Film, Television and the Arts in Britain
Author: John Wyver
Vision On narrates the turbulent yet distinguished history of one of the fundamental pillars of British broadcasting - the arts. This volume chronicles the years of dynamic and often controversial collaboration between b ... |
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Author: Comedia
Using our favourite Springfield family as a case study, Watching with The Simpsons examines the textual and social role of parody in offering critical commentary on other television programs and genres. Jonathan Gray bri ... |
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50 Years and 60 Minutes in Television
Author: Don Hewitt
A towering figure of television news recounts his adventures in broadcast journalism, from TV's earliest days through the controversies and challenges that face the news business today. In more than a half century with C ... |
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The Complete History of Sesame Street
Author: Michael Davis
The story of one of the most important and beloved shows on televisionahow it got started, nearly failed, and was saved by Elmo When the first episode aired on November 10, 1969, Sesame Street revolutionized the way ... |
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The Practices of Film Reception
Author: Janet Staiger
Film and television have never been as prevalent or watched than they are now, yet we still have little understanding of how people process and make use of what they see. Though we acknowledge the enormous role the media ... |
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The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television
Author: Elana Levine
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 ... |
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My Memories of Johnny Carson, the Tonight Show, and 46 Years of Friendship
Author: Ed McMahon
Here's Johnny is like sitting with Ed and Johnny over lunch: The last time I saw Johnny, about a year before he died, we had chicken, a couple of glasses of red wine, and then we just sat there and reminisced, goin ... |
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Author: Victoria O'Donnell
Television Criticism presents an original treatment of television criticism with a foundational approach to the nature of criticism, an understanding of the business of television, production background in creating telev ... |
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Author: Paul Challen
The Inside Story on Channel 4' s Hottest Series in Years Since bursting onto Channel 4 earlier this year, The West Wing has emerged as one of the UKs most riveting shows. Through its snappy dialogue, Washington-insider r ... |
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Author: ECSSR
The rise of Arab satellite stations, Arabic websites and transnational Arabic newspapers and magazines means that Arab media are reaching larger audience and readership than ever before. The Arab media play a prominent r ... |
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Author: David Lavery
Bada bing! What drama. The most important work of American popular culture in fifty years is how the New York Times describes The Sopranos. Critically-acclaimed, award-winning, and the most watched show on HBO, the mobst ... |
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The Worlds of Doctor Who
Author: James Chapman
With the successful twenty-first century revival of an old favourite for a new generation of viewers, this is the time to look afresh at one of the great classics of British television. Doctor Who enjoys the distinction ... |
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Author: Naomi Sakr
There 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 ... |
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Adventures in Reality TV
Author: Reuben Cohen & Reuben Cohan Sam Brenton
In the late 1990s the television landscape underwent a seismic change as the reality gameshows Big Brother and Survivor won unprecedented audiences across Europe and the US. Subjecting their contestants to protracted sec ... |
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America's Network
Author: Michele Hilmes
Spanning eight decades from the beginnings of commercial radio to the current era of international consolidation and emerging digital platforms, this pioneering volume illuminates the entire course of American broadcasti ... |
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Love, Death, Desire and Betrayal in America's Favorite Gangster Family
Author: Glen O. Gabbard
Some have called it The Sopranos Effect--the quiet that descends just before a new episode of the hit TV series is aired. Stores are deserted, restaurants quiet--and for patients of distinguished psychoanalyst and autho ... |
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Selling Black Entertainment Television
Author: Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
Launched in 1980, cable network Black Entertainment Television (BET) has helped make blackness visible and profitable at levels never seen prior in the TV industry.In 2000, BET was sold by founder Robert L Johnson, a for ... |
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Author: Richard M. Huff
Reality programming - a broad title for unscripted shows that involve non-actors - is really an updated version of a classic television genre that had its first successes decades before "The Real World" or "Survivor" mad ... |
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Author: Douglas Snauffer
Crime dramas have been a staple of the television landscape since the advent of the medium. The police-procedural drama made an easy transition from radio to TV, and starting with Dragnet in 1952 quickly became one of th ... |
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Reflections from Early Television Audiences
Author: Ray Barfield
Current, media-jaded Americans, especially younger ones, would be surprised to know how eagerly their forebears anticipated the arrival of television. Tracing public and critical responses to TV from its pioneering days, ... |
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