History & Criticism

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This is an insider's tour, touching on the network's dizzying decision-making process, and the artists who have revolutionized the medium.ReviewsA gracefully written grabber overflowing with affection and canny detail. Fans of 'quality TV drama series'...

Ed Watson, Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet for over 20 years is a unique talent; a widely celebrated collaborator in dance, photography and fashion. Each illustrated essay of this gorgeous volume focuses on a distinct aspect of Watson's career...

'A great celebration of one of our most loved national treasures' Felicity KendalThe term 'national treasure' has seldom been more appropriate. Richard Briers was not only the nation's favourite next-door neighbour thanks to his work in the iconic BBC...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593653104Author Felix GilletteFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 471gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 151mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770412651Author Ensley F. GuffeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were-and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948986120Author Mark DawidziakFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Commonwealth Book Company, Inc.Publisher Commonwealth Book Company, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982732Author Gabriel ShermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

Immerse yourself in Julian Fellowes' multi-award-winning drama. The full scripts of Series Two include previously unseen dialogue and drama. Downton Abbey has become a national phenomenon and the most successful British drama of our time...

The term 'national treasure' has seldom been more appropriate. Richard Briers was not only the nation's favourite next-door neighbour thanks to his work in the iconic BBC sitcom The Good Life, he was an actor you felt like you really knew, despite having...

It 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...

Immerse yourself in Julian Fellowes' multi-award-winning drama. The full scripts of Series Three include previously unseen dialogue and drama. Downton Abbey has become a national phenomenon and the most successful British drama of our time...

'Norman Stanley Fletcher, you have pleaded guilty to the charges brought by this court and it is now my duty to pass sentence.' Those words, spoken by a judge to the show's hero in the title sequence of every Porridge episode, are among the most famous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497302495Author Richard CogzellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The 100 best streaming shows reviewed and rated. You may have viewing time on your hands - this guide will give you ideas for what to watch next, with reviews of more than 100 of the best shows around, from the BBC, ITV, C4, HBO, Amazon Prime, Sky...

This comprehensive textbook, now substantially updated for its fourth edition, provides students with a framework for understanding the key concepts and main approaches to Television Studies, including audiences, representation, industry and global...

From Skirts Ahoy! to M*A*S*H, Private Benjamin, G.I. Jane, and JAG, films and television shows have grappled with the notion that military women are contradictory figures, unable to be both effective soldiers and appropriately feminine. In Soldiers'...

Although it started as a British television show with a small but devoted fan base, Doctor Who has grown in popularity and now appeals to audiences around the world. In the fifty-year history of the program, Doctor Who's producers and scriptwriters have...

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Throughout history, apocalypse fiction has explored social injustice through fantasy, sci-fi and religious imagery, but what can we learn from it? Why do we escape very real disaster via dystopia? Why do we fantasise about the end of the world?The word...

Featuring illustrations by Jillian BartholdThe first coming-of-age series for millennial consumption, Dawson's Creek created one of the most iconic memes before the word "meme" was mainstream. On January 20, 1998, the Capeside High School class of 2001...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250102713Author Emma MarriottFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 848gDimensions(mm) 256mm *...

This book brings together a host of internationally recognised scholars to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the representation of the child in cinema. Individual chapters examine how children appear across a broad range of films, including...

Written by leading scholars in the field, this book is an internationally relevant, cutting-edge reassessment of both current methods and practices in television historiography and of assumptions and critical common places about television history itself...

When David Tennant took over as the Tenth Doctor in 2005, the rejuvenated science fiction series was still in its infancy, having just completed its first series. Under the direction of showrunner Russell T. Davies, Doctor Who had burst back onto our...

On September 26, 1968, ""Hawaii Five-O"" premiered on CBS. The show's exotic locale and quality writing and acting made it a fixture in the network's line-up for the next 12 years. Today the detective series continues to be very popular in syndication...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770414150Author Robert Smith?Format PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

A leading film critic on the evolving world of streaming media and its impact on society The city at night under lockdown, a time of plague and anxiety. It is an exciting new age of television, the light that flutters in every cell in the city. But no...

The definitive biography of Fred Rogers, children&;s television pioneer and American cultural icon, an instant New York Times bestseller Fred Rogers (1928&;2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television. As the creator and...

'Do you sometimes think that you might wish that you were a national treasure, like Alan Bennett?' 'I'm rather glad I'm not. I'm quite pleased to be what I think I am, which is a sort of national liability.' Over the course of seven decades,...

Long before anyone had heard of alien cookbooks, gremlins on the wings of airplanes, or places where pig-faced people are considered beautiful, Rod Serling was the most prestigious writer in American television. As creator, host, and primary writer for...

The untold stories of seven revolutionary teen shows (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My So-Called Life, Dawson's Creek, Freaks and Geeks, The O.C., Friday Night Lights, and Glee) that shaped the course of modern television and our pop cultural landscape...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845831974Author Fred McNamaraFormat PaperbackImprint Telos Publishing LtdPublisher Telos Publishing Ltd

Just in time for the 25th Anniversary of the beloved sci-fi class Stargate, Chevrons Locked arrives as one of the most comprehensive histories of the franchise to ever exist. You're loved the tv shows, the movies, and the podcasts, now get ready to dive...

In About Time, the whole of Doctor Who is examined through the lens of the real-world social and political changes as well as ongoing developments in television production that influenced the series in ways big and small over the course of a generation...

This book investigates how telenovelas may be the key to the future of Brazilian television and how this content can survive in an interconnected media landscape. Recognised telenovela writer and scholar Rosane Svartman considers the particular...

Covering everything from Aristotle to ziti, this title explores such topics as: is Tony Soprano a good man?; is Carmella a feminist?; morally speaking who is the worst person on "The Sopranos"; is watching "The Sopranos" harmful to...

Writings on Media gathers more than twenty of Stuart Hall's media analyses, from scholarly essays such as "Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse" (1973) to other writings addressed to wider publics. Hall explores the practices of news...