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Book SynopsisSpecial Sound traces the fascinating creation and legacy of the BBC''s electronic music studio, the Radiophonic Workshop, in the context of other studios in Europe and America. The BBC built a studio to provide its own avant-garde dramatic productions with experimental sounds neither music nor sound effect. Quickly, however, a popular kind of electronic music emerged in the form of quirky jingles, signature tunes such as Doctor Who, and incidental music for hundreds of programs. These influential sounds and styles, heard by millions of listeners over decades of operation on television and radio, have served as a primary inspiration for the use of electronic instruments in popular music.Using in-depth research in the studio''s archives and papers, this book tells the history of the many engineers, composers, directors, and producers behind the studio to trace the shifting perception towards electronic music in Britain. Combining historical discussion of the people and instruments in theTrade Reviewimmaculately researched. * Mark Brend, Record Collector *excellent ... [Neibur] draws on specially undertaken and published interviews with key participants, as well as a treasure trove of written material from the BBC Written Archives Centre, and original programmes. * Timothy Boon, British Journal for the History of Science *Niebur's research into this early history of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is wickedly illuminating * David Toop, Times Higher Education *Louis Niebur delves illuminatingly into a hitherto untold story to throw a deserved spotlight on the creative talents involved. * Michael Quinn, Editor's Choice for 2011, Classical Music Magazine *Table of ContentsABOUT THE COMPANION WEBSITE; ENDNOTES; APPENDIX: TRANSCRIPTIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

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Book SynopsisOne of the most successful series of its time, Have Gun-Will Travel became a cultural phenomenon in the late 1950s and made its star, Richard Boone, a nationwide celebrity. Film scholar Gaylyn Studlar draws on a remarkably wide range of episodes from the series' six seasons to show its sophisticated experimentation with many established conventions of the Western.

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Book SynopsisLinda Stradling is an experienced and well-established production manager who works for major broadcasters, including Channel 4, BBC, Working Title, Mentorn, the Discovery Channel & National Geographic. Linda teaches production management skills on professional industry courses.Trade Review'packed with practical hints and tips to help advance any production career' Ariel BBC Staff magazine (July 2010)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. The Role of the Production Manager in Documentary and Factual Projects 2. Working in Drama 3. An Introduction to Budgeting a Documentary 4. Scheduling 5. Cash Flow - What it is and How to do it 6. A Guide to Essential Documentation 7. Systems and Cost Control 8. Dealing with the Broadcaster 9. VAT and the Production Manager 10. Insurance 11. Negotiating Contracts, Hiring and Firing 12. 'Recess', Setting Up Shoots and Foreign Filming 13. Health & Safety 14. Interviewing and the Ethics of the Documentary 15. Archive and Copyright 16. Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) 17. Music: A Brief Guide 18. Post Production and Editorial Staff 19. Deliverables 20. The Other Side of Production Management Appendix: Help Agencies, Trade Unions, Industry Jargon and other useful references Index

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Book SynopsisIn the most comprehensive history of Spanish-language television in the United States to date, Craig Allen traces the development of two prominent yet little-studied powerhouses, Univision and Telemundo. Allen tells the inside story of how these networks fought enormous odds to rise as giants of mass communication within an English-dominated society.The book begins in San Antonio, Texas, in 1961 with the launch of the first Spanish-language station in the country. From it rose the Spanish International Network (SIN), which would later become Univision. Conceived by Mexican broadcasting mogul Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta and created by unsung American television pioneers, Unvision grew to provide a vast amount of international programming, including popular telenovelas, and was the first U.S. network delivered by satellite. After Telemundo was founded in the 1980s by Saul Steinberg and Harry Silverman, the two networks battled over audiences and saw dramatic changes in leadership. Today, Univision and Telemundo are multibillion-dollar television providers that equal ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox in scale and stature. While Univision remains a beacon of U.S. television's internationalization, Telemundo—owned by NBC—is a worldwide leader in producing Spanish-language programs.Using archival sources and original interviews to reconstruct power struggles and behind-the-scenes intrigue, Allen uses this exciting narrative to question monolingual and Anglo-centered versions of U.S. television history. He demonstrates the endurance, innovation, and popularity of Spanish-language television, arguing that its story is essential to understanding the Latinx history of contemporary America.

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Book SynopsisA well-known and much-loved figure after six decades in television, Ron Hull sets out in Backstage to tell his story—from playing a bellhop in a junior class play in South Dakota (and meeting his “real” mother backstage) to initiating the American Experience series for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.Trade Review"The author does an amazing job at bringing you into his life, though all of the interesting twists and turns that have made this man into the truly unique individual that you can see that he is. . . . This was a great book that I would highly recommend to one and all."—Christopher Lewis, Dad of Divas "Possessing a remarkable memory, and with attention to detail, Hull takes us on an intimate pilgrimage. . . . Ron's personal journey echoes a line from Nebraska's Willa Cather: 'The end is nothing; the road is all.""—Leta Powell Drake, Lincoln 55 Plus "Hull's book takes us on a nostalgic ride through the founding days of public television."—Paul Hammel, Omaha World Herald"For Hull, the performing arts and mass media have always been tools of self-discovery, and his memoir reminds us of television's latent educational and connective power."—Chris Rasmussen, Nebraska History"Ron Hull's Backstage: Stories from My Life in Public Television sums up the incredible journey of a man who has loved, with heart and soul, the mission and impact of a philosophy and medium known as public television."—Daniel L. Schiedel, Great Plains QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Where the West Begins in the Middle of . . . 2. The Mystery in Grandmother's Trunk 3. The Stranger in the Night 4. The Hulls and the Kayes 5. On Becoming a Storyteller 6. Front and Center 7. With Thanks to the gi Bill 8. Our Town 9. We Had a Dream 10. Shapers of the Dream 11. My Two Friends John Neihardt and Mari Sandoz 12. Bringing Television to Vietnam 13. Actors, Politicians, and Airplanes 14. Like Dragons Take to Maidens 15. Brief and Memorable Far East Encounters 16. Programming the Vietnamese Way 17. Goodbye, Saigon 18. The House that Jack Built 19. Back to Vietnam 20. David and Goliath 21. The Big Time 22. Sandy, Jean, and Phil 23. The Gang of Seven 24. The Missed Opportunity 25. Exciting Times, Stimulating People 26. Feeling the "Old Washington Squeeze" 27. The Peace Tree

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Book SynopsisThe Brazilian television industry is one of the most productive and commercially successful in the world. At the forefront of this industry is TV Globo and its production of standardized telenovelas, which millions of Brazilians and viewers from over 130 countries watch nightly. Eli Lee Carter examines the field of television production by focusing on the work of one of Brazil's greatest living directors, Luiz Fernando Carvalho. Through an emphasis on Carvalho's thirty-plus year career working for TV Globo, his unique mode of production, and his development of a singular aesthetic as a reaction to the dominant telenovela genre, Carter sheds new light on Brazilian television's history, its current state, and where it is goingas new legislation and technology push it increasingly toward a post-network era.Trade ReviewA groundbreaking discussion about the work Luiz Fernando Carvalho, one of the most imaginative artists in the Brazilian audiovisual field. Carter’s book considers all of Carvalho’s successful and polemical career, analyzing the innovations he brought to the small and the big screen and revealing the intricate interconnections between television, film, literature, theater, and politics in contemporary Brazil."" - Hélio Guimarães, University of São Paulo""Carter’s book offers a richly textured account of the professional practices that govern commercial Brazilian television, and the major role Carvalho has played in shaping the aesthetic conventions of prime-time serialized dramas and series. A must-read for scholars and nonscholars alike."" - Cacilda Rêgo, Utah State University

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Book SynopsisNo recent television creator has generated more critical, scholarly, and popular discussion or acquired as devoted a cult following as Joss Whedon (b. 1964). No fewer than thirty books concerned with his work have now been published (a forthcoming volume even offers a book-length bibliography), and ten international conferences on his work have convened in the U.K., the United States, Australia, and Turkey. Fitting then that this first volume in the University Press of Mississippi's ""Television Conversations"" series is devoted to the writer, director, and showrunner who has delivered Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The WB, 1997-2001; UPN, 2001-3), Angel (The WB, 1999-2004), Firefly (2002), Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Webcast, 2008), and Dollhouse (FOX, 2009-10).If Whedon has shown himself to be a virtuoso screenwriter/script-doctor, director, comic book author, and librettist, he is as well a masterful conversationalist. As a DVD commentator, for example, the consistently hilarious, reliably insightful, frequently moving Whedon has few rivals. In his many interviews he likewise shines. Whether answering a hundred rapid-fire, mostly silly questions from fans on the Internet, fielding serious inquiries about his craft and career from television colleagues, or assessing his disappointments, Whedon seldom fails to provoke laughter and reflection.

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Book SynopsisThe first history of Spanish-language television in the United StatesIn the most comprehensive history of Spanish-language television in the United States to date, Craig Allen traces the development of two prominent yet little-studied powerhouses, Univision and Telemundo. Allen tells the inside story of how these networks fought enormous odds to rise as giants of mass communication within an English-dominated society.The book begins in San Antonio, Texas, in 1961 with the launch of the first Spanish-language station in the country. From it rose the Spanish International Network (SIN), which would later become Univision. Conceived by Mexican broadcasting mogul Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta and created by unsung American television pioneers, Unvision grew to provide a vast amount of international programming, including popular telenovelas, and was the first U.S. network delivered by satellite. After Telemundo was founded in the 1980s by Saul Steinberg and Harry Silverman, the two networks battled over audiences and saw dramatic changes in leadership. Today, Univision and Telemundo are multibillion-dollar television providers that equal ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox in scale and stature. While Univision remains a beacon of U.S. television’s internationalization, Telemundo—owned by NBC—is a worldwide leader in producing Spanish-language programs.Using archival sources and original interviews to reconstruct power struggles and behind-the-scenes intrigue, Allen uses this exciting narrative to question monolingual and Anglo-centered versions of U.S. television history. He demonstrates the endurance, innovation, and popularity of Spanish-language television, arguing that its story is essential to understanding the Latinx history of contemporary America.A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos RodríguezTrade ReviewThis first comprehensive scholarly history of Spanish-language television reimagines the birth of US television as not solely English speaking, geographically centered in New York, nor dominated by the big three English-language networks. . . . A good resource for scholars working in media studies, communication, marketing, and popular culture." —Hispania

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Book SynopsisAnthony Q. Artis is a 30-year veteran of the fi lm and TV industry whose features and TV shows have screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and the IFP Market, as well as on MTV and the Independent Film Channel. Anthony works professionally as a producer, director, and cinematographer at MightyAntMedia.com and has taught video production at New York University for two decades now. He is the author of the bestselling Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide (2014), The Shut Up and Shoot Freelance Video Guide (2011), and numerous fi lmmaking courses on LinkedInLearning.com .Accessible and comprehensive, this book is a great introduction on how to make movies and video projects with limited resources, time, or experience. Artis will teach readers the âœDown and Dirtyâ filmmaking mindset, which forces fi lmmakers to be creative with their resources, do more with less, and result in a better, faster, and less expensive product.Drawing on more than 30 yeTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: COMPOSITION AND SCREEN GRAMMARCHAPTER 2: WHAT IT LOOK LIKE—CAMERAS AND IMAGE CONTROLCHAPTER 3: LENSOLOGYCHAPTER 4: SMARTPHONE FILMMAKING 101CHAPTER 5: LISTEN UP – AUDIO EQUIPMENT AND TECHNIQUESCHAPTER 6: GET YOUR SHINE ON – LIGHTING ESSENTIALSCHAPTER 7: PRODUCING AND OTHER TIPSCHAPTER 8: VIDEO PROJECT CASE STUDIES

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Book SynopsisBeing a successful editor is about more than just knowing how to operate a certain piece of software, or when to make a certain transition. On the contrary, there are many unwritten laws and a sense of propriety that are never discussed or taught in film schools or in other books.Based on their own experiences, first as upcoming assistant editors, then as successful Hollywood editors, the authors guide you through the ins and outs of establishing yourself as a respected film and video editor.Insight is included on an array of technical issues such as script breakdown, prepping for sound effects, organizing camera and sound reports, comparison timings, assemply footages and more. In addition, they also provide first-hand insight into industry protocol, providing tips on interviewing, etiquette, career planning and more, information you simply won''t find in any other book.The book concludes with a chapter featuring Q+A sessions with various establishedTrade Review"A thorough guide to becoming an indispensable assistant editor.- Alan Heim, Vice President, A.C.E.; Professional film editor (Network, Grey Gardens, American History X, Alpha Dog)"Make the Cut explains the postproduction editing workflow with utmost clarity and illustrates with abundant examples. Priceless! The book reflects a great depth of knowledge, that clearly has come from years of experience and accumulated wisdom. This book inspires excellence and will provide any aspiring editor with a huge leg up."- Howard E. Smith, A.C.E.; Professional film editor (Snakes on a Plane, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Abyss)"This is terrific preparation for anyone who wants to be an assistant editor. I teach editing at USC and I will certainly have this on my class' reading list. I will also give it to anyone I hire as an assistant."- Tina Hirsch, A.C.E."Where was Make the Cut when I started out. [T]his is a must-read.. My biggest frustration is that there wasn't a book like this when I started editing. If there was I wouldn't have made the same political missteps or fumbles, so if you're trying to get into the editing world this book should find a home on your bookshelf."- Guillotine website"Make The Cut is an excellent read and a vital manual to keep in your bag when embarking on your first few assisting jobs. (..) Throughout the book it is made abundantly clear that attention to detail, tenacity and personality are all key to becoming a successful assistant editor. Make the Cut is an absolute must read for anyone seeking to begin, or develop their career in film editing."- Jonny ElwynTable of ContentsPart 1 Getting Started; Chapter 1 On Your Way; Chapter 2 Before Your First Day on the Job; Chapter 3 Your First Day; Chapter 4 Your Second Day; Chapter 5 Edit and Distribute the Cut; Chapter 6 Get Ready to Online; Chapter 7 Assisting Protocols for Documentaries; Chapter 8 Assisting Protocols for Reality Shows; Chapter 9 First Day Observations in the Editing Room; Part 2 Protocol; Chapter 10 The Unwritten Rules of the Editing Room; Chapter 11 Personality; Chapter 12 Navigating the Room; Part 3 Make the Cut; Chapter 13 Approaching Your Career; Chapter 14 Plan Ahead and Move Up; Chapter 15 On the Brink of Editing; Part 4 Commonality; Chapter 16 Editors Panel Discussion;

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