Define Your Own Way

Define Your Own Way

Author: Nicole Roberts Jones

Publisher: The Pilgrim Press

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 0829819029

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Define Your Own Way provides young African American women with a roadmap to effectively transition their lives from good to better to best. Jones, a life coach, uses her skills to address issues such as self-image and self-esteem while tackling topics such as how to "set long-term goals in a society that often encourages short-term gratification." Jones' has successfully coached and mentored young women through the widely popular programs offered at Imani Phi Christ, the non-profit organization she founded. Although Jones has specifically written this book with young Christian women in mind, it can be used by women of all ages who want to chart their own course and stand up for their belief in community empowerment, faith, and most importantly, themselves.


The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry

The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry

Author: Anthony Slide

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-25

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1135925542

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The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry is a completely revised and updated edition of Anthony Slide's The American Film Industry, originally published in 1986 and recipient of the American Library Association's Outstanding Reference Book award for that year. More than 200 new entries have been added, and all original entries have been updated; each entry is followed by a short bibliography. As its predecessor, the new dictionary is unique in that it is not a who's who of the industry, but rather a what's what: a dictionary of producing and releasing companies, technical innovations, industry terms, studios, genres, color systems, institutions and organizations, etc. More than 800 entries include everything from Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to Zoom Lens, from Astoria Studios to Zoetrope. Outstanding Reference Source - American Library Association


Hearings

Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary

Publisher:

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 1798

ISBN-13:

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Hollywood in the Neighborhood

Hollywood in the Neighborhood

Author: Kathryn Fuller-Seeley

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780520230675

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Hollywood in the Neighborhood presents a vivid new picture of how movies entered the American heartland--the thousands of smaller cities, towns, and villages far from the East and West Coast film centers. Using a broad range of research sources, essays from scholars including Richard Abel, Robert Allen, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Terry Lindvall, and Greg Waller examine in detail the social and cultural changes this new form of entertainment brought to towns from Gastonia, North Carolina to Placerville, California, and from Norfolk, Virginia to rural Ontario and beyond. Emphasizing the roles of local exhibitors, neighborhood audiences, regional cultures, and the growing national mass media, their essays chart how motion pictures so quickly and successfully moved into old opera houses and glittering new picture palaces on Main Streets across America.


Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans

Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans

Author: Vicki Mayer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2017-02-24

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0520967178

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Early in the twenty-first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected millions in tax dollars from the public coffers in an effort to become the top location site globally for the production of Hollywood films and television series. Why would lawmakers support such a policy? Why would citizens accept the policy’s uncomfortable effects on their economy and culture? Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans addresses these questions through a study of the local and everyday experiences of the film economy in New Orleans, Louisiana—a city that has twice pursued the goal of becoming a movie production capital. From the silent era to today’s Hollywood South, Vicki Mayer explains that the aura of a film economy is inseparable from a prevailing sense of home, even as it changes that place irrevocably.


Young and Homeless In Hollywood

Young and Homeless In Hollywood

Author: Susan M. Ruddick

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-22

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1317960750

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Young and Homeless in Hollywood examines the social and spacial dynamics that contributed to the construction of a new social imaginary--"homeless youth"--in the United States during a period of accelerated modernization from the mid 1970s to the 1990s. Susan Ruddick draws from a range of theoretical frameworks and empirical treatments that deal with the relationship between placemaking and the politics of social identity.