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Art, Culture, Politics: A Conversation with Shepard Fairey:
BrandSpace's Sarah Banet-Weiser sits down with guerrilla artist Shepard Fairey to discuss his take on art, politics and free culture in this engaging Visions & Voices event.
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Johanna Blakley at TEDx: Lessons from Fashion's Free Culture:
Lear Center deputy director Johanna Blakley delivered
a witty and incisive talk at the 2010 TEDxUSC about how the fashion
industry flourishes creatively and financially without the protection
of copyright, while other creative industries -- music, TV and movies
-- are often hobbled by draconian copyright laws. Download the slides here.
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Public Space, Public Art & Public Life:
Lear Center Director Martin Kaplan moderates this panel discussion that explored the interplay between art and
architecture in urban spaces. The panel featured Christopher Janney; Scott Fisher, chair of the Interactive Media Division of the USC School of Cinematic Arts; Robert Kraft, composer and CEO of Fox Music, Inc.; and USC School of Architecture dean Qingyun Ma, among others.
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World of Stories:
Hollywood, Health & Society hosted this enthralling conversation between global health experts and top television writers who have created award-winning storylines about global health issues in their primetime television shows. Tachi Yamada, executive director of the global health program at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was the keynote speaker.
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Celebrity Diplomacy:
The Norman Lear Center and the USC Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy host a discussion on the pros and cons of celebrity participation in international diplomatic efforts.
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The Business & Culture of Social Media:
Everything we know about reaching an audience has changed with the emergence of social media. Lear Center Director Martin Kaplan and Deputy Director Johanna Blakley explore the ever-changing media landscape and search for the people "formerly known as the audience" in this special presentation.
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2009 Everett M. Rogers Colloquium:
Dr. Garth Japhet was the 2009 recipient of the Everett M. Rogers Colloquium honoring the memory of former USC professor Everett Rogers. Japhet was recognized for his immense contribution to entertainment education through his work with the TV program Soul City and his subsequent Heartlines project. Read about the Award.
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Get Ready Survey: The 97 percent overwhelmingly agree that it should be an annual event. Visit our Shakeout project page.
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Popular Culture and Politics:
Johanna Blakley, Lear Center deputy director, joined David Carr, media and culture writer for the New York Times; and Stephen Duncombe, assistant professor at NYU, for a conversation on popular culture and its impact on the 2008 presidential election. Henry Jenkins served as moderator of this event, part of the MIT Communication Forum at the MIT campus.
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Black on Black:
USC journalism professor Joe Saltzman offered these remarks at the 2008 screening of his landmark 1968 documentary Black on Black, hailed for its pioneering effort to capture the voices and experiences of black America during one of the most volatile times in the nation's history. View this event here.
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2009 Walter Cronkite Awards: Best Practices:
National and regional television journalists presented their best practices from the 2008
presidential election season in this engaging conversation that also highlights their
innovative programming and their insights into the challenges
and opportunities in today's broadcast media.
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Ready to Share: Fashion & the Ownership of Creativity:
This groundbreaking conference explored the fashion industry's enthusiastic embrace of sampling, appropriation and borrowed inspiration, core components of every creative process. It also featured trend forecasts, fashion shows and an eclectic mix of experts from fashion, music, TV and film.
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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.
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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.
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Johanna Blakley, Leo Braudy, Randi Hokett, Martin Kaplan, Dana Polan, Steven J. Ross, Nancy Snow |
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YOU BETTER THINK: Why Feminist Cultural Criticism Still Matters in a "Post-Feminist," Peer-to-Peer World:
Ann Powers, Resident at the Lear Center's Popular Music Project and LA Times pop music critic, delivered this brilliant lecture at the Tenth Annual USC Women in Higher Education Luncheon.
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The Future of Television: Advertising, technology and the pursuit of audiences:
Broadcast television is in crisis. In this report, Marissa Gluck and Meritxell Roca Sales examine the explosion of media outlets and content providers that has fueled this fragmentation, as well as advertising agencies’ struggle to adapt to new technologies.
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Marissa Gluck, Meritxell Roca Sales |
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Rights/Camera/Action:
At a panel launching the ACLU's Rights/Camera/Action project, the Lear Center's Johanna Blakley and leading artists and industry professionals joined together to discuss how rights on camera can be a source of both entertainment and information and a launching pad for social action.
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Johanna Blakley, Ariel Dorfman, Alex Gibney, Peter Gilbert, Rob Moss, Kal Penn, Ricki Stern, Anjuli Verma |
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Artists, Technology & the Ownership of Creative Content: This book 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.
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David Bollier, Sara Diamond, F. Jay Dougherty, Jane Ginsberg, Arnold Lutzker, Tim McKeon |
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The Life and Legacy of Walt Disney:
6Lear Center Senior Fellow Neal Gabler, author of Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination, lead this panel discussion featuring Time movie critic Richard Schickel and Disney legends Alice Davis, Harriet Burns and Blaine Gibson.
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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.
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The Death of the Critic?: A Roundtable on the Future of Music Criticism in the Digital Age:
"The death of the critic" has become a catchphrase when discussing how the Internet has affected arts writing, nowhere more so than in music journalism. But is music criticism dying or being reborn? Ann Powers, of the LA Times, leads this discussion.
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Frank Capra and the Image of the Journalist in American Film:
Published by the Lear Center Press, Joe Saltzman's book chronicles the hand Hollywood had in shaping our perceptions of the press. It is a product of the Lear Center project Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture and can be purchased here. The introduction is available online.
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How Healthy Is Prime Time?: In 2008 The Kaiser Family Foundation released the study, "How Healthy Is Prime Time?: An Analysis of Health Content in Popular Prime Time Television Programs," co-sponsored by the Lear Center's Hollywood, Health & Society project. The report examines three seasons of top-ten-rated primetime scripted shows.
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Heather Hether, Sheila Murphy, Victoria Rideout |
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2008 Everett M. Rogers Colloquium:
The Lear Center presented the fourth annual Everett M. Rogers Colloquium, with featured speaker David Poindexter, founder and former president of Population Communications International. Poindexter spoke on the diffusion of entertainment-education.
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The Economics of Attention:
The Norman Lear Center and frog design joined forces to sponsor an informal panel that took a look at how attention works with Richard A. Lanham, author of The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information, and David Merkoski, Creative Director at frog design.
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Studies on Attention: An Annotated Bibliography:
What is “attention” and how does it work? The Lear Center asked Patrick Reed to take a broad, cross-disciplinary look at how attention works and he produced this annotated bibliography.
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The Glass Closet: In and Out in Hollywood and Washington:
15This panel discusssion covered various LGBT topics in Hollywood and featured ASC Professor Larry Gross and journalists Ray Richmond, Greg Hernandez, Karen Ocamb, Shana Krochmal, David Ehrenstein and actor Wilson Cruz. Moderated by publicist Howard Bragman,
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Pop, Politics & Propaganda:
This panel discussion explored how political parties and political critics have used art and popular culture for political ends. Moderated by Marty Kaplan, the panel included journalist Marc Cooper, artist Robbie Conal and Center for the Study of Political Graphics Founder and Executive Director Carol A. Wells.
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Between Father and Son: Music and Creativity Across the Generations:
Communication Professor Josh Kun, director of the Popular Music Project at USC Annenberg’s Norman Lear Center, moderates a unique father-son dialogue on music, creativity and technology between Motown legend Lamont Dozier and his son, hip hop/R&B producer Beau Dozier.
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2008 Sentinel Awards Ceremony and Panel Discussion:
The Lear Center's Hollywood, Health & Society project announced the winners of the 2008 Sentinel for Health Awards at a ceremony at the Writers Guild of America, West, which was followed by a lively discussion among the winners.
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Beyond Erin Brockovich:
Contaminants in our air and water take a toll on the health of Americans. Hollywood, Health & Society and the Writers Guild of America, West, co-hosted this discussion, with two women who faced life-changing toxic exposures, and environmental health experts who warned of growing rates of diseases.
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Annenberg Colloquium with Hollywood, Health & Society:
Hollywood, Health & Society panelists gave presentations describing the role of health issues in the entertainment industry, focusing on obesity and organ transplant as used in storylines on ER, House, Grey's Anatomy, Law & Order:SVU, Numb3rs, and CSI: NY.
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Changing Channels: Entertainment Television, Civic Attitudes, and Actions: This report by Princeton Survey Associates International finds that entertainment TV shows motivate people to change their ideas and to pursue issues and topics explored in the shows. This report was prepared for the Lear Center's Media, Citizens & Democracy project.
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Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own:
Lear Center Senior Fellow David Bollier's book, Viral Spiral, 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.
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How Pro-Social Messages Make Their Way Into Entertainment Programming:
This report for the Media, Citizens & Democracy project compiles research about past and ongoing communication, advocacy and entertainment education campaigns that attempt to influence particular types of portrayals in entertainment televsion.
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Welcome to the Infotainment Freak Show:
Marty Kaplan is among 20 prominent voices in the anthology, What Orwell Didn't Know, that consider the outlooks for reality-based politics. In his chapter “Welcome to the Infotainment Freak Show,” Kaplan takes an insightful, albeit ominous look at the way mass media has transformed modern society.
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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.
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We Hate You (But Please Send Us More Austin Powers):
This panel discussion, hosted by NPR’s Jacki Lyden, takes a look at the interplay between Hollywood, advertising, and the State Department, and the impact of American media in the Middle East, and elsewhere.
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Lessig Vs. Valenti -- A Debate on Creativity, Commerce & Culture:
Two heavyweight experts on intellectual property put their dukes up and match wits and words on the ownership of creative content, the role of the artist in commerce, and copyright.
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Larry Lessig, Jack Valenti |
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Entertainment Goes Global:
Audiences around the world are inundated with entertainment products -- developed locally, nationally, and abroad -- but no one agrees on the effects. This essay examines the implications of global entertainment and suggests directions for future research. Read more about the Lear Center's Entertainment Goes Global project.
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Johanna Blakley |
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Celebrity, Politics & Public Life:
This faculty seminar series brings together scholars from across campus to consider work on the nature of celebrity and its tremendous impact on political life in America. A series of reports on these lively meetings are available here.
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The Norman Lear Center Manifesto:
What is entertainment? What is entertainment studies? What does it matter? The Norman Lear Center takes on these questions through a photo essay and incisive text. View the Flash movie.
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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.
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