Entertainment category: 96258 books
Vectorworks for Entertainment Design
Using Vectorworks to Design and Document Scenery, Lighting, and Sound
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The first book in the industry tailored specifically for the entertainment professional, Vectorworks for Entertainment Design covers the ins and outs of Vectorworks software for lighting, scenic, and sound design.
With adetailed look at the design process, from idea to development, to the documentation...
Entertainment 101
An Industry Primer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Entertainment 101 provides an overview of the rapidly changing entertainment industry: Who does what, how, when and why in the making and marketing of America’s most influential and profitable export. A street-smart primer, this book demystifies and explains the terminology and inner workings of the...
by The Editors of Entertainment Weekly
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Entertainment Weekly Magazine presents Fantastic Beasts
American Showman
Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908–1935
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel (1882–1936) built an influential and prolific career as film exhibitor, stage producer, radio broadcaster, musical arranger, theater manager, war propagandist, and international celebrity. He helped engineer the integration of film, music, and live performance in...
by Anthony Slide
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Cultural Historian Anthony Slide, who has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a one-man publishing phenomenon, strikes again with a book guaranteed to contain something "offensive" for everyone.Chapters on subjects as varied as camp and fascism in Hollywood, Hedda Hopper and the PORKY'S...
They Call Me Supermensch
A Backstage Pass to the Amazing Worlds of Film, Food, and Rock’n’Roll
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
An eye-popping peek into entertainment industry from the magnetic force who has worked with an impeccable roster of stars throughout his storied career.
In the course of his legendary career as a manager, agent, and producer, Shep Gordon has worked with, and befriended, some of the biggest...
by The Editors of Entertainment Weekly
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
From Sorcerer's Stone toFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, J. K. Rowling's neverending world of enchantment has charmed a generation. Now, from the editors of Entertainment Weekly comes the spellbinding tale of how a beloved children's book series became a blockbuster movie franchise-and more....
The 16th Minute of Fame
An Insider's Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. Andy Warhol coined that prophetic line in 1968. Ironically, in today's modern society, Warhol's statement is arguably more famous than its author. Forty-plus years after he made his seemingly outrageous pronouncement, most people would probably...
by Jonathan Gray
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world’s most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a box, it is deeply embedded in everyday life, in how we think, what we think and care about, and who we think and care about it with.
But...
Militainment, Inc.
War, Media, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Militainment, Inc. offers provocative, sometimes disturbing insight into the ways that war is presented and viewed as entertainment—or "militainment"—in contemporary American popular culture. War has been the subject of entertainment for centuries, but Roger Stahl argues that a new interactive...
Multiculturalism and the Mouse
Race and Sex in Disney Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
In his latest iconoclastic work, Douglas Brode—the only academic author/scholar who dares to defend Disney entertainment—argues that "Uncle Walt's" output of films, television shows, theme parks, and spin-off items promoted diversity decades before such a concept gained popular currency in the...
by John Mullen
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Using a collection of over one thousand popular songs from the war years, as well as around 150 soldiers’ songs, John Mullen provides a fascinating insight into the world of popular entertainment during the First World War. Mullen considers the position of songs of this time within the history of...
by Jingsi Christina Wu
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
This book advances research about China by providing an updated narrative of its entertainment life in the beginning of China’s twenty-first century. As the rest of the world continues to pay keen attention to developments in China’s politics, economy, and culture, the book provides insights on...
The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados
Pathways to Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
During the second half of the 20th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music. And, yet, despite its vital role in the popularization of tuk music, the rise of spouge, and the Barbadian contribution to and transformation...