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Peter Bogdanovich is an original in the movie biz--an artist with a scholar's soul. Or is that vice versa? The director of The Last Picture Show has written several books--learned and loving books--about film, and this collection of 26 energetic, visceral, and witty essays on movies past and present reveals his connoisseurship of other people's prose too. Among the writers, some have marquee value (Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg), two are slumming novelists (Gore Vidal, E.L. Doctorow), and then there are the usual suspects: Roger Ebert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Andrew Sarris, Robin Wood, Molly Haskell--tenacious, long-time hunchers in the dark and students of the movies. Here, all take longer views, mostly of the past, in pieces originally written for film maven journals like Film Comment and Cineaste, or for magazines like The New Yorker that regularly spill ink on what one writer here describes as "caressing the details" of movies.
Some choices are inspired. Scorsese recalls the cathedral in Little Italy with a Don DeLillo-ish pleasure in spectacle. David Denby rants acutely against the marketing juggernauts that have muted critics so utterly in recent years. Bruce Wagner interweaves stories of the silent film star Billie Dove in a tale with a gauzy kick. And there are surprises too. Remember Rex Reed? The acid-tongued smoothie who used to coax comments you wouldn't believe from big stars (and then print them) delivers a grieving valentine to Kay Thompson, creator of Eloise. And Terrence Rafferty, usually a bit of a heavy-breather, steps up to the plate with a winsome deconstruction of feminine beauty in current and bygone cinema. All in all, a must-have for lovers of conversation about film. --Lyall Bush
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The exciting yearly tradition continues with The Best American Movie Writing 1999, with Academy Award-winning director and writer Peter Bogdanovich as guest editor. He has chosen over 25 of the sharpest movie writings of the year from a host of contenders culled from a wide range of magazines and journals. He has selected the work of celebrated cinema writers such as Molly Haskell, Andrew Sarris, Roger Ebert, Rex Reed, Jonathan Rosenbaum, and David Denby, legendary directors Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, distinguished novelists and essayists Gore Vidal, Philip Lopate, and E.L. Doctorow, as well as many innovative newcomers. With an introduction by Bogdanovich, a foreword by Jason Shinder, and a new directory of American movie magazines, The Best American Movie Writing 1999 is a lively and stunning addition to this new series of superior film writing.
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Eclectic Collection of Accessible Writing.......1999-11-09
This book featured a broad range of styles and subject matter, written by the icons of film and literature. Essays by Stephen Spielberg, Martin Scorcese, Gore Vidal, and E.L. Doctorow fill this volume with breadth and depth often lacking outside the halls of Cineaste. The collection also features a review of Eve's Bayou from Cineaste by a writer named Mia Mask, a scintillating piece yet clearly rooted in the academy. I am sure we will hear more from this writer in the future. I view films differently after the perspectives gained from this accessible text.
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Heart wrenchingly honest and wonderfully written........2006-12-18
Read it---it will certainly prove itself and you will want to pick up the phone and call the bombshells just to say thanks.
A warm and honest collection of essays........2006-09-10
I laughed and cried as I enjoyed the passion of these six women.
Their diversity added to the wonderful mix of stories. I've been on their website and I think they're truly expanding the notion of "girlfriends." We can't live without them!
Clearly, a triumph of promotion over substance.......2006-07-20
I'm at a loss. I could not figure out why this book exists. What is the point? Are readers assumed to be interested in gossip about people we don't know and we don't care about? Does it promote some silly Oprahesque morality about "being real"? Or are we just supposed to be grateful to bask in the fabulousness of these women?
I must repeat the words of another reviewer: fatuous, self-absorbed drivel.
And if you're still tempted to buy this book, note that the positive reviews come from the state of Florida. Obviously, syncophant friends of the Miami Bombshells who ARE grateful to bask in their fabulousness.
Book Club ... Yes!.......2006-03-11
This book proves that truth is stranger than fiction ----and is written in a sassy, authentic and inspirational tone. It brings out feelings of connection, validation, amusement...sprinkled with a bit of shock value. It's like seeing a movie you want to further discuss - this is why it's the perfect book club book. It made me want to 'dish & tell' - and there's nothing better than 'good ole gal pal therapy.'
Just Read It!.......2006-03-03
Really enjoyable book that will amuse you as it makes you think. Just read it!
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This book offers a definitive and wide-ranging overview of developments in behavioral finance over the past ten years. In 1993, the first volume provided the standard reference to this new approach in finance--an approach that, as editor Richard Thaler put it, "entertains the possibility that some of the agents in the economy behave less than fully rationally some of the time." Much has changed since then. Not least, the bursting of the Internet bubble and the subsequent market decline further demonstrated that financial markets often fail to behave as they would if trading were truly dominated by the fully rational investors who populate financial theories. Behavioral finance has made an indelible mark on areas from asset pricing to individual investor behavior to corporate finance, and continues to see exciting empirical and theoretical advances.
Advances in Behavioral Finance, Volume II constitutes the essential new resource in the field. It presents twenty recent papers by leading specialists that illustrate the abiding power of behavioral finance--of how specific departures from fully rational decision making by individual market agents can provide explanations of otherwise puzzling market phenomena. As with the first volume, it reaches beyond the world of finance to suggest, powerfully, the importance of pursuing behavioral approaches to other areas of economic life.
The contributors are Brad M. Barber, Nicholas Barberis, Shlomo Benartzi, John Y. Campbell, Emil M. Dabora, Daniel Kent, François Degeorge, Kenneth A. Froot, J. B. Heaton, David Hirshleifer, Harrison Hong, Ming Huang, Narasimhan Jegadeesh, Josef Lakonishok, Owen A. Lamont, Roni Michaely, Terrance Odean, Jayendu Patel, Tano Santos, Andrei Shleifer, Robert J. Shiller, Jeremy C. Stein, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Richard H. Thaler, Sheridan Titman, Robert W. Vishny, Kent L. Womack, and Richard Zeckhauser.
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BF--Investment sentiment and limit of arbitrage.......2006-01-29
This book is a good guide for Behavioral Finance. This book is excellent paradoxically for someone who already know traditional efficient market hypothesis.
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Twenty years ago, behavioral economics did not exist as a field. Most economists were deeply skeptical--even antagonistic--toward the idea of importing insights from psychology into their field. Today, behavioral economics has become virtually mainstream. It is well represented in prominent journals and top economics departments, and behavioral economists, including several contributors to this volume, have garnered some of the most prestigious awards in the profession.
This book assembles the most important papers on behavioral economics published since around 1990. Among the 25 articles are many that update and extend earlier foundational contributions, as well as cutting-edge papers that break new theoretical and empirical ground.
Advances in Behavioral Economics will serve as the definitive one-volume resource for those who want to familiarize themselves with the new field or keep up-to-date with the latest developments. It will not only be a core text for students, but will be consulted widely by professional economists, as well as psychologists and social scientists with an interest in how behavioral insights are being applied in economics.
The articles, which follow Colin Camerer and George Loewenstein's introduction, are by the editors, George A. Akerlof, Linda Babcock, Shlomo Benartzi, Vincent P. Crawford, Peter Diamond, Ernst Fehr, Robert H. Frank, Shane Frederick, Simon Gächter, David Genesove, Itzhak Gilboa, Uri Gneezy, Robert M. Hutchens, Daniel Kahneman, Jack L. Knetsch, David Laibson, Christopher Mayer, Terrance Odean, Ted O'Donoghue, Aldo Rustichini, David Schmeidler, Klaus M. Schmidt, Eldar Shafir, Hersh M. Shefrin, Chris Starmer, Richard H. Thaler, Amos Tversky, and Janet L. Yellen.
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Very good book.......2005-09-24
This book offers a deep and complete analysis of the so called "Behavioral economics". It covers many of the topics (loss avversion, prospect theory, behavioral finance, ecc. ecc.) of this new science and it never tries to gives a "definitive" answer to all these problems but just to give to the reader new instruments to understand the economic reality. In this way it respects, as it should be done, the character of "working in progress" of this science
However, as the title itself suggest -Andances in Behavioral economics-, in order to read many of the papers it's necessarly to have a kind of economical background (games theory, and so on...)
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A must-read to every researcher or PhD student.......2007-01-09
The bible to everyone who is seriosly interested in behavioral finance , and a must read to a PhD studend.
This book includes all the seminal papers of this brand new field of science.
In my opinion if one read this book it is worthless to buy any other book about behavioral finance. A real masterpiece as I have never seen before !
A nice collection .......2006-08-31
This collection of papers concerning behavioural finance, is a very helpfull item for any PhD or reasearch student that works on this subject. Although it does not contain material of the basics of behavioural finance, it has some good papers on issues such as volatility of the markets, noice trading etc.
Too academically oriented for average investor.......2002-01-02
I was looking forward to learning about new theories in Behavioral Finance, but was a little disappointed by this book. The 21 articles each examine a discrepancy in a free market situation and develop theories for explaining the discrepancy drawing upon the behavioral finance field. I have an MBA and have been an investor for more than 20 years. There are too many statistics and academic language to be an efficient book for me. I quickly switched to finding each of the 21 questions, then skipping to the summary to find the behavioral finance theory for the discrepancy. I did enjoy the credit card high interest rate explanation and consider this explanation alone worth the price of the book. I also enjoyed the closed end fund discount price explanation also very useful. Book is ok, but 90% of the material can be skipped unless you are a finance professor who enjoys the academic orientation and detail.
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Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, Volume 5 (Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research)
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Volume 5 of Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research contains an outstanding collection of papers that should prove to be beneficial to a wide variety of accounting behavioral researchers. This volume, which is divided into three sections, contains some very thought provoking articles. The first section, Perspectives of Accounting Behavioral Research, contains an insightful article by Jim Hunton reflecting on his view of the future of behavioral research in an environment that is increasingly driven by digital technology. Hunton is one of the preeminent scholars in the area of accounting information systems and this article offers insight into future research avenues for all behavioral researchers. The second section includes eight articles in the areas of auditor independence, auditor memory, auditor recall of information, decision aids, ethics, leadership style, job satisfaction and tax preparer aggressiveness. The article on audit
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This series publishes articles encompassing all areas of accounting that incorporate theory from and contribute new knowledge and understanding to the fields of applied psychology, sociology, management science, and economics. Although the series is primarily devoted to original empirical investigations, critical review papers, theoretical analyses, and methodological contributions are also welcome, as well as manuscripts that deal with organizational behavior and human decision processes in accounting.
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As demand to substantiate predictions from economic theory with causal empirical evidence increases, economists have more and more turned towards controlled laboratory experiments. As this field has blossomed it has provided evidence confirming some of the key predictions of economic theory and exposed some of the weaker theoretical predictions. This has resulted in a symbiotic relationship where experimental evidence not only is used to support theoretical conclusions but has pointed economists into bold and exciting new areas of investigation. In this volume, I am proud to present some of the most stimulating work in this field.
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