Media, entertainment, information and communication industries

Freely available source code, with contributions from thousands of programmers around the world: this is the spirit of the software revolution known as Open Source.

Don't have time to wait for mainstream publishers to discover your talent?

"e;Matt has always offered great insight when it comes to artist development.

Classic film noir was Hollywood's 'dark cinema' of crime and corruption; a genre underpinned by a tone of existential cynicism which stripped bare the myth of the American Dream and offered a bleak, nightmarish vision of a fragmented society that rhymed with many of the social realities of forties and fifties America.

Newly updated to 2012 and the Leveson Inquiry, Stick It Up Your Punter!

'This book should be regarded as rescue work.

'There have been large magazines with tiny circulations and there have been diminutive sheets which have reached thousands of readers.

A formidable new generation of American film-makers are currently in their prime: Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne, Sofia Coppola, David Fincher, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, to name but six.

A spectre is haunting world cinema - the spectre of a Danish 'new wave' led by mercurial director Lars Von Trier.

In Altman on Altman, one of American cinema's most incorrigible mavericks reflects on a brilliant career.

A Los Angeles Times BestsellerWinner of the Best Non-Fiction Book Prize at the 2018 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards"e;Ben Fritz crafts an electrifying and essential book that carefully chronicles how Hollywood tradition is collapsing and new models are fueling the future.

Comic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens.

In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozenessaysand pieces of reporting from his long career.

Making Money, Making Musicoffers tools to encourage creative and adaptive entrepreneurship in the music business.

In the late 1970s, the adult film industry began the transition from celluloid to home video.

Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers.

At the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer ';menus' by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their daily lives.

Off the Page examines the business and craft of screenwriting in the era of media convergence.

How can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music?

How is popular knowledge of war shaped by the stories we consume, what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these boundaries policed or contested by journalists producing knowledge from war zones?

The Indexing Companion, first published in 2007, gives an overview of indexing for professional indexers, editors, authors, librarians and others.

This 2006 book applies narrative theory to media texts, including film, television, radio, advertising and print journalism.

THE BOOK THAT BROUGHT DOWN RUPERT MURDOCHMeet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News.

This 2001 book i a systematic review of the economics of the arts and performing arts.

Praise for The Billion Dollar BET "e;In a gripping narrative that is both inspirational and cautionary, Brett Pulley tells us how Robert Johnson built Black Entertainment Television into a billion-dollar media empire.

Investigating the financial fraud and misguided power plays that brought down the telecom industry Once the foundation of the Dow and NASDAQ, the telecom industry has eaten up more capital than any other industry in recent history and has nothing to show for it.

In Casting for Big Ideas, Andrew Jaffe, industry veteran and Director of the Clio Awards, details important lessons on the management and growth of advertising agencies.

How to choose cellular service wisely and become an adept cellularuser Keeping in touch via cellular is increasingly vital in today'sfast--paced world.

An inside look at a cable titan and his industry John Malone, hailed as one of the great unsung heroes of our age by some and reviled by others as a ruthless robber baron, is revealed as a bit of both in Cable Cowboy.

The first complete look at one of America's legendary business leaders This groundbreaking biography by Kevin Maney, acclaimed technology columnist for USA Today, offers fresh insight and new information on one of the twentieth century's greatest business figures.

The software industry is being inundated with important accounting and valuation questions.

Classic radio ad campaigns from the last fifty years, and how theyused humor to win over audiences And Now a Few Laughs from Our Sponsor offers an in-depth look atsome of the most successful and entertaining radio ads from thelast half century, presented by advertising veteran Larry Oakner.

Acclaim for Denis Brian's Einstein: A Life "e;The best account.

Convergence: User Expectations, Communications Enablers and Business Opportunities offers a user-centric and business-oriented analysis of the rapidly changing communications industry.

Practical tools and expert advice for professional event planners Before planning an event, there is much that must be done behind the scenes to make the event successful.

Practical tools and expert advice for professional event planners Before planning an event, there is much that must be done behind the scenes to make the event successful.

Traditionally engineers devised communication services without reference to how they should be priced.

Wireless Foresight deals with the development of the wireless communications industry and technology during the coming ten to fifteen years.

UMTS as a technology allows for exciting new applications of some of the best ideas of services in the fixed telecoms, cellular/mobile telecoms, and internet environments, with many revolutionary new possibilities which simply do not exist in the current media and communications vehicles.

How Nintendo reclaimed its spot at the top of one of the world's most competitive industries Nintendo was once the dominant force in home video gaming--until Sony and Microsoft pummeled them with powerful new consoles.

How Nintendo reclaimed its spot at the top of one of the world's most competitive industries Nintendo was once the dominant force in home video gaming--until Sony and Microsoft pummeled them with powerful new consoles.

This is the first study of business ethics to take into consideration the plethora of issues raised by the Information Age.

This book provides a complete and comprehensive overview of 3G UMTS charging services Evolving from offline billing of traditional telecommunications, charging for IP services in mobile networks is challenging; charging convergence is one of the major trends in the telecom industry.

Television in the Antenna Age is a brief, accessible, and engaging overview of the medium's history and development in the US.

A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK A COMPANION TOTHE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer.

This comprehensive yet concise book provides a thorough and complete guide to every aspect of managing the peer review process for scientific journals.

There has possibly never been a more daring business figure in Canada s history than Ted Rogers.