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The World Beyond: Science Fiction and Horror Films on KPHO TV5 by Parker Anderson 9780692069929
RRP: $19.35$16.37Apologies 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 -
In Fandom's Shadow: Being a Doctor Who Fan from the 1990s to Today by Aaron John Gulyas 9780615889405
RRP: $7.74$7.16Apologies 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)... -
Jon & Kate Plus Eight: "Reality" TV & the Selling of the Gosselins: "Reality" TV & the Selling of the Gosselins by Polly Kahl 9780615455563
RRP: $18.00$16.80Apologies 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)... -
TV Land: Detroit by Gordon Castelnero 9780472031245
RRP: $25.74$22.51Long 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... -
The X-Files The Truth is Still Out There: Thirty Years of The X-Files by Bethan Jones 9781949024500
RRP: $28.32$21.58In 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,... -
A History Of Early Television Vol 1 by Stephen Herbert 9781032660356
RRP: $38.69$34.37In 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 by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade 9781978830028
RRP: $36.11$30.86Watching 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... -
From Happy Homemaker to Desperate Housewives: Motherhood and Popular Television by Rebecca Feasey 9780857285614
RRP: $32.24$30.66'From Happy Homemaker to Desperate Housewives: Motherhood and Popular Television' is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to key debates concerning the representations of motherhood, motherwork and the maternal role in contemporary television... -
Watching While Black Rebooted!: The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade 9781978830035
RRP: $83.85$72.36Watching 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... -
Beyond the Black and White TV: Asian and Latin American Spectacle in Cold War America by Benjamin M. Han 9781978803848
RRP: $172.86$150.23Apologies 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 -
Boarding the Enterprise: Transporters,Tribbles, And the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek by David Gerrold 9781942952152
RRP: $14.18$11.91Rereleased 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: Genres, Technologies, Identities by Alexander Prokhorov 9781644696446
RRP: $32.24$30.66Russian 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: Genres, Technologies, Identities by Alexander Prokhorov 9781644696439
RRP: $127.70$121.65Russian 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... -
History by HBO: Televising the American Past by Rebecca Weeks 9780813195308
RRP: $41.28$40.97The 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... -
A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up by Margaret Wappler 9781668006269
RRP: $25.80$16.59An 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... -
Glamour, Gidgets, and the Girl Next Door: Television's Iconic Women from the 50s, 60s, and 70s by Herbie J Pilato 9781589799691
RRP: $24.50$24.21Glamour, 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... -
Fragile Magic: A Guidebook for Theatre Respondents by Ronald A. Willis 9781585104529
RRP: $20.63$17.23Apologies 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 &... -
Television Violence: A Guide to the Literature -- 2nd Edition by P.T. Kelly 9781560727002
RRP: $126.41$102.74If 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... -
The Television Will Be Revolutionized, Second Edition by Amanda D. Lotz 9781479865734
RRP: $91.59$79.41Go 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... -
TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life by Lynn Spigel 9781478015642
RRP: $125.13$108.91In 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... -
On Living with Television by Amy Holdsworth 9781478013839
RRP: $116.10$100.72In 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... -
Figures of Time: Affect and the Television of Preemption by Toni Pape 9781478003731
RRP: $118.68$102.90Many 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... -
Camp TV: Trans Gender Queer Sitcom History by Quinlan Miller 9781478001850
RRP: $118.68$102.90Sitcoms 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... -
Real People and the Rise of Reality Television by Michael McKenna 9781442250536
RRP: $58.05$50.94The 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... -
From Starship Captains to Galactic Rebels: Leaders in Science Fiction Television by Kimberly Yost 9781442229853
RRP: $122.55$107.74Real-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,... -
Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore beyond John Waters and <I>The Wire</I> by Mary Rizzo 9781421437910
RRP: $32.25$26.54Baltimore 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: Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture by John Hartley 9781405169790
$53.30Television 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... -
Daytime Television Game Shows and the Celebration of Merchandising by Morris Holbrook 9780879726218
RRP: $18.00$12.07Apologies 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 -
Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life by Anthony Curtis Adler 9780823270798
RRP: $116.10$100.72What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological call to go "back to the things themselves" when these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a... -
Television Cities: Paris, London, Baltimore by Charlotte Brunsdon 9780822368946
RRP: $118.68$102.90In Television Cities Charlotte Brunsdon traces television's representations of metropolitan spaces to show how they reflect the medium's history and evolution, thereby challenging the prevalent assumptions about television as quintessentially suburban... -
Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia by Tania Lewis 9780822361886
RRP: $125.13$108.40Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwanese domestic makeover formats combining feng shui with life planning advice: Asian TV screens are... -
Television as Digital Media by James Bennett 9780822349105
RRP: $34.82$31.10In Television as Digital Media, scholars from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States combine television studies with new media studies to analyze digital TV as part of digital culture. Taking into account technologies, industries,... -
Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion by Aniko Bodroghkozy 9780822326458
RRP: $32.24$27.95Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune-or even willfully blind-to the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1960s. Groove Tube is Aniko Bodroghkozy's rebuttal of this claim. Filled with entertaining and enlightening... -
Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays by Mary Beth Haralovich 9780822323945
RRP: $28.37$26.03In less than a century, the flickering blue-gray light of the television screen has become a cultural icon. What do the images transmitted by that screen tell us about power, authority, gender stereotypes, and ideology in the United States? Television,... -
Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting by Sarah Banet-Weiser 9780814799499
RRP: $98.04$51.46Cable television, on the brink of a boom in the 1970s, promised audiences a new media frontier-an expansive new variety of entertainment and information choices. Music video, 24-hour news, 24-hour weather, movie channels, children's channels, home... -
Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics, and Economics of America's Only TV Channel for Kids by Heather Hendershot 9780814736517
$115.95Nickelodeon is the highest rated daytime channel in the country, and its cultural influence has grown at an astounding pace. Why are Nickelodeon shows so popular? How are they developed and marketed? And where do they fit in the economic picture of the... -
Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era by Jonathan Gray 9780814731987
$115.95Satirical TV has become mandatory viewing for citizens wishing to make sense of the bizarre contemporary state of political life. Shifts in industry economics and audience tastes have re-made television comedy, once considered a wasteland of escapist... -
Gene Tierney: Star of Hollywood's Home Front by Will Scheibel 9780814348208
$115.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814348208Author Will ScheibelFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
State of Play: Contemporary 'High-End' Tv Drama by Robin Nelson 9780719073106
RRP: $103.20$91.22Robin Nelson's State of play up-dates and develops the arguments of his influential TV Drama In Transition (1997). It is equally distinctive in setting analusis of the aesethetics and compositional principles of texts within a broad conceptual framework... -
Artists in the Audience: Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism by Greg Taylor 9780691089553
RRP: $45.15$35.78Gone with the Wind an inspiration for the American avant-garde? Mickey Mouse a crucial source for the development of cutting-edge intellectual and aesthetic ideas? As Greg Taylor shows in this witty and provocative book, the idea is not so far-fetched...