Playing With Parks
Lear Center Senior Fellow Neal Gabler developed his own ideas for the new civic park in downtown L.A. in this October 30, 2005 Los Angeles Times op-ed. The post Playing With Parks appeared first on The...
View ArticleToward 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. The post Toward a New Definition of Celebrity appeared first on The...
View ArticleThe Real Americans
Lear Center Senior Fellow Neal Gabler considers the long history of the political flashpoint, “Who is authentically a real American and who is not,” using the language and narrative of Sarah Palin‘s...
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The Tyranny of 18-49
The holy grail for mass media is the 18 to 49 age group. Entertainment programmers, marketers and advertisers covet that demographic. It has a huge impact on what we see and hear. Is this power based...
View ArticleTyranny of 18 to 49: American Culture Held Hostage
The holy grail for mass media is the 18-to-49 age group. This has a huge impact on what we see and hear. In this 2003 Lear Center conference report, Senior Fellow NeaI Gabler asks whether this power is...
View ArticleReality Television: The Truth Behind the Lens?
Lear Center Senior Fellow Neal Gabler gave a talk on reality TV as part of USC’s Spectrum Speakers Series, which provides the topic for essays written by all students enrolled in Freshman Seminars....
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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...
View ArticleToward 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. The post Toward a New Definition of Celebrity appeared first on The...
View ArticlePlaying With Parks
Lear Center Senior Fellow Neal Gabler developed his own ideas for the new civic park in downtown L.A. in this October 30, 2005 Los Angeles Times op-ed. The post Playing With Parks appeared first on The...
View ArticleToward 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. The post Toward a New Definition of Celebrity appeared first on The...
View ArticlePlaying With Parks
Lear Center Senior Fellow Neal Gabler developed his own ideas for the new civic park in downtown L.A. in this October 30, 2005 Los Angeles Times op-ed. The post Playing With Parks appeared first on The...
View ArticleToward 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. The post Toward a New Definition of Celebrity appeared first on The...
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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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