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Ready to Share: Fashion & the Ownership of Creativity: The Lear Center's landmark conference on creativity and ownership in the fashion industry produced three research reports and now thisbook with DVD. Ready to Share explores fashion's embrace of appropriation and borrowed inspiration, core components of every creative process. Request free copies.
David Bollier, Christine Cox, Marissa Gluck, Laurie Racine, Patrick Reed, Aram Sinnreich
Pocket Guide to the Norman Lear Center: Our Pocket Guide provides an update on all Lear Center activites since publication of its Manifesto in 2000. At 65 pages, it is a comprehensive look at the ins and outs of the Center, in a slick travel book format. Download the PDF here or email us at enter@usc.edu for a free copy.
Viral Spiral: Lear Center Senior Fellow David Bollier's new book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own, describes the odyssey of thousands of techies, lawyers, artists and amateurs to build online worlds that they can own and control as commoners, without commercial or state interference.
Artists, Technology & the Ownership of Creative Content:
Resulting from a Lear Center conference and published by the Lear Center Press, Artists, Technology & the Ownership of Creative Content innovatively explores the new digital environment and the impact of intellectual property rights on innovation and creativity. This publication, which includes a CD-Rom, is available for purchase online from the USC Bookstore. Read more about the book.
David Bollier, Sara Diamond, F. Jay Dougherty, Jane Ginsburg, Arnold Lutzker, Tim McKeon
How to Improve Television Political Coverage 2004 (VHS Video): This videotape, produced by the Lear Center's Reliable Resources project, offers real-world examples of how to produce informative and compelling political coverage. Cronkite Award-winning political reporters reveal their proven methods -- which can be applied in a small market or national broadcast -- to tell political stories in a way that captures viewers while fulfilling journalism's crucial role in our political system. View the video online. Find out more.
Sob Sisters: The Image of the Female Journalist in Popular Culture:
Includes a video, bibliography and resource compilation compiled by the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture project. It charts thousands of instances of female journalists as portrayed in films, television and radio programs, novels and short stories, cartoons, comic books and commercials from 1700 to 2006. The entire resource can be found online at www.ijpc.org/sobsmaster.htm.
2001 Walter Cronkite Awards: Best Practices (Book):
This transcript from the Walter Cronkite Award Symposium showcases award-winning television coverage of politics and offers fresh ideas on covering campaigns. The book, published by the Lear Center's Reliable Resources project, features speeches by Walter Cronkite, Norman Lear, Katharine Graham, and Tim Russert.
How to Improve Television Political Coverage (VHS Video): Does television news have to sensationalize or trivialize politics in order to hold viewers? Does coverage of the issues have to be boring? Produced by the Lear Center's Reliable Resources project, this videotape features successful TV political reporters and newsmanagers sharing their nuts-and-bolts techniques for making politics compelling television. Find out more.
Warners' War: Politics, Pop Culture & Propaganda in Wartime Hollywood:
This glossy book, illustrated with rare materials from the USC Warner Bros. Archives, features essays by Leo Braudy, Steven Ross, Dana Polan, and Betty Warner Sheinbaum. Download the book here. To order a free copy, email enter@usc.edu. Or download the book here.
Johanna Blakley, Randi Hokett, Martin Kaplan, Dana Polan, Steven J. Ross, Nancy Snow
Frank Capra and the Image of the Journalist in American Film:
Published in 2001 by the Lear Center press, Joe Saltzman's book chronicles the hand Hollywood had in shaping our perceptions of the press. This book is a product of a Lear Center project, the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture. The book can be purchased here. The introduction is available online.
Joe Saltzman
The Norman Lear Center Manifesto:
What is entertainment? What is entertainment studies? The Norman Lear Center takes this on through a photo essay and incisive text. To order a copy of this award-winning brochure, email us at enter@usc.edu. View the Flash movie.
Martin Kaplan
A River In Egypt:
As part of the Great Southern California ShakeOut,
the largest earthquake drill in U.S. history, Art
Center College of Design released a comprehensive sourcebook which
contained a comic book by Lear Center Director Marty Kaplan on the topic of earthquake denial, called A River in Egypt.
Martin Kaplan
Television's Changing Image of American Jews:
The Norman Lear Center hosted a conference on "Jews in Prime Time" that brought together Hollywood heavyweights -- including Jason Alexander, Chris Carter, Gary David Goldberg, David Kelley, Jamie Kellner, Norman Lear, Leslie Moonves, Don Ohlmeyer, Rob Reiner, Peter Roth, Jeff Sagansky, Dawn Tarnofsky, and Grant Tinker -- to discuss television's portrayal of Jews. For a free copy of this book, email us at enter@usc.edu.
