American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940-1960
Author: Andrew J. Falk
How dissident artists became cultural emissaries during the early decades of the Cold War |
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Author: Ann Paietta & Jean L. Kauppila
Health professionals-physicians, psychiatrists, nurses, dentists, psychologists and pharmacists among others-have been immortalized on screen since the beginning of motion pictures and television. Over the years the repr ... |
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Representation of Ethnicity in "Star Trek" and "Star Trek - The Next Generation"
Author: Michael C. Pounds
Drawing on autobiographical, biographical, historical, and rare archival materials, author Micheal Pounds explores the relationship between "Star Trek" and ethnic equality, one of America's most enduring social issues. U ... |
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Lonely Hearts and Happy Trails
Author: Sue Matheson
This collection of ground-breaking articles examines problems romance presents in the American Western. Looking at cinematic masterpieces and cult classics, this book offers readers important and challenging insights int ... |
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Television and Post-welfare Citizenship
Author: James Hay & Laurie Ouellette
Combining cutting-edge theories of culture and government with programming examples-including Todd TV, Survivor, and American Idol-Better Living through Reality TV moves beyond the established concerns of political econo ... |
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How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age
Author: Brian L. Ott
Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s. * Examines changes that took place in programming, ... |
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Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture
Author: John Hartley
Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume, written by one of television's best k ... |
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The Miracle Woman
Author: Dan Callahan
This is a fascinating biography of one the finest actresses of Hollywood's Silver Age. Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading women - and Americ ... |
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Author: Paul Monaco
What is the real nature of television, and what is its place in contemporary society and culture? In a provocative rethinking of the medium and its ensuring effects, this book argues that we have misunderstood television ... |
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Author: Hal Himmelstein
This book offers an interpretation of the myths that shape television images and reinforce this culture's dominant ideology. It provides histories of all television genres and connects developments within each genre t ... |
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Fifties Family in Film and Television
Author: Nina C. Liebman
With a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and squeaky-clean kids, the 1950s television family has achieved near mythological status as a model of what real families "ought" to be. Yet feature films of the period often por ... |
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What's on, Who's Watching and What it Means
Author: George Comstock & Erica Scharrer
"Television: What's On, Who's Watching, and What It Means" presents a comprehensive examination of the role of television in one's life. The emphasis is on data collected over the past two decades pointing to an increasi ... |
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How Broadcasters Lured the Government Into Inciting a Revolution in Television, Updated and Expanded
Author: Joel Brinkley & Brinkley
HDTV - digital, high-definition television - is an invention so far-reaching that most people cannot yet grasp its full significance. But the new sets are arriving in stores, and we are in the midst of a revolution in te ... |
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Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television
Author: Kristal Brent Zook
Offering a fascinating examination of the explosion of black television programming in the 1980s and 1990s, this book provides, for the first time ever, an interpretation of black TV based in both journalism and critical ... |
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World in Action 1963-98
Author: Peter Goddard, John Corner & Kay Richardson
Public issue television is a major contribution to understanding the relationship between television, politics and society. Based on full access to the archives, it offers a fascinating historical account of how one tele ... |
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Guerrilla Television Revisited
Author: Deirdre Boyle
This is a history of "guerilla television", a form of TV that was part of the larger alternative media tide which swept across the United States in the 1960s. Inspired by the fracturing issues of that decade, as well as ... |
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Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture
Author: Melanie Waters
Women on Screen makes a timely intervention into critical debates about the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. Bringing together the latest research from a range of interna ... |
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An Introduction to the Economics of the Business
Author: Colin George Hoskins, Stuart McFadyen & Adam Finn
Global Television and Film is the first non-specialist introduction to the economics of the contemporary film and television business. The industry is highly significant, economically and culturally and the political eco ... |
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Author: Ellen Seiter
Why is talk about television forbidden at certain schools? Why does a mother feel guilty about watching Star Trek in front of her four-year-old child? Why would retired men turn to daytime soap operas for entertainment? ... |
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