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Harlan Lebo
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Harlan Lebo is a non-fiction author who writes on the sciences, the humanities, society, and digital technology.<ref name="DigitalCenter1"></ref> Lebo is also a senior fellow at the Center for the Digital Future in the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism.<ref name="DigitalCenter2"></ref>
==Books==
Lebo is best known for being the author of four books about the making of a trio of motion pictures ranked by the American Film Institute as the best ever made:<ref name="AFI100films"></ref> ''The Godfather Legacy'',<ref name="GodfatherLegacy"></ref> ''Casablanca: Behind the Scenes'',<ref name="Casablanca"></ref> and two books about ''Citizen Kane'' (a photo-focused large-format book for the film's 50th anniversary in 2001 titled ''Citizen Kane -- The 50th Anniversary Album'',<ref name="CitizenKaneAlbum"></ref> and a comprehensive text-focused book for the 75th anniversary titled ''Citizen Kane – A Filmmaker's Journey'',<ref name="CitizenKaneJourney"></ref> which was published in April 2016).
Even though ''Citizen Kane'' is perhaps the most studied and critically appraised motion picture of all time in academic publications, scholarly anthologies, and biographies of Orson Welles, Lebo's second book on the film is notable for being the only non-fiction narrative work that is devoted entirely to the complete story of the making of the film: the background, planning, studio infighting, production, clashes with the Hearst organization over the portrayal of lead character Charles Foster Kane, and its eventual release.<ref name="NYT"></ref><ref name="Kirkus"></ref><ref name="LibraryJournal"></ref>
Lebo has been an invited speaker on his books at the [[Museum of Modern Art|Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)]], the [[University of Michigan Library|University of Michigan Special Collections Library]], and the [[UCLA Film and Television Archive]].
==Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg==
Lebo is also the 15-time author of "Surveying the Digital Future," the annual study published by the Center for the Digital Future on the impact of the internet and digital technology on users and non-users in the United States.<ref name="DigitalCenter3"></ref> Lebo also writes the Center's annual report for the World Internet Project, the exploration of trends in technology that brings together data from the Center's U.S. findings with partner studies in 34 countries.<ref name="WIP"></ref>
==Other work==
Formerly a magazine editor and assistant vice president in corporate communications, Lebo also worked in external affairs at UCLA. Lebo has developed communication programs in cooperation with the Nobel Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, the National Science Foundation, and proprietary clients in education, technology, and digital media.<ref name="AmazonBio"></ref>
Lebo served as the historical consultant to Paramount Pictures during the 50th anniversary release of ''Citizen Kane'' in 2001.<ref name="GoogleBio"></ref> Lebo also led UCLA's communications team for the 1999 science mission of the Mars Polar Lander, a joint effort between NASA and the university.<ref name="MPLWikipedia"></ref>
== References ==
== See also ==
* [https://ift.tt/2qoldHk Harlan Lebo: books]
==Books==
Lebo is best known for being the author of four books about the making of a trio of motion pictures ranked by the American Film Institute as the best ever made:<ref name="AFI100films"></ref> ''The Godfather Legacy'',<ref name="GodfatherLegacy"></ref> ''Casablanca: Behind the Scenes'',<ref name="Casablanca"></ref> and two books about ''Citizen Kane'' (a photo-focused large-format book for the film's 50th anniversary in 2001 titled ''Citizen Kane -- The 50th Anniversary Album'',<ref name="CitizenKaneAlbum"></ref> and a comprehensive text-focused book for the 75th anniversary titled ''Citizen Kane – A Filmmaker's Journey'',<ref name="CitizenKaneJourney"></ref> which was published in April 2016).
Even though ''Citizen Kane'' is perhaps the most studied and critically appraised motion picture of all time in academic publications, scholarly anthologies, and biographies of Orson Welles, Lebo's second book on the film is notable for being the only non-fiction narrative work that is devoted entirely to the complete story of the making of the film: the background, planning, studio infighting, production, clashes with the Hearst organization over the portrayal of lead character Charles Foster Kane, and its eventual release.<ref name="NYT"></ref><ref name="Kirkus"></ref><ref name="LibraryJournal"></ref>
Lebo has been an invited speaker on his books at the [[Museum of Modern Art|Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)]], the [[University of Michigan Library|University of Michigan Special Collections Library]], and the [[UCLA Film and Television Archive]].
==Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg==
Lebo is also the 15-time author of "Surveying the Digital Future," the annual study published by the Center for the Digital Future on the impact of the internet and digital technology on users and non-users in the United States.<ref name="DigitalCenter3"></ref> Lebo also writes the Center's annual report for the World Internet Project, the exploration of trends in technology that brings together data from the Center's U.S. findings with partner studies in 34 countries.<ref name="WIP"></ref>
==Other work==
Formerly a magazine editor and assistant vice president in corporate communications, Lebo also worked in external affairs at UCLA. Lebo has developed communication programs in cooperation with the Nobel Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, the National Science Foundation, and proprietary clients in education, technology, and digital media.<ref name="AmazonBio"></ref>
Lebo served as the historical consultant to Paramount Pictures during the 50th anniversary release of ''Citizen Kane'' in 2001.<ref name="GoogleBio"></ref> Lebo also led UCLA's communications team for the 1999 science mission of the Mars Polar Lander, a joint effort between NASA and the university.<ref name="MPLWikipedia"></ref>
== References ==
== See also ==
* [https://ift.tt/2qoldHk Harlan Lebo: books]
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