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Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and PowerIn 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalow sandwiched between a funeral home and a beauty shop in a...
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On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPRAn "engrossing and entertaining...major work of media history" (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the unlikely story of one of America's most celebrated but least understood media empires. Founded in 1970, NPR is America's most powerful broadcast news network. Despite being overshadowed...
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Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System's Last HurrahFrom the author of The Genius of the System, the classic tale of Hollywood's first golden age, comes the story of its last. Thomas Schatz returns us to an era when a newly enriched movie industry rediscovered its creative energy, and indie went mainstream...
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Reclaiming Art in the Age of ArtificeA compelling call to rediscover the transformative power of art in an age of distraction, coercion, and spectacle - featuring an introduction from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donna Tartt In Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, J. F. Martel offers a compelling and incisive...
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Streaming Wars: How Getting Everything We Wanted Changed Entertainment ForeverStreaming broadcasters have given consumers all the content they could ever want. But at what cost? In Streaming Wars, journalist Charlotte Henry explores the seismic shifts behind the rise of platforms like Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, Spotify, Amazon Prime, Paramount and more. From Hollywood's...
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That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea"An engaging read that will engross any would-be entrepreneur" (Wall Street Journal), now updated with a new afterword by the author: In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company -- all...
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The Best Story Wins: How to Leverage Hollywood Storytelling in Business and BeyondProvides fresh perspectives on the principles of Pixar-style storytelling, adapted by one of the studio's top creatives to meet the needs of entrepreneurs, marketers, and business-minded storytellers of all stripes.Author: Matthew LuhnPublisher: Morgan James PublishingPublished: 10/16/2018Pages: 164Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x...
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The Illusion of Choice: 16 1/2 Psychological Biases That Influence What We BuyThe compelling new book by Richard Shotton, author of The Choice Factory Every day, people make hundreds of choices. Many of these are commercial: What shampoo to pick? How much to spend on a bottle of wine? Whether to renew a subscription? These choices...
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The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorksFormer Variety reporter Nicole LaPorte draws from years of inside-the-filmmakers-studio access to spin a smart, gritty tell-all about a clash of industry titans in The Men Who Would Be King. DreamWorks--the mega-million-dollar brainchild of Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen--heralded a new age...
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The Vanity Fair Diaries: Power, Wealth, Celebrity, and Dreams: My Years at the Magazine That Defined a DecadeNamed one of the best books of 2017 by Time, People, The Guardian, Paste Magazine, & Vogue Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash...
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To See in the Dark: Palestine and Visual Activism Since October 7"Timely and clearly written, To See In the Dark is a manifesto to solidarity" Stephen Sheehi, co-author of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation"Mirzoeff sharply urges us to divest from a mere spectatorship to a genocide, and insists that we see in relation, in solidarity and as...
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Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media ManipulatorThe cult classic that predicted the rise of fake news--revised and updated for the post-Trump, post-Gawker age. Hailed as "astonishing and disturbing" by the Financial Times and "essential reading" by TechCrunch at its original publication, former American Apparel marketing director Ryan Holiday's first book...
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Who Is Michael Ovitz?If you're going to read one book about Hollywood, this is the one. As the co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Michael Ovitz earned a reputation for ruthless negotiation, brilliant strategy, and fierce loyalty to his clients. He reinvented the role of the agent and...
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Yield: How Google Bought, Built, and Bullied Its Way to Advertising DominanceA deeply researched insider's account of Google's epic two-decade campaign to dominate online advertising by any means necessary.Everyone knows Google as the world's most iconic search engine. But over the past twenty years, it has also bought, built, and bullied its way to control...
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