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The Cold War and Asian Cinemas by Poshek Fu 9781138353817
RRP: $174.15$151.29This 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... -
Television Broadcasting in Contemporary France and Britain by Michael Scriven 9781571817549
RRP: $36.06$29.13The importance of contemporary television broadcasting for the shaping and development of national cultures and identities is increasingly evident. Television as the privileged medium for the dissemination of information and for mass entertainment has... -
Substance / Style: Moments in Television by Sarah Cardwell 9781526148780
RRP: $116.10$83.10An 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... -
Into The Looking Glass: Exploring the Worlds of Fringe by Sarah Clarke Stuart 9781770410510
RRP: $19.34$12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770410510Author Sarah Clarke StuartFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 375g -
Raise Some Shell: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Pop Classics #1 by Richard Rosenbaum 9781770411791
RRP: $16.76$9.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770411791Author Richard RosenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 158g -
Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond by Bethonie Butler 9780762481514
RRP: $38.70$30.16With iconic imagery and engrossing text, Black TV is the first book of its kind to celebrate the groundbreaking, influential, and often under-appreciated shows centered on Black people and their experiences from the last fifty years.Over the past decade,... -
Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television by Ted Nannicelli 9781032037165
RRP: $50.30$44.14This book makes fascinating connections between the ways in which contemporary television serials cue cognitive operations, solicit emotional responses, and elicit aesthetic appreciationThe discussions in this book will have much to add to debates on the... -
Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas and the Reinvention of Television by Michael Szalay 9780226820484
RRP: $103.20$98.83A history of prestige television through the rise of the "black-market melodrama." In Second Lives, Michael Szalay defines a new television genre-the black-market melodrama-that has driven the breathtaking ascent of TV as a cultural force... -
Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Period Drama by Katherine Byrne 9781526163288
RRP: $116.10$83.10This timely collection examines representations of medicine and medical practices in international period drama television. A preoccupation with medical plots and settings can be found across a range of important historical series, including Outlander,... -
Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound by Yael Levy 9780815637387
$83.10Tony 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... -
The Cold War and Asian Cinemas by Poshek Fu 9781032176208
RRP: $50.30$46.21This 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... -
Only the Names Have Been Changed: Dragnet, the Police Procedural, and Postwar Culture by Claudia Calhoun 9781477325384
RRP: $58.05$44.01Among 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... -
Programming the Future: Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV by Professor Sherryl Vint 9780231198301
RRP: $129.00$114.95From 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 and Cut: A Practical Approach to Working in Multi-Camera Studios by Roger Singleton-Turner 9780719084485
RRP: $103.20$74.42Cue & 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... -
Eclectic Gypsy: An Unauthorised Biography of Doctor Who by Dave Thompson 9781894959896
RRP: $14.18$8.67Apologies 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 -
X Child Stars: Where Are They Now? by Kathy Garver 9781630761134
RRP: $24.50$19.76This 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... -
Lost Ate My Life: The Inside Story of a Fandom Like No Other by Jon Lachonis 9781550228472
RRP: $24.50$16.56Apologies 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 -
Hawaii Five-O by Brian Faucette 9780814344323
RRP: $25.74$21.90A 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... -
Love To Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour by Ted Nichelson 9781550228885
RRP: $28.37$20.23Apologies 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 -
The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry by Deborah L. Jaramillo
RRP: $33.53$26.88The 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... -
Bite Me!: The 10th Buffyversary Guide to the World of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Nikki Stafford
RRP: $21.92$15.51Apologies 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 -
Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of the Sopranos by Michael Imperioli 9780063090019
RRP: $29.66$16.82Apologies 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 -
Epic / Everyday: Moments in Television by Sarah Cardwell
RRP: $116.10$101.66An 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... -
Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV by Alan Schroeder
RRP: $113.52$88.69Alan 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... -
Breaking Bad and Cinematic Television by Angelo Restivo
RRP: $116.10$93.02With 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... -
Entertainment Nation: How Music, Television, Film, Sports, and Theater Shaped the United States by NMAH
RRP: $42.57$25.44Apologies 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 -
Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television by Elana Levine
RRP: $32.24$25.81Passengers 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... -
Brought to You By: Postwar Television Advertising and the American Dream by Lawrence R. Samuel
RRP: $33.53$26.88This 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... -
Maori Television by Smith Jo
RRP: $57.99$51.97Established 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: Televising Industrial and Social Change by Jonathan Cohn
RRP: $46.44$35.29Very 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... -
Primetime 1966-1967: The Full Spectrum of Television's First All-Color Season by Thom "Beefstew" Shubilla
RRP: $37.40$30.161966 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... -
An Introduction to Television Studies by Faye Woods
RRP: $148.35$128.69Provides 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... -
The Sopranos by Dana Polan
RRP: $29.66$23.70"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... -
Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Research by Mareike Jenner
RRP: $116.10$94.53Apologies 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 -
Beyond the Black and White TV: Asian and Latin American Spectacle in Cold War America by Benjamin M. Han
RRP: $38.69$31.14Apologies 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 Philosophy of TV Noir by Steven Sanders
RRP: $62.57$45.69The 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... -
Juan in a Hundred: The Representation of Latinos on Network News by Otto Santa Ana
RRP: $28.37$22.63Latinos 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... -
Television Drama in Israel: Identities in Post-TV Culture by Itay Harlap
RRP: $43.85$24.03Israeli 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... -
Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show by Daniel de Vise
RRP: $24.50$15.25Apologies 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 *... -
The Voyages of Star Trek: A Mirror on American Society through Time by K.M. Heath
RRP: $45.15$39.93Star 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...