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Senior Fellow Neal Gabler
Neal Gabler, Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, is an author, cultural historian, and film critic. His first book, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, won the...
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Lear Center Senior Fellow Neal Gabler does not like what internet algorithms are doing to people and culture. Read why. The post appeared first on The Norman Lear Center.
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The Aesthetics of Politics 2004: I’m Wrong, But I’m Strong
USC Annenberg School Dean Geoffrey Cowan and Lear Center Director Marty Kaplan hosted a special post-election presentation by author, columnist and Lear Center Senior Fellow Neal Gabler. Gabler’s talk...
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Lear Center Senior Fellow Neal Gabler, author of the definitive Walt Disney biography, weighs in on Walt’s legacy at a Television Critics Association panel celebrating PBS’ four-hour American...
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The Lear Center’s “Tyranny of 18 to 49” conference still offers clarity and bracing truth about the advertising industry’s continued and statistically flawed allegiance to the coveted TV audience...
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Read this notable piece by Lear Center Senior Fellow, Neal Gabler. The post appeared first on The Norman Lear Center.
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Mickey Mouse, PhD? Not quite yet. In the meantime, you can read about a new scholarly analysis of this iconic American creation. Then revisit Neal Gabler‘s The Life and Legend of Walt Disney and his...
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Lear Center Senior Fellow Neal Gabler turns his clever media eye on legend Barbra Streisand in his new book Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power. The post appeared first on The...
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The High-Concept Presidency
Anyone who has ever pitched a movie or television idea in Hollywood knows the tyranny of the “high concept.” It’s a staple of the entertainment world. A high concept is a simple, succinct, immediately...
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How Social Media Abet the Political Right (It’s Not How You Might Think)
So much of the discussion about Donald Trump’s success in politics has focused on how he has mastered social media, particularly Twitter, with his continual tweets that dominate the national...
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