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  • Orbit
    Michael Frizell
    The sequel to the sold-out comic book "The Cast of Doctor Who" brings the stories of five more Doctors.  The enigmatic, often eccentric, time travelling hero known only to science fiction fans as the Doctor, explores the timeline in order to save the world from dangers both mysterious and impossible. However, the five men profiled in this issue have been heroes in their own rig...
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    8,74 €

  • Okay? Okay! Dennis James’ Lifetime of Firsts (hardback)
    Adam Nedeff
    This is an unusual book chronicling many of television’s firsts … thefirst host of a TV variety show; the first host of a network game show;the first host of an infomercial; the first TV wrestling commentator;the first TV boxing commentator; the first reporter to cover apolitical convention for TV; the first person to host an Easter paradeon network television; the first person...
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    43,23 €

  • Mr. Novak
    Chuck Harter
    The Mr. Novak series was a landmark in the development of dramatic television. It starred James Franciscus with DeanJagger and featured cutting-edge scripts, first-class production values and exceptional acting. It was the firstprogram to portray teachers and students realistically.This profusely illustrated tome contains:Comprehensive coverage of the original filming and airda...
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    47,35 €

  • Kids’ TV Grows Up
    Jo Holz
    In the early days of television, suburban families welcomed TV into their homes as an electronic babysitter that would also teach their children about the world. Children’s programming soon came to play a key role in the development of mass culture, promoting the shared interests, norms and vocabulary through which children interact with peers and define themselves as a coho...
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    42,64 €

  • Film Stars’ Television Projects
    Richard Irvin
    Bette Davis as a madam. Orson Welles hosting The Twilight Zone. Mae West voicing a cartoon character. Shirley Temple playing a social worker. While Hollywood stars like Lucille Ball, Loretta Young and Donna Reed successfully transitioned to television in its early days, many others tried and failed to become TV regulars. Drawing on contemporary interviews and other sources, ...
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    42,82 €

  • Arrow and Superhero Television
    This collection of new essays focuses on The CW network’s hit television series Arrow--based on DC Comic’s Green Arrow--and its spin-offs The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl. Comic book adaptations have been big business for film studios since Superman (1978) and in recent years have dominated at the box office--five of the 11 highest grossing films of 2016 wer...
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    28,26 €

  • Screen Saver Too
    Nat Segaloff
    In his previous exposé, Screen Saver: Private Stories of Public Hollywood (Bear Manor Media, 2016), former movie publicist and film critic Nat Segaloff wrote about what visiting celebrities did when they thought nobody was watching. Here, in Screen Saver Too: Hollywood Strikes Back, Nat pries the lid off of corporate show business to reveal secrets that even the biggest stars d...
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    32,46 €

  • The First Beverly Hillbilly
    Ruth Henning
    A warm and funny memoir written from a Midwestern perspective, Ruth Henning shares the story of her husband Paul’s rise from a scriptwriter on some of Kansas City’s earliest radio shows to the genius behind America’s beloved rural TV sitcoms and their lives together as part of Hollywood’s golden inner circle. A talented country boy who was once given career advice by his neighb...
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    26,29 €

  • The Age of Netflix
    Cory Barker
    In 2016, Netflix--with an already enormous footprint in the United States--expanded its online streaming video service to 130 new countries, adding more than 12 million subscribers in nine months and bringing its total to 87 million. The effectiveness of Netflix’s content management lies in its ability to appeal to a vastly disparate global viewership without a unified cache...
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    42,74 €

  • Kent McCray
    Kent McCray / Marianne Rittner-Holmes
    KENT McCRAYAsk people who Kent McCray is and the question will draw a blank stare. Ask people if they remember Bonanza, The High Chaparral, Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven, and a smile will invariably come to their faces as they recognize the titles and share how these beloved shows influenced their lives. In fact, all four series are still being broadcast 30 ...
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    34,14 €

  • Opening The X-Files
    Darren Mooney
    More than 20 years after it was first broadcast, The X-Files still holds the public imagination. Over nine seasons and two feature films, agents Mulder and Scully pursued monsters, aliens, mutants and shadowy conspirators across the American landscape. Running for more than 200 episodes, the series transformed television, crafting a postmodern mythology that spoke to the a...
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    28,13 €

  • The Life (and Wife) of Allen Ludden
    Adam Nedeff
    He was an educator, a lecturer, an advocate...an author, a newspaper columnist, and an essayist...an executive, a producer...an actor, a singer, an interviewer, a game show host...and Betty White's sweetheart. Allen Ludden was a broadcasting fixture for nearly forty years, with beloved shows like GE College Bowl and Password, but now, author Adam Nedeff (The Matchless Gene ...
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    32,44 €

  • The Life (and Wife) of Allen Ludden (hardback)
    Adam Nedeff
    He was an educator, a lecturer, an advocate...an author, a newspaper columnist, and an essayist...an executive, a producer...an actor, a singer, an interviewer, a game show host...and Betty White's sweetheart. Allen Ludden was a broadcasting fixture for nearly forty years, with beloved shows like GE College Bowl and Password, but now, author Adam Nedeff (The Matchless Gene ...
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    36,46 €

  • Spanish Lessons
    Paul Julian Smith
    Though unjustly neglected by English-language audiences, Spanish film and television not only represent a remarkably influential and vibrant cultural industry; they are also a fertile site of innovation in the production of 'transmedia' works that bridge narrative forms. In Spanish Lessons, Paul Julian Smith provides an engaging exploration of visual culture in an era of coll...
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    129,28 €

  • Street Style in America
    Jennifer Moore
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    148,96 €

  • Adjusting the contrast
    This volume looks at a range of texts and practices thataddress race and its relationship with television. It explores televisionpolicy and the management of race, how transnationalism can diminish racialdiversity, historical questions of representation, the myth of a multiculturalEngland and more. ...
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    169,78 €

  • The changing spaces of television acting
    Richard Hewett
    This title is an historical overview and a then-and-now comparison of performing for British television drama. ...
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    157,20 €

  • The Complete Married... With Children Book
    Denise Noe
    What's being said about The Complete MarriedWith Children Book by Denise Noe… "Denise Noe has written a well-researched and insightful look ata show that redefined American television comedy. Great job!"– E. E. Bell, who played Bob Rooney in Married… with Children "Denise Noe's highly entertaining book reminded me why Icontinued to watch Married… with Children even afte...
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    26,92 €

  • Frasier
    Darowski / Joseph J. Darowski / Joseph JDarowski / Kate Darowski
    Frasier is one of the most critically acclaimed series in television history, winning an astounding thirty-seven Emmys. This book shows how the series managed to create its own identity and iconic cast of characters, embraced farce to an unseen level in American sitcoms, and exploited class issues for humor in a unique style. ...
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    53,00 €

  • Don't Look at the Camera
    Ian Fisher
    Don't Look at the Camera tells the extraordinary inside story of what it’s like to spend a lifetime making television. Ian Fisher is an international award winning producer/director who started his television career as a news reporter and presenter. This first volume of his memoirs is an often hilarious, sometimes emotional journey through a series of adventures, regular oc...
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    11,62 €

  • The Beverly Hillbillies
    Stephen Cox
    Come and listen to the story ’bout a man named Jed' and the rest of the colorful Clampett family, perhaps television’s most unlikely phenomenon to spring from the sixties. Hated by the critics but enthusiastically embraced by audiences around the world, to this day The Beverly Hillbillies still holds the Nielsen record for the highest rated half-hour show in the history of tele...
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    28,61 €

  • Great Conversations (hardback)
    Peter Anthony Holder
    There are as many different types of celebrities as there are people. All have a story to tell and most want to tell it. What they really want is not just someone who will ask the questions, but also listen to their answers. That’s the basis of a great conversation. So let’s head down Memory Lane with some of the biggest stars and a couple of really high achievers. From Academy...
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    31,99 €

  • Humor and Latina/o Camp in Ugly Betty
    Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson / Gonzalez / Tanya González
    This book expands critical approaches to comedy and representational politics on television with a Latina/o studies approach. It examines how the show uses Latina/o camp to reframe socially charged issues: masculinity and familia, immigration, drag and queer subjectivities, Latina sexuality, and a Latina feminist critique of the American Dream. ...
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    58,72 €

  • Sick Little Monkeys
    Thad Komorowski
     In the 1990s animation boom, The Ren & Stimpy Show stood supreme. Through draftsmanship, charismatic voices, irreverent sight gags, crass humor, and stellar character acting, animation’s most talented and disturbed artists created an entity for the Nickelodeon cable network that pulled the art form out of a 25-year rut. The world has never been quite the same since — and we’re...
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    42,38 €

  • A Fistful of Icons
    Sue Matheson
    After a century of reinvention and, frequently, reinterpretation, Western movies continue to contribute to the cultural understanding of the United States. And Western archetypes remain as important emblems of the American experience, relating a complex and coded narrative about heroism and morality, masculinity and femininity, westward expansion and technological progress, ...
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    42,54 €

  • Approaching Twin Peaks
    Though it lasted just two seasons, Twin Peaks (1990-1991) raised the bar for television and is now considered one of the great dramas in TV history. Its complex plots and sensational visuals both inspired and alienated audiences. After 25 years, the cult classic is being revived. This collection of new essays explores its filmic influences, its genre-bending innovations an...
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    50,29 €

  • El Siglo de Oro en el cine y la ficción televisiva
    Yolanda López López
    ¿Cómo dormían, vestían y comían en el siglo XVII? ¿Cómo eran los espacios y los personajes que habitaban aquel Siglo de Oro? ¿Cuáles son las diferencias con los lugares y gremios representados en películas y series? ¿Qué diferencias existen entre el discurso histórico y la ficción? ¿Por qué están en auge las producciones históricas?¿Qué es un tableau-vivant? ¿Cómo convivimos co...
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    20,00 €

  • Paranoid Visions
    Joseph Oldham
    The spy and conspiracy genres are two of British television’s most enduring and memorable traditions. This book provides the most extensive historical account of both to date, tracing a lineage from 1960s Cold War series through 1980s conspiracy dramas to contemporary ‘war on terror’ thrillers. It argues that on-screen depictions of the intelligence services can be interpreted ...
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    157,46 €

  • The 101 Scariest Movies Ever Made (hardback)
    Christopher Wayne Curry / David C. Hayes / David CHayes / Jr. Charles E. Pratt / JrCharles EPratt
    Besides being absolutely terrifying, representative examples of the finest filmmaking has had to offer throughout history, as well as cutting-edge pieces of cinematic art, what do The 101 Scariest Films Ever Made have in common? They're all right here! All of that horror in one easy-to-access volume. Each film is presented, from #101 all the way to the number one single mos...
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    37,39 €

  • Pocket Full of Dennis the Menace (hardback)
    Mark Arnold
    This is the HARDBACK version. Dennis the Menace, a comic strip introduced in 1951, expanded into a comic book series; an American television series (1959-1963) starring Jay North, Gloria Henry, Herbert Anderson, and Joseph Kearns; a 1986 animated television series; and many subsequent television series, books, and feature films.Comic book and animation historian Mark Arnold cov...
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    40,25 €