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Showing 1 to 20 of 1028 for “"Entertainment"”.
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Playgod: Entertainment for Fools
What is a woman? What is it like, to be her? To be locked in the cage. To yearn for freedom while being told she isn’t real. Whatever’s in her head, it’s all mush. She’s nothing. Not person, not animal. Sometimes, she might be decoration: a pretty painting to hang on the wall, an expensive watch or …
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Expectations across entertainment media
An audience's satisfaction with an entertainment product is dependent on how well their expectations are fulfilled. This study delves into the implicit contract that is formed between the purveyor of an entertainment property and their audience, as well as the consequences of frustrating audience …
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Entertainment News: Agitprop to Colbertisms
At the beginning of the twentieth century, newspaper theatre was born from the need to inform those who could not read the news for themselves. There have been many contributors and influential factors to the multi-faceted evolution of newspaper theatre. Contributors include Meyerhold, Piscator, …
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Entertainment noise control in Algeria
… neighbourhood and domestic noise particularly {entertainment premises known as wedding halls}. Other significant sources of noise annoyance in Algeria include building construction and household noise as well as car alarms and even barking dogs. In this present study, my concern will be on one …
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Cross media promotion: entertainment industries and the trailer
… the aesthetics and emergence of the trailer in entertainment industries other than film and serves as a counterpoint to the cinema centric imbalance within the study of the trailer. Using a corpus of audiovisual texts identified as trailers through UK press websites, this thesis draws from the …
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Flexible home entertainment: Hollywood's response to home video
… relationship between film distribution and home entertainment: at the turn of the century, during the development of television, and in the current era of flexible home entertainment. Home video was introduced as a new consumer technology in the 1970s. Consumers adopted it in order to enhance …
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Critical success factors in entertainment-based retail development
… critical success factors in creating an urban entertainment district that encompasses sports venues, museums or other cultural icons, and an entertainment based retail center. It will identify the stakeholders in such an initiative and analyze the driving factors in the development and planning …
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Formatted entertainment in China: change in television production practices
Since the format Got Talent achieved great success in China, we can see the prevalence of format adoption and the television industry’s reliance on western expertise. Television formats have provided Chinese television professionals not only with new creative inputs into indigenous production …
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Entertainment Station Design for 2.00b (Toy Product Design) PLAYsentation
The scope of this project was to design an entertainment station for the audience of Toy Product Design’s (2.00b) PLAYsentation a.k.a. final presentations, with the goal of creating a festive and inclusive atmosphere with guests in costume and fully engaged with the students’ work The audience was …
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Urban Entertainment Destinations: A Developmental Approach for Urban Revitalization
Urban Entertainment Destinations (UED) are a new form of development comprised of unanchored retail projects that mix entertainment venues and icon restaurants as a solution for enticing visitors back to the city. The difference between these destinations and the traditional shopping mall is the …
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Identifying an Optimal Dining Plan System for the Entertainment Industry
<p>The Disney Dining Plan (DDP) is a pre-paid meal plan guests can purchase when they make their reservation at Walt Disney World (WDW). Under the current system, the information provided to guests explaining the program is unclear which leads to confusion for guests. For example, guests are not …
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : Entertainment--the Author's Intention
… assumption in literary criticism.</p> <p>Entertainment value will be stressed not because <em>Sir Gawain</em> is exclusively entertainment, but because the primary purpose of the author was to entertain, as a sermon may be entertaining but is, nonetheless, primarily homiletic.</p> <p>Byway …
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Music and entertainment in post-Soviet Kazakhstan: ideology and legacy
“Music and Entertainment in Post-Soviet Kazakhstani Holidays: Ideology and Legacy” My dissertation examines the interplay between ideology and entertainment as reflected in the holiday cycle of post-Soviet Kazakhstan. During a two-year ethnographic study of holiday celebrations and expressive …
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Audience involvement with entertainment-education programs: explicating processes and outcomes
… theoretical and empirical investigation is the entertainment-education (EE) strategy. Though a growing body of evidence points to the effectiveness of the EE strategy, further investigation is needed to explore the underlying cognitive and affective processes that make EE an effective tool for …
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The impact of new communications technology on filmed-entertainment copyrights
… of new communications technology on the filmed-entertainment industry's copyright system. The development and deployment of new means of reproducing and distributing filmed-entertainment, such as cable television and videocassette recorders (VCRs), produced challenges to the traditional …
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