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  • From Starship Captains to Galactic Rebels
    Kimberly Yost
    Drawing upon her background inOrganizational Leadership, the author looks at the various representations of leadership in science fiction programs of the last 50 years. She examines how the various leaders in these programs reflect societal trends in business, religion, spirituality, politics, and the military. ...
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    135,99 €

  • Soap! the Inside Story of the Sitcom That Broke All the Rules
    A. S. Berman / ASBerman
    From its tumultuous beginnings in 1977 to its end by firing squad - on screen and off - Soap was as passionate and controversial as the times in which it was made. During its four-year run, it tackled sex, death, depression and infidelity, all with a wit and gentleness never before seen onAmerican television.Throughout that time, a vocal minority hounded the sitcom and parent n...
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    39,62 €

  • Soap! the Inside Story of the Sitcom That Broke All the Rules (hardback)
    A. S. Berman / ASBerman
    This is the story of two sisters, Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell, and the world that their two families made. From its tumultuous beginnings in 1977 to its end by firing squad, onscreen and off, Soap was as passionate and controversial as the times in which it was made. During its four-year run, it tackled the subjects of sex, death, depression, infidelity, family, and the absu...
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    47,56 €

  • Paul Lynde
    Cathy Rudolph
    This book will let you into the heart and soul of Paul Lynde.Best remembered for outrageous jokes on The Hollywood Squares, as Uncle Arthur from Bewitched, and as the frantic father in Bye Bye Birdie, Paul was never satisfied with his career - or his personal life. But even as he suffered through some of the cruelest of times, Paul continued to make us forget our troubles, and ...
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    22,09 €

  • Paul Lynde
    Cathy Rudolph
    This book will let you into the heart and soul of Paul Lynde.Best remembered for outrageous jokes on The Hollywood Squares, as UncleArthur from Bewitched, and as the frantic father in Bye Bye Birdie, Paul wasnever satisfied with his career - or his personal life. But even as hesuffered through some of the cruelest of times, Paul continued to make usforget our troubles, and was ...
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    32,26 €

  • The Immortals
    Luke Benjamen Kuhns / Matthew J. Elliott / Matthew JElliott
    An invaluable companion to both the UK and US hit series, analysing each episode (including the un-filmed pilot for Elementary), identifying trivia, offering criticism and considering Canonical fidelity. ...
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    21,20 €

  • Television and the Modernization Ideal in 1980s China
    Huike Wen
    Using theories of visual culture, media technology, globalization and gender studies supplemented by visual images and interviews. Huike Wen explores Chinese television history in the pivotal decade of the 1980s from the cultural studies viewpoint and explains the intellectual reception of television in China during the 1980s. ...
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    123,87 €

  • Breaking Bad
    Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series, edited by David P. Pierson, examines the social contexts, cultural politics, and visual, aural, and narrative style of AMC's original series Breaking Bad. This collection of critical essays explores such topics as neo-liberalism, spatiality and temporality, modern science...
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    141,61 €

  • Fan CULTure
    Fan CULTure explores how present-day fans interact with the films, television shows, books, and pop culture artifacts they love. From creating original works of fanfiction to influencing the content of major primetime series through social media, fans are no longer passive consumers. They have evolved into active participants in creating and shaping these works. The all-new ...
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    42,92 €

  • The HBO Effect
    Dean J. DeFino
    No advertisers to please, no censors to placate, no commercial interruptions every eleven minutes, demanding cliffhangers to draw viewers back after the commercial breaks: HBO has re-written the rules of television; and the result has been nothing short of a cultural ground shift. The HBO Effect details how the fingerprints of HBO are all over contemporary film and television. ...
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    37,97 €

  • The Greatest Sitcoms of All Time
    Martin Gitlin / Marty Gitlin
    Since the advent of network television, situation comedies have been a staple of prime-time programming. In this book, Martin Gitlin has assembled the top 70 sitcoms in television history. The rankings were based on such factors as longevity, ratings, awards, humor, impact, and legacy. Iconic programs such as I Love Lucy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and Leave it to Beaver join cont...
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    117,62 €

  • Television Introductions
    Vincent Terrace
    Since the beginning of network television, many shows have been preceded by an opening announcement or a theme song that served various purposes. In Television Introductions: Narrated TV Program Openings, Vincent Terrace has assembled openings for more than 900 television shows of the past seven decades. The only documented history of narrated television program introductions, ...
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    153,49 €

  • Saturday Night Live FAQ
    Stephen Tropiano
    SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE FAQ:EVERYTHING LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT TELEVISION’S LONGEST-RUNNING COME ...
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    20,74 €

  • Undead in the West II
    This companion to Undead in the West (Scarecrow 2012) explores the blending of the Western genre with zombies, vampires, mummies, ghosts, and spirits in comics, graphic novels, literature, games, new media, fandom and material culture. ...
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    128,53 €

  • Contemporary Westerns
    This collection of original essays investigates film and television westerns of the last 25 years. It offers the first substantial account of the trends and transformations in this under-explored period, arguing for the continued relevance and vibrancy of the western as a narrative form. ...
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    129,28 €

  • Acting in On-Camera Commercials
    Ruthe Geier-Price
    Performing on TV commercials is bread and butter for actors. It not only helps them pay the rent while striving for recognition, frequently it enables them to break into film, television and theater. Plus, acting in commercials can be a rewarding and lucrative career in itself.This comprehensive workbook provides step-by-step training, along with commercial copy and other mater...
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    33,07 €

  • Viewing America
    Christopher Bigsby
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    95,84 €

  • 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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    212,10 €

  • Entertaining television
    Su Holmes
    An energetic look at BBC Television in 1950s, illustrating how it was at the forefront of popular programming, including the first Reality TV programmes, quiz and game shows, even ’problem’ talk shows. ...
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    29,76 €

  • 50 Years of Coronation Street
    Sean Egan
    THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF CORONATION STREET NOW IN PAPERBACK. Coronation Street was reluctantly commissioned in 1960 as a twice-weekly stop-gap until a new programme could be found to fill its airtime. Half a century later, the gritty working class serial broadcasts five times per week and remains one of the television schedules' biggest ratings-pullers. Sean Egan has been gr...
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    24,17 €

  • The Gunsmoke Chronicles
    David R. Greenland / David RGreenland
    The Gunsmoke Chronicles: A New History of Television’s Greatest Western by David R. Greenland is a detailed account of the long-running classic containing information not found in previous books about the series, including an excerpt from Dennis Weaver’s Gunsmoke-era resume contributed by the late Mr. Weaver. In addition to a season-by-season chronology, there are nearly 100 p...
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    37,65 €

  • The ABC Movie of the Week
    Michael McKenna
    This book looks at the cultural impact of the ABC Movie of the Week, the first weekly movies series made for television, which began in 1969 and ran for six years. Films that debuted on the program include Brian’s Song, That Certain Summer, The Night Stalker, Trilogy of Terror, Go Ask Alice, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (remade as a 2011 feature f...
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    135,42 €

  • Supernatural Youth
    The goal of Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture, edited by Jes Battis, is to analyze the ways in which young heroic protagonists are presented in popular literary and visual texts. Supernatural Youth is essential for educators who work in the fields of English, media studies, women’s studies, LGBT studies, and sociology, as well as un...
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    63,96 €

  • Prime Time
    James Gardner / Peter Longini
    Prime Time: The Game of Television is a role-playing simulation of America’s television business. This book is the players’ manual to that simulation. It provides the rules, facts, and procedures through which students assume the roles of producer, network executive, and advertiser. Over the course of a semester, students live the history of television, beginning in a three net...
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    87,87 €

  • A Maverick Life
    Linda J. Alexander / Linda JAlexander
    This is the hardback version. Linda J. Alexander’s exhaustive research has produced an unforgettable biography of Jack Kelly, the 1950s movie and television star. In real life, Jack was a child performer, the son of New York model Nan Kelly, brother of actress Nancy Kelly, and the brother-in-law of actor Edmond O’Brien and cinematographer Fred Jackman Jr. He was also a child st...
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    37,21 €

  • Science, race relations and resistance
    Douglas A. Lorimer
    This book offers a new account of the British Empire’s greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a wide range of published and archival sources, this study of racial discourse from 1870 to 1914 argues that race, then as now, was a contested territory within the metropolitan culture. ...
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    157,08 €

  • Fast Living
    Teddie Dahlin
    "Be proud of everything that you do, or have a fucking damn good reason for doing something which you're not proud of." (Gary Holton to Danny Baker, NME, November 1984, a year before his death) A true rock 'n' roll casualty, Gary Holton packed a lot into his thirty-three years, including fronting proto-punk legends, Heavy Metal Kids, and playing a leading role in on...
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    25,37 €

  • Dreams in American Television Narratives
    Cynthia Burkhead
    Dreams in Television Narratives is the first comprehensive analysis of one of American television’s most frequently utilized tropes, the dream. From its beginning, television has been a storytelling medium. Whether delivered to a live audience or played out on a sound stage, narratives and those who write them have always been the crux of the television program. While film can ...
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    193,80 €

  • Quizmaster
    Adam Nedeff
    Question: What do Bob Barker, Dick Clark, Pat Sajak, and Alex Trebekhave in common?Answer: Bill Cullen hosted more game shows than all of them combined.And all of them have referred to Bill as the best game show host of alltime.Quizmaster: The Life & Times & Fun & Games of Bill Cullen is theremarkable story of a 'a kid with polio' who became a mechanic, truckdriver, photographe...
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    39,98 €

  • The Time Tunnel
    Martin Jr. Grams / Martin JrGrams
    The Time Tunnel was by no means a superb product of Friday night entertainment. If the plot holes were not as large as the tunnel itself, viewers noticed the same props from Allen’sother television programs popping up on the show.Fan boys to this day still debate whether the futuristic episodes involving space aliens were better than the historic adventures, but few would deny ...
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    47,93 €


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