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“kate fortmueller”

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  • Hollywood Shutdown

    Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID

    by Kate Fortmueller ...
    By March 2020, the spread of COVID-19 had reached pandemic proportions, forcing widespread shutdowns across industries, including Hollywood. Studios, networks, production companies, and the thousands of workers who make film and television possible were forced to adjust their time-honored business and labor practices. In this book, Kate Fortmueller asks what happened when the coronavirus closed ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Below the Stars

    How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production

    by Kate Fortmueller ...
    Despite their considerable presence in Hollywood, extras and working actors have received scant attention within film and media studies as significant contributors to the history of the industry. Looking not to the stars but to these supporting players in film, television, and, recently, streaming programming, Below the Stars highlights such actors as precarious laborers whose work as freelancers ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Boom to Bust

    How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers

    by Miranda Banks, Kate Fortmueller ...
    A timely investigation into the rise of Peak TV and the perfect storm that caused a rapid decline in Hollywood workWhen Hollywood writers and actors went on strike in 2023, they drew attention to the rapidly changing nature of film and television production. In Boom to Bust, media industry experts Miranda Banks and Kate Fortmueller combine economic and cultural analysis and interviews with ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Golden Girls

    Tales from the Lanai

    by Taylor Cole Miller, Peter C. Kunze, Jessica Hoover, Kate Fortmueller, Andrew Owens, Claire Sewell, Beth L Boser, Jared Clayton Brown, Ashleé Clark, Ken Feil0, Alfred L. Martin Jr.2, Eleanor Patterson Jr.3 ...
    The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai is an accessible collection that explores the cultural, industrial, and historical impact of that beloved American sitcom. Edited by Taylor Cole Miller and Alfred L. Martin, Jr., this anthology brings together a diverse range of voices that model different media studies approaches to researching and critically analyzing television texts. The Golden Girls ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hollywood Unions

    by Kate Fortmueller, Luci Marzola, Miranda J. Banks, Katie Bird, Dawn Fratini, Barbara Hall, Erin Hill, Adrienne L. McLean, Maya Montañez Smukler0, Paul Monticone1, Helen Warner2 ...
    Hollywood Unions is a unique collection that tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized motion picture and television labor: IATSE, the DGA, SAG-AFTRA, and the WGA. The Hollywood unions represent a wide swath of the workers making media: from directors and stars to grips and makeup artists. People today know some of these organizations from their glitzy annual awards ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old founder of Facebook, is the youngest self-made billionaire in history. He is also considered by many to be one of the most influential persons in the information age. His impact on American culture is virtually unprecedented. The recent film, "Social Network" does not portray him in the kindest light, but is it a work of fact or fiction? Separating fiction from ... Read more

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  • Girl on Girl

    How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

    by Sophie Gilbert ...
    From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of how early-aughts pop culture turned women and girls against each other—and themselves—with disastrous consequences. An urgent read that addresses questions around the current regression of feminism.When did feminism lose its way? This question feels increasingly urgent in a moment of reactionary cultural and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Oprah Winfrey Mini Biography

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    Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the ... Read more

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  • Comedy Book

    How Comedy Conquered Culture—and the Magic That Makes It Work

    by Jesse David Fox ...
    One of NPR’s Best Books of 2023. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vulture, Elle, Chicago Tribune, The Millions, and Lit Hub.“*Comedy Book*changes the way we talk about an art form that is more diverse and exciting than ever before.” —Seth Meyers“Energetic and wise . . . Comedy Book <... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Move Fast and Break Things

    How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

    by Jonathan Taplin ...
    A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.Move Fast and Break Things is the riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs who in the 1990s began to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Feminism and Pop Culture

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    by Andi Zeisler ...
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    Whether or not we like to admit it, pop culture is a lens through which we alternately view and shape the world around us. When it comes to feminism, pop culture aids us in translating feminist philosophies, issues, and concepts into everyday language, making them relevant and relatable. In Feminism and Pop Culture, author and cofounder of Bitch magazine Andi Zeisler traces the impact of feminism ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Corpses, Fools and Monsters

    The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

    by Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner ...
    A radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future.In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order — relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters.In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD