Defining Vision: How Broadcasters Lured the Government Into Inciting a Revolution in Television, Updated and Expanded
ISBN: 9780156005975 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this account of the political wrangling and technological breakthroughs that led to the creation of HDTV, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter does for television...what Tracy Kidder did for computers (Kirkus Reviews). Index.
" In this account of the political wrangling and technological breakthroughs that led to the creation of HDTV, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter does fo...
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Managing in the Media
ISBN: 9780240515991 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A handbook for the practising media manager working in the screen-based media industry. It amalgamates cultural theories, film and television analysis, management theories and media practice to provide a body of knowledge in one volume for the media manager.
A handbook for the practising media manager working in the screen-based media industry. It amalgamates cultural theories, film and television analysis...
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Concert Tour Production Management: How to Take Your Show on the Road
ISBN: 9780240802350 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text deals with the business of production and sets out guidelines to follow in order to get the show on the road. It provides the basic information required to manage the production for a touring concert from start to finish in the most effective and efficient way possible.
This text deals with the business of production and sets out guidelines to follow in order to get the show on the road. It provides the basic informat...
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235,16 zł |
Ifp/Los Angeles Independent Filmmaker's Manual
ISBN: 9780240805856 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covers the various aspects of making a film: script rights and rewrites, financing, breakdown, scheduling and budgeting, pre-production, production, postproduction and distribution. This work offers coverage of digital and HD - how to decide which to shoot on, what the financial impact is, and the effect on preproduction.
Covers the various aspects of making a film: script rights and rewrites, financing, breakdown, scheduling and budgeting, pre-production, production, p...
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308,33 zł |
The First Time I Got Paid for It...: Writers' Tales from the Hollywood Trenches
ISBN: 9780306810978 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The First Time I Got Paid for It is a one-of-a-kind collection of essays by more than fifty leading film and television writers, with a foreword by screenwriting legend William Goldman. Linked by the theme of a writer's "first time"--usually the first time he got paid for his work, but sometimes veering off into other, more unconventional, "first times"--these always entertaining (and sometimes hilarious) pieces share what it takes to succeed, what it takes to write well, and other aspects of maintaining creativity and integrity while striving for a career in Hollywood. Richard...
The First Time I Got Paid for It is a one-of-a-kind collection of essays by more than fifty leading film and television writers, with a forewor...
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Raising a Star: The Parent's Guide to Helping Kids Break Into Theater, Film, Television, or Music
ISBN: 9780312329860 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. So your child wants to be a star? But what does it really take? Money? Looks? Tons of time? Not necessarily. Nancy Carson, a children's agent who has worked in the industry for more than twenty-five years and has guided the careers of such celebrities as Britney Spears, Mischa Barton, and even a young Cynthia Nixon, dishes the facts on what it takes to break your child into the entertainment industry. The first parents' guide to getting kids into the business written by one of the industry's top children's agents, Raising a Star is a complete step-by-step guide that will help parents... So your child wants to be a star? But what does it really take? Money? Looks? Tons of time? Not necessarily. Nancy Carson, a children's agent... |
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Arts Marketing Insights: The Dynamics of Building and Retaining Performing Arts Audiences
ISBN: 9780787978440 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Audience behavior began to shift dramatically in the mid 1990s. Since then, people have become more spontaneous in purchasing tickets and increasingly prefer selecting specific programs to attend rather than buying a subscription series. Arts attenders also expect more responsive customer service than ever before. Because of these and other factors, many audience development strategies that sustained nonprofit arts organizations in the past are no longer dependable and performing arts marketers face many new challenges in their efforts to build and retain their audiences. Arts organizations...
Audience behavior began to shift dramatically in the mid 1990s. Since then, people have become more spontaneous in purchasing tickets and increasingly...
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104,49 zł |
Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World
ISBN: 9780822316244 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This entertaining and playful book views Disney World as much more than the site of an ideal family vacation. Blending personal meditations, interviews, photographs, and cultural analysis, "Inside the Mouse" looks at Disney World s architecture and design, its consumer practices, and its use of Disney characters and themes. This book takes the reader on an alternative ride through "the happiest place on earth" while asking "What makes this forty-three-square-mile theme park the quintessential embodiment of American leisure?"
Turning away from the programmed entertainment that Disney... This entertaining and playful book views Disney World as much more than the site of an ideal family vacation. Blending personal meditations, interview...
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114,94 zł |
Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968
ISBN: 9780822332022 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Tingler, the Mole People--they stalked and oozed into audiences' minds during the era that followed Boris Karloff's Frankenstein and preceded terrors like Freddy Krueger" (A Nightmare on Elm Street)" and Chucky "(Child's Play).""Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold "pulls off the masks and wipes away the slime to reveal how the monsters that frightened audiences in the 1950s and 1960s--and the movies they crawled and staggered through--reflected fundamental changes in the film industry. Providing the first economic history of the horror film, Kevin Heffernan...
The Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Tingler, the Mole People--they stalked and oozed into audiences' minds during the era that followed Boris Karl...
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465,19 zł |
Artist Management: Agility in the Creative and Cultural Industries
ISBN: 9781138697652 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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So You Want to Be in Show Business
ISBN: 9781581824537 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Veteran agent Steve Stevens offers insight into breaking into TV, movies, etc-particularly in the LA market.
Veteran agent Steve Stevens offers insight into breaking into TV, movies, etc-particularly in the LA market.
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64,98 zł |
The Global Theme Park Industry
ISBN: 9781845932084 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1980s, the theme park industry has developed into a global phenomenon, with everything from large, worldwide theme parks to countless smaller ventures. From the first pleasure gardens to the global theme park companies, this book provides an understanding of the nature and function of theme parks as spaces of entertainment. Illustrated throughout by worldwide case studies, empirical data and practical examples, the book portrays the impacts of theme parks as global competitive actors, agents of global development and cultural symbols, particularly in the context of their role in the...
Since the 1980s, the theme park industry has developed into a global phenomenon, with everything from large, worldwide theme parks to countless smalle...
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239,34 zł |
Off the Record
ISBN: 9780984057245 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ballet Across Borders: Career and Culture in the World of Dancers
ISBN: 9781859739938 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This absorbing book is ballet's 'biography' -- a revealing examination of a closed world, its competition and camaraderie, sexual politics, intimacies, pressures and, not least of all, its magic. Ballet companies have endeavoured to hide what is going on backstage lest the reality of highly strung nerves, constant fatigue and pain from injuries tarnish the illusion of ethereal figures and seemingly weightless steps in polished performances. But the audience's perceptions of fairy-tale worlds onstage are far removed from the experiences of the dancers themselves. The author, who trained to... This absorbing book is ballet's 'biography' -- a revealing examination of a closed world, its competition and camaraderie, sexual politics, intimac... |
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Summer Dreams: The Story of Bob-Lo Island
ISBN: 9780814333655 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Located twenty miles south of Detroit where the Detroit River meets Lake Erie, Bob-lo Island was the ultimate summer playground for families from Detroit and Windsor for nearly one hundred years. In its heyday, the island housed an amusement park with one of the world's largest dance halls, an elegant restaurant, and a hand-carved carousel. It also employed two large Frank Kirby-designed ferry steamers--complete with dancing and other entertainment--to transport patrons to and from the island, which was not accessible by car. In Summer Dreams, author Patrick Livingston tells the story of... Located twenty miles south of Detroit where the Detroit River meets Lake Erie, Bob-lo Island was the ultimate summer playground for families from D... |
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123,20 zł |
Fringe First
ISBN: 9781870259309 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The director of The Elephant Man and founder of the Foco Novo theatre company, interviews other pioneers of fringe theatre in the US and UK in the seventies and eighties.
The director of The Elephant Man and founder of the Foco Novo theatre company, interviews other pioneers of fringe theatre in the US and UK in the sev...
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52,22 zł |
The Art of the Turnaround: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Arts Organizations
ISBN: 9781584657354 / Angielski / Twarda / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many arts organizations today find themselves in financial difficulties because of economic constraints inherent in the industry. While other companies can improve productivity through the use of new technologies or better systems, these approaches are not available in the arts. Hamlet requires the same number of performers today as it did in Shakespeare's time. The New York Philharmonic requires the same number of musicians now as it did when Tchaikovsky conducted it over one hundred years ago. Costs go up, but the size of theaters and the price resistance of patrons limit what can be earned...
Many arts organizations today find themselves in financial difficulties because of economic constraints inherent in the industry. While other companie...
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Bound by Law?: Tales from the Public Domain, New Expanded Edition
ISBN: 9780822344186 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A documentary is being filmed. A cell phone rings, playing the Rocky theme song. The filmmaker is told she must pay $10,000 to clear the rights to the song. Can this be true? Eyes on the Prize, the great civil rights documentary, was pulled from circulation because the filmmakers rights to music and footage had expired. What s going on here? It s the collision of documentary filmmaking and intellectual property law, and it s the inspiration for this comic book. Follow its heroine Akiko as she films her documentary and navigates the twists and turns of intellectual property. Why...
A documentary is being filmed. A cell phone rings, playing the Rocky theme song. The filmmaker is told she must pay $10,000 to clear the rights...
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94,03 zł |
Disney & His Worlds
ISBN: 9780415103763 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work provides an overview of the Disney organization, in particular the theme parks and their significance for contemporary culture. The author examines topics such as Walt Disney's life and how his biography has been constructed, the Disney Company in the years after his death and various writings about the Disney theme parks. He raises important issues about the parks such as: whether they are harbringers of postmodernism; the significance of consumption at the parks; and the representation of past and future. The discussion of theme parks links with the presentation of Disney's...
This work provides an overview of the Disney organization, in particular the theme parks and their significance for contemporary culture. The author e...
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287,43 zł |
Roger Ebert's Book of Film: From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the Finest Writing from a Century of Film
ISBN: 9780393040005 / Angielski / Twarda / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For this delicious, instructive, and vastly enjoyable anthology, Roger Ebert has selected and introduced an international treasury of more than 100 selections that touch on every aspect of filmmaking and filmgoing. Here are the stars (Truman Capote on Marilyn Monroe, Joan Didion on John Wayne, Tom Wolfe on Cary Grant, Lauren Bacall on herself), the directors (John Houseman on Orson Welles, Kenneth Tynan on Mel Brooks, John Huston on himself), the makers and shakers (producer Julia Phillips, mogul Daryll F. Zanuck, stuntman Joe Bonomo), and the critics and theorists (Pauline Kael, Graham...
For this delicious, instructive, and vastly enjoyable anthology, Roger Ebert has selected and introduced an international treasury of more than 100 se...
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282,56 zł |