Histories of women in Hollywood usually recount the contributions of female directors, screenwriters, designers, actresses, and other creative personnel whose names loom large in the credits. Yet, fro
In 1923, two enterprising brothers named Walt and Roy Disney decided to go into the movie business together, establishing the Disney Brothers Studio in Los Angeles, California. Since then, Walt Disney
Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: digital media offer an always-accessible, apparently inexhaustible supply of entertain
Drawing from a variety of experts in an industry that has seen major disruptions and technology advancements since the third edition,The Movie Business Book offers a comprehensive, authoritative overv
Drawing from a variety of experts in an industry that has seen major disruptions and technology advancements since the third edition,The Movie Business Book offers a comprehensive, authoritative overv
· This collection is unusual in that the essays are not written from a single perspective and instead cover aspects as diverse as socio-political issues, translation, performance, language and
With an example-driven, hands-on approach, New Channels of Music Distribution offers a practical, comprehensive study of the music industry’s evolving distribution system. While paying careful attenti
With an example-driven, hands-on approach, New Channels of Music Distribution offers a practical, comprehensive study of the music industry’s evolving distribution system. While paying careful attenti
Traditional network television programming has always followed the same script: executives approve a pilot, order a trial number of episodes, and broadcast them, expectin
This book offers a strategic analysis of current and future perspectives of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows into the South East European media market. The author develops a hybrid FDI business
The Media Economy analyzes the media industries and its activities from macro to micro levels, using concepts and theories to demonstrate the role the media plays in the economy as a whole. Representi
The Media Economy analyzes the media industries and its activities from macro to micro levels, using concepts and theories to demonstrate the role the media plays in the economy as a whole. Representi
Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations argues that Al-Jazeera is not an agent of globalization, as is widely argued, but a tool used by the Qatari government to advance its political
Analog Culture in the Digital Age: Pressing Matters looks at music technologies from a popular culture studies perspective, taking into consideration the ways in which human beings bring these technol
Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However, emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this information struggle with an avalanche of social media messages that exceeds the human capacity to process. Emergency managers, decision makers, and affected communities can make sense of social media through a combination of machine computation and human compassion - expressed by thousands of digital volunteers who publish, process, and summarize potentially life-saving information. This book brings together computational methods from many disciplines: natural language processing, semantic technologies, data mining, machine learning, network analysis, human-computer interaction, and information visualization, focusing on methods that are commonly used for processing social media messages under time-critical constraints, and offering more than 500 references to in-depth information.
Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations argues that Al-Jazeera is not an agent of globalization, as is widely argued, but a tool used by the Qatari government to advance its political
The Hollywood Trust: Trade Associations and the Rise of the Studio System offers a rare look at the Hollywood trade organizations that rose during the early years of cinema. This book offers a detaile
Influential during Hollywood’s silent-film era, the Pathe Exchange was a multinational film company with a production and distribution model very different from the self-contained units of most major
