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Creating the Viewer
Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystem
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477329061
Pub Date: April 23rd, 2024
Format: Paperback
328 Pages
A study of the largely hidden world of primary media market research and the different methods used to understand how the viewer is pictured in the industry.
Playing the Percentages
How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477328941
Pub Date: April 16th, 2024
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
A history of film distribution in the United States from the 1910s to the 1930s, concentrating on booking, circuiting, and packaging marketing practices.
Making The Best Years of Our Lives
The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477328330
Pub Date: September 5th, 2023
Format: Paperback
208 Pages
How a Hollywood gem transformed the national discourse on post-traumatic stress disorder.
The Empire of Effects
Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477328972
Pub Date: August 28th, 2023
Format: Paperback
368 Pages
How one company created the dominant aesthetic of digital realism.
The Value Gap
Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477327302
Pub Date: August 8th, 2023
Format: Paperback
368 Pages
How female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood.
Selling Science Fiction Cinema
Making and Marketing a Genre
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477327333
Pub Date: July 18th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself.
Hollywood Shutdown
Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781477324608
Pub Date: July 20th, 2021
Format: Paperback
156 Pages
A concise and timely analysis of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on film and television production, distribution, and exhibition in the first nine months of 2020.
Below the Stars
How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477323076
Pub Date: July 13th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
216 Pages
An examination of the critical influence of working actors and actors’ labor unions on industrial structures and practices in Hollywood, including film, television, and streaming.
The LEGO Movie
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781477321577
Pub Date: November 10th, 2020
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
In this first book on The LEGO Movie, renowned film and TV scholar Dana Polan shows how, through irony, savvy self-awareness, and knowingness about the culture industry, the blockbuster animated film makes for essential cinema.
The Wind Traveler
A Novel
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9781477317747
Pub Date: October 13th, 2020
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
A Peruvian literary master returns with a provocative novel about the intersection of retribution and reconciliation--and a soldier's quest to confront the ghosts of his past after the Shining Path's reign of terror has ended.
Creating the Viewer
Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystem
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477329061
Pub Date: April 23rd, 2024
Format: Paperback
328 Pages
Playing the Percentages
How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477328941
Pub Date: April 16th, 2024
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
Making The Best Years of Our Lives
The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477328330
Pub Date: September 5th, 2023
Format: Paperback
208 Pages
The Empire of Effects
Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477328972
Pub Date: August 28th, 2023
Format: Paperback
368 Pages
The Value Gap
Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477327302
Pub Date: August 8th, 2023
Format: Paperback
368 Pages
Selling Science Fiction Cinema
Making and Marketing a Genre
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477327333
Pub Date: July 18th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
Hollywood Shutdown
Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781477324608
Pub Date: July 20th, 2021
Format: Paperback
156 Pages
Below the Stars
How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477323076
Pub Date: July 13th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
216 Pages
The LEGO Movie
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781477321577
Pub Date: November 10th, 2020
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
The Wind Traveler
A Novel
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9781477317747
Pub Date: October 13th, 2020
Format: Paperback
240 Pages