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The national entertainment By:Thomas Antony Freeland,Stanford University. Dept. of Drama Published on 1999 by Click The Button Below To Download The Book Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Media Entertainment By:Dolf Zillmann,Peter Vorderer Published on 2000-05-01 by Routledge Click The Button Below To Download The Book This collection represents a systematic exploration of media entertainment from an academic perspective. Editors Zillmann and Vorderer have assembled scholars from psychology, sociology, and communication to provide a broad examination of the primary function of media entertainment--the attainment of gratification. Chapters included here address vital aspects of media entertainment and summarize pertinent findings, providing an overview of what is presently known about the appeal and function of the essential forms of media entertainment, and offering some degree of integration. Written in a clear, non-technical style, this volume provides a lively and entertaining study of media entertainment for academic study and coursework. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Belo...

Audiences By:Ian Christie Published on 2012 by Amsterdam University Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book |This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to early interest in the effect of film on the audience by psychoanalysts and psychologists, which was overtaken by concern with the 'effects' of film, linked to calls for censorship and moral panics rather than to understanding the mental and behavioral world of the spectator. Early cinema history has revealed the diversity of film-viewing habits, while traditional 'box office' studies, which treated the audience initially as a homogeneous market, have been replaced by the study of individual consumers and their motivations. Latterly, there has been a marked turn towards more sophisticated economic and sociological analysis of attendance data. And as the film experience fra...

Media Design and Technology for Live Entertainment By:Davin Gaddy Published on 2017-11-27 by Taylor & Francis Click The Button Below To Download The Book Media Design and Technology for Live Entertainment is a guide to understanding the concepts and equipment used in projection and video design for live performances. After an introduction in the principles of design elements as well as information on content, this book focuses on how content is used and transmitted by describing the essential components of systems, providing definitions used in communicating video concepts, and including basic system troubleshooting tips and tricks. A brief history of projected imagery is included, as well as information on analog systems, as outdated technology continues to be used either by choice of the designer or by necessity due to budget. By providing the information to understand the tools and how to use them, the reader should be able to create their own systems to meet his or her design i...

Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician By:Richard Cadena Published on 2014-02-03 by CRC Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book The application of electricity for the theatre or a concert stage is not the same as for a residence or commercial building. Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician provides you with the fundamentals of theory of electricity as well as the latest guidelines and tips for how to stay safe, current and meet the needs of the entertainment industry. Written by an ETCP (Entertainment Technician Certification Program) trainer this reference supports practicing technicians and provides new technicians the assistance needed for a successful career in the entertainment industry. * The only reference on electricity for the entertainment industry professional! * Written by an ETCP (Entertainment Technician Certification Program) trainer and seasoned professional * Free additional practice problems and animations at ...

Introduction to the Casino Entertainment Industry By:Vincent H. Eade Published on 1997 by Pearson College Division Click The Button Below To Download The Book Presents a clear, understandable, and comprehensive overview of all the departments within a casino. KEY TOPICS: The book presents clear and realistic charts to show the organization of a casino and the job descriptions of each individual in it. A valuable introductory book for anyone interested in pursuing a career in casino management. Also useful for anyone currently working in a casino and seeking to improve his or her job opportunities. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Global Entertainment Media By:Anne Cooper-Chen Published on 2005 by Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Incorporated Click The Button Below To Download The Book Elevates global entertainment to an area of worthy media study that was previously reserved for global news and takes a worldwide approach, encompassing Nigeria, Egypt, Brazil, and India - in addition to the more high-profile, heavily researched areas of Europe and East Asia. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is true Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

The Role of the Entertainment Industry in Deglamorizing Drug Use By: Published on 1985 by Click The Button Below To Download The Book Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

E! Entertainment By:Kate Durbin Published on 2014-05-01 by Click The Button Below To Download The Book Fiction. Poetry. Women's Studies. Art. Kate Durbin's E! ENTERTAINMENT sparkles with the static of TV personalities, the privileged dramas of MTV's The Hills and Bravo's Real Housewives, the public tragedies of Amanda Knox and Anna Nicole Smith. Durbin traces the migratory patterns of the flightiest members of our televised demimonde, from the vacant bedrooms of the Playboy Mansion to the modern gothic set of Kim Kardashian's fairytale wedding, rendering a fabulous, fallen world in a language of diamond-studded lavishness. |Smart and weirdly engaging.|—Publisher's Weekly |Powerful and sinister.|—The Rumpus |Chilling.|—VICE Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Arts & Entertainments By:Christopher Beha Published on 2014-07-01 by Harper Collins Click The Button Below To Download The Book Christopher Beha delivers a cutting send-up of our cultural obsession with celebrity—a deliciously witty, and ultimately tender, novel about the absurdity of fame and the complexity of love sure to appeal to fans of Maria Semple and Jess Walter. A sharp-edged satire with heart, Arts & Entertainments is the story of Handsome Eddie Hartley who, at thirty-three, has forgone dreams of an acting career for the reality of life as a drama teacher at a boys’ prep school. But when Eddie and his wife, Susan, discover they cannot have children, it is one disappointment too many. Weighted down with debt, his wife’s mounting unhappiness, and his own deepening sense of failure, Eddie is confronted with an alluring solution when an old friend-turned-web-impresario suggests Eddie sell a sex tape he made with an ex-girlfriend, now a wildly popular television star. Over...

The Definitive Guide to Entertainment Marketing By:Al Lieberman,Patricia Esgate Published on 2013 by Pearson Education Click The Button Below To Download The Book This book covers film, cable, broadcast, music, sports, publishing, social media, gaming and more. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

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Child Labor in the British Victorian Entertainment Industry By:Dyan Colclough Published on 2016-01-26 by Springer Click The Button Below To Download The Book Child labor greatly contributed to the cultural and economic success of the British Victorian theatrical industry. This book highlights the complexities of the battle for child labor laws, the arguments for the needs of the theatre industry, and the weight of opposition that confronted any attempt to control employers. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

The University of Texas Summer Entertainment Committee presents an evening of South American music By:Texas. University. Summer Entertainment Committee Published on 1960 by Click The Button Below To Download The Book Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Careers Inside the World of Sports and Entertainment By: Published on 1996-03-01 by Globe Fearon Company Click The Button Below To Download The Book Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Hussein: An Entertainment By:Patrick O'Brian Published on 2001-04-17 by W. W. Norton & Company Click The Button Below To Download The Book A glittering adventure set in India at the height of the British Raj. The New York Times compared this book to Kipling's Kim and called it |a gorgeous entertainment.| Of this early work, published when he was in his early twenties, Patrick O'Brian writes in a foreword: |In the writing of the book I learnt the rudiments of my calling: but more than that, it opened a well of joy that has not yet run dry.| The story is about a young mahout—or elephant handler—his childhood and life in India, and his relationship and adventures with elephants. As a boy, Hussein falls in love with a beautiful and elusive girl, Sashiya, and arranges for another of her suitors to be murdered with a fakir's curse. The dead man's relatives vow vengeance. Hussein escapes and his adventures begin: snake-charming, sword-fighting, spying, stealing a fortu...

The Cinema of the Coen Brothers By:Jeffrey Adams Published on 2015-07-14 by Columbia University Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book The films of the Coen brothers have become a contemporary cultural phenomenon. Highly acclaimed and commercially successful, over the years their movies have attracted increasingly larger audiences and spawned a subculture of dedicated fans. Shunning fame and celebrity, Ethan and Joel Coen remain maverick filmmakers, producing and directing independent films outside the Hollywood mainstream in a unique style combining classic genres like film noir with black comedy to tell off-beat stories about America and the American Dream. This study surveys Oscar-winning films, such as Fargo (1996) and No Country for Old Men (2007), as well as cult favorites, including O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and The Big Lebowski (1998). Beginning with Blood Simple (1984), it examines major themes and generic constructs and offers diverse approaches to the Coen...