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  • Television Western Players, 1960-1975
    Everett Aaker
    This biographical encyclopedia covers every actor and actress who had a regular role in a Western series on American television from 1960 through 1975, with analyses of key players. The entries provide birth and death dates, family information, and accounts of each player’s career, with a cross-referenced videography. An appendix gives details about all Western series, n...
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    74,05 €

  • thirtysomething at thirty
    Scott Ryan
    This is the HARDBACK version. Babyboomers in their thirties never possessed a collective voice until thirtysomething (1987-1991), a thirteen-time Emmy Award-winning series, captured the essence of their angst. Author Scott Ryan now gives the cast and crew their voice on the making of all 85 episodes. Revealing behind-the-scenes stories are recalled by Ken Olin, Timothy Busfield...
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    37,17 €

  • For the Gay Stage
    Drewey Wayne Gunn
    Previous surveys of the gay theatrical repertoire have concentrated on plays produced on Broadway or in London’s West End. This comprehensive guide goes well beyond these earlier studies by introducing productions from Off Broadway, from regional theaters in the U.S. and U.K., and from Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Also included are Puerto Rican, ...
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    58,49 €

  • Eleonora Duse and Cenere (Ashes)
    The 1916 silent film Cenere (Ashes) features the great Italian actress Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) in her only cinematic role. In her meditative approach to her craft, she reprised for the screen all the 'mother roles' she had created for the theater. Marking the film’s 100th anniversary, this collection of essays brings together for the first time in English a range of scho...
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    94,21 €

  • Jews on Broadway
    Stewart F. Lane
    Fanny Brice, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Barbra Streisand, Alan Menken, Stephen Sondheim--Jewish performers, composers, lyricists, directors, choreographers and producers have made an indelible mark on Broadway for more than a century. Award-winning producer Stewart F. Lane chronicles the emergence of Jewish American theater, from immigrants producing Yiddish plays in the gh...
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    57,36 €

  • Television Series of the 1970s
    Terrace / Vincent Terrace
    From Archie Bunker to John-Boy Walton, this book profiles characters who were featured in some of the most popular television shows of the 1970s. Each entry includes personal details that were revealed during each show’s run: names, addresses, maiden names, nicknames, date of births, phone numbers, relatives, and other fascinating details. ...
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    59,90 €

  • Downton Abbey on Location
    J. P. Sperati / JPSperati / Sabine Schreiner
    No one does period television drama like the British! In the proud tradition of The Forsyte Saga, The Duchess of Duke Street, The Jewel in the Crown and Upstairs, Downstairs, the latest series to entrance viewers around the world is Downton Abbey, created by Oscar® winning author and actor Julian Fellowes. The story of Lord Grantham and his family centres upon Downton Abbey, th...
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    14,55 €

  • The Adventures of the REAL Tom Sawyer (hardback)
    Tom Sawyer
    He did not grow up on the Mississippi River, but he did illustrate comic strips, and he wrote produced, and directed films and television series that entertained hundreds of millions of people. If you fondly remember Leonard Starr’s Mary Perkins Onstage, Stan Drake’s The Heart of Juliet Jones, Al Capp’s Li’l Abner, or Wonder Woman (1978), Chico and the Man (1978), All in the Fa...
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    36,81 €

  • Alan Sues
    Michael Gregg Michaud
    This is the HARDBACK VERSION. “Alan Sues was the funniest person I’ve ever known.  Not just as a performer, but as a person.”– Ruth Buzzi, castmate from  Laugh-In. “When Alan dressed like me in curls, a boa, a dress and false eyelashes, he looked better than me.”– Jo Anne Worley, castmate from Laugh-In. “Alan was so deeply, so genuinely funny that to just think of him makes me ...
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    37,24 €

  • Alan Sues
    Michael Gregg Michaud
    “Alan Sues was the funniest person I’ve ever known.  Not just as a performer, but as a person.”– Ruth Buzzi, castmate from  Laugh-In. “When Alan dressed like me in curls, a boa, a dress and false eyelashes, he looked better than me.”– Jo Anne Worley, castmate from Laugh-In. “Alan was so deeply, so genuinely funny that to just think of him makes me laugh.” – Barbara Sharma, cast...
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    27,01 €

  • Stand-Up Decoded
    Lue Deck
    Author Lue Deck is a Peabody Award nominee, seasoned international USO road warrior, and innovator. A Comedy Store alum, Lue has even coached many comics on their Tonight Show appearances. Lue has written for CSPAN, Showtime and The History Channel. Lue has even written jokes for the likes of Robin Williams, George Wallace and more! ...
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    15,44 €

  • Hollywood Snapshots
    Michael B. Druxman / Michael BDruxman
    Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, Michael B. Druxman authored several books and stage plays about Hollywood, the movies, and the people that made them. He also wrote a monthly column for Coronet magazine, “Yesterday at the Movies.”            In researching these works, Druxman interviewed dozens of performers, producers, directors, screenwriters, composers, and other film fol...
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    32,41 €

  • 101 Things That Piss Me Off
    Georgene Summers
    #1 Best Selling Author Georgene Summers is at her pinnacle with this Off The Wall, Politically Incorrect, Sarcastic, Satirical book of edgy humor and truth. These are things that PISS everyone off, not just the Author, every single day. These everyday annoyances that plague us all are addressed in a comedic, sarcastic, edgy and truthful way. Hard hitting and side splitting ther...
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    12,11 €

  • HBO’s Treme and Post-Katrina Catharsis
    This book argues that fictional television can educate audiences on complex communities and issues long after it has faded from the news cycle. Treme, to date, remains one of the most notable experiments of how post-Katrina New Orleans communities struggle to hold on to their cultural and historical essence. ...
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    142,33 €

  • Why You Better Call Saul
    Steven Keslowitz
    Better Call Saul chronicles the transformation of a decent, likable guy named Jimmy McGill into Saul Goodman, the morally bankrupt lawyer we met on Breaking Bad. Captivating and funny, the show provides far more than a few binge-watched hours of entertainment, raising questions about the legal system and human nature itself.Why You Better Call Saul: What Our Favorite TV Lawyer ...
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    14,32 €

  • Why You Better Call Saul
    Steven Keslowitz
    Better Call Saul chronicles the transformation of a decent, likable guy named Jimmy McGill into Saul Goodman, the morally bankrupt lawyer we met on Breaking Bad. Captivating and funny, the show provides far more than a few binge-watched hours of entertainment, raising questions about the legal system and human nature itself.Why You Better Call Saul: What Our Favorite TV Lawyer ...
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    22,87 €

  • Reading American Horror Story
    Rebecca Janicker
    Looming onto the television landscape in 2011, American Horror Story gave viewers a weekly dose of psychological unease and gruesome violence. Embracing the familiar horror conventions of spooky settings, unnerving manifestations and terrifying monsters, series co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk combine shocking visual effects with an engaging anthology format to provi...
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    28,32 €

  • Are You in the House Alone?
    Amanda Reyes
    Beginning in the 1960s through its heyday in the 1970s and beyond, the telefilm stands as an important cultural artefact masquerading as disposable entertainment. Made specifically for the small screen, within the tight constraints of broadcasting standards, what these humble movies lacked in budget and star appeal, they made up for in other ways. Often they served as an introd...
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    27,88 €

  • Ponyville Confidential
    Sherilyn Connelly
    Beloved by young girls around the world, Hasbro’s My Little Pony franchise has been mired in controversy since its debut in the early 1980s. Critics dismissed the cartoons as toy advertisements, and derided their embrace of femininity. The 2010 debut of the openly feminist My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic renewed the backlash, as its broad appeal challenged entrenched not...
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    28,15 €

  • How He-Man Mastered the Universe
    Brian C Baer / Brian C. Baer
    Elaborate cinematic universes and sophisticated marketing tie-ins are commonplace in entertainment today. It’s easy to forget that the transmedia trend began in 1982 with a barbarian action figure. He-Man and the other characters in Mattel’s popular Masters of the Universe toy line quickly found their way into comic books, video games, multiple television series and a Hollyw...
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    28,32 €

  • The BBC’s ’Irish troubles’
    Robert J Savage / 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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    33,22 €

  • Brian Friel
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    Surveying the life, work and accolades of Irish playwright Brian Friel, this literary companion investigates his personal and professional relationships and his literary topics and themes, such as belonging, violence, patriarchy and hypocrisy. Character summaries describe his most significant figures, particularly St. Columba, the victims of Derry’s Bloody Sunday, and Hugh...
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    73,11 €

  • Bradypedia
    Erika Woehlk
    BRADYPEDIA is the newest, grooviest book about The Brady Bunch.  The book tells the story of the development of the original series through its end and then delves into the many spin-offs that ensued.  There’s a price guide for the memorabilia, a chapter on the 80+ songs recorded by the Brady kids, and biographical info on the actors and their families.  New revelations abound....
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    41,61 €

  • Tony Soprano’s America
    Booker / Isra Daraiseh / M. Keith Booker / MKeith Booker
    A sophisticated but accessible account of the series and its place in American cultural history, this book helps readers appreciate the importance of The Sopranos as a cultural touchstone and looks at the show from various cultural perspectives (e.g. ethical, religious, ethnic, etc.). ...
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    55,75 €

  • Women and Comedy
    Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice brings together leading researchers from Canada, the United States, and Europe in an interdisciplinary collection of essays to chart the future of critical inquiry in gender and comedy studies. ...
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    63,67 €

  • The BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922-53
    Thomas Hajkowski
    This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the BBC’s desire to construct a strong, unitary sense of Britishness (through empire and the monarchy) with a thorough consideration of the broadcasting in the non-English parts of the United Kingdom. ...
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    35,63 €

  • Before the Camera Rolled (hardback)
    Jason Norman
    The road from entertained to entertainer may seem longer than the yellow brick road to Oz, but finally the secret steps have been revealed. Go from behind a camera to in front of a camera by following such inspiring, award-winning coaches as Mike Starr, Kathryn Joosten, Will Sampson, Beata Poźniak, Richard Dreyfuss, Ernie Hudson, Irma Hall, James Gammon, Bill Erwin, Erick Avari...
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    36,29 €

  • Broadway Actors in Films, 1894-2015
    Roy Liebman
    Many Broadway stars appeared in Hollywood cinema from its earliest days. Some were 19th century stage idols who reprised famous roles on film as early as 1894. One was born as early as 1829. Another was cast in the performance during which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. One took her stage name from her native state. Some modern-day stars also began their careers on Broadw...
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    73,47 €

  • Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization
    Casey Ryan Kelly
    Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization examines how food television represents cultural difference in an age of globalization and multiculturalism. Casey Ryan Kelly analyzes popular food television programs to illustrate how representations of food normalize global economic, political, and cultural inequalities. ...
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    129,45 €

  • The Oberammergau Passion Play
    Kevin J. Wetmore
    Every ten years since 1634, the Bavarian village of Oberammergau has performed the world’s most famous Passion Play, recounting the last days of Jesus Christ. In 2010, presenting the play for the 41st time, the village broke with tradition to offer a new interpretation for a post-millennial, international audience. Drawing on interviews with villagers and international res...
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    57,56 €


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