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The skinny about best boys, dollies, green rooms, leads, and other media lingo : the language of the media / by Richard Weiner ; edited by Charles M. Levine.
Publication details: New York, NY : Random House Reference, c2006.Description: xiii, 289 p. ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780375721472 (pbk.) :
- 0375721479 (pbk.) :
- P96.L34 W45 2006
Contents:
Essays -- Advertising: Have You Seen the Commercial About...? -- Animals: The Media Lingo Zoo -- Awards: The Envelope, Please -- Body Parts: From Head to Foot -- Books: Reading Between the Lines -- Broadcasting: Not Just for Couch Potatoes -- Broadcasting ABCs: Across-the-Board to Zoom -- Colors: A Media Rainbow -- Comic Relief: Have You Heard the One About...? -- Cuts: The Kindest, and Unkindest Ones, Too -- Doubles: Not More of the Same -- Film: Hats Off to the Best Boys and Foley Editors -- Geography: Madison Avenue and Other Media Metonyms -- Geometry: The Shape of Media Things -- Journalism: Stop the Presses! -- Leads: But, Wait for the Kicker -- Lights Up!: From Peewees to Brutes -- Magazines: From the Mighty AARP to the Targeted Zymurgy -- Media: Marshall McLuhan Was Right -- Potpourri: Ballyhoo and Other Media Miscellany -- Public Relations: A PR Primer -- Roll, Rights, Release: Three Media Rs -- Show Business: A Primer for Tyros -- Sports: A Media Grand Slam -- Theater: George Spelvin Was in the Wings -- The Wall Street Journal: Journalese -- Whatchamacallit: Gibberish and Thingamajigs.
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Essays -- Advertising: Have You Seen the Commercial About...? -- Animals: The Media Lingo Zoo -- Awards: The Envelope, Please -- Body Parts: From Head to Foot -- Books: Reading Between the Lines -- Broadcasting: Not Just for Couch Potatoes -- Broadcasting ABCs: Across-the-Board to Zoom -- Colors: A Media Rainbow -- Comic Relief: Have You Heard the One About...? -- Cuts: The Kindest, and Unkindest Ones, Too -- Doubles: Not More of the Same -- Film: Hats Off to the Best Boys and Foley Editors -- Geography: Madison Avenue and Other Media Metonyms -- Geometry: The Shape of Media Things -- Journalism: Stop the Presses! -- Leads: But, Wait for the Kicker -- Lights Up!: From Peewees to Brutes -- Magazines: From the Mighty AARP to the Targeted Zymurgy -- Media: Marshall McLuhan Was Right -- Potpourri: Ballyhoo and Other Media Miscellany -- Public Relations: A PR Primer -- Roll, Rights, Release: Three Media Rs -- Show Business: A Primer for Tyros -- Sports: A Media Grand Slam -- Theater: George Spelvin Was in the Wings -- The Wall Street Journal: Journalese -- Whatchamacallit: Gibberish and Thingamajigs.
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