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  • Spinning Laughter
    Richard Irvin
    Spinning Laughter: Profiles of 111 Proposed Comedy Spin-offs and Sequels that Never Became a Series. The Andy Griffith Show begat Gomer Pyle: U.S.M.C. The Mary Tyler Moore Show spun-off Rhoda and Phyllis. An episode of All in the Family became Maude and another episode became The Jeffersons. You remember the successful spin-offs, but you may now know about the spin-offs that ne...
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    21,94 €

  • Tick... Tick... Tick...
    David Blum
    An insider’s view of the most successful show in the history of TV, 60 Minutes. The most popular TV show in America isn’t American Idol, and it’s not Survivor. Month in, month out, the most-watched program in America is 60 Minutes, drawing a staggering 25 million viewers in an average week. For its entire 34-year history, 60 Minutes was the brainchild (and personal fiefdom) of...
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    11,48 €

  • The Matchless Gene Rayburn (hardback)
    Adam Nedeff
    This is the HARDBACK version. 'I got interested in Gene Rayburn during the 1990s, when I was a teenager and I discovered a marvelous cable channel called Game Show Network. I’d been a fan of game shows my entire life, and I was excited about seeing all these shows that I just vaguely remembered from my early childhood. My biggest surprise was how obsessed I became with a show ...
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    45,57 €

  • Shakespeare’s Prop Room
    Alan Baragona / John Leland
    This study provides the first comprehensive examination of every prop in Shakespeare’s plays, whether mentioned in stage directions, indicated in dialogue or implied by the action. Building on the latest scholarship and offering a witty treatment of the subject, the authors delve into numerous historical documents, the business of theater in Renaissance England, and the play...
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    42,86 €

  • Spinning Laughter
    Richard Irvin
    This is the HARDBACK version. Spinning Laughter: Profiles of 111 Proposed Comedy Spin-offs and Sequels that Never Became a Series. The Andy Griffith Show begat Gomer Pyle: U.S.M.C. The Mary Tyler Moore Show spun-off Rhoda and Phyllis. An episode of All in the Family became Maude and another episode became The Jeffersons. You remember the successful spin-offs, but you may now kn...
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    32,12 €

  • Black Women’s Portrayals on Reality Television
    This book critically analyzes how the perpetuation of negative racial and gender stereotypes in reality television influences how the U.S. views black women. ...
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    149,67 €

  • August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle
    Sandra G. Shannon
    Providing a detailed study of American playwright August Wilson (1945-2005), this collection of new essays explores the development of the author’s ethos across his twenty-five-year creative career--a process that transformed his life as he retraced the lives of his fellow 'Africans in America.' While Wilson’s narratives of Pittsburgh and Chicago are microcosms of black life...
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    42,89 €

  • Curious Goods
    Alyse Wax
    'Lewis Vendredi made a deal with the devil to sell cursed antiques, but he broke the pact, and it cost him his soul. His niece Micki, and her cousin Ryan, inherited the store-and with it, the curse. Now they must get everything back-and the real terror begins.'So opens Friday the 13th: The Series. In 1987, Paramount Studios found success selling a new Star Trek series into synd...
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    28,80 €

  • Curious Goods
    Alyse Wax
    This is the HARDBACK version. 'Lewis Vendredi made a deal with the devil to sell cursed antiques, but he broke the pact, and it cost him his soul. His niece Micki, and her cousin Ryan, inherited the store-and with it, the curse. Now they must get everything back-and the real terror begins.'So opens Friday the 13th: The Series. In 1987, Paramount Studios found success selling a ...
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    38,97 €

  • Men with stakes
    Julia M Wright / Julia Wright
    Moves beyond a focus on gothic machinery and adaptations of literary gothic to consider television gothic in light of recent scholarship on the mode itself. ...
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    157,74 €

  • Beckett in Popular Culture
    What do Bono, Seinfeld and Apple have in common? Nothing. However, it’s the nothing of Samuel Beckett, which is something. Bold and provocative, Beckett’s works and even his image are a potent force in modern society. Shoes, marketing, baby names--all fall under his spell. This collection of new essays (one exception) finds him incorporated into virtually all aspects u2028...
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    57,54 €

  • Irony in The Twilight Zone
    David Melbye
    This book explores the multiple types of irony—technological, invasive, martial, sociopolitical, and domestic—that were employed by the classic television show The Twilight Zone. Each of these uses of irony acts as a critique of a specific aspect of American culture, but all inform each other, creating a larger sense of social critique. ...
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    129,07 €

  • Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
    Patrick Jankiewicz
    Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979-1981) premiered on American television in September 1979. The story followed a twentieth century astronaut revived after 500 years of suspended animation to become Earth’s greatest hero. Created by Glen A. Larson and Leslie Stevens, the new series starred Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, and Felix Silla.Gerard looked to the past to prepare for his fu...
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    30,78 €

  • Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
    Patrick Jankiewicz
    This is the HARDBACK version. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979-1981) premiered on American television in September 1979. The story followed a twentieth century astronaut revived after 500 years of suspended animation to become Earth’s greatest hero. Created by Glen A. Larson and Leslie Stevens, the new series starred Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, and Felix Silla. Gerard looked t...
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    40,96 €

  • The Supernatural Quiz Book Season 1
    Light Bulb Quizzes
    Are you addicted to the cult TV series Supernatural? Have you followed the Winchester brothers from the first series to the present day, as they carry on the 'family business'? Can you name the monsters and demons they have hunted along the way? If so, you are certain to want to tackle the 500 questions in the Supernatural Quiz Book Season 1.  Written by fans, for fans,...
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    7,11 €

  • Neil McKenty Live - The lines are still blazing
    The story of Neil McKenty, one of Montreal. Canada’s highest rated radio talk show hosts.Neil McKenty liked to argue just for the hell of it. During the 1970’s and 80s he was one of Montreal’s highest rated radio talk show hosts. At the peak of his career more than 75,000 people tuned in to CJAD to hear his show, Exchange. 'The basic exchange on Exchange, is not between the lis...
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    16,59 €

  • Rape, Rage and Feminism in Contemporary American Drama
    Davida Bloom
    This first-ever study of rape in modern American drama examines portrayals of rape, raped women and rapists in 36 plays written between 1970 and 2007, the period during which the feminist movement made rape a matter of public discourse. These dramas reveal much about sexuality and masculine and feminine identity in the United States. The author traces the impact of second-wa...
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    57,53 €

  • Why Stand-up Matters
    Sophie Quirk
    Funny, lively and unpredictable, stand-up comedy is above all a medium to be enjoyed. Popular as a good night out and packing the TV schedules, stand-up permeates British society and culture.Ubiquitous though it is, we are generally reluctant to consider comedy’s social consequences. When comedians offend we seem ready to consider the potential for stand-up to do some wider har...
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    147,73 €

  • KEN RUSSELL
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    KEN RUSSELL: ENGLAND’S GREAT VISIONARY FILM DIRECTOR AND MUSIC LOVERBy Jeremy Mark Robinson. Foreword by actress Sammi Davis (star of The Rainbow) A filmmaker like no other, Ken Russell remains one of cinema’s extraordinary talents, a creator of masterpieces such as The Devils, Tommy and The Music Lovers, and a body of work that flies from the pastoral, Romantic lyricism of Del...
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    39,97 €

  • Father Knows Best
    Mary R Desjardins
    Although the iconic television series Father Knows Best (CBS 1954–55; NBC 1955–58; CBS 1958–60) has enjoyed a long history in rerun syndication and an enduring fan base, it is often remembered as cultural shorthand for 1950s-era conformism and authoritarianism. In this study of Father Knows Best, author Mary R. Desjardins examines the program, its popularity, and its critical p...
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    28,64 €

  • Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture
    Social media has brought about a revolution in fan culture, from fan uprisings to save programs to groups and pages dedicated to mourning lost programs and characters. This edited collection examines how fans use social media in regard to television programming, characters, narrative, and various types of interactions, as well as how television uses social media to engage fan c...
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    172,66 €

  • Gender and the Modern Sherlock Holmes
    Nadine Farghaly
    From his 1887 literary debut to his many film and television adaptations, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has lost none of his appeal. Besides Holmes himself, no character in Conan Doyle’s stories proves as interesting as the astute detective’s constant companion, Dr. Watson, who somehow seems both superfluous and essential. While Conan Doyle does not depict Holmes ...
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    42,71 €

  • 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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    62,57 €

  • Think Pink
    Mark Arnold
    Think Pink! The Depatie-Freleng StoryIn 1963, Warner Bros. closed down their long-running cartoon facility that had produced such memorable merrymakers as the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. Director/producer Friz Freleng and executive David H. DePatie faced unwanted early retirement. A generous parting gesture from a Warner executive allowed Freleng and DePatie to l...
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    37,33 €

  • Think Pink
    Mark Arnold
    This is the HARDBACK version. Think Pink! The Depatie-Freleng Story In 1963, Warner Bros. closed down their long-running cartoon facility that had produced such memorable merrymakers as the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. Director/producer Friz Freleng and executive David H. DePatie faced unwanted early retirement. A generous parting gesture from a Warner executive ...
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    47,50 €

  • Reinventing the Latino Television Viewer
    Chavez / Christopher Chávez
    Reinventing the Latino Television Viewer examines the relationship between language ideologies and the exploitation of markets within the television industry. A proliferation of television networks owned by large media conglomerates are attempting to reach U.S. Latino viewers with English-language programming. As these dominant mainstream networks enter the Hispanic television ...
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    125,22 €

  • The Best Saturdays of Our Lives
    Mark McCray
    Mark McCray wasn’t the only boy who loved Saturday morning cartoons, but he may have been the only one to call the networks and tell them what he liked and disliked about them.For instance, he was blown away by the direction Hanna-Barbera took with Josie and the Pussycats, the kids in the wrong place at the wrong time who rose to the occasion and saved the day. It wasn’t long b...
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    10,33 €

  • On Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and 'A Jury of Her Peers'
    On a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Greenwich Village bohemians gathered in the summer of 1916, Susan Glaspell was inspired by a sensational murder trial to write Trifles, a play about two women who hide a Midwestern farm wife’s motive for murdering her abusive husband. Following successful productions of the play, Glaspell became the 'mother of American drama.'...
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    72,02 €

  • The Political Structure of UK Broadcasting 1949-1999
    David Elstein
    In 1999 David Elstein delivered a lecture series examining the evolvement of UK broadcasting policy from 1949 to 1999. His sharp analysis is a valuable contribution to the post-war development of the British broadcasting system and unfolds many topical issues in current media policy debates. For many years, David Elstein has been one of the most rigorous and controversial comm...
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    16,60 €

  • 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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    64,23 €


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