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  The Essential HBO Reader

  Jeffrey P. Jones, Gary R. Edgerton

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  Essays on the history of HBO, a company designed to please audiences instead of advertisers, and the impact of its distinctive programming: “Recommended.” —Choice 
   
  The founding of Home Box Office in the early 1970s—when it debuted by telecasting a Paul Newman movie and an NHL game to 365 households in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania—was a harbinger of the innovations that would transform television as an industry and a technology in the decades that followed. HBO quickly became synonymous with subscription television—and the leading force in cable programming. 
   
  Over decades, it’s grown from a domestic movie channel to an international powerhouse with a presence in over seventy countries. It is now a full-service content provider with a distinctive brand of original programming, famed for such landmark shows as The Sopranos and Sex and the City. It’s brought us Six Feet Under and The Wire, Band of Brothers and Angels in America, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Def Comedy Jam, Inside the NFL and Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Taxicab Confessions and Autopsy, and multiple Oscar-winning documentaries. 
   
  The Essential HBO Reader brings together an accomplished group of scholars to explain how HBO’s programming transformed the world of television and popular culture, and provides a comprehensive and compelling examination of HBO’s development into the prototypical entertainment corporation of the twenty-first century. 
   
  “An important assessment of the original programming HBO has created in the past few decades?how these programs are derived and what impact they have had.” —Choice 
   
  “A thorough treatment of HBO’s programming . . . a useful addition to a growing number of books about American television in the ‘post-network’ era.” —American Studies

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  The Secession Talks -...

  Lawrence Abu Hamdan, John...

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  The Secession Talks is a collection of artist talks on exhibitions that took place at the Secession from 2011 to 2022. They contextualize the exhibition history of the Secession and allow for a new consideration and evaluation of the program. As a collection, these conversations between artists and well-known art critics, art historians, curators, and artist colleagues form a unique interface between artistic work and art education.

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  The Old Roller Towel

  Bert Leston Taylor

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Old Roller Towel by Bert Leston Taylor. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 27, 2011.

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  Shawshank Redemption Decoded...

  Filmic Universe

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  THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION DECODED: TRIVIA, CURIOUS FACTS AND BEHIND THE SCENES SECRETS 
  EXTENDED EDITION 
    
  CREATED BY: FILMIC UNIVERSE 
    
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  Do you think you know everything about THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION? 
    
  Do you want to know more than 100 curious facts and secrets of Frank Darabont's film? 
    
  This eBook is full of information about one of the best movies of 1994. You will find and REALLY LOVE abundant behind the scenes secrets. You can test your knowledge about this movie here. 
    
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  HERE SOME EXAMPLES: 
    
  - Morgan Freeman threw the baseball for the entire nine hours without a word of complaint. He showed up for work the next day with his left arm in a sling. 
    
  - Morgan Freeman's favorite film of his own. 
    
  - Stephen King has considered this to be one of his favorite film adaptations based on his own work. 
    
  - Frank Darabont watched "Goodfellas (1990)" every Sunday while shooting this film, and drew inspiration from it, on using voice-over narration and showing the passage of time. 
    
  - Although it is never directly stated in the film, Brooks is in prison for allegedly murdering his wife and daughter after a losing streak at poker. 
    
  - Frank Darabont decided not to have the deleted scenes on the DVD release of the film, because he is embarrassed by them, and doesn't want them to be seen publicly. 
    
  - Despite being widely considered as one of the greatest movies of all time, it didn't receive a single Oscar win, though it was nominated for seven, including Best Picture. 
    
  AND MUCH MORE!

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  The Eighteenth-Century...

  Eva Badura-Skoda

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  “Badura-Skoda addresses the place of the piano in the eighteenth century from the perspective of a scholar and performer” (Eighteenth-Century Music). 
   
  In the late seventeenth century, Italian musician and inventor Bartolomeo Cristofori developed a new musical instrument—his cembalo che fa il piano e forte, which allowed keyboard players flexible dynamic gradation. This innovation, which came to be known as the hammer-harpsichord or fortepiano grand, was slow to catch on in musical circles. However, as renowned piano historian Eva Badura-Skoda demonstrates, the instrument inspired new keyboard techniques and performance practices and was eagerly adopted by virtuosos of the age, including Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, Clementi, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Presenting a rich array of archival evidence, Badura-Skoda traces the construction and use of the fortepiano grand across the musical cultures of eighteenth-century Europe, providing a valuable resource for music historians, organologists, and performers. 
   
  “Badura-Skoda has written a remarkable volume, the result of a lifetime of scholarly research and investigation. . . . Essential.” —Choice

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  Adventures of Phillip Marlowe

  Carl Amari

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  This week, we have detective adventure on The Adventures of Phillip Marlowe, and laughs with The Life of Riley. Plus, The Halls of Ivy, The Damon Runyon Theater, Escape and The Whistler.
  A Falcon Picture Group audio production.

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