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  • Echoes of the Holocaust on the American Musical Stage
    Jessica Hillman
    With chapters on The Sound of Music, Milk and Honey, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, The Rothschilds, Rags, Ragtime and The Producers, this book examines both direct and indirect references to, or resonances of, the Holocaust, tracing changing American attitudes through the chronological progression of these musical productions and their subsequent revivals. Despite the abun...
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    72,08 €

  • The O.C.
    Andrea M. Bergstrom / Andrea MBergstrom / Lori B. Bindig / Lori BBindig
    The O.C.: A Critical Understanding, by Lori Bindig and Andrea M. Bergstrom, is a feminist cultural studies analysis of the hit television series The O.C. (2003-2007). The show is examined in terms of five ideological aspects as well as audience reception, auteur theory, aesthetics, and reality television imitators. Bindig and Bergstrom place The O.C. in a larger social context ...
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    141,56 €

  • Surveillance on Screen
    Lefait / Sébastien Lefait
    Drawing on the rapidly developing field of surveillance studies, this book examines television shows and films—including Lost, Survivor, Minority Report, Enemy of the State, and Nineteen Eighty-Four—that shape our experience of surveillance, both as watchers and as those being watched. ...
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    120,78 €

  • Screen Jesus
    Malone / Peter Malone
    In Screen Jesus: Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film, Peter Malone takes a close look at films in which Jesus is depicted. From silent renditions of The Passion Play to 21st-century blockbusters like The Passion of the Christ, Malone examines how the history of Jesus films reflects the changes in artistic styles and experiments in cinematic forms for more than a century...
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    99,64 €

  • Arlie Latham
    L.M. Sutter
    One of early baseball’s most popular celebrities, Arlie Latham played for the St. Louis Browns in the 1880s. A brainy hitter and base-runner, he was also the sport’s brashest, funniest player, his 'fresh' personality bringing him as much trouble as reward. He played with the 19th century’s greatest names, and was friends with everyone from King Kelly to King George V. He p...
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    35,40 €

  • Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers
    Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the communication discipline to their analyses of how media shape our expectations o...
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    148,43 €

  • Geraldine Farrar
    Elizabeth Nash
    From 1906 until 1922, Geraldine Farrar was the Metropolitan Opera’s most popular and glamorous prima donna. Convinced that music must always serve the drama, she often sacrificed tonal beauty to dramatic effect, and her acting was noted for its intensity and realism. Nevertheless, Farrar was a superb singer, possessing a beautiful lyric soprano voice. Farrar was also a star ...
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    57,58 €

  • The Construction of Masculinities and Femininities in Beverly Hills, 90210
    Justin Charlebois
    This book draws on the concepts of hegemonic and nonhegemonic masculinities as well as emphasized and oppositional femininities to chronicle and illuminate the construction of gender in Beverly Hills, 90210. The book argues that not only delegitimized but also legitimated forms of masculinity and femininity require critical scrutiny and interrogation in order to expose the cons...
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    53,31 €

  • A sense of place
    Lez Cooke
    This pioneering study examines regional British television drama from its beginnings on the BBC and ITV in the 1950s to the arrival of Channel Four in 1982. It discusses the ways in which regionalism, regional culture and regional identity have been defined, outlines the history of regional broadcasting in the UK, and includes two detailed case studies - of Granada Television a...
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    157,41 €

  • A Guide to Television’s Mayberry R.F.D.
    Dale Robinson / David Fernandes
    A spin-off of The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D. became successful in its own right. The show aired from 1969 through 1971 and was consistently in the top 15 of the Nielsen ratings. Its demise was caused by the sudden elimination of rural-oriented series by CBS in 1971 in order to make room for more 'realistic' fare. The show’s popularity owed much to the casting; Geo...
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    28,24 €

  • Sell Your TV Show Ideas - An Outsider’s Guide to Getting Inside the TV Format Industry
    Bob Barber
    Ever had the feeling that you could dream up better TV shows than those currently on offer? Ever had an idea for a new TV show, but haven’t quite known what to do, or where to go with it? Ever hankered after a creative sideline, but simply lacked the time (or the commitment) to embark on something as ambitious as a novel or a play? If you answered YES to any of these questions,...
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    23,77 €

  • Stasis Leaked Complete
    Jane Killick
    Based on interviews with the cast and crew, this book goes behind the scenes of the successful space comedy, Red Dwarf. With chapters on every episode, it reveals how the series was made, and tells the stories of what happened on and off set. Why did Holly leave? How did Cat lose his teeth? What happened when the writers split up? All these questions are answered, and more. W...
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    14,30 €

  • Undead in the West
    Undead in the West is a collection of essays that explore the many tropes and themes through which undead Westerns make the genre’s inner plagues and demons visible, and lay siege to a frontier tied to myths of strength, ingenuity, freedom, and independence. Featuring several illustrations and a filmography, the volume is divided into three sections: “Reanimating Classic Wester...
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    113,47 €

  • Adapting Detective Fiction
    Neil McCaw
    Adapting Detective Fiction is a study of specific instances of adaptation, with close readings of both the originating sources and adapted texts. But it is also more than this. It is a study of the politics of representation in the last decades of the twentieth century, and the role television detective fiction plays in this. It is about the mutually-informing interrelation of ...
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    64,32 €

  • Visconti and the German Dream
    David Huckvale
    Luchino Visconti’s trilogy of films Ludwig, Death in Venice and The Damned explore the complex relationship between the themes and ideals of German Romanticism and their impact on the catastrophe of the Third Reich. The personality and works of Richard Wagner to a large extent epitomize German Romanticism as a whole, while the writings of Thomas Mann and Friedrich Nietzsche ...
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    57,44 €

  • The DVD Novel
    Greg Metcalf
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    82,41 €

  • One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount
    Murray Forman
    Elvis Presley’s television debut in January 1956 is often cited as the moment when popular music and television came together. Murray Forman challenges that contention, revealing popular music as crucial to television years before Presley’s sensational small-screen performances. Drawing on trade and popular journalism, internal television and music industry documents, and recor...
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    39,80 €

  • Who Cares Who’s 3rd?
    John Philips
    What lies herein defies my description; better that you judge for yourself....at the very reasonable price, below. Nor can Wikipedia and Who’s Who shed light on the author’s credentials - billboard superlatives and famous fan endorsements don’t exist to persuade you further (hence the room at the bottom). Fruitless too, searching for your name in the index: there isn’t one. Eit...
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    33,14 €

  • THE TIME TUNNEL
    Jr. Martin Grams / JrMartin Grams
    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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    40,11 €

  • Watching the World
    Thomas Austin
    Watching the world extends the reach of documentary studies by investigating recent instances of screen documentary and the uses made of them by audiences ...
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    22,30 €

  • The Oxford of Inspector Morse
    Antony J Richards / Philip Attwell
    Fully updated in 2020 and now including every Lewis episode as well - from the Ashmolean Museum to the White Horse public house, The Oxford of Inspector Morse, is the official guide to Inspector Morse and Lewis published in conjunction with the Inspector Morse Society. It is the companion to Inspector Morse on Location, which covers all the locations outside of Oxford itself, a...
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    12,04 €

  • Stephen Colbert
    Catherine Andronik
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    56,70 €

  • The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama
    Katrien Pype
    Theoretically literate, based on superb ethnography, this book provides one of the best studies of television we have yet in African studies...[that] promises to open up a new field of analysis and define the standards for how this research is to be conducted...a landmark that will make a significant contribution to some of the main fields in African studies and anthropology. ...
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    183,80 €

  • Prescription TV
    Joy V. Fuqua / Joy VFuqua
    Tracing the history of television as a therapeutic device, Joy V. Fuqua describes how TVs came to make hospitals seem more like home and, later, 'medicalized' the modern home. She examines the introduction of television into the private hospital room in the late 1940s and 1950s and then moves forward several decades to consider the direct-to-consumer prescription drug commercia...
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    32,95 €

  • Television, Sex and Society
    Beth Johnson
    Since the 1990s, the screening of sex on American, British and Asian television screens has become increasingly prolific. Considering not only the specificities of selected sexualised images in relation to popular series, this study also concerns itself with the ramifications of TV sex as well as discussing the various techniques that are used by TV producers/programme makers t...
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    60,34 €

  • Troy Kennedy Martin
    Lez Cooke
    This is the first full-length study of the screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, whose work for film and television includes Z Cars, The Italian Job, Kelly’s Heroes, The Sweeney, Reilly - Ace of Spies and Edge of Darkness. Based on original research and extensive interviews with Troy Kennedy Martin himself. ...
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    29,86 €

  • Tony Garnett
    Stephen Lacey
    Tony Garnett is the first book-length study of one of the most respected producers working in British television, responsible for both Cathy Come Home (1966) and This Life (1996-8). The book discusses the ways in which Garnett has shaped the role of the creative producer, and analyses his contribution to a distinctively televisual social realism. ...
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    29,90 €

  • Jack Rosenthal
    Sue Dr Vice / Sue Vice
    This is the first-ever critical work on Jack Rosenthal, the highly regarded BAFTA-winning British television dramatist. His career began with Coronation Street in the 1960s and he became famous for such plays as The Knowledge, The Chain, Spend, Spend, Spend and Bar Mitzvah Boy, as well as the pilot for the series London’s Burning. ...
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    29,70 €

  • Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom
    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 from other communities, including science fiction, media, and anime. This collection explores the cultural intersections and fan traditions that converge in Sher...
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    42,74 €

  • Space Patrol
    Jean-Noel Bassior
    Before Star Trek, there was Space Patrol. Science fiction television has its roots in this live, action-packed series that captured the imagination of Americans from 1950 to 1955, when space travel was just a dream. This book explores the freewheeling spirit of live TV, where anything could go wrong before millions of viewers--and often did. It spotlights (often in personal ...
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    44,71 €


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