Hollywood Planet

Author : Scott Robert Olson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135669570
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Planet written by Scott Robert Olson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of US media's success around the world, advancing a theory behind the popularity of American culture and the strategy for obtaining this advantage. For scholars and students in mass media & society, and international/intercultural studies.

Author : Scott Robert Olson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135669562
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Planet written by Scott Robert Olson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularity of American television programs and feature films in the international marketplace is widely recognized but scarcely understood. Existing studies have not sufficiently explained the global power of the American media nor its actual effects. In this volume, Scott Robert Olson tackles the issue head on, establishing his thesis that the United States' competitive advantage in the creation and global distribution of popular taste is due to a unique mix of cultural conditions that are conducive to the creation of "transparent" texts--narratives whose inherent polysemy encourage diverse populations to read them as though they are indigenous. Olson posits that these narratives have meaning to so many different cultures because they allow viewers in those cultures to project their own values, archetypes, and tropes into the movie or television program in a way that texts imported from other cultures do not, thus enabling the import to function as though it were an indigenous product. As an innovative volume combining postcolonial and postmodern theory with global management strategic theory, Hollywood Planet is one of the first studies that attempts to account theoretically for numerous recent ethnographic studies that suggest different interpretations of television programs and film by a variety of international audiences. Relevant to studies in media theory and other areas of the communication discipline, as well as anthropology, sociology, and related fields, Hollywood Planet contains a powerful and original argument to explain the dominance of American media in the global entertainment market.

Author : Thomas Schatz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415281355
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood: Cultural dimensions: ideology, identity and cultural industry studies written by Thomas Schatz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hollywood' as a concept applies variously to a particular film style, a factory-based mode of film production, a cartel of powerful media institutions and a national (and increasingly global) 'way of seeing'. It is a complex social, cultural and industrial phenomenon and is arguably the single most important site of cultural production over the past century. This collection brings together journal articles, published essays, book chapters and excerpts which explore Hollywood as a social, economic, industrial, aesthetic and political force, and as a complex historical entity.

Author : Alexander Cheng-Yuan Huang
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557535299
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace written by Alexander Cheng-Yuan Huang and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace shows readers how ideas of Asia operate in Shakespeare performances and how Asian and Anglo-European forms of cultural production combine to transcend the mode of inquiry that focuses on fidelity. The result is a new creativity that finds expression in different cultural and virtual locations, including recent films and massively multiplayer online games such as Arden: The World of Shakespeare. The papers in this volume provide a background for these modern developments showing the history of how Shakespeare became a signifier against which Asian and Western cultures definedand continue to definethemselves. Hollywood films, and a century of Asian readings of plays such as Hamlet and Macbeth, are now conjoining in cyberspace making a world of difference in how we experience Shakespeare. The papers, written by experts in the field, provide an introduction to the diverse incarnations and bold sequences of screen and stage that in recent decades have produced new versions of Shakespeare's great comedies and tragedies and new ways of experiencing them. Authors, in the first part of the collection, examine body politics and race in Hollywood Shakespearean films andfilm techniques. It complements the second part of the book, in which the history of Shakespearean readings and stagings in China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, Malaya, Korea, and Hong Kong are discussed. Papers in the third part of the volume contain analyses of the transformation of the idea of Shakespeare in cyberspace, a rapidly expanding world of new rewritings of both Shakespeare and Asia. Together, the three sections of this comparative study show how Asian cultures and Shakespeare affect each other, how one culture is translated to anoth

Author : Robert Clyde Allen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415283243
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Television Studies Reader written by Robert Clyde Allen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of a truly international range of television programs, this title covers alternative modes of television such as digital and satellite.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postal Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jan-Erik Lane
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754646679
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Politics written by Jan-Erik Lane and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable, highly readable new text brings together vision and imaginative insight to the analysis of the evolution of inter-state politics to produce a clear, comprehensive and coherent sense of globalization and exactly what's at stake in the globalization debate.

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Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Postal Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Todd Wilbur
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780452275874
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Top Secret Restaurant Recipes written by Todd Wilbur and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series with more than 4 million books sold! Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars gobbling up meals at full-service restaurant chains, inspiring Todd Wilbur to change his focus from cracking the recipes for convenience store foods to cloning the popular dishes served at these sit-down stand-bys. Wilbur's knock-offs, absolutely indiscernible from the originals, are selected from national and regional chains, many drawn from a list of the top ten full-service restaurant chains, including Houlihan's, Red Lobster, and Pizza Hut. Also included in this savory cookbook is a special section devoted to dishes from hot theme restaurants such as Hard Rock Cafe, Planet Hollywood, and Dive! Recipes include: Applebee's Quesadillas; Denny's Moons Over My Hammy; Bennigan's Cookie Mountain Sundae; The Olive Garden Toscana Soup; The Cheesecake Factory Bruschetta; T.G.I.Friday's Nine-Layer Dip; Pizza Hut Original Stuffed Crust Pizza; Chi-Chi's Nachos Grande, and many more!

Author : Janet Wasko
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446240134
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Hollywood Works written by Janet Wasko and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the US motion picture industry - its structure and policies, its operations and practices. It looks at the processes that are involved in turning raw materials and labor into feature films. It describes the process of film production, distribution, exhibition and retail - a process that involves different markets where materials, labor and products are bought and sold. In other words, this is a book about how Hollywood works - as an industry. How Hollywood Works: - offers an up-to-date survey of the policies and structure of the US film industry - looks at the relationship between the film industry and other media industries - examines the role of the major studios and the other ′players′ - including, law firms, talent agents, and trade unions and guilds - provides access to hard-to-find statistical information on the industry While many books describe the film production and marketing process, they usually do so from an industry perspective and few look at Hollywood critically from within a more general economic, political and social context. By offering just such a critique, Janet Wasko′s text provides a timely and essential analysis of how Hollywood works for all students of film and media.