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Jewell Richard B. |
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RKO Radio Pictures : A Titan Is Born / / Richard B. Jewell |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012] |
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1-280-11652-8 |
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0-520-95195-6 |
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1 online resource (341 p.) |
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RKO Radio Pictures - History |
RKO Radio Pictures -- History |
RKO Radio Pictures |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. "Master Showmen Of The World": Prehistory And The Formation Of The Company -- 2. "It'S Rko- Let'S Go": The Brown-Schnitzer-Lebaron Regime (1929-1931) -- 3. "Failure On The Installment Plan, A Ticket At A Time": The Aylesworth-Kahane-Selznick Regime (1932-1933) -- 4. "All This Is Very Distressing To Me": The Aylesworth-Kahane-Cooper Regime (1933-1934) -- 5. "He Feels The Company Is Unsettled": The Aylesworth-Mcdonough-Kahane Regime (1934-1935) -- 6. "An Awfully Long Corner": The Spitz-Briskin Regime (1936-1937) -- 7. "Plaything Of Industry": The Spitz-Berman Regime (1938) -- 8. "The Company'S Best Interest": The Schaefer-Berman Regime (1939) -- 9. "Quality Pictures Are The Lifeblood Of This Business": The Schaefer-Edington Regime (1940-1941) -- 10. "Crossing Wires": The Schaefer-Breen Regime (1941-1942) -- Appendix: "The Whole Equation Of Pictures" -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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One of the "Big Five" studios of Hollywood's golden age, RKO is remembered today primarily for the famous films it produced, from King Kong and Citizen Kane to the Astaire-Rogers musicals. But its own |
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story also provides a fascinating case study of film industry management during one of the most vexing periods in American social history. RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan is Born offers a vivid history of a thirty-year roller coaster of unstable finances, management battles, and artistic gambles. Richard Jewell has used unparalleled access to studio documents generally unavailable to scholars to produce the first business history of RKO, exploring its decision-making processes and illuminating the complex interplay between art and commerce during the heyday of the studio system. Behind the blockbuster films and the glamorous stars, the story of RKO often contained more drama than any of the movies it ever produced. |
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UNINA9910462600403321 |
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Bertram Christopher |
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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Rousseau and the Social Contract [[electronic resource]] |
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Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013 |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks |
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Philosophy, French |
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques |
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Cover; Rousseau and The Social Contract; Copyright; CONTENTS; REFERENCE KEY TO CITED ROUSSEAU TEXTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 ROUSSEAU, THE MAN; CONFESSIONS; GENEVA; ADOLESCENCE; FROM VENICE TO VINCENNES; MUSIC; FICTION; CONDEMNATION; IN RETROSPECT; 2 HUMAN NATURE AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY; BASIC IDEAS; ROUSSEAU'S VOCABULARY OF THE PASSIONS; THE PROBLEM OF |
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DEPENDENCE; THE NATURAL GOODNESS OF HUMANITY; THE ROLE OF ARTIFICE; WAS ROUSSEAU RIGHT?; THE PSEUDOCHRONOLOGY OF THE DISCOURSE ON INEQUALITY; 3 MAN IS BORN FREE (Book 1, Chs 1-2); THE TEXT; MEN AS THEY ARE - LAWS AS THEY COULD BE; MAN IS BORN FREE |
THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF THE HUMAN RACE (Geneva Manuscript ch.2)4 FALSE THEORIES OF THE BODY POLITIC (Book 1, Chs 3-5); NATURAL SUBORDINATION (1.2); THE RIGHT OF THE STRONGER (1.3); OF SLAVERY (1.4); THE NEED FOR A FIRST CONVENTION (1.5); 5 THE SOCIAL PACT AND PROPERTY (Book, Chs 6-9); THE SOCIAL PACT; THE 'REMARKABLE CHANGE IN MAN' (1.8); FREEDOM; PROPERTY (1.9); 6 SOVEREIGNTY AND THE GENERAL WILL (Book 2, Chs 1-6); EARLIER MENTIONS OF THE GENERAL WILL; THE INALIENABILITY AND INDIVISIBILITY OF SOVEREIGNTY (2.1-2); THE GENERAL WILL AND THE 'WILL OF ALL' (2.3.1-2) |
VOTING AND THE PROBLEM OF FACTION (2.3.3-4)A BRIEF NOTE ON CONDORCET'S JURY THEOREM; THE LIMITS OF SOVEREIGN POWER AND THE NATURE OF THE LAW (2.4, 2.6); 'UNIVERSALITY OF THE WILL AND OF THE OBJECT'; THE DEATH PENALTY (2.5); THE LAW (FURTHER ASPECTS) (2.6); MORE ON THE GENERAL WILL (4.1-2); SYNOPTIC REMARKS ON THE GENERAL WILL; 7 THE LAWGIVER, CULTURE AND MORALITY (Book 2, Chs 7-12); WHY THE LAWGIVER IS NEEDED; THE QUALITIES OF THE LAWGIVER; THE REGRESS PROBLEM; SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE AND THE PROBLEM OF EQUALITY; WHAT THE LAWGIVER DOES (AND DOES NOT) DO; HOW THE LAWGIVER DOES WHAT HE DOES |
PERSUASION AND FREEDOMDENATURING; PSEUDOCHRONOLOGY; LEGITIMACY AND SOCIAL UNITY; 8 GOVERNMENT AND SOVEREIGN (Book 3); THE GOVERNMENT AND ITS TASK (3.1.1-7); ROUSSEAU'S MATHEMATICAL ANALOGIES (3.1-2); THE FORMS OF GOVERNMENT (3.3); DEMOCRACY AS A FORM OF GOVERNMENT (3.4); ARISTOCRACY AS A FORM OF GOVERNMENT (3.5); MONARCHY AS A FORM OF GOVERNMENT (3.6); MIXED FORMS (3.7); GEOGRAPHICAL DETERMINISM? (3.8-9); DEGENERATION AND COLLAPSE (3.10-11); THE WELL-ORDERED STATE; AGAINST REPRESENTATIVE SOVEREIGNTY (3.15); HOW DEMOCRATIC ARE ROUSSEAU'S INSTITUTIONS?; RECTITUDE, EFFICIENCY AND COMMONALITY |
9 CIVIL RELIGION (Book 4, Ch. 8)THE TEXT; THE HISTORY OF RELIGION (4.8.1-14); TYPES OF RELIGION IN RELATION TO THE STATE (4.8.15-30); ROUSSEAU'S POSITIVE PROGRAMME (4.8.31-5); CONCLUSION; 10 THE SOCIAL CONTRACT IN RETROSPECT; POLITICAL HOSTILITY; 'TOTALITARIANISM' AND THE GENERAL WILL; TOTAL ALIENATION; CONSTITUTIONALISM AND ELITE DOMINATION?; THE LAWGIVER, CIVIL RELIGION, DENATURING AND ENGULFMENT; THE PHILOSOPHICAL AFTERLIFE OF THE GENERAL WILL; IS THE SOCIAL CONTRACT CONTRACTARIAN?; ROUSSEAU'S ENDURING IMPORTANCE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index |
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Rousseau's Social Contract is a benchmark in political philosophy and has influenced moral and political thought since its publication. Rousseau and the Social Contract introduces and assesses:*Rousseau's life and the background of the Social Contract*The ideas and arguments of the Social Contract*Rousseau's continuing importance to politics and philosophyRousseau and the Social Contract will be essential reading for all students of philosophy and politics, and anyone coming to Rousseau for the first time. |
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