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Movies Were Always Magical: Interviews with 19 Actors, Directors and Producers from the Hollywood of the 1930s through the 1950s
Leo Verswijver
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This work is a compilation of interviews with 19 film actors, directors, and producers who were all part of the studio system that made Hollywood such a powerful and illustrious city in the era of the 1950s. Each of the celebrities interviewed for this work have made lasting contributions to the film industry, and some of them continue to do so. Pat Boone, Jeff Corey, Kathryn Grayson, Beverly Garland, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Jane Greer, Stanley Kramer, Janet Leigh, Joan Leslie, Sheree North, Janis Paige, Luise Rainer, Paula Raymond, John Saxon, Vincent Sherman, Robert Wise, Jane Withers, Jane Wyatt and Fred Zinnemann speak candidly about their work and experiences in Hollywood and share many of their memories. Each interview is followed by a complete filmography for each film that the actor, director, or producer was a part of, giving such information as the U.S. distributor, year of release, director, producer, screenwriter, editor, composer, running time, and cast for each film.
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A truly wonderful collection of interviews.......2003-06-13
"Movies Were Always Magical" is a truly wonderful collection of interviews with 19 Hollywood directors, actors, and producers from the 1930s to the 1950s. Black-and-white photographs and extended notes enhance the commentaries of Pat Boone, Jeff Corey, Kathyrn Grayson, and many, many more of the truly great names from filmmaking of yesteryear. Especially for classic movie buffs, "Movies Were Always Magical" is an impressive and commended addition to any Theatrical Studies and Hollywood History reading list and reference collections.
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When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news "alarmist." Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America's daily newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, book publishers, and movie companies has dwindled from fifty to ten to five. The most respected critique of modern mass media ever issued is now published in a completely updated and revised twentieth anniversary edition.
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Excellent and Informative.......2007-01-13
With "The New Media Monopoly", Ben Bagdikian delivers one of the best books on the modern state of the media ever written. He describes in fascinating detail the events that have surrounded the growth in the concentration of media ownership. Unlike some other texts covering the same topic, Bagdikian's writing is very readable and captivating. However, he does seem to provide more anecdotal evidence to support his observations than hard numbers. I would highly recommend accompanying this book with Robert McChesney's "The Global Media", which covers basically the same trends, but provides more hard data. McChesney also focuses more on the larger business dealings of media corporations that have lead to their consolidation rather than Bagdikian's typically smaller examples.
Mass Media for Dummies.......2007-01-05
WARNING: THIS BOOK IS NOT TO BE READ AS A LEISURE OR PLEASURABLE PASSTIME ACTIVITY. THIS PRODUCT IS MEANT ONLY AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION. ANY USE OTHER THAN THAT RECOMMENDED MAY RESULT IN PERMANENT LOSS OF PERSONALITY.
While he does present well researched and wholly coherent arguments, author Ben H. Bagdikian falls short of allowing any sense of enjoyment to permeate the reading of his revised edition of The New Media Monopoly. The writing style comes off as rather rigid for much of the book, completely neglecting any fluidity or flair you may expect from a Pulitzer-winning writer. Furthermore, much of the content seems to pander to a lowest common denominator including, what appears to be, entire chapters of common knowledge for nearly any educated American. The end result is something a bit too dense for the common reader but still too simple to be much use to a journalist or media aficionado. In short, it's a paperback textbook.
The first three chapters are essentially an introduction to American media. A fairly leftist introduction. Essentially, the reader is presented with an extended rant on the evils of Murdoch-dom and the rest of the Big Five (Bagdikian's favorite term for the five conglomerates that own the majority of the world's media), followed by a full chapter explaining what the internet is. Not so much on how it works or how it affects the world, mostly what it literally is. Admittedly the content does pickup towards the middle. Being the revised version, there are extensive sections on the media failings concerning the war in Iraq but any promise of maintaining interest is quickly dashed by relapse into "the sky is blue, the world is corrupt."
It is necessary to mention, however, that even the less obvious points Bagdikian makes are hard to dispute. The man has done more than sufficient research to support his arguments. His credibility is raised even further when one considers that during the writing of the first edition of this book, there were fifty major media conglomerates. Years after his warnings of further consolidation, there are now five. This revision comes at a time when information is at a crucial premium. Media technology is constantly evolving at even faster rates with no indication of recession or slowing. The country if not the world may be at its last opportunity to demand reform on the way information is handled and distributed. In the wake of 9/11 and all that it's meant to world politics, The Bill of Rights is being abused like never before. No man's life is private any longer and no house is a castle. Bagdikian's warnings apply not only to mass media as an industry but to information use and misuse as a whole.
Be this as it may, the majority of the writing is still an atrocity. Much of the book's partitioned subsections read as though Bagdikian stepped into a high school freshman English class, handed each student a sheet of facts and citations, and proceeded to demand a five page essay by the following day. Parts of the writing seem almost entirely devoid of personality or creativity while most of it follows a painfully rigid, almost juvenile structure: 1) a light segue followed by 2) introduction of argument 3) support of argument and finally 4) restatement of argument. The overly-structured style might even be negligible if it weren't for the painful redundancy. Nearly identical statements are often used in both the first and last paragraphs of nearly every section. The man needs to pump-up his creative juices on this one. Is a little variety too much to expect? He won a damn Pulitzer!
In all honesty, this book is a recommended read. The information and arguments presented could prove invaluable in the very near future. This is a staggering case of learning the past so as not to repeat it. Though dismantling the corporate media machines at this point is nearly out of the question, consumers do have the choice to turn to alternative and independent media sources. Current technology allows nearly every American access to countless opinions and insights into the significant events of their world and community. Future journalists and media professionals would be wise to not bend to corporate pressures and censorships. Even the average media consumer can find useful information within these pages and would be wise to learn to judge the information fed to them with a critical palette. Though most definitely, Ben H. Bagdikian might be wise to hire a ghost writer for the next edition.
Critical but Uneven Manifesto on the Corporate Media.......2004-07-09
This is the newly updated version of Bagdikian's classic tome *The Media Monopoly* which first appeared in 1983 and was prescient enough to reach six editions by 2000. While dismissed as alarmism, with each edition of the book the problem of corporate media consolidation became worse, and now we are down to just five mega-conglomerates controlling almost all media content, and subsequently most political and social thought among the American public. Bagdikian is an expert commentator on the effects this has on popular democracy and social justice, and the problem has become so bad that it became necessary to create a completely revised text, rather than just a "new" edition of the old book with some tacked-on updates.
This powerful manifesto by Bagdikian sometimes suffers from a lack of focus. One frequent weakness is his tendency to opinionate on the social issues he uses as examples of poor mainstream media coverage. Examples include homelessness and smoking, in which Bagdikian forgets his analysis of media control issues and embarks on long expostulations of his own personal politics. A more general issue is his tendency to drift into political science as applied to modern corporate conservatism and crony capitalism. These are subjects in which Bagdikian is certainly proficient, and they are the root causes of the horrific state of American media. However, Bagdikian frequently drifts from useful media analysis to occasionally cranky political tirades that detract from the focus and power of the book's main points.
And even though this is a completely new edition, much of the text has still been copied verbatim from the old versions of the original book, leading to odd appearances of stories and examples from the 1960s and 70s, some of which have little modern relevance. The new chapter on the internet gives the impression that Bagdikian is barely familiar with that realm, as he gives remedial introductions to concepts that most of us are long familiar with. Other writers and analysts have now taken the issue of corporate media control and produced outstanding treatises that surpass Bagdikian's groundbreaking work (I especially recommend Robert W. McChesney). However, Bagdikian is still the originator and when he's focused, his insights into the social and political damage wrought by our corporate media are still powerful and prescient. [~doomsdayer520~]
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This book is the first to address the problem of economic concentration and monolopoly in the newspaper industry. Some of the chapters are written from an economic standpoint and deal with the factors that bring about this occurence with the resulting effect that economic conditions have on newspapers' content. The volume also deals with public policy issues involving antitrust, joint operating agreements and other actions. This study provides pragmatic, reliable, independent information about the results of concentration and monopoly and considers their impact on concrete issues such as news diversity, employee relations, advertising rates, and concern for public service, among others.
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Title: Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World: Why You Must Know How the Blogosphere Is Smashing the Old Media Monopoly and Giving Individuals Power in the Marketplace of Ideas.(Books in Brief)(Book Review)
Author: Terry Eastland
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Date: January 24, 2005
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Volume: 10
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This digital document is an article from St. Louis Journalism Review, published by SJR St. Louis Journalism Review on June 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1428 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Newspapers are no longer free from the pressures exerted by large corporations, as journalism is increasingly becoming merely a commercial venture. More important than the emerging trend that profit underlies awareness of new ideas and solutions is the fact that media is concentrated in a few hands. This can be gleaned from a chart prepared by Johns Hopkins University Prof. Mark Crispin Miller as commissioned by The Nation magazine. It shows how the four media conglomerates of General Electric, Time Warner, Walt Disney Co. and Westinghouse control television news. The public should demand for a change in how profit is threatening the autonomy of print and broadcast media.
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Title: Giant conglomerates devour news media - limit scope of American journalism.(Cover Story)
Author: Ed Bishop
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Date: June 1, 1996
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How network news outsmarted itself.: An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
Jeff Gralnick
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Title: How network news outsmarted itself.
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Make media, make trouble: hacking the infocalypse in the Italian Telestreet.: An article from: Arena Magazine
Luther Blisset
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Title: Make media, make trouble: hacking the infocalypse in the Italian Telestreet.
Author: Luther Blisset
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An increasing number of investors are entering the high-risk world of electronic day trading—often before they’ve learned the basic principles and safeguards. Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading combines Van Tharp’s mastery of trading psychology with Brian June’s nuts-and-bolts expertise to give day traders the proven strategies and information they need to survive and succeed.
From little-known day trading entries and exits to techniques that foster winning attitudes and styles, these practical ideas will help readers develop their own personalized trading systems. The perfect combination of psychological preparation and hands-on practice, it discusses:
*Market analysis from a day trading perspective
*Techniques for determining a market maker’s position
*The best day trading software
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Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading combines Van Tharp's mastery of trading psychology with Brian June's nuts-and-bolts expertise to give day traders the proven strategies and information they need to survive and succeed.
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content rich.......2007-04-18
This book contains a wealth of information - I strongly recommend it! The content is excellent, and the writing style is understandable and candid. Brian June not only discusses the nuts-and-bolts of day-trading (Level II screens, time-and-sales data, 'ax' market makers, direct-access systems, trading strategies) but covers in detail how one should prepare prior to the market opening and how one needs to debrief trading after the close. Dr. Van Tharp covers two of the most important concepts of trading: risk management (i.e., capital preservation) and money management (i.e., position sizing). If you have not internalized these concepts into your belief system already read these chapters, memorize them. They are key disciplines as they will keep you in the game.
Good book for the nuts and bolts of trading.......2006-10-20
This book was a great addition to the other books I have read about trading for a living. While Gary Smith's book was his actual trading process and Alexander Elder's covered the psychological dynamics of creating a system, this book really got into the technical dynamics of risk and expectancy with formulas and excellent explanations of how to be profitable based on your amount of trades/risk/expectancy.
The six key elements you will understand for making money in the market from this book are:
1. System reliability
2. reward to risk ratio
3. cost of trading
4. Your trading opportunity level
5. What you can do based on the size of your equity
6. Your position sizing algorithm
This is a more technical read than other books and comes across very tedious at times, but I found it well worth the effort for the added insights I received.
A Must Read for day traders.......2006-03-12
I would recommend the book to stock traders,but also if you're trading futures -as in my case- the book is worthwhile as a blueprint for devising business and trading plans. Mind you, the advice given in the book about equipment, software and hardware is already obsolete since the book was written a few years ago.
A great supplement to TYWTFF.......2006-03-07
In his follow up to his first book 'Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom' Van K Tharp expands on some of the ideas presented specifically in the realm of trading electronically.
Though not as revolutionary as his first book, this one is still packed with 'not found elsewhere' useful information for both beginning and experienced traders. Treat it as a supplement to his first book and you will learn something useful.
Best Book on how to write a trading plan.......2005-07-23
My trading coach recommended this book to me so I could better write my trading and business plan for my trading business. After studying and applying the books material I was able to format a proven and tested plan. I later met with my trading coach to review my plan and he said it was one of the best plans he has seen. Thanks to this book I am able to sucessfully maintain a trading career.
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