History & Criticism

Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.This updated and expanded anthology offers an engaging overview of one of the oldest and most ubiquitous forms of television programming: the sitcom. Through an analysis of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593931766Author Jonathan EtterFormat HardbackImprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 608g

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Paranoid visions explores the history of the spy and conspiracy genres on British television, from 1960s Cold War series through 1980s conspiracy dramas to contemporary 'war on terror' thrillers. It analyses classic dramas including Tinker Tailor Soldier...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935251989Author Jane EspensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Smart PopPublisher BenBella Books

From humble beginning as a 1970s motoring show, Top Gear has achieved world domination. Reaching a peak in the 1990s thanks to presenter Jeremy Clarkson, the original series faced the axe in 2001 - but Clarkson and producer Andy Wilman successfully...

The soap opera, one of U.S. television's longest-running and most influential formats, is on the brink. Declining ratings have been attributed to an increasing number of women working outside the home and to an intensifying competition for viewers'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935303626Author Brad MiddletonFormat PaperbackImprint By Light Unseen MediaPublisher By Light Unseen MediaWeight(grams) 948g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593933449Author Michael J HaydeFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 708gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

British children's films have played a part in the childhoods of generations of young people around the world for over a century. Until now, however, their cherished status has remained largely unexplored. In this book, Noel Brown relates the history of...

Exploring the Land of Ooo: An Unofficial Overview and Production History of Cartoon Network’s "Adventure Time" is a guide through the colorful and exuberant animated television series that initially aired from 2010 to 2018. Created by visionary artist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorNancy West is professor of english at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia. (2000) and Tabloid, Inc.: Crimes, News,...

Faced with what many were calling a dying medium, US network television producers became much more aggressive in seeking out alternative business and artistic models in the beginning of this century. Most significantly, many of these producers turned to...

This collection explores the many ways in which the Netflix series Sense8 transcends television. As its characters transcend physical and psychological borders of gender and geography, so the series itself transcends those between television, new media...

In the years following 9/11, American TV developed a preoccupation with apocalypse. Science fiction and fantasy shows ranging from Firefly to Heroes, from the rebooted Battlestar Galactica to Lost, envisaged scenarios in which world-changing disasters...

The story of Czechoslovak television is in many respects typical of the cultural and political developments in Central Europe, behind the Iron Curtain. Martin Štoll, with unprecedented access to the Military Historical Archives in Prague, provides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957868929Author Phoef SuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Cutting Edge BooksPublisher Cutting Edge BooksWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629337753Author Ian DickersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629339306Author Randy WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 1157gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780722351956Author Mark NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Oak Tree PressPublisher Andrews UK LimitedWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

In Kids Rule! Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the cable network Nickelodeon in order to rethink the relationship between children, media, citizenship, and consumerism. Nickelodeon is arguably the most commercially successful cable network ever. Broadcasting...

"Rock 'n' roll was loud, brash, and impudent; TV was soothing and polite. Rock 'n' roll was sex; TV was violins. Rock 'n' roll was Elvis Presley; TV was Robert Young." -- from Station to Station Television and rock 'n' roll: a combative yet profitable...

In 2004, roughly 25 makeover-themed reality shows aired on U.S. television. By 2009, there were more than 250, from What Not to Wear and The Biggest Loser to Dog Whisperer and Pimp My Ride. In Makeover TV, Brenda R. Weber argues that whether depicting...

Slings & Arrows, starring Susan Coyne, Paul Gross, Don McKellar, and Mark McKinney as members of the New Burbage Theatre Festival, was heralded by television critics as one of the best shows ever produced and one of the finest depictions of life in...

In 1995, United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said of the Cable News Network, "CNN is the sixteenth member of the [15 member United Nations] Security Council." Scholars as well as diplomats have recognized the existence of a link...

On October 3, 1960, The Andy Griffith Show began its eight-year reign as one of the top-ten television shows in the country. Now, almost 50 years later, the original 249 episodes still remain among the most frequently watched syndicated shows on...

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection-the first of its kind-invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley's 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year...

Television existed for a long time before it became commonplace in American homes. Even as cars, jazz, film, and radio heralded the modern age, television haunted the modern imagination. During the 1920s and 1930s, U.S. television was a topic of...

Nearly as soon as television began to enter American homes in the late 1940s, social activists recognized that it was a powerful tool for shaping the nation's views. By targeting broadcast regulations and laws, both liberal and conservative activist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982519516Author John William LawFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Aplomb PublishingPublisher Aplomb PublishingWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 152mm...

This title offers a unique approach to the study of television. This overview of television criticism comes appropriately at a moment of change. Television is becoming dramatically different as a result of new and developing technologies such as cable,...

Television existed for a long time before it became commonplace in American homes. Even as cars, jazz, film, and radio heralded the modern age, television haunted the modern imagination. During the 1920s and 1930s, U.S. television was a topic of...

The year 2004 marks the 50th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company's network television series Disneyland/The Wonderful World of Color. The series, part of Walt Disney's quest to re-create American entertainment, premiered October 27, 1954, on ABC and...

Rocky & Bullwinkle. Peabody and Sherman. Dudley Do-Right. George of the Jungle. Boris and Natasha. These cultural icons emerged fully-formed from the wittiest, most irreverent and shamelessly subversive cartoons ever, The Rocky and Bullwinkle show. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257647Author Christopher P WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Beyond representation explores whether the last thirty years witnessed signs of 'progress' or 'progressiveness' in the representation of 'marginalised' or subaltern identity categories within television drama in Britain and the US. In doing so, it...

Critically analyzes the discursive relationship between cultural value and popular feminism in American television.While American television has long relied on a strategic foregrounding of feminist politics to promote certain programming's cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254790Author Paula Marie SeniorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Frequently described by creator David Simon as a novel for television, The Wire redefined the police serial format by unfolding its narrative across many episodes, constructing themes for each of its seasons, and refusing to portray individual crimes...

Offering the first book-length exploration of network television's relations with advocacy groups, Kathryn C. Montgomery presents a comprehensive picture of the impact of organized pressure on prime-time TV. She vividly describes, for example, how the...