economic aspects

Examines the economic aspects of making a movie, looking at costs for development, production, promotion, and distribution.

Examines the economic aspects of a video game, looking at costs for development, production, promotion, and distribution.

Examines the economic aspects of a rock concert, looking at costs for development, production, promotion, and distribution.

Discusses how many people the earth can support in terms of economic, physical, and environmental aspects.

Should convicted criminals be allowed to profit from articles, books, and movies made about their crimes? In 1991, the Supreme Court ruled on a related case. Includes information about the First Amendment.

In the 1960s the two biggest bands in the world?the lovable Beatles and the bad-boy Rolling Stones?waged an epic battle. ?The Beatles want to hold your hand,? wrote Tom Wolfe, ?but the Stones want to burn down your town.? Both groups liked to maintain that they weren?t really ?rivals??that was just a media myth, they politely said?but on both sides of the Atlantic, they plainly competed for commercial success and aesthetic credibility. In Beatles vs. Stones, John McMillian gets to the truth behind the ultimate rock ?n? roll debate.

Mainwaring, a marketing consultant and advertising creative director, presents this ambitious work on the future of consumer marketing and corporate capitalism. Working from the premise that social media such as Facebook and Twitter has fundamentally changed the relationship between brands and consumers, the work argues that the seamless integration of consumer culture into a broader cultural apparatus allows consumers to influence corporate responsibility and forces corporations that wish to take advantage of the power of social media to respond as partners to the political will of their customers. The volume discusses the background of the current social media marketing scene and provides practical advice, as well as real world case studies, for adapting corporate practices to build profitable and socially responsible business practices. Notes, sidebars and chapter summaries are provided. Annotation ?2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com.

Examines the resurgence of the teen/youth market in the late 1990s and early twenty-first century, looking at the development of teen-focused movies, television shows, and music, and discussing the ways in which the media industry has shaped teen culture.

Financial market strategist David Smick comments on the volatile state of the U.S. economy, looking at how the mortgage crisis came about, offering his opinions on how bad things could get, and discussing how economic trends around the world are affecting events in America.

Presents opposing viewpoints on overpopulation, its causes, its possible effect on the earth, and whether it should be controlled.