Book Description
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Michael Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 1988-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780824008383
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Entertainers
ISBN : 9780824008352
Author : Jeb H. Perry
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : Timothy S. Susanin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1626744564
For ten years before the creation of Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney struggled with, failed at, and eventually mastered the art and business of animation. Most biographies of his career begin in 1928, when Steamboat Willie was released. That first Disney Studio cartoon with synchronized sound made its main character—Mickey Mouse—an icon for generations. But Steamboat Willie was neither Disney's first cartoon nor Mickey Mouse's first appearance. Prior to this groundbreaking achievement, Walt Disney worked in a variety of venues and studios, refining what would become known as the Disney style. In Walt before Mickey: Disney's Early Years, 1919–1928, Timothy Susanin creates a portrait of the artist from age seventeen to the cusp of his international renown. After serving in the Red Cross in France after World War I, Walt Disney worked for advertising and commercial art in Kansas City. Walt used these experiences to create four studios—Kaycee Studios, Laugh-O-gram Films, Disney Brothers Studio, and Walt Disney Studio. Using company documents, private correspondence between Walt and his brother Roy, contemporary newspaper accounts, and new interviews with Disney's associates, Susanin traces Disney's path. The author shows Disney to be a complicated, resourceful man, especially during his early career. Walt before Mickey, a critical biography of a man at a crucial juncture, provides the “missing decade” that started Walt Disney's career and gave him the skills to become a name known worldwide.
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 34,42 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Books
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Author : Mark Miller
Publisher : Mercury Press (Canada)
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Singer, trumpeter and dancer. Child star, jazz pioneer and world traveller. Legend and myth. If Valaida Snowés life wasnét already sensational enough, she sensationalized it further, freely evading and embellishing the truth of her triumphs, trials and tribulations. But even after her life has been measured against the historical record, it remains a grand and compelling tale, and Valaida herself a grand and compelling figure.
Author : Douglas Gomery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1839020202
Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the 'dream factory' that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hollywood Studio System: A History is the first book to describe and analyse the complete development, classic operation, and reinvention of the global corporate entitles which produce and distribute most of the films we watch. Starting in 1920, Adolph Zukor, Head of Paramount Pictures, over the decade of the 1920s helped to fashion Hollywood into a vertically integrated system, a set of economic innovations which was firmly in place by 1930. For the next three decades, the movie industry in the United States and the rest of the world operated by according to these principles. Cultural, social and economic changes ensured the dernise of this system after the Second World War. A new way to run Hollywood was required. Beginning in 1962, Lew Wasserman of Universal Studios emerged as the key innovator in creating a second studio system. He realized that creating a global media conglomerate was more important than simply being vertically integrated. Gomery's history tells the story of a 'tale of two systems 'using primary materials from a score of archives across the United States as well as a close reading of both the business and trade press of the time. Together with a range of photographs never before published the book also features over 150 box features illuminating aspect of the business.
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Page : 2460 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 1991
Category : American literature
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Author : Barry Kernfeld
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0226431835
The music industry’s ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers’ efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, Barry Kernfeld’s Pop Song Piracy details nearly a century of disobedient music distribution from song sheets to MP3s. In the 1940s and ’50s, Kernfeld reveals, song sheets were succeeded by fake books, unofficial volumes of melodies and lyrics for popular songs that were a key tool for musicians. Music publishers attempted to wipe out fake books, but after their efforts proved unsuccessful they published their own. Pop Song Piracy shows that this pattern of disobedience, prohibition, and assimilation recurred in each conflict over unauthorized music distribution, from European pirate radio stations to bootlegged live shows. Beneath this pattern, Kernfeld argues, there exists a complex give and take between distribution methods that merely copy existing songs (such as counterfeit CDs) and ones that transform songs into new products (such as file sharing). Ultimately, he contends, it was the music industry’s persistent lagging behind in creating innovative products that led to the very piracy it sought to eliminate.