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Cambridge University Press Selling Hollywood to the World
Book SynopsisThe global expansion of Hollywood and American popular culture in the first decades of the twentieth century met with strong opposition throughout the world. This book investigates European efforts to overcome the American film industry's pre-eminence.Trade Review'This is an important book on the political economy of Hollywood.' John Sedgwick, University of London'… a well-researched synthesis of Hollywood history that adds useful insight to the vibrant field of transatlantic studies …' American Studies International'… a rich resource for anyone interested in what has been at stake in the interplay between Hollywood and its rival cinemas … a well-researched work that enriches our understanding of a complex relationship that continues to impact communities around the world.' Film Quarterly'Interesting and important …' Communication Booknotes Quarterly'Joining the distinguished Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communications series, this deserving book takes its place on the shelf with such fine works as Kristin Thompson's Exporting Entertainment. … Well indexed with a good bibliography and a few stills, this is a book for graduate students, researchers, and faculty.' Choice'Trumpbour is to be congratulated for never treating complex issues as simple matters of black or white...[his] research is impressive … and the book has tremendous value for the background it provides on current debates about globalization and Hollywood's continuing domination of the international film scene.' Business History ReviewTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The United States: 1. The domestic roots of Hollywood's foreign policy: censorship and corporatism in the formation of the MPPDA, 1921–41; 2. Hollywood and the State department: overseas expansion and America's subversion; 3. The MPAA and the State department: order and autonomy in the postwar world; Part II. Great Britain: 4. Grierson, the documentary spirit and the projection of Britain; 5. The Korda road to riches, recovery and ruin; 6. The age of rank; 7. The US-UK film conflict: the fading dream of mastering Hollywood; Part III. Two Continental Case Studies: Belgium and France: 8. Belgium and the making of an international Catholic film movement; 9. France and resistance to Hollywood: empire, artisans and the state; 10. France and the politics of state intervention; Conclusion; Notes; Selected bibliography; Filmography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Games Learning and Society
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Cambridge University Press Jewish Identities in German Popular Entertainment 18901933
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Cambridge University Press Games Learning and Society Learning and Meaning in the Digital Age Learning in Doing Social Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of British Theatre Volume 2
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Cambridge University Press Selling Hollywood to the World
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Cambridge University Press Don Bradman Challenging the Myth
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Cambridge University Press Mass Appeal
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the American Nation
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Cambridge University Press Mass Appeal
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Cambridge University Press Mediterranean Crime Fiction
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Dharma Punx
Book SynopsisFueled by the music of revolution, anger, fear, and despair, we dyed our hair or shaved our heads ... Eating acid like it was candy and chasing speed with cheap vodka, smoking truckloads of weed, all in a vain attempt to get numb and stay numb.This is the story of a young man and a generation of angry youths who rebelled against their parents and the unfulfilled promise of the sixties. As with many self-destructive kids, Noah Levine''s search for meaning led him first to punk rock, drugs, drinking, and dissatisfaction. But the search didn''t end there. Having clearly seen the uselessness of drugs and violence, Noah looked for positive ways to channel his rebellion against what he saw as the lies of society. Fueled by his anger at so much injustice and suffering, Levine now uses that energy and the practice of Buddhism to awaken his natural wisdom and compassion.While Levine comes to embrace the same spiritual tradition as his father, bestselling author Stephen Levine,
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc PostSecret
Book Synopsis “A fascinating public airing of private thoughts—some dark, others funny, endearing or disturbing—written on homemade postcards. . . . The range of efforts (meticulous, sloppy, artful, ponderous) will astound you.” —TIME.comA fascinating, addictively compelling look at people’s deepest secrets, told through anonymously submitted postcards.Frank Warren is the founder and curator of the PostSecret project. For the project, which was started in October 2004, Warren asked people to write a secret they had never told anyone on a handmade postcard and mail it to him. He then displayed selected cards—the authors are anonymous—on his website, www.postsecret.com. The response was overwhelming, and the cards are astonishing in their honesty and creativity. Each card bears an intimate, powerful, or even chilling sentiment, told through handmade illustrations, photographs, collag
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc In the Little World A True Story of Dwarfs Love
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc My Secret
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Secret Lives of Men and Women
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Lifetime of Secrets
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Authenticity Hoax
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc High Voltage Tattoo
Book SynopsisFeatures the work of and profiles of/interviews with a range of contemporary tattoo artists. This book includes lots of profiles of interviews with people who have interesting tattoos and the stories behind them. It is suitable for the younger demographic that actively gets tattoos.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Cinderella Ate My Daughter
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Green Porno
Book SynopsisSuitable for readers of Michael Pollan and fans of independent films, this book focuses on the sex lives of marine animals.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Word Made Flesh
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Beautiful News
Book SynopsisIn this sequel to bestselling The Visual Miscellaneum, author David McCandless reveals unexpected—and much needed—positive developments from around the world.David McCandless creates simple, elegant ways to see and understand complex, abstract, and often obscured information important to our lives. A specialist in infographics. McCandless cuts through the noise of data overload, creating visually stunning displays that not only make facts comprehensive, but illuminates their connections and adds context, making information meaningful in beautiful and entertaining way.Designed in David McCandless’s signature style. Beautiful News focuses on fascinating positive developments at a time when the world has never seemed more dangerous and unpredictable. McCandless draws from philosophy, spirituality, ecology, society, technology, history, science, economics, and pop culture, to reveal positive trends and developments, from the invention of a breakthrough device that uses ocean forces to clean plastic from the world’s seas, to a new method of converting donated blood to the crucial “O” negative type that can be used universally.In cutting edge graphs, charts, and illustrations, David McCandless creatively visualizes unexpected and compelling relationships between diverse data sets. Among his surprising findings: almost 250 US cities have remained in the Paris Accord; there are more female CEOs in the world than ever before; a new vaccine has been developed to help protect bees; Zika is disappearing from the Americas.At a time when we are besieged by disturbing events, Beautiful News is the antidote to brighten the darkest day—a shot of positivity and good cheer that will lift the spirts and provide sorely needed hope about our world in a way never before seen.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Girls Sex
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Think Like a Freak CD
Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more.Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally—to think, that is, like a Freak.Levitt and Dubner offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms. As always, no topic is off-limits. They range from business to philanthropy to sports to politics, all with the goal of retraining your brain. Along the way, you’ll learn the secrets of a Japanese
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Why Unicorn Drinks
Book SynopsisIntroduces us to the true nature of unicorns, proving that they are not the majestic creatures we think they are. In this book, the author bravely delves even further into the emotional state of unicorns, where we learn what horrors lead Unicorn to drink, including: because Unicorn meat is a delicacy; and because weed isn't legal yet.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Southerners Handbook
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Doctor Who The Vault
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Doctor Who The Doctors Lives and Times
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc 1968
Book SynopsisNow in paperback, a major history of one of the seminal years in the postwar world, when rebellion and disaffection broke out on an extraordinary scale.The year 1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary—around ten million French workers went on strike and the whole state teetered on the brink of collapse. Others were more easily contained, but had profound longer-term implications—terrorist groups, feminist collectives, gay rights activists could all trace important roots to 1968.1968 is a striking and original attempt half a century later to show how these events, which in some ways still seem so current, stemmed from histories and societies which are in practice now extraordinarily remote from our own time. 1968 pursues the story into the 1970s to show both the ever more violent forms of radicalization that stemmed from 1968 and the brutal reaction that brough
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Good Booty
Book SynopsisTrade Review“No writer is better equipped than Ann Powers to clarify and dissect the fundamental American myths that power our popular music. Good Booty is an expansive, electrifying, and important book. It changed the way I listen.” — Amanda Petrusich, author of Do Not Sell At Any Price “No writer on music has as keen a mind or as great a heart as Ann Powers. Sex is the subject, but Good Booty is really a tour-de-force history of an entire century of pop, rich in feeling and fierce in insight. It’s a dazzling achievement.” — Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise “A revelatory road trip through the erotic fever dreams of American culture . . . tells the whole epic saga of how music became the confessional where we go to share our deepest secrets and desires . . . Only Ann Powers could make this story so head-spinning—and often heartbreaking.” — Rob Sheffield, author of Dreaming the Beatles “A fearless and often funny, feminist work. I feel like I have been waiting my whole life for this book—Good Booty is glorious!” — Jessica Hopper, author of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic “An instant, indispensable classic, for a culture that always needs sexual healing.” — Carl Wilson, author of Let’s Talk About Love “A major, original, comprehensive piece of rock history and analysis.” — Robert Christgau, author of Going Into the City “With precision and wit, and across multiple musical genres, Powers contextualizes the complicated interplay of gender, sex, and race inherent in popular music within and against the backdrop of America’s puritanical founding.” — Library Journal, starred review “Fascinating. . . . readers won’t look at Lady Gaga or Nicki Minaj the same way.” — Kirkus “Informative and entertaining ... Powers reveals an extraordinary breadth of knowledge and insight and has produced an absolutely essential addition to any pop-culture collection.” — Booklist, starred review “NPR music critic Ann Powers explores themes of gender, sexuality, race and identity in this sweeping survey of popular music.” — Chicago Tribune, Summer Reading Round Up “Stirring.” — O, the Oprah Magazine “Both an indispensable guide to American pop music and a damned fine read . . . The best thing about Good Booty is that it reminds us that the right song shows us how to be somebody in a way that’s not possible with any other art form.” — Wall Street Journal “A fascinating history of popular music.” — Bustle, “Best Nonfiction of the Month” “If for no other reason—though there are lots of other reasons—the book is worth a read for its mapping of the way hope and joy are present even in the darkest times. . . Powers’ writing is deeply compassionate and nuanced.” — Chapter 16 “A fascinating history of popular music.” — Bustle, Best Nonfiction Books of August 2017
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Warcraft Behind the Dark Portal
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Everybody Lies
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Glop Nontoxic Expensive Ideas That Will Make You
Book SynopsisGlop is about being conscious to the tiny details of our lives—what to eat, where to buy your cashmere yoga pants, which juice cleanse will remove the most mercury toxins from both your body and your cashmere yoga pants.Trade Review"[Glop] really is the perfect holiday gift for that friend who claims she reads Goop for the sake of irony, but has also non-ironically adopted the phrase "conscious uncoupling" into her everyday vernacular. You know the one." -- The Hollywood Reporter "...hilarious from start-to-finish. It's the perfect stocking stuffer for your one sister-in-law who reads celeb gossip obsessively and plans to deliver her firstborn baby to the sounds of whale calls and the scent of peppermint essential oil." -- Bustle "[Glop] bills itself as "wickedly funny," and I can confirm it is... How could you harness so much material into one book? Could you? Well, yes; [Gabrielle Moss] takes one concept and runs with it, committed and cheekily hilarious." -- Food52 "If you're among the many, many humans who hate-read Goop, you'll be psyched to know that Glop is the Goop parody book you've been hoping for... The book is truly a breath of fresh air for anyone who can't afford $9,000 Oxygen tanks from Fiji..." -- The Frisky "Love (or hate) Gwyneth Paltrow's impossibly everything lifestyle blog and brand Goop? Then Gabrielle Moss' new tome, Glop...It's so LOL funny even Gwyneth might find herself smiling as she calls her attorneys for an injunction." -- San Francisco Chronicle "...poke fun at the one of the most pretentious, talked about, unaware celeb manifested sites with Glop... you'll laugh, but respect Gwyneth for being true to the only life she, and her circle, have known." -- It's Tillie "This wickedly funny, full-color, illustrated sendup of the trendy, pretentious celebrity website Goop is the perfect coffee table book for yourself or a friend!" -- Mama Fashionista
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Boys Sex Young Men on Hookups Love Porn Consent
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Boys Sex
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNow in paperback—Peggy Orenstein, author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller Girls & Sex, turns her focus to the sexual lives of young men. “Eye-opening…. Every few pages, the boy world cracks open a little bit…. Even in the most anxiety-provoking moments of Boys & Sex, it’s clear that Orenstein believes in the goodness of boys and the men they can become, and she believes in us, as parents, to raise them” (New York Times Book Review).Peggy Orenstein’s Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and launched conversations about young women’s right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unexpected effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. Boys are subject to the same cultural forces as girls
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Nashville
Book SynopsisThis book reminds me, in the sweetest way possible, that I probably should have never left Nashville. — Chris ThileIntroduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Jon MeachamA dynamic, experiential, and intimate portrait that explores the many sides of the legendary Southern city and country music capital, from award-winning writers Ann Patchett, Jon Meacham, and acclaimed photographer Heidi Ross.Nashville is a creative collaboration that awakens the senses, providing a virtual immersion in this unique American city hailed as the Athens of the South. Patchett, Ross, and Meacham in his introduction, at once capture both the city’s iconic historical side—its deep, rich Southern roots, from its food and festivals to its famous venues, recording studios, and style—and its edgier, highly vibrant creative side, which has made it a modern cultural mecca increasingly populated by established and upcoming artists in art, film, and music.Nashville celebrates Nashvillians’ beloved locales and events, both established and new, that are the heart of the city’s character including: Bobbie’s Dairy Dip Buchanan Arts District Bolton’s Chicken and Fish East Nashville Tomato Arts Festival Germantown The Gulch Grand Ole Opry Pie Town (SoBro) Pride Festival Prince’s Hot Chicken Schermerhorn Symphony Center Stanley Cup Playoffs Tennessee Performing Arts Center Tennessee State Fair Third Man Records Here, too, are engaging vignettes spotlighting the diverse talent that makes the Tennessee city a significant cultural incubator and influencer, including singer-songwriters Marty Stuart, Gillian Welch, and Dave Rawlings; film director Harmony Korine, textile designer Andra Eggleston, country music fashion designer to the stars Manuel, chef Margot McCormack, acclaimed pastry chef Lisa Donovan, and model and musician Karen Elson.Blending exceptional narrative, evocative photography—including 175 black-and-white and color photographs—and a bold graphic design, Nashville is an intimate, textured panorama that brilliantly illuminates one of America’s most remarkable treasures.Trade ReviewNashville: Scenes from the New American South beautifully captures my home city of Nashville in this exciting moment of change and growth. — Al Gore This book is excruciatingly gorgeous. Every page makes me homesick. — Connie Britton A great book about a great city. — John Prine This has been a time of such great change for Nashville that I think we are all very curious to see who we are now. — Gillian Welch This book reminds me, in the sweetest way possible, that I probably should have never left Nashville. — Chris Thile
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Radio Flyer 100 Years of Americas Little Red
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Legendary Artists and the Clothes They Wore
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc So Youre Going Bald
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Hidden Power of Fcking Up
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Information Trade
Book SynopsisA timely, compelling, and expertly researched passport to the tech companies that rule today''s digital landscape.—Blake Harris, bestselling author of Console Wars and The History of the Future.In this provocative book about our new tech-based reality, political insider and tech expert Alexis Wichowski considers the unchecked rise of tech giants like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla—what she calls “net states”— and their unavoidable influence in our lives. Rivaling nation states in power and capital, today’s net states are reaching into our physical world, inserting digital services into our lived environments in ways both unseen and, at times, unknown to us. They are transforming the way the world works, putting our rights up for grabs, from personal privacy to national security. Combining original reporting and insights drawn from more than 100 intervi
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Unicorn Handbook
Book SynopsisFrom Carolyn Turgeon, editor in chief of Enchanted Living and author of The Faerie Handbook and The Mermaid Handbook, comes this exquisitely illustrated and beautifully designed lifestyle compendium, a complete guide to the world of unicorns covering fashion and beauty;
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Harper Business The TurnOn How the Powerful Make Us Like ThemFrom
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Madame Clairevoyants Guide to the Stars
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Wild City A Brief History of New York City in 40
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