Catálogo de libros: Television

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  • Memoirs of a Jamaican Media-Man
    Carey Robinson
    Memoirs of a Jamaican Media-Man takes us on an epic journey through the life of Carey Robinson, one of Jamaica's most accomplished media personalities. He has worked as a jornalist (the Daily Gleaner, Spotlight News Magazine) and broadcaster (Radio Jamaica and the Government's Public Relations Office). He is the recipient of a Silver Musgrave Medal, the award of Commander of th...
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    16,07 €

  • Memories of Chekhov
    Peter Sekirin
    This revelatory documentary biography of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), one of the world’s best playwrights, collects more than 100 written recollections of Chekhov’s close friends, family and colleague writers and artists, such as Ivan Bunin, Konstantin Stanislavsky and Maxim Gorky. Drawn from rare periodicals and obscure archival sources from the 1880s to the 1930s, these acco...
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    57,48 €

  • It Takes More Than Good Looks
    Wayne Freedman
    A guidebook for television news reporters seeking better jobs, and for students who aspire to the business. It is also a fascinating, entertaining read for anyone who wonders what news professionals really do in the field. Wayne Freedman has reported at the network and local levels for more than three decades. He has received 51 Emmy awards, all while living in San Francisco....
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    25,13 €

  • To Have or Have Not
    James Fisher
    In a rapidly changing world, the ways in which economic forces affect both personal and global change can be difficult to track, particularly in the arts. This collection of twenty new essays explores both obscure and famous plays dealing with economic issues. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, the text moves from Marx’s theories to Wall Street speculation, nineteen...
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    79,07 €

  • Zombies Are Us
    On the surface, the zombie seems the polar opposite of the human--they are the living dead; we, in essence, are the dying alive. But the zombie is also 'us.' Although decaying, it looks like us, dresses like us, and sometimes (if rarely) acts like us. In this volume, essays by scholars from a range of disciplines examine the zombie as a thematic presence in literature, film,...
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    43,95 €

  • Cue and Cut
    Roger Singleton-Turner
    Cue & Cut is a ’practical approach to working in television studios’ for anyone who might want to work in that medium. Written by a multi-camera producer-director, it presents both a way of handling studios and a source of information about how things have changed from the days of monochrome to HD tapeless modes - with some thoughts on 3D HDTV ...
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    70,08 €

  • 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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    148,52 €

  • Hogan’s Heroes
    Robert R Shandley
    Hogan’s Heroes originally aired between 1965 and 1971 on CBS, corresponding to the most uncertain years of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. In an era when attitudes about the military, patriotism, and authority were undergoing a sea change, Hogan’s Heroes did not offer direct commentary on the conflict, but instead explored incompetent military leaders, draft dodging, ...
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    28,65 €

  • Violence in American Drama
    This interdisciplinary collection of 19 essays addresses violence on the American stage. Topics include the revolutionary period and the role of violence in establishing national identity, violence by and against ethnic groups, and females as perpetrators and victims, as well as state and psychological violence and violence within the family. The book works to assess whether...
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    79,15 €

  • The Smallville Chronicles
    Lincoln Geraghty
    In The Smallville Chronicles: Critical Essays on the Television Series, scholars examine the multiple narratives of the Smallville universe. Addressing issues related to gender, sexuality, national identity, myth, history, and politics, these essays explore how the series uses the Superman story to comment on contemporary social issues. Additional essays investigate the complex...
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    100,18 €

  • Beyond representation
    Geraldine Harris
    Beyond Representation poses the question as to whether over the last thirty years there have been signs of ’progress’/’progressiveness’ in the representation of ’marginalised’ or subaltern identity categories, within television drama in Britain and the US. ...
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    28,44 €

  • SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE A HISTORY OF THE TELEVISION PROGRAM, 1955-57
    Jr. Martin Grams / JrMartin Grams
    From 1955 to 1957, Science Fiction Theatre, a semi-documentary series, explored the 'what ifs' of modern science. Placing an emphasis on science before fiction, television viewers were treated to a variety of complex challenges from mental telepathy, robots, man-eating ants, killer trees, man’s first flight into outer space and the possibility of visitation from outer space. Ho...
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    39,04 €

  • SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE A HISTORY OF THE TELEVISION PROGRAM, 1955-57 (hardback)
    Jr. Martin Grams / JrMartin Grams
    From 1955 to 1957, Science Fiction Theatre, a semi-documentary series, explored the "what ifs" of modern science. Placing an emphasis on science before fiction, television viewers were treated to a variety of complex challenges from mental telepathy, robots, man-eating ants, killer trees, man's first flight into outer space and the possibility of visitation from outer space...
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    45,70 €

  • Fess Parker
    William R. Chemerka / William RChemerka
    FESS PARKER GREW UP IN TEXAS, SERVED IN WORLD WAR II, ANDLATER BECAME TV’S INCREDIBLY POPULAR 'DAVY CROCKETT' AND'DANIEL BOONE.' AFTER HIS FILM AND TV CAREER, PARKER BECAMEA SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN, HOTEL BUILDER, AND VINTNER.WILLIAM R. CHEMERKA’S AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY IS A RESPECTFULTRIBUTE TO AN AMAZING MANTHAT FEATURESTHOUGHTFUL RECOLLECTIONSFROM PARKER’S FAMILY, FRIENDS, CO-S...
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    42,69 €

  • A Friday Night Lights Companion
    Leah Wilson
    Introduction by Will Leitch, founding editor of DeadspinTalk to any of the millions of devoted Friday Night Lights fans and they'll tell you: it's not just a show about high school football. Its rich, interesting characters and honestly portrayed relationships make the show's portrait of West Texas life compelling and relatable in ways that have nothing--and everyth...
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    17,53 €

  • The Mythology of Supernatural
    Nathan Robert Brown
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    22,84 €

  • Analyzing Mad Men
    AMC’s episodic drama Mad Men has become a cultural phenomenon, detailing America’s preoccupation with commercialism and image in the Camelot of 1960s Kennedy-era America, while self-consciously exploring current preoccupations. The 12 critical essays in this collection offer a broad, interdisciplinary approach to this highly relevant television show, examining Mad Men as a c...
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    42,62 €

  • You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Angry
    Patrick A. Jankiewicz / Patrick AJankiewicz
    'Doctor David Banner, physician, scientist, searching for a way to tap into the hidden strength that all humans have. Then an accidental overdose of Gamma Radiation alters his body chemistry. And now, when David Banner grows angry or outraged, a startling metamorphosis occurs...' You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Angry: A Hulk Companion is the incredible true story behind The I...
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    37,91 €

  • You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Angry
    Patrick A. Jankiewicz / Patrick AJankiewicz
    "Doctor David Banner, physician, scientist, searching for a way to tap into the hidden strength that all humans have.  Then an accidental overdose of Gamma Radiation alters his body chemistry.  And now, when David Banner grows angry or outraged, a startling metamorphosis occurs..."You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry: A Hulk Companion is the incredible tragic story behin...
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    45,71 €

  • The Changing Spanish Family
    Tiffany Trotman
    Despite centuries of Catholic conservatism, Spain stands among the Western countries that have recently embraced non-traditional families. A decline in the dominance of extended families, the upswing in single-parent households, and an increase in the number of working mothers have all transformed what it means to be a 'Spanish family.' Many factors have prompted this change...
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    57,46 €

  • Jeffrey Hunter and Temple Houston
    Glenn A. Mosley / Glenn AMosley
    When NBC- TV abruptly pulled The Robert Taylor Show from its fall primetime schedule in the middle of July 1963, Jeffrey Hunter’s Temple Houston western series was rushed into production and into the spotlight. The cast and crew had just a few chaotic weeks to get their one-hour weekly dramatic series underway.Packed with newly published photographs, production information from...
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    18,87 €

  • Inspector Morse on Location
    Antony J Richards
    Covering 11 counties from Aldbury in Hertfordshire in Herfordshire to Woodstock in Oxfordshire, Inspector Morse on Location, published in conjunction with the Inspector Morse Society, surveys over 75 locations that are most associated with the television productions of Inspector Morse(and all 5 series of Lewis). It not only gives the Morse and Lewis connections, along with film...
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    12,72 €

  • TV Neighbors
    Thomas A. DeLong / Thomas ADeLong
    Not long after the end of World War II, television began to comeinto its own as an important household entertainment and informationalmedium. In the 1950s, New York expanded as the major broadcast hubfor a wide spectrum of programs: dramatic anthologies, soap operas, quizshows, sporting events, variety shows, newscasts, and 'spectaculars' ofevery sort. And to maintain these ext...
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    27,74 €

  • Television Westerns
    Alvin H Marill / Alvin H. Marill / Alvin HMarill
    This volume looks at the Western as it was represented from the beginning of television, encompassing all manifestations of the Western, including such series as Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and The Wild, Wild West, as well as movies-of the-week, mini-series, failed pilots, animated programs, documentaries, and even Western-themed episodes of non-Western series that provided their own sp...
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    85,07 €

  • The Stewart/Colbert Effect
    Amarnath Amarasingam
    The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report have attracted much interest in recent years from popular audiences as well as scholars in various disciplines. Both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have been named on Time magazine’s list of the most influential people in the world. The ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore the issues engendered by the...
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    28,39 €

  • Plays from New River 1
    M.Z. Ribalow
    This is the first volume of Plays from New River, showcasing a place where gifted writers of plays and screenplays are paid and nurtured to write whatever they most want to write. These three very different plays are among the results. Wendy Hammond’s Absence considers the American mindset of the Cold War by focusing on the intensely human story of a Mormon couple suffering ...
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    50,35 €

  • Before I Forget - Directing Television
    James Sheldon
    James Sheldon directed many of the radio and televisions shows that shaped the American consciousness.He directed the original radio version of We, The People when it became the first commercial CBS network program to telecast nationally on June 1, 1948. Since then, he experienced technological changes from live to electronic tape to film, from black and white to color, and fro...
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    23,80 €

  • No other way to tell it
    Derek Paget
    Students of Television, Film, Media and Theatre studies ...
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    31,60 €

  • Cricket and Broadcasting
    Jack Williams
    Cricket and broadcasting discusses the roles of radio and television within English cricket since the beginnings of broadcasting. It explains how and why cricket has been increasingly shaped by its relationship with broadcasting. ...
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    157,36 €

  • The Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey Trivia Quiz
    Don J. Krouskop
    It's a trivia quiz! It's an episode guide! It's bigger on the inside than the outside! Test your knowledge of the most popular, enduring science-fiction series in the world with this comprehensive Doctor Who trivia quiz. With more than 1000 questions, covering every period in the program's five-decade history, it's the ultimate challenge for ...
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    22,79 €