History & Criticism

Capitalizing on thousands of feet of accumulated footage captured by combat camera crews during the early years of the Korean War, a small group of US Army officers conceptualized a film series that would widen viewers' understanding of the service and...

Television in the Multichannel Age is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to the history of multichannel television in all its forms - from cable to direct-to-home satellite and beyond. Chapter by chapter, the book traces the evolution of cable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996820813Author Brad DukesFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Short/Tall PressPublisher Short/Tall PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692698648Author Max DosserFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Library Partners PressPublisher Library Partners PressWeight(grams) 399g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615857800Author Valerie Estelle FrankelFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Litcrit PressPublisher Litcrit PressWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595205479Author Eugene HertzbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 101Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385484398Author Thomas RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Austin City Limits is the longest running musical showcase in the history of television, and it still captivates audiences forty years after its debut on the air. From Willie Nelson's legendary pilot show and his fourteen magical episodes running through...

The man Lucille Ball called ""the brains"" of ""I Love Lucy"" gives us an inside view of television history as it was being made. Jess Oppenheimer's famous sitcom was the most popular and influential television phenomenon in the history of the medium...

Documenting the efforts of one grassroots organization that made a difference, Dorothy Swanson's story extends beyond the realms of television to demonstrate the rewards of making the voice of public opinion heard. An organization that began over 15...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692069929Author Parker AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Parker AndersonPublisher Parker AndersonWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615889405Author Aaron John GulyasFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Deserted Moon PressPublisher Deserted Moon PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm)...

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)...

Long before cable, satellite dishes, prepackaged syndication, infomercials, and reality shows, there was a brand of entertainment that has today nearly vanished from the airwaves: local TV. From Bozo and Oopsy the clowns to the cheesy antics of Sir...

In September 1993, a TV show like no other appeared on our screens, asking us to consider the essence of truth and belief, to think about the nature and roles of science and humanity, and to question what we were told by those in power. Combining horror,...

In the 21st Century, broadcast television is an established part of the lives of many millions of people all over the world, bringing information and entertainment directly into our homes. The pieces in this volume date from 1879 to 1934 and consist of a...

Watching While Black Rebooted: The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences examines what watching while Black means in an expanded U.S. televisual landscape. In this updated edition, media scholars return to television and digital spaces to think...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857285614Author Rebecca FeaseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Watching While Black Rebooted: The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences examines what watching while Black means in an expanded U.S. televisual landscape. In this updated edition, media scholars return to television and digital spaces to think...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978803848Author Benjamin M. HanFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Rereleased for Star Trek: The Original Series ' 50th Anniversary, this in-depth analysis of the groundbreaking TV show features an updated introduction by Robert J. Sawyer and foreword by David Gerrold Trekkies and Trekkers alike will get starry-eyed...

Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition examines contemporary Russian television genres in the age of transition from broadcast to post-broadcast television. Focusing on critical debates and the most significant TV series of the past two decades, the...

Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition examines contemporary Russian television genres in the age of transition from broadcast to post-broadcast television. Focusing on critical debates and the most significant TV series of the past two decades, the...

The television industry is changing, and with it, the small screen's potential to engage in debate and present valuable representations of American history. Founded in 1972, HBO has been at the forefront of these changes, leading the way for many...

An artful and contemplative tribute to the late actor famed for his role as Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills, 90210.Best known for playing loner rebel Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills 90210, Luke Perry was fifty-two years old when he died of a stroke in 2019...

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 *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585104529Author Ronald A. WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &...

If one culprit is suspected above all others for encouraging society to become more violent and unfeeling, it is television. This medium, which has become so pervasive in the last 50 years, seems to play an enormous role in the lives of the vast majority...

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...

In TV Snapshots, Lynn Spigel explores snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s. Like today's selfies, TV snapshots were a popular photographic practice through which people visualized their lives...

In On Living with Television, Amy Holdsworth examines the characteristics of intimacy, familiarity, repetition, and duration that have come to exemplify the medium. Drawing on feminist television studies, queer theory, and disability studies as well as...

Many contemporary television series from Modern Family to How to Get Away with Murder open an episode or season with a conflict and then go back in time to show how that conflict came to be. In Figures of Time Toni Pape examines these narratives, showing...

Sitcoms of the 1950s and 1960s are widely considered conformist in their depictions of gender roles and sexual attitudes. In Camp TV Quinlan Miller offers a new account of the history of American television that explains what campy meant in practical...

The origins of, and in many ways the prototype for, modern reality programming can be traced to Real People, a show that premiered on the NBC network in April of 1979. An instant ratings success, Real People appealed to an audience that clamored for...

First broadcast on HBO in 1998, Sex and the City quickly became a mainstream success. Following four women who navigate the promise and peril of social, political, and sexual relationships in New York, the series caused a stir in the popular media...

Real-world leaders hold the fates of companies, armies, and nations in their hands, but the leaders portrayed in science fiction play for larger stakes. Their decisions determine the survival of species, planets, or reality itself. They tend, therefore,...

Baltimore seen through the eyes of John Waters, Anne Tyler, Charles S. Dutton, Barry Levinson, David Simon-and also ordinary citizens.The city of Baltimore features prominently in an extraordinary number of films, television shows, novels, plays, poems,...

Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume, written by one of television's best known scholars, offers a new take...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879726218Author Morris HolbrookFormat HardbackPage Count 125Imprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,USPublisher University of Wisconsin Press