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Film Composers in America: A Filmography, 1911-1970
Clifford McCarty
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Film Composers in America is a landmark in the history of film. Here, renowned film scholar Clifford McCarty has attempted to identify every known composer who wrote background musical scores for films in the United States between 1911 and 1970. With information on roughly 20,000 films, the book is an essential tool for serious students of film and a treasure trove for film fans. It spans all types of American films, from features, shorts, cartoons, and documentaries to nontheatrical works, avant-garde films, and even trailers. Meticulously researched over 45 years, the book documents the work of more than 1,500 composers, from Robert Abramson to Josiah Zuro, including the first to score an American film, Walter C. Simon. It includes not only Hollywood professionals but also many composers of concert music--as well as popular music and other genres--whose cinematic work has never before been fully catalogued. The book also features an index that lets readers quickly find the composer for any American film through 1970. To recover this history, much of which was lost or never recorded, McCarty corresponded with or interviewed hundreds of composers, arrangers, orchestrators, musical directors, and music librarians. He also conducted extensive research in the archives of the seven largest film studios--Columbia, MGM, Paramount, RKO, 20th Century-Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros.--and wherever possible, he based his findings on the most reliable evidence, that of the manuscript scores and cue sheets (as opposed to less accurate screen credits). The result is the definitive guide to the composers and musical scores for the first 60 years of American film.
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Invaluable resource for film music lovers.......2000-08-10
What a wealth of information! If you love lists, you'll love this book, as it comprehensively details the composers (and orchestrators) who wrote the background scores, often anonymously, in the golden age of American motion pictures. It ends at 1970, which may seem arbitrary, but you can't complain about the author's resourcefulness in researching the extant archives of the major Hollywood studios. Invaluable for libraries and fact-collectors who want to know "who really wrote that score".
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The comic book superheroes — Superman, Batman, the Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four, X-Men, and many others — have proved to be a powerful and enduring thread in popular culture, a rich source of ideas for moviemakers, novelists, and philosophers. Superheroes and Philosophy brings together 16 leading philosophers and some of the most creative people in the world of comics, from storywriters to editors to critics, to examine the deeper issues that resonate from the hyperbolic narratives and superhuman actions of this heroic world. The comic book narratives of superheroes wrestle with profound and disturbing issues in original ways: the definitions of good and evil, the limits of violence as an efficacious means, the perils of enforcing justice outside the law, the metaphysics of personal identity, and the definition of humanity. The book also features original artwork specially commissioned from some of the most popular of today's comic book artists.
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It's a bird, It's a plane...It's a philospher?.......2007-07-03
This is the first book in this series that I've read, and I have to say I'm impressed. It's nice to see someone take comic books seriously, and really superheroes are a perfect topic for philosophers, as any serious reader of comic books will tell you. The essays were great, though there were a few topics I would have liked to have seen them cover.
Awesome read for anybody taking a philosiphy course!.......2007-01-12
As the title states, basically an all around good book for anybody looking to right an ethics paper or a duty paper.
A Sophisticated and Entetaining Masterpiece.......2007-01-09
This collection of essays by philosophers, comic writers, and other brilliant people does not sacrifice intelligence or fun. This is not one of those pop-culture and philosophy/theology books where trite little metaphors from pop-culture are stretched into cliched little feel-good sermons. This is a serious examination of some of the most powerful stories and images in modern America. The essay on "God the Devil and Matt Murdock" is especially good. This is a great tool for ministers, philosophers, theologians, and comics fans looking for insights into the characters and stories they love. If the title sounds even slightly interesting to you, pick this book up. If it doesn't, pick it up anyway.
Super Fascinating!.......2006-07-06
I might be biased, since I did major in Philosophy and Religion...but I loved this book. Each essay was interesting and well-written, providing just enough background on the philospohies being discussed that it was easy to follow. Philosophy can be stodgy and dizzying at times, but pairing it with the themes found in popular comic books (and movie counterparts) makes it a much easier read. Thought-provoking and fun, this collection of essays will have you not only analyzing the lives of your favorite heroes, but your own life as well.
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Philosophy!.......2006-05-21
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It With the concepts of the selfless fight for others, the need and use of secret identities for personal protection and the tendency of wearing one's underwear on the outside in your costume, the area of superheroes is a rich vein of topics for the discussion of philosophy. Anyone who has read comics as a kid (or an adult), watched the cartoons or movie exploits of super heroes can relate to the topics presented in these essays. Using "everyday life" of these heroes the authors look at why heroes would use powers for good, or even why be costumed heroes at all instead of using abilities for personal gain. And are the heroes and their everyday identities the same person, or are the secret identity and the superhero two distinct entities? The examinations cover the "zap" "pow" of classic superheroes like Superman, to the darker and more questionable "heroes" of more recent work such as The Watchmen. With such a broad and rich area to work with, it is refreshing to see so many essays mining different examples of superherodom to examine. Not all essays are great, but overall the book is interesting and fun reading, and yet again helps examine philosophical ideas through more popular arenas's Philosophy.
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The secrets of billiards--taught by two of its greatest players
Pool legend Steve Mizerak has teamed up with Ewa Mataya Laurance, the "Striking Viking," to write A Quick-Start Guide to Pocket Billiards, an essential resource for players of all levels to learn the skills required to attain proficiency at the game and then take their games to the next level.
In clear, step-by-step instructions and friendly language, it teaches readers how to:
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Concise, informative, but leaves you wanting more........1998-09-28
Here is a book that is hard not to judge by its cover. Ewa looks create in that tight dress, but her own instruction says that you should dress comfortably and wear flat shoes!
If you are looking for a short, quick read on the fundamentals, rules and some basic strategy, this book is worth the couple of hours it takes to read it, but there are a number of other books on the market that cover this ground and more. I did like Ewa's insights into 9 ball strategy (breaking and table reading). Her short section on the mind game is very good too. My wife is just beginning to play pool and, at this point, does not want a comprehensive read. This book and personal instruction from a qualified professional should help get her on the right road. If you are looking for more indepth reading, look elsewhere.
A final word of caution ... some of the diagrams in the second half of the book are not accurate. Robert Byrne's books do not suffer from similar problems.
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Wrong conclusion from the start.......2007-07-09
Krugman has bought into the myth that we are forever going backward and that true progress for all is impossible. This is completely wrong. He may not be as extreme as Marx, but he still believes in the "limits to growth" school of economics. No how much evidence is produced to debunk this, it is still the foundatation for benighted folks like Krugman. He has no understanding of innovation and why wealth is unlimited in today's world. He also throws up extreme views and then shoots them down, such as claiming that many argue for no role for government. Goodness, how silly and extreme can you get? If you want to liberate your mind and see the unlimited possibilities of the human mind see anything by Milton Friedman.
Lacks discussion of sociology and public choice theory.......2006-12-29
"If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist ... you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist."
Krugman begins 'Peddling Prosperity' with this quote to expose a fallacy of conservative economists: they do not appreciate the fact that the real world is messier than over-simplified economic models of perfect competition. As someone who has already been through the 'markets are perfect' phase, I can relate. I had high hopes that this book would provide a more balanced and nuanced view of economics. Unfortunately, I was disappointed.
Issue One: Inequality and Out of Wedlock Childbirths
The first flaw is that Krugman ignored his own advice and treated modern day poverty as an economic issue, rather than a problem best studied by those "evil, wicked" sociologists. On page 4 Krugman notes that child poverty rose from 1973 to 1991, and that family income is only 5% higher in 1991 than it was 1973. He follows this up in chapter five with a whole host of data showing that the poorest families have gotten poorer and the richest families have gotten richer.
What Krugman does mention is the increase in out of wedlock childbirths, which have increased from 11% to 69% among blacks, and from 1% to 28% among whites (including Hispanics), with most of the increase taking place after the mid 1960's. (See the book 'The First Measured Century' about changes in 20th century America).
This rise of single motherhood has two consequences.-The first is that we created an entirely new category of poverty through single motherhood. In 1965 the late Democratic Senator and, and "evil, wicked" sociologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan showed that the breakdown of married two-parent family is the number one cause of poverty with his famous Moynihan Report. Modern research from conservatives like Charles Murray and liberal sociologists like Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur has confirmed the link between family structure and poverty.
Out of wedlock childbirths cause increased poverty, inequality, and lower wages in the bottom quintile of Americans, but Krugman consistently puts the blame on conservative economics while avoiding mention of family structure. I do recall one vague mention that social upheaval of the 1960's probably increased poverty, but that's about it.
For an accessible summary of the research on family structure and poverty, see 'The Marriage Problem' by the sociologist James Wilson. 'Civil Rights' by Thomas Sowell is an excellent example of an economist (and a conservative, no less) who does take into account cultural factors when discussing poverty.
Issue Two: Public Choice Theory
Krugman is correct that many conservatives are too wedded to simplified models in which markets always work. But there is an equally negligent assumption in the case for government intervention, which is that government interference can provide a better solution.
The rise of Public Choice Theory, for which James Buchanan received the 1986 Nobel Prize in economics, shows that this assumption is unwarranted. Government failure tends to be worse than market failure. This is why there were no Southwest's and JetBlue's when airlines were regulated, and why the price of phone service dropped rapidly after AT&T's government-granted monopoly was broken. And as another reviewer has mentioned, the purported market failure of higher prices after cable deregulation is really due to being granted legally protected monopolies at the local level. But the real lesson of Public Choice Theory is not that governments are innefficient, but that they are corrupt. This leads to regulatory capture, in which regulators help Big Business dominate an industry, rather than serve the consumer, small businesses, and entrepreneurs.
Krugman should have discussed Public Choice Theory, even though it bolsters that case for markets over government. Paul Samuelson, who has historically been the most important Keynesian economist in America, and the author of the best selling economics textbook of all time, did discuss public choice theory in his textbook. It is one of the main reasons that Keynesian economists abandoned the use of public works projects to stimulate the economy - it leads to corruption and graft.
For a good discussion of Public Choice Theory, check out 'New Ideas From Dead Economists.'
Issue Three: Europe
Europe has put into practice many of the policies that Krugman supports, so it seems almost unbelievable that Krugman criticized Europe for being too conservative. Europe has the policies that Krugman freely discloses at the start of his book that he supports: progressive income taxes and social welfare safety nets for the poor.
Europe also has a stubbornly high unemployment rate that runs about 3-4% or so higher than the United States. This cannot be explained by invoking "hidden unemployment" because all the major organizations that track international employment (BLS, ILO, OECD, Eurostat) agree that Europe has higher unemployment. Furthermore, there are objective measures of hidden unemployment, such as U-6 unemployment, and they are even higher still in Europe (they are a whopping 20% for Sweden). That should come as no surprise because a large part of hidden unemployment consists of people who have given up on finding a job. This is easier to do if you have extensive government safety nets to fall back on.
But the biggest problem with Europe is that its productivity lags the United States, even hourly productivity (although you can cherry pick individual European that do better, western Europe as a whole is worse). This productivity gap is understated because productivity only measures the employed. But Europe's higher unemployment is concentrated among the young and minorities (unemployment among young Muslims was 40% at the time of the Paris Riots). Young, inexperienced workers pull down the average productivity, so excluding them boosts Europe's productivity statistics.
Of course, it should come as no surprise that Europe is lagging in productivity. Although you do not think of bankruptcies as being good for the economy, they allow misallocated capital and labor to be put to a better use (think: employees at failed dot.coms going to work for more viable businesses). Much of the productivity gap between the United States and Europe has occurred because the United States has been allowing its manufacturing jobs to go overseas and focus on services. But the more protectionist Europe has kept those jobs at home and paid the price with lower productivity growth. The statistics bear this out. Germany has a mere 735 bankruptcies per 10,000 businesses compared to 1012 in the United States (page 59, Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality).
The costs of starting a business in the United States are also lower. It costs about 1.7% of the per capita GDP to start a business in the United States, compared to 32.5% for Germany. France and Italy are even higher. So each year only 906 businesses are started per 10,000 in Germany compared to 1240 in the United States. Consequently, when Business Week did its survey of the 100 most important IT firms, the United States topped the list with 44, compared to only 4 for France and 1 for Germany(page 60, Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality). Asian countries like Korea did better than Europe.
Incomplete........2006-11-04
I see this book is in someone's "Listmania!" as being on the Economics reading list of the Wharton MBA program, alongside two primers on economics 101. Good grief. Please don't read it thinking that Krugman is explaining what economics is REALLY all about, or is doing so in a non-partisan way. Indeed, this IS how the book comes across, and perhaps this is why it is on the Wharton B-School reading list.
However, this book is hardly even-handed, and it fails to present a complete picture of the really important ideas in economics.
To be sure Krugman does discuss MOST of the modern big ideas in economics, and there are a lot of interesting insider perspectives in this book. What's more, Krugman provides a solid introduction to how economic theory can affect economic policy. Finally, Krugman is a hyper-intelligent and prolific economist, and one of the central figures in economics today - and these facts alone lend interest to the book. But if instead you're looking for answers as to which of today's economic ideas might be the best, this book falls well short of providing a balanced and complete picture of the possibilities.
First, the reader needs to be aware that Krugman is a strict Keynesian/new-Keynesian economist, which in short means that he has a distinct intellectual leaning towards all things originating in the theories of John Maynard Keynes, an extremely infuential economist who came to the fore in the 1930's. Nothing wrong with having an intellectual preference, per se. However, in Krugman's guided tour through the modern economic landscape he fails to mention one particular school of thought - the Austrian school - which happens to present a very serious challenge to Keynes, and indeed to all of the other major modern schools.
The three schools that Krugman DOES discuss in this book - the Keynesians, the Chicago School, and the Supply Siders - are along with Marxism the three most dominant schools of economic thought of the 20th century. And contrary to popular belief, these schools all share something fundamentally in common: they all base their ideas upon John Maynard Keynes' conceptual framework of the economy. That is to say, in the 1930's Keynes presented his theory as to what the primary building blocks of the economy are, and the other schools have subsequently accepted these as being the starting point for economic analysis.
For example, the Keynesian framework holds that A, B, C, and D are the economy's fundamental components, so that any and all conclusions one draws about how the economy works must take into consideration each of these. And though the disagreements among the different schools are excruciatingly complex, they ultimately are merely disagreements about how A, B, C, and D act upon one another other; not about whether for example C belongs in the analysis in the first place, or whether the addition of E might not indeed clarify things a bit.
The Austrian school, on the other hand, argues with considerable force that the Keynesian model is flawed. The Austrians - who almost no one has heard of and who even most economists pay little attention to - believe the Keynesian components A, B, C, and D are simply the wrong ones. The economy, they say, can instead be MUCH better understood in terms of A, C, F, and G for example. But no matter how penetrating and insightful their arguments are, the Austrian challenge to Keynes was dismissed decades ago due to historical circumstances and political expediencies, and is now far out of favor by practice. And it is very unfortunate that the reader will walk away from Peddling Prosperity without hearing the Austrians mentioned.
In sum, anyone interested in learning about how economic theory affects economic policy could benefit from reading this book. It gives a brief, accessible, and interesting snapshot as seen from one of today's central figures in the field. However, it would be a big mistake to come away from Peddling Prosperity thinking that you could now make an informed decision about which modern economic ideas might be the best. For while Krugman DOES give you a view of MOST of the big ideas - at least as seen from a Keynesian perspective - his omission of the Austrians is a critical one. Anyone who is interested in exploring the really important ideas in economics needs to include the Austrians on their reading list. The ideas are extremely powerful and their critique of Keynes and the Keynesian framework is truly profound. Warning: if you already know a thing or two (or even three) about economics be prepared, the Austrian perspective may just flip your lid and take you to a place firmly outside of the mainstream.
A vaccine against populism.......2005-06-15
Krugman's most important achievement in this book is, possibly, outlining the limits of our ability to understand and forecast the workings of the economy. To a scientist, this makes perfect sense: economy is almost impossible to predict because it is the ultimate chaotic system. In the "normal" world, however, many rational people tend to fall for the most ludicrous promises regarding economic prospects, even though the same rational people understand why weather is extremely difficult to predict. Krugman describes the class of people who make a living generating these promises, "economic policy entrepreneurs", and their interaction with politicians. In this respect, this book is invaluable and should serve as bed-time reading for voters during elections. At the same time, Krugman's reasoning is itself not without flaws: he does cut corners and sometimes spends too little time arguing a point that should be argued in greater detail. I would hesitate to call this book a classic of modern intellectualism, yet it is certainly highly relevant.
What we know and what we donýt.......2004-06-26
To many, Krugman's emphasis on what we don't know about economics is probably disappointing. A whole lot of Peddling Prosperity is devoted to the puzzle of the non-existing productivity growth during the 70s and 80s, and Krugman's conclusion is: we just don't know why productivity had fallen so abruptly. Written in 1994, the productivity surge of the 1990s was just starting, and PK had of course no idea that the high productivity growth would recover.
There are some things economist do know, and PK's introduction to Keynes, the attack on Keynes by the monetarists, and the revenge of keynesianism is excellent. Like most real experts, PK is fully able to explain complicated matters in an understandable manner. The story is well written, with plenty of anecdotes to spice it up.
PK's distinction between the `professors' and the `policy entrepreneurs' is a main theme in the book, but he is taking himself too seriously. Anybody really interested in economics is because it is about people, their needs, their wants, their motivations and so on. That clever economist/professors engage in and policymaking or public debate (as PK himself is heavily into), shouldn't lead to lack of credibility. Krugman is also missing the bottom line in the tax debate: people disagree about the best tax and redistribution policy, not mainly because someone believe this or that system is more efficient, but because it is fairer. And it is quite possible to argue, on the grounds of fairness, both that rich people should pay an awful lot in taxes and that they should pay a little, both coercive sharing and keeping their income.
Krugmans brilliant and well-written story about the rise of monetarism during the 1970s earns, and of neo-Keynesians in the late 80s, is great. The best part, though, is his clear explanation of the huge misconception of comparing a nation with a corporation. The comparison is so far-fetched and leading to so much bad policy, yet so normal, that the issue should be dealt with at primary school. And Krugman's explanation is a very good place to start.
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Great book, not republican bashing..........2003-03-08
I found one reader seemed to be biased. He told that Krugman was immature, becuase of his immediated attack against the supply side economists. If Krugman's way of criticizing is regarded as immauture and immediate, then no criticism in the world will survive. I doubt he read through Krugmans book throughly. Krugman used logic and evidences to attack. With those things, Krugman showed us how supply side economists deceived the world. I think his proof was quite logical. My friend who have Ph.D degree in economics recommened me this book as a must.
This book is very insightful. If you never experience what does 'insightful' mean, now you found a rare opportunity to do that.
Republican bashing.......2002-08-29
Anyone who reads Paul Krugman's articles in The New York Times knows how pro-Democrat he is. Reading through Peddling Prosperity in 2002 not only made the book feel dated, it made Krugman seem so petty. Krugman was trying to address the problems of America's then-productivity ills and it ended up being a very personal and immature attack on supply side economists. Calling them 'cranks' and 'outsiders'' (I don't know whether to take such a raw attack as being emotional or immature). Reading the book made me uncomfortable thinking how arrogant this man was, claiming that all research done outside the boundaries of MIT, Harvard, Chicago etc were inconsequencial. The book suffers from schizophrenic tendencies, claiming at one moment that the economy was largely beyond the controls of the government and laid in the hands of the Federal Reserve, yet quickly turning to blame the supply side economists for leaving such a huge budget deficit. Try 'The Return of Depression Economics' instead. I think Krugman's matured much over the 6 years between writing both books. He doesn't seem so much now as a mouthpiece for the Democrats.
An incredibly intelligent book.......1997-10-11
When referred to by "The Economist", Paul Krugman is called P. "Nobel Prize 2024" Krugman and he largely deserves this nickname. In "Peddling Prosperity", P. Krugman describes with clear and simple words what America's economic problems have been in the last 25 years. He presents theory, ideas, Government policies (or lack of) and individual stories - history, in fact - with such penetrating views that, while reading, one wishes the book could go on forever. We can only hope that he will repeat this achievement in the next book.
The truth hurts.......1997-03-13
This book should be required reading for any introductory
economics course. This is also great reading to understand
the silliness of our politicians' answers to our economic
problems. This book can be offensive to die-hard conservatives as well as die-hard liberals. So, for those
readers I would recommend reading it once and get the anger
out, then a second time to really understand what is wrong
with our economy.
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Title: Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations.
Author: J.D. Brown
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Columbia Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1994
Publisher: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
Volume: v33
Issue: n2
Page: p50(3)
Article Type: Book Review
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