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Using the Gold Coast as a case study, this book shows how a combination of circumstances created our own outpost of Hollywood in Australia. Forces in the US pushed Hollywood studios and producers to work outside California, while a unique situation in Queensland provided an attractive alternative home for Hollywood productions.

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Offers a first look at the all-Arab news network and its controversial role in the Arab world

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The Annual Index to Motion Picture Credits covers films eligible for the Academy Awards, as well as other films, released in the Los Angeles area, which do not meet the Academy's requirements.

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He suggests that part of the reason for Australia's film success may lie in America's identification with a simpler culture and the portrayal of wild west type territory which is often found in Australian films.

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Examines National Public Radio and its prospects for survival and success.

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A recent Times-Mirror survey has shown that 65 percent of Americans prefer television over other news media for news coverage, an increase of 10 percent in just over a decade.

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How did a short bald, man with a speech impediment have such an impact How indeed Like his life, Inside Story is a pacy romp. Honest and heartfelt, it should be required reading. Observer

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A major scholarly and readable history of women in broadcast news, covering the broadcast journalistic roles of women from the 1920s through the mid-1980s.

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Articles on HDTV, film, and related program production appear in chapter 6, while chapter 7 covers HDTV and alternative delivery systems, including DBS, cable, and fiber optics.

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This second edition of Historical Dictionary of British Radio covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on issues, characters, movements and policies that have shaped radio in the United Kingdom.

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Scott writes for practitioners and provides the information they can use daily, supplying academic professionals and students of broadcasting management with this resource.

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An insightful and timely reappraisal of international broadcasting as an instrument of discursive rather than 'soft' power and its contested role in Australia's Indo-Pacific regional statecraft.

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Takes us through the highs and lows of the screen trade, from high-powered dinner tables to obscure backlots, from the centres of power to far-flung locations, with a cast of characters that includes Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Jeffrey Archer, Steven Segal and many others.

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Despite its rise in the global market, political progress, and a surging interest worldwide, Korean films are relatively unknown and rarely studied. This work investigates the history, industry structure and trends of filmmaking in Korea, and its relationship to Hollywood.

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As National Public Radio's very first employee, and the first producer of its legendary All Things Considered, Mitchell tells the story of public radio from the point of view of an insider, a participant, and a thoughtful observer.

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As National Public Radio's very first employee, and the first producer of its legendary All Things Considered, Mitchell tells the story of public radio from the point of view of an insider, a participant, and a thoughtful observer.

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This work looks at the medium of television as one of the cultural vehicles carrying us toward the 21st century. It provides an up-to-date review of developments and trends shaping the policy and regulatory issues that exert the strongest influence on the evolution of information technology.

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Micro Radio became a lightening rod for the emerging Media Activism and Reform Movement.

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This volume is the first in-depth study of the relationship between Hollywood and its financiers from the early film entrepeneuers who established the trade at the turn of the century, through the present day multinational, diversified film coporations that dominate the communication/entertainment industry of the world.

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This book explores how TV makers, notably writers, producers and network programmers, are influenced by public pressures outside their craft. The authors maintain that even as TV affects viewers, viewers themselves, society and society's institutions make their own significant impact.