"This reference provides a review of the academic and popular literature on the relationship between communications and media studies, cinema, advertising, public relations, religion, food tourism, art, sports, technology, culture, marketing, and entertainment practices"--
The problem of pleasure: leisure, tourism and crime
Offering rare insight into the world of celebrity and media in China and beyond, Celebrity Culture and the Entertainment Industry in Asia looks closely at the dynamics of stardom and celebrity endorsement in the region and examines its impact on marketing and media. Through firs…
"Creator Culture introduces readers to "ways of seeing" social media entertainment from perspectives that critically assess claims for its relation to, yet differentiation from, well-established media forms and institutions within scope for cultural and media studies, including …
"Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world's largest and most diversified markets for sex. Widely understood to be socially necessary, the sex industry operates and recruits openly, staffed by a diverse group of women who are attracted by its high pay and the promise of aut…
"Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world's largest and most diversified markets for sex. Widely understood to be socially necessary, the sex industry operates and recruits openly, staffed by a diverse group of women who are attracted by its high pay and the promise of aut…
How the transformation of social media platforms and user-experience have redefined the entertainment industry. In a little over a decade, competing social media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, have given rise to a new creative industry:…
Zheng presents a revealing and intimate study of rural Chinese women working in an urban sex trade.
Examines the rise of Chinese businesspeople who invested in cultural enterprises in the late 19th and 20th centuries, revealing how rapidly evolving technologies and growing transregional ties created fertile conditions for business success in the cultural sphere.
Examines the rise of Chinese businesspeople who invested in cultural enterprises in the late 19th and 20th centuries, revealing how rapidly evolving technologies and growing transregional ties created fertile conditions for business success in the cultural sphere.
"The moral issues that continue to haunt the Hollywood blacklist generation have never been fully explored. This book is the first serious attempt to capture the painful history of not only the blacklist's victims, but also the men and women who 'named names,' who cooperated wit…
Avatar, Stieg Larsson, Google, Michael Jackson - wie funktioniert die Kultur der Massen und wer macht sie? Was gefällt allen, überall auf der Welt? Und warum? Es geht in diesem Report über die weltweite Kulturindustrie um ein Billionengeschäft. Es geht aber auch um die Herrschaf…
Avatar, Stieg Larsson, Google, Michael Jackson - wie funktioniert die Kultur der Massen und wer macht sie? Was gefällt allen, überall auf der Welt? Und warum? Es geht in diesem Report über die weltweite Kulturindustrie um ein Billionengeschäft. Es geht aber auch um die Herrschaf…
Profiles more than thirty careers in the entertainment industry, with a career description, education and training requirements, salary range, and employment outlook for each position.