Radio (la struttura di un Emittente Radiofonica, la radio come azienda, i formati radiofonici, la suddivisione dei ruoli, il clock radiofonico) per poi avvicinarsi sempre di piu alla figura specifica del conduttore radiofonico. Risponderemo a domande importanti, ad esempio: ""Come si diventa un conduttore radiofonico?, Quali sono le regole principali della conduzione radiofonica?""...
L'Ebook ""Teorie e Tecniche di Conduzione Radiofonica"" e il primo manuale professionale per conduttori radiofonici. La struttura del libro segue un p...
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116,54 zł |
Listen in Terror CB: British Horror Radio from the Advent of Broadcasting to the Digital Age
ISBN: 9780719081484 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book is the first full-length study of British horror radio from the pioneering days of recording and broadcasting right through to the digital audio cultures of our own time. The book offers an historical, critical and theoretical exploration of horror radio and audio performance examining key areas such as writing, narrative, performance practice and reception throughout the history of that most unjustly neglected of popular art forms: radio drama and 'spoken word' auditory cultures.
The volume draws on extensive archival research as well as insightful... This groundbreaking book is the first full-length study of British horror radio from the pioneering days of recording and broadcasting right through t...
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464,10 zł |
Ben's War with the U. S. Marines
ISBN: 9781941402016 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ben's War with the U. S. Marines is biographical account of the charming and humorous World War II misadventures of Pfc. Ben Green--a low-ranking but resourceful nonconformist who battled the system in order to serve his country his way and stay alive so he could return home to his family. Facing a draft notice Ben, a resourceful nonconformist and Chicago radio producer with a wife and two small children, enlisted at age 35 with the understanding that he would serve as an officer in Marine Corps intelligence. When he learned too late he was too old for the job he'd been promised, he found...
Ben's War with the U. S. Marines is biographical account of the charming and humorous World War II misadventures of Pfc. Ben Green--a low-ranking but ...
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67,58 zł |
Crack of the Bat: A History of Baseball on the Radio
ISBN: 9780803245006 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The crack of the bat on the radio is ingrained in the American mind as baseball takes center stage each summer. Radio has brought the sounds of baseball into homes for almost one hundred years, helping baseball emerge from the 1919 Black Sox scandal into the glorious World Series of the 1920s. The medium gave fans around the country aural access to the first All-Star Game, Lou Gehrig s farewell speech, and Bobby Thomson s Shot Heard Round the World. Red Barber, Vin Scully, Harry Caray, Ernie Harwell, Bob Uecker, and dozens of other beloved announcers helped cement the love affair between...
The crack of the bat on the radio is ingrained in the American mind as baseball takes center stage each summer. Radio has brought the sounds of baseba...
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165,98 zł |
Father Knows Best
ISBN: 9780814339473 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the iconic television series "Father Knows Best" (CBS 1954-55; NBC 1955-58; CBS 1958-60) has enjoyed a long history in rerun syndication and an enduring fan base, it is often remembered as cultural shorthand for 1950s-era conformism and authoritarianism. In this study of "Father Knows Best, "author Mary R. Desjardins examines the program, its popularity, and its critical position within historical, industrial, and generic contexts to challenge oversimplified assumptions about the show's use of comedy and melodrama in exploring the place of family in mid-twentieth-century American... Although the iconic television series "Father Knows Best" (CBS 1954-55; NBC 1955-58; CBS 1958-60) has enjoyed a long history in rerun syndication a... |
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126,78 zł |
Cinema and Radio in Britain and America, 192060
ISBN: 9781784991104 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cinema and radio in Britain and America, 192060 charts the evolving relationship between the two principal mass media of the period. It explores, for the first time in print, the creative symbiosis that developed between the two, including regular film versions of popular radio series as well as radio versions of hit films.
This fascinating volume examines specific genres (comedy and detective stories) to identify similarities and differences in their media appearances, and in particular issues arising from the nature of film as predominantly visual and radio as exclusively aural.... Cinema and radio in Britain and America, 192060 charts the evolving relationship between the two principal mass media of the period. It explores, for ...
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163,80 zł |
Anatomy of Sound: Norman Corwin and Media Authorship
ISBN: 9780520285323 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection examines the work of Norman Corwin--one of the most important, yet understudied, media authors of all time--as a critical lens to view the history of multimedia authorship and sound production. Known as the "poet laureate" of radio, Corwin is most famous for his radio dramas, which reached millions of listeners around the world and contributed to radio's success as a mass media form in the 1930s and 1940s. But Corwin was also a pioneer in other fields, including cinema, theater, TV, and journalism. In each of these areas, he had a distinctive approach to "soundwork," relying...
This collection examines the work of Norman Corwin--one of the most important, yet understudied, media authors of all time--as a critical lens to view...
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163,80 zł |
Anatomy of Sound: Norman Corwin and Media Authorship
ISBN: 9780520285309 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection examines the work of Norman Corwin--one of the most important, yet understudied, media authors of all time--as a critical lens to view the history of multimedia authorship and sound production. Known as the "poet laureate" of radio, Corwin is most famous for his radio dramas, which reached millions of listeners around the world and contributed to radio's success as a mass media form in the 1930s and 1940s. But Corwin was also a pioneer in other fields, including cinema, theater, TV, and journalism. In each of these areas, he had a distinctive approach to "soundwork," relying...
This collection examines the work of Norman Corwin--one of the most important, yet understudied, media authors of all time--as a critical lens to view...
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428,19 zł |
Neil McKenty Live - The lines are still blazing
ISBN: 9781611531855 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Neil McKenty liked to argue just for the hell of it. During the 1970's and 80s he was one of Montreal's highest rated radio talk show hosts. At the peak of his career more than 75,000 people tuned in to CJAD to hear his show, Exchange. "The basic exchange on Exchange, is not between the listeners and Neil McKenty," he once explained. "It is between the listeners. If the host sets up the chemistry, the show goes on its own momentum, and I am almost on the sidelines. On the other hand, I am in the entertainment business. If I bore my listeners, I'm dead." The material collected in this book...
Neil McKenty liked to argue just for the hell of it. During the 1970's and 80s he was one of Montreal's highest rated radio talk show hosts. At the pe...
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72,08 zł |
Post-Punk Then and Now
ISBN: 9781910924266 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capitalism? What role did punk play in turning artists to experiment with popular music in the late 1970s and early 1980s? And why does the art and music of these times seem so newly pertinent to our political present, despite the seeming remoteness of its historical moment? Focusing upon the production of post-punk art, film, music, and publishing, this book offers new perspectives on an overlooked period ofcultural activity, and probes the lessons that might be learnt from history for artists...
What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capitalism? What role did punk play in turning artists t...
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55,97 zł |
The Network: The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age
ISBN: 9780062242761 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The astonishing story of America's airwaves, the two friends--one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor--who made them available to us, and the government which figured out how to put a price on air. This is the origin story of the airwaves--the foundational technology of the communications age--as told through the forty-year friendship of an entrepreneurial industrialist and a brilliant inventor. David Sarnoff, the head of RCA and equal parts Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, and William Randolph Hearst, was the greatest supporter of his friend Edwin Armstrong, developer of the... The astonishing story of America's airwaves, the two friends--one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor--who made them available to us, and th... |
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81,75 zł |
The Wireless Past: Anglo-Irish Writers and the Bbc, 1931-1968
ISBN: 9780198749615 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oxford Mid-Century Studies series publishes monographs in several disciplinary and creative areas in order to create a thick description of culture in the thirty-year period around the Second World War. With a focus on the 1930s through the 1960s, the series concentrates on fiction, poetry, film, photography, theatre, as well as art, architecture, design, and other media. The mid-century is an age of shifting groups and movements, from existentialism through abstract expressionism to confessional, serial, electronic, and pop art styles. The series charts such intellectual...
The Oxford Mid-Century Studies series publishes monographs in several disciplinary and creative areas in order to create a thick description ...
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433,82 zł |
Music, Radio and the Public Sphere: The Aesthetics of Democracy
ISBN: 9781349351282 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Radio, the most widely used medium in the world, is a dominant mediator of musical meaning. Through a combination of critical analysis, interdisciplinary theory and ethnographic writing about community radio, this book provides a novel theorization of democratic aesthetics, with important implications for the study of old and new media alike.
Radio, the most widely used medium in the world, is a dominant mediator of musical meaning. Through a combination of critical analysis, interdisciplin...
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192,30 zł |
American Radio in China: International Encounters with Technology and Communications, 1919-41
ISBN: 9781349322305 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interwar era efforts to expand US radio into China floundered in the face of flawed US policies and approaches. Situated at the intersection of media studies, technology studies, and US foreign relations, this study frames the ill-fated radio initiatives as symptomatic of an increasingly troubled US-East Asian relationship before the Pacific War.
Interwar era efforts to expand US radio into China floundered in the face of flawed US policies and approaches. Situated at the intersection of media ...
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346,16 zł |
Tulsa's KAKC Radio: The Big 97
ISBN: 9781531661229 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,72 zł |
Cincinnati Radio
ISBN: 9781531659578 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like radio listeners in many other cities its size, Greater Cincinnatians have kept their ears tuned to their local radio stations for music, news, and entertainment for nearly a century. However, unlike those cities, Cincinnati enjoyed several unique broadcast stories ranging from some of the earliest forays into radio dramatics to the country's first 500,000-watt superpower radio station. The listeners were treated to several up-and-coming celebrities like Doris Day, Rosemary Clooney, Andy Williams, and "Fats" Waller; the rise of three major communications corporations; and ultimately, an...
Like radio listeners in many other cities its size, Greater Cincinnatians have kept their ears tuned to their local radio stations for music, news, an...
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137,72 zł |