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  • The Ethics of Reality TV
    Martin Heidegger
    Reality television is continuing to grow, both in numbers and in popularity. The scholarship on reality TV is beginning to catch up, but one of the most enduring questions about the genre-Is it ethical?-has yet to be addressed in any systematic and comprehensive way. Through investigating issues ranging from deception and privacy breaches to community building and democratizati...
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    193,61 €

  • How to Succeed in Voice-Overs
    Jack Angel
    Voice-over work is a microcosm of the acting process as a whole. There’s the audition, the callback, the job itself, and the payoffs-except that it all happens in a matter of days, and there are no costumes or make-up to contend with and no memorization. Author Jack Angel has been a voice-over expert for more than fifty years, working with the likes of Lucas Arts, Disney, Pixar...
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    10,54 €

  • The Omni-Directional Three-Dimensional Vectoring Paper Printed Omnibus for Bewitched Analysis a.k.a. The Bewitched History Book
    David L. Pierce / David LPierce
    For almost fifty years the beloved 60s sitcom Bewitched has been enchanting television audiences. Created at a turbulent time in American history, Bewitched offered a brief respite from the worries of the day. Before now, there has never been a book written that ties in the events of the times with each episode. But more important, there has never been a book about the show whi...
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    54,15 €

  • Terrorism TV
    Stacy Takacs
    The Fox-TV series 24 might have been in production long before its premier just two months after 9/11, but its storyline--and that of many other television programs--has since become inextricably embedded in the nation’s popular consciousness. This book marks the first comprehensive survey and analysis of War on Terror themes in post-9/11 American television, critiquing those s...
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    34,95 €

  • Barnabas & Company
    Craig Hamrick / R. J. Jamison
    Over 40 years ago, millions of kids ran home from school every day to catch the adventures of vampire Barnabas Collins and his family of werewolves, witches and other creatures.Dark Shadows remains one of the most popular cult TV shows of all time. Barnabas & Company tells the tale of the marvelous actors and actresses who came together in a tiny studio in New York City to make...
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    37,71 €

  • Cinemulacrum
    Aaron Sultanik
    Cinemulacrum, a conflation of “cinema,” the art of the Hollywood film, and simulacrum, a reality counterfeit, was coined to designate contemporary media culture. This book examines the fall—and rise—of classical Hollywood and the hegemony of television in a media dyad of movies and television. ...
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    52,04 €

  • Star Trek FAQ (Unofficial and Unauthorized)
    Mark Clark
    STAR TREK FAQ: EVERYTHING LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE FIRST VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRI ...
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    17,43 €

  • Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy
    Samantha Nogueira Joyce
    Samantha Nogueira Joyce's Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy traces the representations of Afro-Brazilians on television, culminating with the telenovela Duas Caras (2007-2008), and reveals how telenovelas contribute to social change in ways that have not been fully explored in previous scholarship. It also provides a comparative analysis between the rep...
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    125,40 €

  • Fantasy Media in the Classroom
    A common misconception is that professors who use popular culture and fantasy in the classroom have abandoned the classics, yet in a variety of contexts--high school, college freshman composition, senior seminars, literature, computer science, philosophy and politics--fantasy materials can expand and enrich an established curriculum. The new essays in this book combine ana...
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    42,66 €

  • Deadwood
    Ina Rae Hark
    By dramatizing the intersection of self-interested capitalism and foundational violence in a mining camp in 1870s South Dakota, the HBO series Deadwood reinvented the television Western. In this volume, Ina Rae Hark examines the groundbreaking series from a variety of angles: its relationship to past iterations of the genre on the small screen; its production context, both with...
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    28,63 €

  • Hollywood Game Plan
    Carole Kirschner
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    23,55 €

  • Gilligan’s Island
    Walter Metz
    Gilligan’s Island, created by Sherwood Schwartz, aired for three seasons between 1964 and 1967 on the CBS network. While the series was typically dismissed for its episodic inanity, author Walter Metz argues that this characteristic is precisely the source of the show’s innovation as it produces a vibrant critique of dominant American values. In this analysis of Gilligan’s Isla...
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    28,66 €

  • The Earl of Oxford and the Making of 'Shakespeare'
    Richard Malim
    The identity of Shakespeare, the most important poet and dramatist in the English language, has been debated for centuries. This historical work investigates the role of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, establishing him as most likely the author of Shakespeare’s literary oeuvre. Topics include the historical background of English literature from 1530 through 1575, ma...
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    49,85 €

  • Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel
    Giles Smith
    A hilarious book on sport, television and our love/hate relationship with both. ...
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    19,36 €

  • The New Broadcasting Realities
    Ken Lindner
    An insider’s look at the world of Broadcasting from the master of Career Choreography™. Are news and programming values and strategies changing? You bet they are! In The New Broadcasting Realities, Ken Lindner offers solutions to the complex issues and problems broadcasting professionals face in today’s media landscape. Whether you’re a media professional or an aspiring broadca...
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    15,23 €

  • Seeing the American Woman, 1880-1920
    Jennifer C. Koella / Katherine H. Adams / Michael L. Keene
    From 1880 to 1920, the first truly national visual culture developed in the United States as a result of the completion of the Pacific Railroad. Women, especially young and beautiful ones, found new lives shaped by their participation in that visual culture. This rapidly evolving age left behind the 'cult of domesticity' that reigned in the nineteenth century to give rise to...
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    57,40 €

  • THE BIG DAMN FIREFLY & SERENITY TRIVIA BOOK
    Kristin M. Barton / Kristin MBarton
    The Big Damn Firefly & Serenity Trivia Book is the ultimate fan’s guide to Joss Whedon’s critically acclaimed series Firefly and film sequel Serenity. Inside you will find over 1,000 questions that delve into the detailed elements that have made Firefly and Serenity beloved by millions, including the characters, actors, episodes, and behind-the-scenes moments. The questions hig...
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    24,53 €

  • THE BIG DAMN FIREFLY & SERENITY TRIVIA BOOK (hardback)
    Kristin M. Barton
      Question #872: According to Joss Whedon, which came first: the name Firefly or the design of the ship? The Big Damn Firefly & Serenity Trivia Book is the ultimate fan’s guide to Joss Whedon’s critically acclaimed series Firefly and film sequel Serenity. Inside you will find over 1,000 questions that delve into the detailed elements that have made Firefly and Serenity belo...
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    36,83 €

  • Deconstructing South Park
    Brian Cogan
    Deconstructing South Park: Critical Examinations of Animated Transgression is the first book to systematically analyze the cultural phenomenon of South Park from a wide scope of theoretical approaches. Brian Cogan and the other contributors address the show from perspectives as diverse as media studies, disability studies, and literary theory to ideological analysis, deviancy s...
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    141,51 €

  • Encyclopedia of Television Subjects, Themes and Settings
    Vincent Terrace
    Over the course of 80 years television has produced countless programs, many of which fit a particular profile. Did you know, for example, some programs are devoted to ghosts, genies, angels and even mermaids? Color broadcasting was first tested in 1941? Live models were used to advertise lingerie as early as 1950? Or that nudity (although accidental) occurred on TV long bef...
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    139,64 €

  • Deconstructing South Park
    Brian Cogan
    Deconstructing South Park: Critical Examinations of Animated Transgression is the first book to systematically analyze the cultural phenomenon of South Park from a wide scope of theoretical approaches. Brian Cogan and the other contributors address the show from perspectives as diverse as media studies, disability studies, and literary theory to ideological analysis, deviancy s...
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    62,62 €

  • Text & Presentation, 2011
    Kiki Gounaridou
    Text & Presentation is an annual anthology of essays devoted to all aspects of theatre and performance scholarship. This new volume represents a selection of the best research presented at the 35th international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference in Los Angeles. The essays include innovative detective work on Aristophanes’s and Aeschylus’s plays and discussions ...
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    94,41 €

  • Up the Doon
    Andrew Neil
    Up the Doon is A hilarious and heart-warming new comedy written for television and set on Burns’ 'banks an’ braes o’ bonnie Doon'. It features Alec Gourlay, a retired coal miner, who was abandoned on Smiler’s mother’s doorstep when he was four, clutching a tin of condensed milk and a note which read, 'Look after my wee boy, whoever you are, for I cannot afford to, and a new wor...
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    15,88 €

  • Alan Clarke
    Dave Rolinson / David Rolinson
    The first full-length critical study of Alan Clarke, one of Britain’s greatest auteur directors which examines the full range of Clarke’s work, and goes beyond the violent image garnered from work like ’Scum’ and ’The Firm’. ...
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    29,75 €

  • Trevor Griffiths
    John Tulloch
    In his outstanding career, Trevor Griffiths has negotiated the issues of genre, politics, identity, class, history, memory and televisual form with a sustained creativity and integrity second to none. ...
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    29,72 €

  • Lynda La Plante
    Hallam / Julia Hallam
    The first account of the television drama of Lynda La Plante, Britain’s most successful and well known screenwriter, whose work is central to understanding changes that shook the UK television industry in the late twentieth century ...
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    44,65 €

  • Keeping the Dream Alive
    Raymond Webster Thompson
    ’Keeping the Dream Alive’ is a unique and intriguing memoir charting the life and times of how someone growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in a very poor working class environment in post-War Britain was able to journey to the glittering arena of Hollywood, providing an inspirational insight into how the one most likely to fail at school due to a special need battled an...
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    15,14 €

  • The Fugitive
    David P Pierson
    Television’s longest-running chase story, The Fugitive was a dramatically charged show that followed Dr. Richard Kimble on his quest to prove his innocence and find his wife’s one-armed killer. A product of veteran television producer-writer Roy Huggins (Maverick, The Rockford Files) and Quinn Martin, a newcomer producer, the series aired for four seasons between 1963 and 1967 ...
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    28,66 €

  • Anytime Playdate
    Dade Hayes
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    33,11 €

  • American Ideal
    Amanda S McClain / Amanda S. McClain / Amanda SMcClain
    American Ideal: How American Idol Constructs Celebrity, Collective Identity, and American Discourses explores ideals associated with American Idol, and includes deep examinations of contextual press coverage, official message boards, and the show itself. It finds that the representation of an idealized American culture endorses and supports contemporary cultural, economic, and ...
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    149,79 €