History & Criticism

Tony Soprano, Don Draper, and Walter White ushered in the era of the television antihero, with compelling narratives and complex characters. While critics and academics celebrated these characters, the antiheroines who populated television screens in the...

This book offers an interdisciplinary, historically grounded study of Asian cinemas' complex responses to the Cold War conflict. It situates the global ideological rivalry within regional and local political, social, and cultural processes, while...

Among shifting politics, tastes, and technology in television history, one genre has been remarkably persistent: cop shows. Claudia Calhoun returns to Dragnet, the pioneering police procedural and an early transmedia franchise, appearing on radio in...

From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian-and so do its television shows. Long-form science fiction narratives take one step further the fears of today: liberal democracy in crisis, growing economic precarity, the...

Cue & Cut is a 'practical approach to working in television studios' for anyone who might want to work in that medium. It's full of useful information about kit, and how you would use it to create multi-camera content. Written by a multi-camera...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894959896Author Dave ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Apogee BooksPublisher Collector's Guide PublishingWeight(grams) 268g

This enlightening book is the go-to guide for fans for biographical information, rare photos, and interesting trivia about their favorite child stars, shows, series, networks, and the times that defined the shows. Spanning forty years of television...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550228472Author Jon LachonisFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 434g

A lively examination of the classic 1960s American crime show.Hawaii Five-O, created by Leonard Freeman in 1968, is an American police procedural drama series that was produced by CBS Productions and aired for twelve seasons. Author Brian Faucette...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550228885Author Ted NichelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 1078g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550227444Author Neil GaimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 887g

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550228076Author Nikki StaffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 809g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063090019Author Michael ImperioliFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 454g

An exciting new strand in The Television Series, the ‘Moments in Television’ collections celebrate the power and artistry of television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television scholarship. Each ‘Moments’ book is organised around a...

Alan Schroeder's popular history now covers the 2000 Bush-Gore and 2004 Bush-Kerry debates, including innovations in format and press coverage, and adds new research on televised debates since 1960. Schroeder organizes his book according to a television...

With its twisty serialized plots, compelling antiheroes, and stylish production, Breaking Bad has become a signature series for a new golden age of television, in which some premium cable shows have acquired the cultural prestige usually reserved for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588347244Author NMAHFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 216g

Passengers disco dancing in The Love Boat's Acapulco Lounge. A young girl walking by a marquee advertising Deep Throat in the made-for-TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. A frustrated housewife borrowing Orgasm and You from her local library in...

This book is a history of how television advertising rose to become a defining force in American culture in the two decades after World War II.Book InformationISBN 9780292777637Author Lawrence R. SamuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of...

Established in 2004.M?ori Television has had a major impact on New Zealand broadcasting. But over the past year or so, the politics of M?ori Television have been brought to the foreground of public consciousness, with other media outlets trackingM?ori...

Very Special Episodes examines how the quintessential "very special episode" format became a primary way in which the television industry responded to and shaped social change, cultural traumas, and industrial transformations. With essays covering shows...

1966 was the year that many TV viewers all over America discovered the wonders of "in living color." The 1966-1967 primetime television lineup was not only remarkable because of the legendary shows that aired, but also because it was the first...

Provides a thorough overview of the key theoretical debates surrounding the study of television but also relates these strongly to production, providing an important link to practice Includes a useful glossary of key terms which students can use to...

"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 media-industry contexts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474461986Author Mareike JennerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978803831Author Benjamin M. HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

The influence of classic film noir on the style and substance of television in the 1950s and 1960s has persisted to the present day. Its pervasiveness suggests the vitality of the noir depiction of human experience and the importance of TV for...

Latinos constitute the fastest-growing and largest ethnic minority in the United States, yet less than one percent of network news coverage deals with Latinos as the focus of a story. Out of that one percent, even fewer stories are positive in either...

Israeli television, currently celebrating fifty years of broadcasting, has become one of the most important content sources on the international TV drama market, when serials such as Homeland, Hostages, Fauda, Zaguory Empire and In Treatment were bought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476747743Author Daniel de ViseFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Star Trek emerged against a cultural backdrop of Dylan, mini-skirts, bellbottoms and VW vans; flourishing a culture of Michael Jackson, big-hair and environmentalism; expanding during a culture of emerging-computers, greed and religious revitalization...

Cable 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...

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...

Gothic television is the first full length study of the Gothic released on British and US television. An historical account, the book combines detailed archival research with analyses of key programmes, from Mystery and Imagination and Dark Shadows, to...

The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the expanding field of television studies, providing an overview of the discipline and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation. The...

While critics have long disparaged commercial television as a vast wasteland, TV has surprising links to the urbane world of modern art that stretch back to the 1950s and '60s. During that era, the rapid rise of commercial television coincided with...

What 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 History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory is the first edited volume devoted to the Peabody Awards Collection, a unique repository of radio and TV programs submitted yearly since 1941 for consideration for the prestigious Peabody...

This is the first-ever critical work on Jack Rosenthal, the award-winning British television dramatist. His career began with Coronation Street in the 1960s and he became famous for his popular sitcoms, including The Lovers and The Dustbinmen. During...