History & Criticism

When Kenneth Johnson's science fiction miniseries V premiered in 1983, it netted more than 40 percent of the television viewing audience and went on to spawn a sequel, a weekly series, novelizations, comic books and a remake. Entertainment Weekly named...

Before award-winning director Dan Curtis became known for directing epic war movies, he darkened the small screen with the horror genre's most famous soap opera, Dark Shadows, and numerous subsequent made-for-TV horror movies. This second edition...

AMC's episodic drama Mad Men has become a cultural phenomenon, detailing America's preoccupation with commercialism and image in the Camelot of 1960s Kennedy-era America, while self-consciously exploring current preoccupations. The 12 critical essays...

The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera traces the history of the feminist engagement with soap opera using a wide range of sources from programme publicity to interviews with key soap opera scholars. The book reveals that feminist scholarship on...

On May 20, 2015, Dave said, "Thank you and goodnight." The Foo Fighters sang "Everlong," and Late Show with David Letterman ended its run. The final six weeks of the series had guests like Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, and the Obamas. All...

Written by one of the foremost and widely-respected writers in the field, this volume sheds new light on the forms and premises of the communicative experience. In doing so, it challenges the theoretical positions of marxist and "political economy of...

With iconic imagery and engrossing text, Black TV is the first book of its kind to celebrate the groundbreaking, influential, and often under-appreciated shows centered on Black people and their experiences from the last fifty years.Over the past decade,...

Life on Mars (2006-07), is one of the most talked-about television drama events of the last decade. Centring on Sam Tyler, a DI in 2006 who is inexplicably catapulted back to 1973 after an accident, the series mixes science fiction with police drama...

This book investigates how telenovelas may be the key to the future of Brazilian television and how this content can survive in an interconnected media landscape. Recognised telenovela writer and scholar Rosane Svartman considers the particular...

The last ten years have seen a shift in television storytelling toward increasingly complex storylines and characters. In this study, Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman zoom in on a key figure in this transformation: the archetype of the female antihero...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588347244Author NMAHFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 216g

Idris Elba, Michael B. Jordan, Wendell Pierce, Michael K. Williams -- first known as Stringer Bell, Wallace, Bunk, and Omar -- are just a few of the fruits of The Wire we enjoy today. Since its June 2, 2002, premiere, The Wire has been a slow burn,...

From The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audiences with novelistic seriality and cinematic aesthetics. Yet this television is also more perverse: it bombards audiences with misogynistic and racialized...

Go behind the TV screen to explore what is changing, why it is changing, and why the changes matters Many proclaimed the "end of television" in the early years of the twenty-first century, as capabilities and features of the boxes that occupied a...

Since the first boxy black-and-white TV sets began to appear in American living rooms in the late 1940s, we have been watching people chop, saute, fillet, whisk, flip, pour, arrange and serve food on the small screen. More than just a how-to or an...

Glamour, Gidgets, and the Girl Next Door is the latest creation from entertainment biographer and pop culture consultant Herbie J Pilato. Based on exclusive celebrity interviews, this book runs the gamut of female television legends, from the iconic Mary...

If the made-for-television movie has long been regarded as a poor stepchild of the film industry, then telefilm horror has been the most uncelebrated offspring of all. Considered unworthy of critical attention, scary movies made for television have...

A rich, fact-filled collectible, packed with vibrant history, amazing trivia, and rare photographs, The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia, assembled with the full cooperation of the Rod Serling estate, includes biographies of every principal actor involved in...

A lively introduction to a subject which has attracted increasing interest in the last few years.. A wide-ranging and carefully constructed account. Likely to be adopted on many courses (both foundational level and advanced) which include the study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088209127Author Patrick McCrayFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550228892Author Crissy CalhounFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 508g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770413054Author John SemleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 303Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

In recent years, the representation of alternative sexuality in the horror film and television has "outed" itself from the shadows from which it once lurked, via the embrace of an outrageously queer horror aesthetic where homosexuality is often...

Considers the social life of cars as represented on TV.About the AuthorPaul Grainge, Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of Nottingham.Book InformationISBN 9781474480048Author Paul GraingeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Edinburgh...

In Chicks Digs Time Lords, a host of award-winning female novelists, academics and actresses come together to celebrate the phenomenon that is Doctor Who, discuss their inventive involvement with the show's fandom and examine why they adore the series...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629331027Author Scott RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

New Expanded Edition This critical history of Doctor Who covers the series 45 years, from the creation of the show to its triumph as Britain's #1 TV drama. Opening with an in-depth account of the creation of the series within the BBC of the early 1960s,...

Already in the late nineteenth century, electricians, physicists, and telegraph technicians dreamed of inventing televisual communication apparatuses that would "see" by electricity as a means of extending human perception. In Seeing by Electricity Doron...

Although ostensibly presented as “light entertainment,” the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a cultural critique. Featuring monsters, the undead, as...

This "one-of-a-kind" (Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author) cultural history of the beloved nineties sitcom that launched Will Smith to superstardom-The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air-is perfect for fans of Seinfeldia and Best Wishes, Warmest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613743843Author Saul AusterlitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

This work examines the Gilmore Girls from a post-feminist perspective, evaluating how the show's main female characters and supporting cast fit into the classic portrayal of feminine identity on popular television. The book begins by placing Gilmore...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626363892Author Dan RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Soul! was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri Baraka and Stokely Carmichael enjoyed a sympathetic forum...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937112325Author Brandan KearneyFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Drag CityPublisher Drag City

Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times in airports; uniting crowds at sports events and...

Reaching a peak in the 1990s thanks to presenter Jeremy Clarkson, the original series then faced the axe in 2001 - but Clarkson and producer Andy Wilman successfully pitched a new format to BBC bosses and Top Gear returned to become the irreverent, funny...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615455563Author Polly KahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Kahl Counseling PressPublisher Kahl Counseling PressWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm)...

In 1990, American television experienced a seismic shift when Twin Peaks premiered, eschewing formulaic plots and clear lines between heroes and villains. This game-changing series inspired a generation of show creators to experiment artistically,...