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Living Room Lectures: The Fifties Family in Film and Television by Nina C. Leibman 9780292746848
RRP: £29.99£27.38With a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and squeaky-clean kids, the 1950s television family has achieved near mythological status as a model of what real families "ought" to be. Yet feature films of the period often portrayed families in... -
Starring Mandela and Cosby: Media and the End(s) of Apartheid by Ron Krabill 9780226451886
RRP: £80.00£76.61During the worst years of apartheid, the most popular show on television in South Africa - among both blacks and whites - was "The Cosby Show". Why did people living under a system built on the idea that blacks were inferior and threatening... -
Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity by Joshua Gamson 9780226280653
RRP: £30.00£29.25People talk so much about the bizarre that it quickly becomes routine. As the talk show circuit becomes increasingly obsessed with sexual nonconformists, many wonder if this form of representation isn't simply exploitation. This book claims that in a... -
Battlestar Galactica: Investigating Flesh, Spirit and Steel by Roz Kaveney 9781848853737
£24.65"The West Wing" or "Generation Kill" in Space? A show about God-fearing sex-obsessed robots? Or a complex meditation on fate, dreaming and eternal recurrence? Of all recent television science fiction series, the reimagined "Battlestar Galactica" is the... -
Makeover Television by Dana Heller 9781845113308
£24.65With the explosion of reality television onto screens and schedules worldwide, this timely and original book explores makeover tv, the ubiquitous reality format that has received little critical attention to date. Top writers and scholars take discussion... -
Kings Of Madison Avenue: The Unofficial Guide to Mad Men by Jesse McLean 9781550228878
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550228878Author Jesse McLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 231Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 398g -
The Format Age: Television's Entertainment Revolution by Jean K. Chalaby 9781509502585
RRP: £55.00£47.73Few trends have had as much impact on television as formats have in recent years. Long confined to the fringes of the TV industry, they have risen to prominence since the late 1990s. Today, they are a global business with hundreds of programmes adapted... -
The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry by Deborah L. Jaramillo 9781477316443
RRP: £81.00£69.61The broadcasting industry's trade association, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), sought to sanitize television content via its self-regulatory document, the Television Code. The Code covered everything from the stories, images, and sounds... -
A Companion to Television by Janet Wasko 9781405198776
RRP: £45.95£41.11A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television's current incarnation, and predict... -
Miami Vice by James Lyons 9781405178112
RRP: £67.95£58.65Miami Vice captures the glitter and glamour embodied by Crockett and Tubbs and offers students an anatomy of a ground-breaking work in the police procedural genre. Explores Miami Vice 's combination of disparate influences (MTV, film noir, soap opera,... -
The Small Screen: How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age by Brian L. Ott 9781405161558
RRP: £33.95£29.98Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s. * Examines changes that took place in programming, such as the rapid adoption of... -
Television in Transition: The Life and Afterlife of the Narrative Action Hero by Shawn Shimpach 9781405185356
RRP: £32.95£29.14Combining an exciting methodology alongside high-interest case studies, Television in Transition offers students of television a guide to a medium that has weathered the challenges of first-run syndication, a multi-channel universe, netlets, major media... -
The Small Screen: How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age by Brian L. Ott 9781405161541
RRP: £81.95£71.27Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s. * Examines changes that took place in programming, such as the rapid adoption of... -
Television in the Multichannel Age: A Brief History of Cable Television by Megan Mullen 9781405149693
RRP: £84.95£73.83Television 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... -
Defining Visions: Television and the American Experience in the 20th Century by Mary Ann Watson 9781405170543
RRP: £93.95£81.87Defining Visions is a powerful narrative social history that examines television's rise as the great "certifying agent" in American life. This newly updated and fully revised edition extends its coverage to the end of the 20th century. It... -
Defining Visions: Television and the American Experience in the 20th Century by Mary Ann Watson 9781405170536
RRP: £33.95£29.98Defining Visions is a powerful narrative social history that examines television's rise as the great "certifying agent" in American life. This newly updated and fully revised edition extends its coverage to the end of the 20th century. It... -
Television Truths: Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture by John Hartley 9781405169806
RRP: £84.95£74.23Television 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... -
Better Living through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship by James Hay 9781405134415
RRP: £32.95£29.14Combining cutting-edge theories of culture and government with programming examples-including Todd TV, Survivor, and American Idol-Better Living through Reality TV moves beyond the established concerns of political economy and cultural studies to... -
Better Living through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship by James Hay 9781405134408
RRP: £84.95£73.83Combining cutting-edge theories of culture and government with programming examples-including Todd TV, Survivor, and American Idol-Better Living through Reality TV moves beyond the established concerns of political economy and cultural studies to... -
A History of Broadcasting in the United States by Douglas Gomery 9781405122825
RRP: £38.95£34.60This powerful history of broadcasting in the United States goes beyond traditional accounts to explore the field's important social, political, and cultural ramifications. It examines how broadcasting has been organized as a business throughout much of... -
A History of Broadcasting in the United States by Douglas Gomery 9781405122818
RRP: £93.95£81.87This powerful history of broadcasting in the United States goes beyond traditional accounts to explore the field's important social, political, and cultural ramifications. It examines how broadcasting has been organized as a business throughout much of... -
I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism by Patricia Pender 9781350257610
£21.56Buffy the Vampire Slayer gave contemporary TV viewers an exhilarating alternative to the tired cultural trope of a hapless, attractive blonde woman victimized by a murderous male villain. With its strong, capable heroine, witty dialogue, and a creator... -
Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture by Michael Kackman 9780816638291
RRP: £15.99£14.79In Citizen Spy, Michael Kackman investigates how media depictions of the slick, smart, and resolute spy have been embedded in the American imagination. Looking at secret agents on television and the relationships among networks, producers, government... -
Television and the Embodied Viewer: Affect and Meaning in the Digital Age by Marsha F. Cassidy 9781138240766
RRP: £135.00£117.28Television and the Embodied Viewer appraises the medium's capacity to evoke sensations and bodily feelings in the viewer. Presenting a fresh approach to television studies, the book examines the sensate force of onscreen bodies and illustrates how TV's... -
A Companion to Reality Television by Laurie Ouellette 9781119325192
RRP: £47.95£42.18International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and... -
Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure by Amy Kaufman 9781101985908
RRP: £22.99£15.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101985908Author Amy KaufmanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Gladiators in Suits: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Representation in Scandal by Simone Puff 9780815636403
£42.74One of the most popular shows to come out of Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes's production company, is ABC's political drama Scandal (2012-18)-a series whose tremendous success and marketing savvy led LA Times critic Mary McNamara to hail it as ""the... -
Gladiators in Suits: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Representation in Scandal by Simone Puff 9780815636229
£84.75One of the most popular shows to come out of Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes's production company, is ABC's political drama Scandal (2012-18)-a series whose tremendous success and marketing savvy led LA Times critic Mary McNamara to hail it as ""the... -
Bright Signals: A History of Color Television by Susan Murray 9780822371212
RRP: £97.00£31.05First demonstrated in 1928, color television remained little more than a novelty for decades as the industry struggled with the considerable technical, regulatory, commercial, and cultural complications posed by the medium. Only fully adopted by all... -
TV Socialism by Aniko Imre 9780822360858
£99.01In TV Socialism, Aniko Imre provides an innovative history of television in socialist Europe during and after the Cold War. Rather than uniform propaganda programming, Imre finds rich evidence of hybrid aesthetic and economic practices, including... -
The Sopranos by Dana Polan 9780822343929
£93.61"In its original run on HBO, The Sopranos mattered, and it matters still," Dana Polan asserts early in this analysis of the hit show, in which he sets out to clarify the impact and importance of the series in both its cultural and... -
The TV Crime Drama by Sue Turnbull 9780748640881
RRP: £90.00£80.58This title maps the development of the crime drama on international television. The television crime drama has been a constant of the television landscape since it first migrated from film and radio onto the small screen in the 1950s. Since then, from... -
Social Issues in Television Fiction by Lesley Henderson 9780748625314
RRP: £90.00£80.58Why are some controversial issues covered in TV soaps and dramas and not others? How are decisions really made 'behind the scenes'? How do programme makers push boundaries without losing viewers? What do audiences take away from their viewing experience?... -
Popular Television in Authoritarian Europe by Peter Goddard 9780719082399
RRP: £85.00£60.17This lively and ground-breaking collection brings together work on forms of popular television within the authoritarian regimes of Europe after World War Two. Ten chapters based on new and original research examine approaches to programming and... -
Swashbucklers: The Costume Adventure Series by James Chapman 9780719088810
RRP: £85.00£60.17Swashbucklers is the first study of one of the most popular and enduring genres in television history - the costume adventure series. It maps the history of swashbuckling television from its origins in the 1950s to the present. It places the various... -
Paul Abbott by Beth Johnson 9780719086298
RRP: £85.00£60.17Creator of television series such as Shameless, Clocking Off, State of Play, Reckless, Linda Green and Children's Ward, Paul Abbott is a British 'showrunner' and writer whose name and reputation for edgy, intelligent, successful and socio-political... -
Radio, Television and Modern Life by Paddy Scannell 9780631198741
RRP: £112.95£100.18Written 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... -
Theatre, Education and the Making of Meanings: Art or Instrument? by Anthony Jackson 9780719065422
RRP: £80.00£57.09This book is a study of theatre's educational role during the 20th and the first years of the 21st centuries. It examines the variety of ways the theatre's educational potential has been harnessed and theorised, the claims made for its value and the... -
Paving the Empire Road: BBC Television and Black Britons by Darrell M. Newton 9780719081675
RRP: £85.00£60.17Beginning in the 1930s and moving into the post millennium, this book provides a historical analysis of the policies and practices established by the BBC as it attempted to assist white Britons in adjusting to the presence of African-Caribbeans. Among... -
Television Mockumentary: Reflexivity, Satire and a Call to Play by Craig Hight 9780719073168
RRP: £80.00£56.69Mockumentary is now an established part of the spectrum of television styles, with both deep roots in television history and a key part of innovations in the sitcom genre since the 1990s. Tracing the development of mockumentary series within the broader...