Arts & Entertainments

Arts & Entertainments
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 195
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ISBN-10 : 9780062322470
ISBN-13 : 0062322478
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Arts & Entertainments by : Christopher Beha

Download or read book Arts & Entertainments written by Christopher Beha and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drama teacher finds unlikely celebrity thanks to a nearly forgotten sex tape in this ingenious . . . entertaining and thought provoking” novel (Booklist). At thirty-three, Eddie Hartley has given up his dream of becoming an actor for the reality of life as a drama teacher at a boys’ prep school. But when Eddie and his wife, Susan, discover they cannot have children, it is one disappointment too many. Weighted down with debt, his wife’s mounting unhappiness, and his own deepening sense of failure, Eddie is confronted with an alluring solution when an old friend-turned-web-impresario suggests Eddie sell a sex tape he made with an ex-girlfriend, now a wildly popular television star. Overcoming his initial moral qualms, Eddie figures that in an era when any publicity is good publicity, the tape won’t cause any harm—a decision that will propel him straight into the glaring spotlight he once thought he craved. A hilariously biting and incisive take-down of our culture’s monstrous obsessio n with fame, Arts & Entertainments is also a poignant and humane portrait of a young man’s belated coming-of-age, the complications of love, and the surprising ways in which the most meaningful lives often turn out to be the ones we least expected to lead.

Globalized Arts

Globalized Arts
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 9780231147187
ISBN-13 : 023114718X
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Globalized Arts by : J. P. Singh

Download or read book Globalized Arts written by J. P. Singh and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our interactive world can take a creative product, such as a Hollywood film, Bollywood song, or Latin American telenovela, and transform it into a source of cultural anxiety. What does this artwork say about the artist or the world she works in? How will these artworks evolve in the global market? Film, music, television, and the performing arts enter the same networks of exchange as other industries, and the anxiety they produce informs a fascinating area of study for art, culture, and global politics. Focusing on the confrontation between global politics and symbolic creative expression, J. P. Singh shows how, by integrating themselves into international markets, entertainment industries give rise to far-reaching cultural anxieties and politics. With examples from Hollywood, Bollywood, French grand opera, Latin American television, West African music, postcolonial literature, and even the Thai sex trade, Singh cites not only the attempt to address cultural discomfort but also the effort to deny entertainment acts as cultural. He connects creative expression to clashes between national identities, and he details the effect of cultural policies, such as institutional patronage and economic incentives, on the making and incorporation of art into the global market. Ultimately, Singh shows how these issues affect the debates on cultural trade being waged by the World Trade Organization, UNESCO, and the developing world.

Arts, Entertainment and Tourism

Arts, Entertainment and Tourism
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9781136428180
ISBN-13 : 1136428186
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Arts, Entertainment and Tourism by : Howard Hughes

Download or read book Arts, Entertainment and Tourism written by Howard Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Arts, Entertainment and Tourism' is a pioneering text that, by focusing on the consumer, investigates the relationship between these 3 industries and how this relationship can be developed to its best competitive advantage. Issue-led, this text draws on appropriate disciplines rather than using one single approach, to examine issues in arts and entertainment within the framework of cultural tourism. Written to meet the needs of students studying on management courses in the arts, tourism and leisure, 'Arts, Entertainment and Tourism': * Describes the general arts and tourism background * Identifies a framework for analysis that acknowledges differing levels of interest in the arts and entertainment * Discusses the arts and entertainment that feature (past and present) in tourism * Examines the reasons why the arts, entertainment and tourism have an interest in each other and how they go about developing the relationship * Examines the relationship: are there tourists in audiences and do the arts and entertainment attract tourists to a destination? * Evaluates the wider effects (good and bad) on both the arts and tourism * Discusses the direction of future developments by arts and tourism organizations and for future research

High Winds

High Winds
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 099886160X
ISBN-13 : 9780998861609
Rating : 4/5 (0X Downloads)

Book Synopsis High Winds by : Sylvan Oswald

Download or read book High Winds written by Sylvan Oswald and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does sleep--or its absence--change us? At the end of another wakeful night, High Winds tears off on a hallucinatory road trip in search of his estranged half brother, led by cryptic signs and coincidences. Part modern-day pillow book, part picture book for adults, and told in an associative, elliptical style, the narrative takes readers deep into a dreamlike Western landscape. Jessica Fleischmann's atmospheric imagery amplifies the words on every page, referencing 1980s graphics, net art, and something yet unseen; Sylvan Oswald's text inhabits and draws meaning from this visual environment. Gas stations, local legends, and unlikely rock formations become terrain for explorations of fear, fantasy, masculinity, medication, spatial structures, and bodily functions--inspired by the author's experience of gender transition, insomnia, and moving to Los Angeles. Poetic and funny, surreal and beautiful--High Winds makes a delightful companion, before or instead of a good night's sleep.

Key Issues in the Arts and Entertainment Industry

Key Issues in the Arts and Entertainment Industry
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Publisher : Goodfellow Pub Limited
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 190688420X
ISBN-13 : 9781906884208
Rating : 4/5 (0X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Key Issues in the Arts and Entertainment Industry by : Ben Walmsley

Download or read book Key Issues in the Arts and Entertainment Industry written by Ben Walmsley and published by Goodfellow Pub Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book on contemporary issues which covers the arts and entertainment sectors, from social networking and Twitter, to reality TV and digital rights management.

Digital Arts and Entertainment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Digital Arts and Entertainment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
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Publisher : IGI Global
Total Pages : 1693
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ISBN-10 : 9781466661158
ISBN-13 : 1466661151
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Digital Arts and Entertainment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications by : Management Association, Information Resources

Download or read book Digital Arts and Entertainment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 1693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s interconnected society, media, including news, entertainment, and social networking, has increasingly shifted to an online, ubiquitous format. Artists and audiences will achieve the greatest successes by utilizing these new digital tools. Digital Arts and Entertainment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications examines the latest research and findings in electronic media, evaluating the staying power of this increasingly popular paradigm along with best practices for those engaged in the field. With chapters on topics ranging from an introduction to online entertainment to the latest advances in digital media, this impressive three-volume reference source will be important to researchers, practitioners, developers, and students of the digital arts.

Entertainment and the Arts in Wartime Britain ...

Entertainment and the Arts in Wartime Britain ...
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Total Pages : 28
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000132407473
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Entertainment and the Arts in Wartime Britain ... by :

Download or read book Entertainment and the Arts in Wartime Britain ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: