Happy Holidays--Animated!

Happy Holidays--Animated!
Author: William D. Crump
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2019-04-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476672938

Since the early 20th century, animated Christmas cartoons have brightened the holiday season around the world--first in theaters, then on television. From devotional portrayals of the Nativity to Santa battling villains and monsters, this encyclopedia catalogs more than 1,800 international Christmas-themed cartoons and others with year-end themes of Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and the New Year. Explore beloved television specials such as A Charlie Brown Christmas, theatrical shorts such as Santa's Workshop, holiday episodes from animated television series like American Dad! and The Simpsons, feature films like The Nutcracker Prince and obscure productions such as The Insects' Christmas, along with numerous adaptations and parodies of such classics as A Christmas Carol and Twas the Night before Christmas.

Kickstarter For Dummies

Kickstarter For Dummies
Author: Aimee Cebulski
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2013-05-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 111850545X

Learn to use Kickstarter to make your great ideas a reality As a crowd-funding website for creative projects, Kickstarter has the power to make creative ideas come to life. This helpful guide walks you through the potential of this amazing tool, which has helped project creators successfully launch their projects since 2009. You'll learn how to create a Kickstarter account, set up your first project, and effectively use social media to bring awareness to your project and build up the community around it to hopefully reach the goal of 100 percent funding. Explains how to determine if you meet the requirements to create a project Gets you started with creating your first project, choosing a great project image, and write a compelling project title and description Helps you establish rewards for project backers Zeroes in on deciding a funding duration and funding goal Whether you have an idea for a movie, video game, gadget or anything in between, Kickstarter For Dummies is the fun and friendly guide to help you get the funds to make your idea happen!

Changing the Rules

Changing the Rules
Author: Muriel Siebert
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2002
Genre: Businesswomen
ISBN: 0743211146

The first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange reveals how she forged her phenomenal success in the chaotic and cutthroat world of Wall Street.

Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed.

Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed.
Author: Vincent Terrace
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 1331
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786486414

This fully updated and expanded edition covers over 10,200 programs, making it the most comprehensive documentation of television programs ever published. In addition to covering the standard network and cable entertainment genres, the book also covers programs generally not covered elsewhere in print (or even online), including Internet series, aired and unaired pilot films, erotic series, gay and lesbian series, risque cartoons and experimental programs from 1925 through 1945.