Publications - The Norman Lear Center

The Geography of Buzz: Art, Culture and the Social Milieu in Los Angeles and New York

Presenters Elizabeth Currid (USC) and Sarah Williams (Columbia University) have captured patterns of the cultural production system by geo-coding over 6,000 events and 300,000 Getty Images photos taken in Los Angeles and New York City.

The Jesse Helms Theory of Art [Notes]

Read the meeting notes of a discussion with USC Art History Professor Richard Meyer on Robert Mapplethorpe and Dirty Pictures, a Showtime movie about Mapplethorpe and the Dennis Barrie censorship trial.

The Niceness of the Dinosaur

Lear Center Director Marty Kaplan was invited by CBS News Public Eye to comment on CBS News and the media landscape in their online forum Outside Voices.

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.

The Politics of Media, Technology & Culture

Lear Center Senior Fellow David Bollier and Robert McChesney address the changing politics of the media, technology and culture, including how corporations misuse copyright and trademark law to stifle creativity and free speech.

The Real Ted Baxter [Notes]

USC Annenberg Journalism Professor Terry Anzur blurred the lines between reality and fiction by exploring the relationship between actual L.A. anchormen and fictional Mary Tyler Moore Show anchorman Ted Baxter.

Three Dead Rats and Sound Recordings: Authorship, Ownership, Technological Protections and Digital ‘Private’ Copying

Presented at the Lear Center’s conference “Artists, Technology, and the Ownership of Creative Content,” Jane Ginsberg‘s case study illustrates the tensions between artists, industry, and consumers over who owns what.

Three Dead Rats Script

This original script written by Lear Center staffer Tim McKeon vividly dramatizes the case study presented by Jane Ginsberg at the Lear Center’s “Artists, Technology, and the Ownership of Creative Content” conference. Find out more about the book and CD-Rom.

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Toward a New Definition of Celebrity

Lear Center Senior Fellow Neal Gabler hammers out a modern understanding of celebrity and explores how the phenomenon is constructed.

Uproar over the Musical A Vietnam Diary

This original script was written by Lear Center staffer Tim McKeon to dramatize Professor Jay Dougherty‘s case study “A Vietnam Diary.” Find out more about the book and CD-Rom.

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