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TV FAQ: Uncommon Answers to Common Questions About TV John Ellis 9781845115654
€24.95"TV FAQ" will make you a fully informed and knowledgable, entertained and argumentative TV expert. "TV FAQ" does what it says on the cover: it answers just about everything you've always wanted to know about Television, in witty and highly informative... -
TV's Betty Goes Global: From Telenovela to International Brand by Janet McCabe
€34.59Premiering in 2006,Ugly Betty, the award-winning US hit show about unglamorous but kind-hearted Betty Suarez (America Ferrera),is the latest incarnation of a worldwide phenomenon that started life as a Colombian telenovela,Yo soy Betty,la fea, back in... -
You'Re Nicked: Investigating British Television Police Series Ben Lamb 9781526125859
RRP: €101.15€71.60You're nicked is the first comprehensive study of television police series in the UK. It shows how British television's most popular genre has developed stylistically, politically and philosophically from 1955 to the present. Each chapter focuses on a... -
The New Gay for Pay: The Sexual Politics of American Television Production by Julia Himberg
RRP: €28.55€24.80Television conveys powerful messages about sexual identities, and popular shows such as Will & Grace, Ellen, Glee, Modern Family, and The Fosters are often credited with building support for gay rights, including marriage equality. At the same time,... -
Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History by Elana Levine
RRP: €28.55€25.28Since the debut of These Are My Children in 1949, the daytime television soap opera has been foundational to the history of the medium as an economic, creative, technological, social, and cultural institution. In Her Stories, Elana Levine draws on... -
STARZ Spartacus: Reimagining an Icon on Screen by Antony Augoustakis
RRP: €107.10€97.54Gladiator, rebel slave leader, revolutionary: a collection of essays dissecting four seasons of STARZ Spartacus The figure of Spartacus often serves as an icon of resistance against oppression in modern political movements, while his legend has inspired... -
Cult TV Heroines: Angels, Aliens and Amazons by Catriona Miller
€130.52From Mrs Peel to the first female Doctor Who, this book offers a timely focus on the popular phenomenon of the cult TV heroine. The enduring phenomenon of cult TV itself is carefully explored through questions of genre, the role of the audience and the... -
Children, Youth, and American Television by Adrian Schober
RRP: €46.40€40.72This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the changing ideas about children and childhood in the United States. Each chapter connects relevant events, attitudes, or anxieties in American culture to an analysis of children or... -
Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series by Heather M Porter
RRP: €42.83€36.13Premiering on Fox in 2009, Joss Whedon's Dollhouse was an innovative, contentious and short-lived science fiction series whose themes were challenging for viewers from the outset. A vast global corporation operates establishments (Dollhouses) that... -
Doctor Who - New Dawn: Essays on the Jodie Whittaker Era Brigid Cherry 9781526151872
RRP: €107.10€76.05Doctor Who - new dawn explores the latest cultural moment in this long-running BBC TV series: the casting of a female lead. Analysing showrunner Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker's era means considering contemporary Doctor Who as an inclusive,... -
TV Transformations: Revealing the Makeover Show by Tania Lewis
RRP: €33.31€28.89The past decade has seen an explosion of lifestyle makeover TV shows. Audiences around the world are being urged to 'renovate' everything from their homes to their pets and children while lifestyle experts on TV now tell us what not to eat and what not... -
Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender on Transatlantic Reality Television by Brenda R. Weber
RRP: €28.55€24.80This essay collection focuses on the gendered dimensions of reality television in both the United States and Great Britain. Through close readings of a wide range of reality programming, from Finding Sarah and Sister Wives to Ghost Adventures and... -
Arab Television Today by Naomi Sakr
€32.05There is a great deal at stake for everyone in the future of Arab television. Political and social upheavals in this central but unsettled region are increasingly played out on television screens and in the tussles over programming that take place behind... -
Investigating Lois Lane: The Turbulent History of the Daily Planet's Ace Reporter by Tim Hanley 9781613733325
RRP: €24.93€20.09In a universe full of superheroes, Lois Lane has fought for truth and justice for over 75 years on page and screen without a cape or tights. From her creation by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938 to her forthcoming appearance in Batman v Superman:... -
One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television by Murray Forman
RRP: €29.74€26.26Elvis Presley's television debut in January 1956 is often cited as the moment when popular music and television came together. Murray Forman challenges that contention, revealing popular music as crucial to television years before Presley's sensational... -
Batman: The Animated Series by Professor Joe Sutliff Sanders 9780814345405
RRP: €20.23€18.30It's possible that no other version of Batman has been more influential than the one that debuted as a children's cartoon in 1992. For millions of fans around the world, the voices of Batman and the Joker introduced in Batman: The Animated Series (BTAS)... -
Television's Female Spies and Crimefighters: 600 Characters and Shows, 1950s to the Present by Karen A. Romanko 9780786496372
RRP: €26.17€21.38Emma Peel wearing her "kinky boots." Amanda King and her poppy seed cake. Julie Barnes at her hippie pad. Honey West with her pet ocelot. Television's female spies and crimefighters make quite an impression, yet there hasn't been a reference book... -
Masculinity in Breaking Bad: Critical Perspectives by Bridget R. Cowlishaw 9780786497218
RRP: €26.17€21.38Following on author Peter Rollins' motto "If it isn't popular, it isn't culture," this collection of new essays considers Vince Gilligan's award-winning television series Breaking Bad as a landmark of Western culture--comparable to the works of... -
Social Issues in Television Fiction by Lesley Henderson
RRP: €33.31€30.95Why 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... -
On The Wire by Linda Williams 9780822357179
RRP: €26.17€22.84Many television critics, legions of fans, even the president of the United States, have cited The Wire as the best television series ever. In this sophisticated examination of the HBO serial drama that aired from 2002 until 2008, Linda Williams, a... -
Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas and the Reinvention of Television by Michael Szalay
RRP: €30.94€29.57A history of prestige television through the rise of the "black-market melodrama." In Second Lives, Michael Szalay defines a new television genre that has driven the breathtaking ascent of TV as a cultural force over the last two decades: the... -
The Quiz Show by Su Holmes
RRP: €28.55€26.00Despite its enduring popularity with both broadcasters and audiences, the quiz show has found itself marginalised in studies of popular television. This book offers a unique introduction to the study of the quiz show, while also revisiting, updating and... -
TV Socialism by Aniko Imre
RRP: €27.36€23.81In 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... -
Television Style by Jeremy G. Butler
RRP: €44.02€38.71Style matters. Television relies on style-setting, lighting, videography, editing, and so on-to set moods, hail viewers, construct meanings, build narratives, sell products, and shape information. Yet, to date, style has been the most understudied aspect... -
Global TV Horror by Stacey Abbott
RRP: €35.70€30.07It cannot have escaped anyone's attention that the horror genre has become one of the most popular genres of TV drama, with the global success and fandom surrounding The Walking Dead, Supernatural and Stranger Things. Horror has, of course, always had a... -
Seeing Hardy: Film and Television Adaptations of the Fiction of Thomas Hardy by Paul J. Niemeyer 9780786414291
RRP: €34.50€27.82"Great authors" are increasingly being encountered by general audiences and critics thanks to films and television programs that have been adapted from their best-known works. Thomas Hardy is one of those authors. His work has inspired filmmakers from... -
Doctor Who: A History by Alan Kistler 9780762791880
RRP: €17.84€13.72Premiering the day after the JFK assassination, Doctor Who humbly launched one of the entertainment world's first super-brands. We begin with a look at TV programming of the day and the original pitch documents before delving into the Daleks, which... -
Approaching The Possible: The World of Stargate SG-1 Jo Storm 9781550227055
RRP: €22.60€15.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550227055Author Jo StormFormat PaperbackPage Count 523Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 874g -
State of Play: Contemporary 'High-End' Tv Drama by Robin Nelson 9780719073113 [USED COPY]
RRP: €29.75€2.53Robin Nelson's State of play up-dates and develops the arguments of his influential TV Drama In Transition (1997). It is equally distinctive in setting analusis of the aesethetics and compositional principles of texts within a broad conceptual framework... -
State of Play: Contemporary 'High-End' Tv Drama by Robin Nelson 9780719073113
RRP: €29.75€26.22Robin Nelson's State of play up-dates and develops the arguments of his influential TV Drama In Transition (1997). It is equally distinctive in setting analusis of the aesethetics and compositional principles of texts within a broad conceptual framework... -
Breaking Bad: A Cultural History by Lara C. Stache 9781442278264
RRP: €46.41€40.90As one of the most critically acclaimed shows of all time, Breaking Bad explored the life and crimes of a high school chemistry teacher turned meth kingpin of the American Southwest. As Walter White and his former student Jesse Pinkman become deeply... -
Andre Bazin's New Media by Andre Bazin 9780520283572
RRP: €29.75€23.31Andre Bazin's writings on cinema are among the most influential reflections on the medium ever written. Even so, his critical interests ranged widely and encompassed the new media" of the 1950s, including television, 3D film, Cinerama, and CinemaScope... -
Running Through Corridors: Rob and Toby's Marathon Watch of Doctor Who (Volume 1: The 60s): Rob and Toby's Marathon Watch of Doctor Who (The 60s) by Robert Shearman
RRP: €30.93€21.18In Running Through Corridors, two Doctor Who lovers of old - Robert Shearman and Toby Hadoke - embark on an epic quest of friendship: spend the gap year of 2009 (when Doctor Who consisted of a handful of specials rather than a full season) re-watching... -
That's the Way it is: A History of Television News in America by Charles L. Ponce De Leon
RRP: €20.23€19.85When critics decry the current state of our public discourse, one reliably easy target is television news. It's too dumbed-down, they say; it's no longer news but entertainment, celebrity-obsessed and vapid. The critics may be right. But, as Charles L... -
After Midnight: Watchmen after Watchmen by Drew Morton 9781496842176
€42.27Contributions by Apryl Alexander, Alisia Grace Chase, Brian Faucette, Laura E. Felschow, Lindsay Hallam, Rusty Hatchell, Dru Jeffries, Henry Jenkins, Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff, Curtis Marez, James Denis McGlynn, Brandy Monk-Payton, Chamara Moore, Drew Morton,... -
Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Rhonda V. Wilcox 9781845110291 [USED COPY]
RRP: €30.93€4.81Hugely enjoyable, long awaited book by top world authority on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Buffy is still on screens and on DVD in home television libraries of a wide array of TV watchers and fans. This is also the student text for TV and... -
Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly by Jane Espenson 9781932100433 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.23Firefly's early demise left fans with a deep sense of loss and plenty of unanswered questions. From what was wrong with the pilot to what was right with the Reavers, from the use of Chinese to how correspondence between Joss and network executives might... -
Crunchyroll Essential Anime: Fan Favorites, Memorable Masterpieces, and Cult Classics Patrick Macias 9780762472437
RRP: €20.22€17.18An insightful guide to the under-explored medium of anime, Crunchyroll's Essential Anime features 50 influential and unforgettable anime series and films that have left an undeniable impact on our culture. -
Action Tv Reboots and Visibility Politics: Recycling Middlebrow Culture Mareike Jenner 9781399512909
RRP: €107.10€91.04Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics: Rebooting Middlebrow Culture deals with the network TV reboots of Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, Magnum, P.I., Lethal Weapon and The Equalizer to explore the cultural politics at work in contemporary middlebrow... -
Rewriting Television Alison Peirse 9781978839625
RRP: €128.52€109.24Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.