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Parent company | Routledge (Taylor & Francis) |
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Founded | 1938 |
Founder | Andor Kraszna-Krausz |
Headquarters location | Waltham, Massachusetts |
Nonfiction topics | film and digital video production, photography, digital imaging, graphics, animation and new media, broadcast and media distribution technologies, music recording and production, mass communications, theatre technology |
Official website | www |
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