History & Criticism

The classic television show 'The twilight Zone' explored the possibilities inhering in the ordinary. A twilight Zone episode moved us by being poignant and intimate, rambunctious or thought provoking.Book InformationISBN 9780879727291Author Peter...

Created around the world and available only on the web, Internet "television" series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through crowd-funding, they are filmed with...

ABC's action-comedy series Batman (1966-68) famously offered a dual address in its wildly popular portayal of a comic book hero in a live action format. Children uncritically accepted the show's plots and characters, who were guided by lofty ideals and...

HBO's critically acclaimed drama The Wire has seen increasing use as course material in college classrooms since the 2008 series finale. This collection of new essays discusses various approaches for using The Wire to bring the experiences of...

The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS 1961-1966) was a uniquely self-reflexive sitcom that drew on vaudevillian tropes at a time when vaudeville-based comedy variety was disappearing from television. At the same time, it reflected the liberal politics of the...

A pioneering study at the intersection of religion and media, Small Screen, Big Picture treats television as a virtual meeting place where Americans across racial, ethnic, economic and religious lines find instructive and inspirational narratives. An...

European Television History brings together television historians and media scholars to chart the development of television in Europe since its inception. The volume interrogates the history of the medium in divergent political, economic, cultural and...

This title explores the development of local television news and the economic and social factors that elevated it to prominence.As the chief source of information for many people and a key revenue stream for the country's broadcast conglomerates, local...

This anthology presents writings that examine the TV sitcom in terms of its treatment of gender, family, class, race and ethnic issues. The selections range from early shows such as ""I Remember Mama"" to the more recent ""Roseanne"". The volume also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780909952211Author Tony FryFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Power Institute of Fine ArtsPublisher Power Institute of Fine ArtsWeight(grams) 200g

The definitive oral history of the landmark television series and streaming hit The Sopranos, packed with untold stories from behind the scenes and on the set. Stars Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa-whose Talking Sopranos podcast has become a...

Beyond the Box gives students and couch potatoes alike a better understanding of what it means to watch television in an era of profound technological change. Charts the revolution in television viewing that is currently underway in living rooms across...

Julia Child's TV show, The French Chef, was extraordinarily popular during its broadcast from 1963 until 1973. Child became a cultural icon in the 1960s, and, in the years since, she and her show have remained enduring influences on American cooking,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879727307Author Peter WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,USPublisher University of Wisconsin...

For over 35 years, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" has greeted late night-TV viewers looking for the best in sketch comedy and popular music. SNL is the variety show that launched the careers of a mass of comedians including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy...

Pobody's nerfect" - or whatever the saying might be! As humans we are constantly worried about how our actions may come back to haunt us. The Good Place (2016-2020) is a high-concept American sitcom that brought light to the dark topic of the afterlife,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692832776Author Matthew McKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint McKenzie House PublishingPublisher McKenzie House PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692449080Author Valerie Estelle FrankelFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Litcrit PressPublisher Litcrit PressWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

If your childhood friends were Agapito, the bombastic, bilingual lion; Campamocha, the fix-it man; Caracoles, the restaurant owner; Uncle Andy, the shoe seller; Berta and Dyana, the life-size dolls; and Senorita Barrera, then you grew up watching...

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

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...

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)...

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 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...

'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...

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...

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 occupied a...

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 of television. Drawing on feminist television studies, queer theory, and disability...

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...

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,...

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