Gomery, Douglas

Who owns the media? : competition and concentration in the mass media industry by Benjamin M Compaine( )

23 editions published between 2000 and 2014 in English and held by 1,505 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This thorough update to Benjamin Compaine's original 1979 benchmark and 1982 revisit of media ownership tackles the question of media ownership, providing a detailed examination of the current state of the media industry. Retaining the wealth of data of the earlier volumes, Compaine and his co-author Douglas Gomery chronicle the myriad changes in the media industry and the factors contributing to these changes. They also examine how the media industry is being reshaped by technological forces in all segments, as well as by social and cultural reactions to these forces. This third edition of Who Owns the Media? has been reorganized and expanded, reflecting the evolution of the media industry structure. Looking beyond conventional wisdom and expectations, Compaine and Gomery examine the characteristics of competition in the media marketplace, present alternative positions on the meanings of concentration, and ultimately urge readers to draw their own conclusions on an issue that is neither black nor white. Appropriate for media practitioners and sociologists, historians, and economists studying mass media, this volume can also be used for advanced courses in broadcasting, journalism, mass communication, telecommunications, and media education. As a new benchmark for the current state of media ownership, it is invaluable to anyone needing to understand who controls the media and thus the information and entertainment messages received by media consumers. --Publisher

The coming of sound : a history by Douglas Gomery( )

18 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 1,279 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sound transformed not only the Hollywood film industry, but all of world cinema. This text examines how the arrival of sound brought a boom to the industry and why its social impact deepened in complexity

Movie history : a survey by Douglas Gomery( )

30 editions published between 1991 and 2014 in English and Greek, Modern and held by 1,177 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

How can we understand the history of film? Historical facts don't answer the basic questions of film history. History, as this book shows, is more than the simple accumulation of film titles, facts and figures

The Hollywood studio system by Douglas Gomery( Book )

40 editions published between 1985 and 2019 in English and held by 1,166 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

'The Hollywood Studio System' describes and analyses the complete development, classic operation, and reinvention of the global corporate entitities which produce and distribute most of the films we watch

Shared pleasures : a history of movie presentation in the United States by Douglas Gomery( Book )

22 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 755 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In this exhaustive volume on the history of motion pictures in America, Gomery deals with movie distribution and presentation. The first section presents a history of movie display from nickelodeons to VCRs. Of particular interest is the evidence that television was not responsible for the decline in moviegoing. The second section deals with specialty operations, including art-house cinemas and theaters for African-Americans. The final section looks at the effect of technological innovations, from the emergence of sound to wide-screen movies and the advent of home video. Tracing the impact of child-bearing patterns, the rise of the suburbs and shopping malls and America's automobile culture as seen in the form of drive-in theaters, this volume is as much a social history of the United States as it is a history of movie exhibition. ISBN 0-299-13210-2: $40.00

Film history : theory and practice by Robert Clyde Allen( Book )

41 editions published between 1985 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 743 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Future of news : television-newspapers-wire services-newsmagazines( Book )

10 editions published in 1992 in English and Undetermined and held by 547 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Charting the past decade's media trends, the authors show how an increasing segment of the population is rejecting broadly targeted media "packages" in favor of more focused, specialized information. Television network news producers, for example, face a growing viewer preference for cable news services, attention-grabbing local news programs, and lurid "infotainment" shows often broadcast by the networks' own affiliates. At the same time, urban newspapers and national newsmagazines are losing readers--and revenues--despite increased news and feature coverage and frequent graphic "makeovers." And the nation's wire services also face an uncertain future

High Sierra by John Huston( Book )

3 editions published in 1979 in English and held by 452 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

High Sierra (1941) is a highly successful Warner Brothers gangster film of special interest to film scholars, and aficionados. It represented a turning point in the nature of gangster film of the 1930s. It was the film that launched Humphrey Bogart to stardom. And it is representative of the concerted efforts of the very b est of Warners' talent of the era. In a period of serious reassessment of the American film, this revised shooting script, never before published, provides valuable primary data for that reassessment

A history of broadcasting in the United States by Douglas Gomery( Book )

13 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 360 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book surveys four key broadcasting periods from 1921 to 1996, and includes coverage of the recent impact of cable TV and home video. It presents new data from collections at the Library of Congress and the Library of American Broadcasting. Eschewing traditional coverage of FCC decisions and the physical nature of broadcasting, it considers issues of race, class, and gender while situating the industry firmly within the context of politics, society, and culture -- from cover

Sound and the cinema : the coming of sound to American film( Book )

1 edition published in 1980 in English and held by 306 WorldCat member libraries worldwide