Television and the Classic Novel
Author: Sarah Cardwell
Offers a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, as well as bringing new material into the broader field of Television Studies. Surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing the unspoken a ... |
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Issues and Controversy / Edited by Arnold Beichman.
Author: Arnold Beichman
CNN produced a twenty-four part television series on the cold war that generated heated discussion among scholars and in the media. Is the CNN series an accurate depiction or revisionist history? To provide perspective o ... |
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The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002
Author: Paul Buhle & David Wagner
Ultimately, many returned to Hollywood in the Sixties to work creatively on films that contained a dose of radical politics and influenced the development of films in that decade including Riffi, The Go-Between, Norma Ra ... |
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Television's Coverage of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1988-2004
Author: Stephen J. Farnsworth & S. Robert Lichter
Beginning with the 1988 presidential election and now updated through 2004, The Nightly News Nightmare shows how network news coverage of what is arguably the nation's most important political event has declined. Through ... |
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Author: Stephen Lacey
Tony Garnett is the first book-length study of one of the most respected and prolific producers working in British television. From ground-breaking dramas from the 1960s such as Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home to th ... |
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Author: Dave Rolinson
The British television director Alan Clarke is associated primarily with the visceral social realism of his banned borstal play 'Scum' and his football hooligan study 'The Firm', but this book uncovers the poetic and wid ... |
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Author: Morris Holbrook
A neglected genre that promises to shed light on the culture of consumption appears in the form of the daytime television game shows whose hegemonic message seems to convey and to justify a widespread obeisance to the ... |
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A Brief History of Cable Television
Author: Megan Mullen
Television in the Multichannel Age is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to the history of multichannel television in all its forms - from cable to direct-to-home satellite and beyond. Chapter by chapter, the b ... |
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The Twilight World of Rod Serling
Author: Peter Wolfe
The classic television show "The Twilight Zone" explored the possibilities inhering in the ordinary. A "Twilight Zone" episode moved us by being poignant and intimate, rambunctious or thought provoking. But whether it ta ... |
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Author: Stuart Hood & Thalia Tabary-Peterssen
'The best little book about the medium to be published for some time.' Time Out 'Hood was in television at a high level. He knows a great deal about its power politics, internal and external.' Richard Hoggart, Guardian ' ... |
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Essays on the BBC Series
Author: Louisa Ellen Stein & Kristina Busse
The critically-acclaimed BBC television series Sherlock (2010 - ) re-envisions Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective for the digital age, joining participants in the active traditions of Sherlockians/Holmesians and fans fro ... |
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The Culture of Communism After the 1968 Prague Spring
Author: Paulina Bren
The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance po ... |
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Author: Andrew Tolson
The talk show has become a ubiquitous feature of American and European television. The various examples have been frequently discussed by academic commentators, as well as journalists in an attempt to place them in a cul ... |
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Thinking Inside the Box
Author: Andrew Crisell
This essential text provides a detailed account of the complex character of modern television. Covering issues ranging from television's historical development to its impact on culture and society in general, the text pr ... |
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Author: Steven Sanders
Discusses the aesthetic appeal, production history, philosophical themes, and enduring importance of the groundbreaking 1980s television series. |
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Regulation and the Politics of Taste
Author: Jane Arthurs
In recent years, there has been a marked increase in both the volume and diversity of sexual imagery and talk on television, condemned by some as a 'rising tide of filth', celebrated by others as a 'liberation' from the ... |
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from Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture
Author: Jason Mittell
Genre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural categories, offering a set of in-depth historical and critical examinations to explore five key aspects of television genre: history, ind ... |
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Beyond the White Picket Fence
Author: Janet McCabe & Kim Akass
'Everyone has a little dirty laundry.' The darkly comic series about the secret lives of the ladies living on Wisteria Lane became an instant breakthrough hit for ABC. 21 million viewers tuned in for the first episode an ... |
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Television and Politics in the Soviet Union
Author: Ellen Propper Mickiewicz
Television has changed drastically in the Soviet Union over the last three decades. In 1960, only five percent of the population had access to TV, but now the viewing population has reached near total saturation. Today's ... |
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A Critical Reader
Author: Harry J. Elam & David Krasner
African-American Performance and Theater History is an anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theatre, and performance in America. Assembled by two of the most respected and prolific scho ... |
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