History & Criticism

This is an analysis of ""I Love Lucy"", one of the best loved sitcoms in the history of American television. ""I Love Lucy"" aired for six seasons between 1951 and 1957 as a top-rated weekly sitcom, and its characters appeared in thirteen hour-long...

From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to...

At 7:20 pm on October 3, 1993, a nervous and shaky anchor broke into coverage of a soccer match to tell Russian viewers that their state television was shutting down. In the opening salvos of the parliamentary revolt against Boris Yeltsin's government, a...

Television has changed drastically in the Soviet Union over the last three decades. In 1960, only five percent of the population had access to TV, but now the viewing population has reached near total saturation. Today's main source of information in the...

Offering a fascinating examination of the explosion of black television programming in the 1980s and 1990s, this book provides, for the first time ever, an interpretation of black TV based in both journalism and critical theory. Locating a persistent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814346556Author Julia HavasFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

The Rifleman is perhaps the most significant and intelligent of the TV westerns from the late 1950s - an era when the western was the dominant television genre. With its story of a single father raising a son in 1880s New Mexico, ""The Rifleman"" offered...

This is a history of "guerilla television", a form of TV that was part of the larger alternative media tide which swept across the USA in the 1960s. Inspired by the fracturing issues of that decade, as well as the theories and writings of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369308504Author Graham McCannFormat PaperbackPage Count 912Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 1252gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

Although it lasted only four seasons and just forty-four episodes, The Killing attracted considerable critical notice and sparked an equally lively debate about its distinctive style and innovative approach to the television staple of the police...

An analysis of the under-studied sitcom Gilligan's Island addressing key questions about American social life in the 1960s.Book InformationISBN 9780814333723Author Walter MetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher...

Perry Mason was one of the most successful television programs from the 1950s and remains one of the most influential crime melodramas from any period. The show's influence goes far beyond its nine-year tenure (1957-66), the millions of dollars it...

Although the iconic television series Father Knows Best (CBS 1954-55; NBC 1955-58; CBS 1958-60) has enjoyed a long history in rerun syndication and an enduring fan base, it is often remembered as cultural shorthand for 1950s-era conformism and...

Television has long been a familiar vehicle for fairy tales and is, in some ways, an ideal medium for the genre. Both more mundane and more wondrous than cinema, TV magically captures sounds and images that float through the air to bring them into homes,...

A definitive study of David Milch's HBO series Deadwood in the context of the television western as a genre and the intersection of capital and violence in American history.Book InformationISBN 9780814334492Author Ina Rae HarkFormat PaperbackPage Count...

The evolution of television news, as told by industry insiders News is People: The Rise of Local TV News and the Fall of News from New York explores 50 years of television broadcasting to discover the cultural transformations that built the news media we...

From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to...

Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association Nearly as soon as television began to enter American homes in the late 1940s, social activists recognized that it was a...

Fifty Key Television Programmes offers a comprehensive and invaluable account of television from the perspective of the programmes themselves. "From I Love Lucy" to "The Simpsons", from "The Twlight Zone" to "The X-Files", from the moon landing to the...

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...

British Youth Television examines the phenomenon of 'yoof' television - programmes such as Network 7, The Word, The Big Breakfast, Snub TV and Gamesmaster. Between 1987 and 1995 these and other related programmes formed part of a high profile genre that...

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This is a history of "guerilla television", a form of TV that was part of the larger alternative media tide which swept across the USA in the 1960s. Inspired by the fracturing issues of that decade, as well as the theories and writings of people such as...

From I Love Lucy to Blackish, sitcoms have often paved the way for social change. Television comedy has long been on the frontline in how America evolves on social issues. There is something about comedy that makes difficult issues more palatable-with...

An insightful look at the cultural impact of the television phenomenon Sex and the City. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, one word was on everyone's lips: sex. Sex and the City had taken the United States, and the world, by storm. Carrie, Miranda,...

A collection of eight essays that parse out the seemingly unprecedented rise of reality television The Apprentice. Project Runway. The Bachelor. My Life on the D-list. Extreme Makeover. American Idol. It is virtually impossible to turn on a television...

Winner of the 2009 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award The Midwest of popular imagination is a "Heartland" characterized by traditional cultural values and mass market dispositions. Whether cast positively -; as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606083611Author Amy M DonaldsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Civilization seems to move ever more toward the power of words over weapons. But many people, especially Americans, still believe wrongs in life can be righted with a fist or a gun or a bomb. Cultural mythology lags reality and continues to send the...

In the early days of television, many of its actors, writers, producers and directors came from radio. This crossover endowed the American Radio Archives with a treasure trove of television documents. The collected scripts span more than 40 years of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732620704Author Mitchell HadleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Throckmorton Press LLCPublisher Throckmorton Press LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504029834Author Daniel PaisnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Open Road DistributionPublisher Open Road DistributionWeight(grams) 340g

This work provides a detailed account of lead character Tony Soprano's psychological journey through all episodes of all six seasons of the popular HBO show The Sopranos. Through a window of psychological interpretation and social analysis, the author...

There are two ages in the history of television: before HBO and after HBO. Before the launch of Home Box Office in 1972, the industry had changed little since the birth of broadcast network television in the late 1940s. The arrival of the premium...

The beloved television show Bridgerton breaks racial barriers as it explores an alternate history in which biracial Queen Charlotte elevated people of color to dukes and earls, welcoming new perspectives in Regency London. Essays in this work examine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476682112Author Ashley Lynn CarlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 257Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 152g

Joss Whedon may be primarily known for his numerous films and television series that feature villainous vampires, angry gods, and even bloggers who wish to rule the world, but what connects much of his work is the constant presence of a particular type...

This book presents serious academic scholarship on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It differs from other works because it uses Buffy as a primary text and not as a secondary instrument to explore other concepts. In doing so, it demonstrates that popular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060558024Author David BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 316gDimensions(mm)...

In the first decade of the new millennium, the four major networks struggled to hold their own as cable channels and unscripted shows began to dominate the television landscape. Network powerhouses like 24, Desperate Housewives, and Two and a Half Men...