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  • Richard Anderson
    Alan Doshna / Richard Anderson
    This is the hardback version. Richard Anderson is perhaps best-known in recent years for his roles as the Narrator, Captain Stiles, in the television series Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993-1997) with David Carradine and Chris Potter, as well as his role as Buck Fallmont in Dynasty (1986-1987). Finally, the full story of his life and incredible career are revealed in his sen...
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    32,44 €

  • Have Gun--Will Travel
    Gaylyn Studlar
    One of the most successful series of its time, Have Gun—Will Travel became a cultural phenomenon in the late 1950s and made its star, Richard Boone, a nationwide celebrity. The series offered viewers an unusual hero in the mysterious, Shakespeare-spouting gunfighter known only as “Paladin” and garnered a loyal fan base, including a large female following. In Have Gun—Will Trave...
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    28,28 €

  • The Adulteress on the Spanish Stage
    Tracie Amend
    As early as 1760 and as late as 1920, Romantic drama dominated Peninsular Spanish theater. This love affair with Romanticism influenced the formation of Spain’s modern national identity, which depended heavily on defining women’s place in 19th century society. Women who defied traditional gender roles became a source of anxiety in society and on stage. The adulteress embodie...
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    72,05 €

  • How to Be a SuperHero (hardback)
    Mark Edlitz
    This is the hardback version.How to Be a Superhero takes the reader behind the scenes of the most popular superhero movies and television shows of the past seventy years. The book includes 35 penetrating interviews with actors and actresses who have played the world’s greatest superheroes, supervillains, antiheroes and sidekicks, as well as 70 photographs. 'To be, as Chris R...
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    45,43 €

  • How to Be a SuperHero
    Mark Edlitz
    How to Be a Superhero takes the reader behind the scenes of the most popular superhero movies and television shows of the past seventy years. The book includes 35 penetrating interviews with actors and actresses who have played the world’s greatest superheroes, supervillains, antiheroes and sidekicks, as well as 70 photographs. 'To be, as Chris Reeve put it, ’a temporary cus...
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    35,26 €

  • Experimental British television
    The first academic study to focus on experimental British television. Uncovers the history of experimental television, bringing back forgotten programmes and places the aesthetics of experimentation within historical contexts. The book also examines the importance of the changing technologies on British television. ...
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    32,10 €

  • The BBC’s ’Irish troubles’
    Robert Savage
    This book explores how news and information about the conflict in Northern Ireland was disseminated through the most accessible, powerful and popular form of media: television. ...
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    157,34 €

  • The Middle Ages on Television
    The 21st century has seen a resurgence of popular interest in the Middle Ages. Television in particular has presented a wide and diverse array of 'medieval' offerings. Yet there exists little scholarship on television medievalism. This collection fills the gap with 10 new essays focusing on the depiction of the Middle Ages in popular culture and questioning the role of tel...
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    42,71 €

  • Jolly Della Pringle
    Charles E. Lauterbach
    The story of American repertory theatre actress Jolly Della Pringle (1870-1952) is an odyssey of travel, adventure, drama, romance and many changes in fortune. Pringle was a major star to the people in the gold fields, cow towns, logging camps, military forts and rural communities of the West and Midwest during the decades before and after the turn of the 20th century. She k...
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    42,74 €

  • William Stanley as Shakespeare
    John M. Rollett
    Presenting striking new evidence, this book shows that 'William Shakespeare' was the pen name of William Stanley, son of the Earl of Derby. Born in 1561, he was educated at Oxford, travelled for three years abroad, and studied law in London, mixing with poets and playwrights. In 1592 Spenser recorded that Stanley had written several plays. In 1594 he unexpectedly inherited t...
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    58,51 €

  • Making Poldark
    Robin Ellis
    This is newly enhanced edition of the memoir of BBC/Masterpiece actor Robin Ellis, the original Captain Ross Poldark in the classic television series. This expanded edition includes an all-new chapter with recent photos documenting Robin’s return to television playing Judge Halse in the new Poldark series with Aiden Turner in the lead role.First broadcast in the 1970s, Poldark ...
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    14,11 €

  • Hitchcock à la Carte
    Jan Olsson
    Alfred Hitchcock: cultural icon, master film director, storyteller, television host, foodie. And as Jan Olsson argues in Hitchcock à la Carte, he was also an expert marketer who built his personal brand around his rotund figure and well-documented table indulgencies. Focusing on Hitchcock’s television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1962) and the The Alfred Hitchcock Hou...
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    35,30 €

  • The Wire in the College Classroom
    The Wire’s provocative subject matter, layered narrative and explicit critiques of American socio-economic institutions make it one of the most teachable television series in recent years. This collection of new essays offers practical examples for implementing The Wire in the college classroom as a cultural text to engage students in critical and creative inquiry. The essay...
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    50,16 €

  • The Politics of Love
    Rebecca Joubin
    This book on Syrian television drama manifests how gender roles are negotiated in the context of dominant Islamic and secular nationalist discourses, which at times overlap and challenge simple binaries of traditional versus secular approaches in new configurations of national identity. ...
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    78,20 €

  • MICHAEL LANDON
    David R. Greenland / David RGreenland
    MICHAEL LANDON: Actor, Writer, Director, Producer For over three decades, Michael Landon’s creative gifts touched millions of viewers around the world on Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven and in several other productions. This is the first detailed examination of his work both in front of and behind the camera, including information about every Landon sc...
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    28,05 €

  • Broadcasting Modernity
    Yeidy M. Rivero / Yeidy MRivero
    The birth and development of commercial television in Cuba in the 1950s occurred alongside political and social turmoil. In this period of dramatic swings encompassing democracy, a coup, a dictatorship, and a revolution, television functioned as a beacon and promoter of Cuba’s identity as a modern nation. In Broadcasting Modernity, television historian Yeidy M. Rivero shows how...
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    35,32 €

  • Spartacus in the Television Arena
    Spartacus, the Thracian gladiator turned rebel leader, endures as a near-mythic hero who fought for the oppressed against a Roman oligarchy built on the backs of slave labor. The image of Spartacus as a noble if doomed avenger is familiar and his story has been retold through history as a cautionary tale about social injustice. The television series Spartacus takes a diffe...
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    28,34 €

  • Brazilian Theater, 1970-2010
    How did Brazilian theater survive under the military dictatorship of 1964-1985? How did it change once the regime was over? This collection of new essays is the first to cover Brazilian theater during this period. Brazilian scholars and artists discuss the history of a theater community that not only resisted the regime but reinvented itself and continued to develop more sop...
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    71,86 €

  • Carnivale and the American Grotesque
    HBO’s Carnivale was a critically-acclaimed, elaborate period narrative set in Depression era America that set the stage for the current explosion of cinematic storytelling on television. Despite an ambitious and unusual storyline, remarkable production design and stellar cast, the show was cancelled after only two seasons. No other television series has been so steeped in hi...
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    28,41 €

  • Cop Shows
    Linda Speidel / Roger Sabin / Ronald Wilson
    From cops who are paragons of virtue, to cops who are as bad as the bad guys...from surly loners, to upbeat partners...from detectives who pursue painstaking investigation, to loose cannons who just want to kick down the door, the heroes and anti-heroes of TV police dramas are part of who we are. They enter our living rooms and tell us tall tales about the social contract th...
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    43,96 €

  • MICHAEL LANDON
    David R. Greenland / David RGreenland
    This is the hardback version.MICHAEL LANDON: Actor, Writer, Director, Producer For over three decades, Michael Landon’s creative gifts touched millions of viewers around the world on Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven and in several other productions. This is the first detailed examination of his work both in front of and behind the camera, including info...
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    38,23 €

  • Neil Simon on Screen
    Peter Shelley
    Neil Simon is the most successful American playwright on Broadway, and the winner of many awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Mark Twain Prize for Humor, and a Kennedy Center Honor for Lifetime Achievement. Many of his plays have been adapted into films and made-for-television movies, and he has written original screenplays and television specials. This book...
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    43,96 €

  • Firefly Revisited
    A short lived series created by Joss Whedon, Firefly nonetheless developed such a loyal following that Whedon was compelled to write and direct a big screen sequel in 2005. The show continues to generate a life of its own in books and comic books. This collection of twelve essays focuses on a number of themes including colonialism, race, gender, and politics. ...
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    129,19 €

  • Justice Performed
    Sarah Kozinn
    Justice Performed: Courtroom TV Shows and the Theaters of Popular Law is the first study of the reality TV genre to trace its theatrical legacy, connecting the phenomenon of the daytime TV shows to a long history of theatrical trials staged to educate audiences in pedagogies of citizenship. It examines how judge TV fulfills part of law’s performative function: that of providing...
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    193,36 €

  • Shakespeare’s Authentic Performance Texts
    Graham Watts
    When we pick up a copy of a Shakespeare play, we assume that we hold in our hands an original record of his writing. We don’t. Present-day printings are an editor’s often subjective version of the script. Around 25 percent of any Shakespeare play will have been altered, and this creates an enormous amount of confusion. The only authentic edition of Shakespeare’s works is the...
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    51,44 €

  • The Comic Galaxy of Mystery Science Theater 3000
    Chris Morgan
    One of the most original shows in the history of television, Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a beloved cult hit built on the back of another cult phenomenon: the bad movie. The show’s premise involved a man and some robots watching cheesy movies and cracking jokes. Over its 197 episodes, MST3K developed a passionate fan base that took it from a local UHF show in Hopkins, Min...
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    43,06 €

  • The Natyasastra and the Body in Performance
    Sreenath Nair
    The Natyasastra is the deep repository of Indian performance studies. It embodies centuries of performance knowledge developed in South Asia on a range of conceptual issues and practical methodologies of the body. The composition of the Natyasastra is attributed to Sage Bharatha, and dates back to between 200 BC and AD 200. Written in Sanskrit, the text contains 6000 verse s...
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    71,93 €

  • Mastering the Game of Thrones
    George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series is a worldwide phenomenon, and the world of Westeros has seen multiple adaptations, from HBO’s acclaimed television series to graphic novels, console games and orchestral soundtracks. This collection of new essays investigates what makes this world so popular, and why the novels and television series are being taught in univ...
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    28,00 €

  • The Last Lone Inventor
    Evan I Schwartz / Evan I. Schwartz / Evan ISchwartz
    In a story that is both of its time and timeless, Evan I. Schwartz tells a tale of genius versus greed, innocence versus deceit, and independent brilliance versus corporate arrogance. Many men have laid claim to the title 'father of television,' but Philo T. Farnsworth is the true genius behind what may be the most influential invention of our time. Driven by his obsession to d...
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    13,34 €

  • Modern TV, Internet and Social Media News Production
    James J. McCluskey Ph.D.
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    32,74 €


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