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  • Data-Driven Hollywood

    The New Data Professionals in the Age of Streaming

    by Violaine Roussel ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    The rise of Hollywood’s data and algorithm specialists and their growing influence on creative decisionsIn Hollywood today, thousands of data specialists work for streaming video platforms, playing a role not just in distribution and marketing but also in decisions about content and production. In Data-Driven Hollywood, Violaine Roussel examines the emergence of this new category of professionals ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Representing Talent

    Hollywood Agents & the Making of Movies

    by Violaine Roussel ...
    Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legion of individuals who make showbiz work: agents. Whether literary, talent, or indie film, agents are behind the scenes brokering power, handling mediation, and doing the deal-making that keeps Hollywood spinning. In Representing Talent, Violaine Roussel explores the little-known ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voicing Dissent

    American Artists and the War on Iraq

    by Violaine Roussel, Bleuwenn Lechaux ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Law, Society and Popular Culture
    Voicing Dissent presents a unique and original series of interviews with American artists (including Guerrilla Girls on Tour, Tony Shalhoub, Shepard Fairey, Sean Astin, and many others) who have voiced their opposition to the war in Iraq. Following Pierre Bourdieu's example, these discussions are approached sociologically and provide a thorough analysis of the relationships between arts and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • How To Do Politics With Art

    Edited by Violaine Roussel, Anurima Banerji ...
    A major issue in the relation of art to the rest of society is the question of how art penetrates politics. From the perspective of most art scholars, this is a question of aesthetics—whether politics necessarily pollutes and debases the quality of the arts. From the perspective of social science, it has been primarily a question of meaning—how political messages are conveyed through artistic ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Brokerage and Production in the American and French Entertainment Industries

    Invisible Hands in Cultural Markets

    by Violaine Roussel, Denise Bielby, Vincent Cardon, Pacey Foster, Laura Grindstaff, Candace Jones, Tom Kemper, Bill Mechanic, Delphine Naudier0, Mathieu Trachman1, Harry J. Ufland2, Laure de Verdalle3, Vicki Mayer4 ...
    Invisible Hands in Cultural Markets shines unprecedented light on the activity of talent representatives and production professionals in the American and French film and television industries. Agents and other talent brokers, studio executives, independent producers, casting directors, and film offices—all operate and interact behind the scenes in ways that are consequential to the making of ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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  • Thanks for Watching

    An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube

    by Patricia G. Lange ...
    YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. In her award winning book, Thanks for Watching, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on this heavily mediated social environment by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them. She demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology—participant-observation, ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Art

    1989 to the Present

    Edited by Alexander Dumbadze, Suzanne Hudson ...
    An engaging account of today’s contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around the world.Features a collection of all-new essays, organized around fourteen specific themes, chosen to reflect the latest debates in contemporary ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery

    An Essay on Popular Culture

    by Eva Illouz ...
    Oprah Winfrey is the protagonist of the story to be told here, but this book has broader intentions, begins Eva Illouz in this original examination of how and why this talk show host has become a pervasive symbol in American culture. Unlike studies of talk shows that decry debased cultural standards and impoverished political consciousness, Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery asks us to ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Doing Economics

    What You Should Have Learned in Grad School—But Didn’t

    by Marc F. Bellemare ...
    A guide for research economists: how to write papers, give talks, navigate the peer-review process, advise students, and more.Newly minted research economists are equipped with a PhD’s worth of technical and scientific expertise but often lack some of the practical tools necessary for “doing economics.” With this book, economics professor Marc Bellemare breaks down the components of doing research ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

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  • Popular Culture and High Culture

    An Analysis and Evaluation Of Taste

    by Herbert J. Gans ...
    Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards?In this new edition of Herbert Gans's brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of the universality of high cultural standards. While conceding that popular and high culture have converged to some extent over the twenty-five years since he ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Aesthetic Economy of Fashion

    Markets and Value in Clothing and Modelling

    by Dr Joanne Entwistle ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    Fashion is bound up with promoting the 'new', concerned with constantly changing aesthetics. The favoured styles or looks of a season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors who collectively produce, select, distribute and promote the new ideals, before moving on to next season. How, then, are fashionable commodities stabilized long enough for them to be selected, distributed and ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The One and the Many

    Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context

    by Grant H. Kester ...
    Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists and groups widely celebrated in the mainstream art world, such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Superflex, Francis Alÿs, and Santiago Sierra, to the less ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD