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  • On Message
    E D Dover / E. D. Dover / EDDover
    This book explores how the twelve leading presidential candidates of Election 2008, six in each party, used the major Themes of televised political advertising-images, issues, and attacks-to create campaign narratives justifying their election. Each candidate introduced numerous ads over many months, presenting him- or herself as a qualified leader and advocate of specific publ...
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    148,38 €

  • Laurette Taylor, American Stage Legend
    Lynn Kear
    How did Laurette Taylor (1884-1946) become America’s most celebrated actress? What training and experience led to her first stage success, Peg o’ My Heart, in 1912? How did her failed 1920s silent film career influence her stage technique? What was so remarkable about her portrayal of Amanda Wingfield in the original 1945 Broadway production of The Glass Menagerie that many ...
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    64,59 €

  • Henry Fonda and the Deputy-The Film and Stage Star and His TV Western
    Glenn A. Mosley / Glenn AMosley
    'I enjoyed working with Henry Fonda and Allen Case on the series and I knowyou’ll enjoy Glenn Mosley’s book on The Deputy.' - from the Foreword by Read Morgan'Henry Fonda did a TV show?' For years, that’s been the reaction of manypeople when they learned that the Hollywood and Broadway legend starredin his own television series. Henry Fonda surprised a lot of people in 1959when...
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    24,95 €

  • Television Everywhere
    Andrei Jezierski
    This book was partly born of frustration - personal frustration with how complicated the simple act of trying to watch TV can be, and the professional frustration of being around almost twenty years of television-, advertising-, and technology-industry floundering with how to better reach TV audiences.The internet, we argue, is finally ready to change all that. Not in the way m...
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    23,36 €

  • Spaceships and Politics
    Leslie Dale Feldman
    Spaceships and Politics: The Political Theory of Rod Serling examines the political themes in The Twilight Zone. In this unique show, Rod Serling used fantasy and the supernatural to explore political ideas such as capital punishment, the individual and the state, war, conformity, the state of nature, prejudice, and alienation. He used aliens and machines to understand human na...
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    132,20 €

  • Movies Made for Television
    Alvin H Marill / Alvin H. Marill / Alvin HMarill / Alvin Marill
    Supplementing Movies Made for Television: 1964-2004, this new volume contains entries on an additional 400 television films and mini-series produced between 2005 and 2009. Each entry includes extensive production credits (director, writer, producer, composer, director of photography, and editor) and a complete cast and character listing. ...
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    123,73 €

  • Spaceships and Politics
    Leslie Dale Feldman / Leslie Feldman
    Spaceships and Politics: The Political Theory of Rod Serling examines the political themes in The Twilight Zone. In this unique show, Rod Serling used fantasy and the supernatural to explore political ideas such as capital punishment, the individual and the state, war, conformity, the state of nature, prejudice, and alienation. He used aliens and machines to understand human na...
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    64,38 €

  • 99 Things You Wish You Knew Before Making It BIG In Media
    Steve Kowch
    99 Things You Wish You Wish You Knew Before Making It Big In Media is fast and easy reading. It is written by Steve Kowch, an award winning news talk radio program director, news director, journalist, producer and mentor to some of the biggest names in Canadian media.Kowch uses his story telling talent throughout the book to illustrate how if he can do it, you can too! It is ab...
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    13,11 €

  • Paranormal State
    Ryan Buell / Stefan Petrucha
    On the hit A&E series Paranormal State, Ryan Buell and his team of investigators delve deep into the mysterious world of ghosts, demonic disturbances, and sixth-sense sightings that shadows our everyday reality. Now, in this official companion book to the series, Buell takes you one step further, revealing the secrets of the show’s most intense cases and the shocking, never-bef...
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    16,85 €

  • The Plays of Yasmina Reza on the English and American Stage
    Amanda Giguere
    The seven plays to date of Yasmina Reza, one of France’s most prominent female playwrights, are popular both in France and abroad. Despite her commercial success, her plays have often been ignored in academic circles, and few scholars have attempted to explore the mechanics of her playwriting. This text seeks to unpack the essentials of Reza’s style and to explore each play ...
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    73,01 €

  • A Lifetime with Shakespeare
    Paul Barry
    Written by the only American to direct and fight-choreograph all of Shakespeare’s plays, this text represents an expert and practical guide to the Bard’s oeuvre. From the Henry VI plays through The Tempest, each play is explored in its full theatrical complexity, with particular attention paid to directorial and acting challenges, character quirks and development, and the pa...
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    44,04 €

  • Branding the Teleself
    Ernest A Hakanen / Ernest A. Hakanen / Ernest AHakanen
    An ongoing topic of debate in our times is how exactly the media affects the public. Hakanen analyzes that debate as it has developed in media effects research in order to reveal the changes from a modern to a postmodern self. ...
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    63,11 €

  • The Nightly News Nightmare
    Robert S. Lichter / Robert SLichter / Stephen J. Farnsworth / Stephen J. Farnsworth / Stephen JFarnsworth
    The Nightly News Nightmare, Third Edition, examines news coverage of presidential nomination and election campaigns from 1988 to 2008. Farnsworth and Lichter find that the news media, despite the wide variety of outlets, have consistent problems in terms of fairness and focus on substantive matters rather than the horse-race reporting of the latest polls. In addition to the ext...
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    158,00 €

  • The Nightly News Nightmare
    Robert S. Lichter / Robert SLichter / Stephen J. Farnsworth / Stephen J. Farnsworth / Stephen JFarnsworth
    The Nightly News Nightmare, Third Edition, examines news coverage of presidential nomination and election campaigns from 1988 to 2008. Farnsworth and Lichter find that the news media, despite the wide variety of outlets, have consistent problems in terms of fairness and focus on substantive matters rather than the horse-race reporting of the latest polls. In addition to the ext...
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    51,60 €

  • Pockets of resistance
    Katy Parry / Peter Goddard / Piers Robinson
    The most detailed, sophisticated and theoretically grounded analysis of wartime media coverage written to date. Describes and explains how British news media variously supported, and dissented from, coalition propaganda campaigns during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ...
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    29,67 €

  • America Through the Eyes of China and India
    Edward D. Sherman
    America has long exported its network and cable programming abroad, but with a changing world comes a changing dynamic. As global centers of power shift, and wealth becomes redistributed, and perhaps even re-centered, vast audiences which have never before had contact with American television will begin to gain access to the full wealth and abundance of American programming. ...
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    161,28 €

  • Suzan-Lori Parks
    Philip C. Kolin
    The first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Suzan-Lori Parks has received international recognition for her provocative and influential works. Her plays capture the nightmares of African Americans endangered by a white establishment determined to erase their history and eradicate their dreams. A dozen essays address Parks’s plays, screenplays and no...
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    51,30 €

  • Early Broadway Sheet Music
    Donald J. Stubblebine
    This work, a companion to the author’s Broadway Sheet Music: A Comprehensive Listing of Published Music from Broadway and Other Stage Shows, 1918 through 1993 (McFarland 1996), provides information about all sheet music published (1843-1918) from all Broadway productions--plus music from local shows, minstrel shows, night club acts, vaudeville acts, touring companies, and sh...
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    107,87 €

  • Tarnished Heroes, Charming Villains and Modern Monsters
    Lynnette Porter
    The heroes, villains, and monsters portrayed in such popular science fiction television series as Heroes, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Doctor Who, and Torchwood, as well as Joss Whedon’s many series, illustrate a shift from traditional, clearly defined characterizations toward much murkier definitions. Traditional heroes give way to 'gray' heroes who must become more...
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    42,49 €

  • Trans-Reality Television
    Trans-Reality Television offers an overview of contributions which engage with the phenomenon of reality television as a tool to reflect on societal and mediated transformations and transgressions. The chapters in this volume are divided into four sections, all of which deal with how we see the fluid social at work in reality television through the trans-real, trans-politics, t...
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    66,41 €

  • Trans-Reality Television
    Trans-Reality Television offers an overview of contributions which engage with the phenomenon of reality television as a tool to reflect on societal and mediated transformations and transgressions. The chapters in this volume are divided into four sections, all of which deal with how we see the fluid social at work in reality television through the trans-real, trans-politics, t...
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    163,29 €

  • Catholic Theatre and Drama
    Kevin J. Wetmore
    The relationship between the Catholic Church and theatre has a long and complicated history. This collection of fourteen critical essays seeks to demystify the ties--both practical and ideological--that have long bound Catholicism to theatrical production. This volume offers insights into medieval theatre, Jesuit drama, ballet and opera, modern stagings of medieval liturgica...
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    79,40 €

  • Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company
    Rick Roemer
    In the late 1960s, Charles Ludlam (1943-1987) brought his unique brand of theatre to New York audiences. Based in part on traditional comic characters, his 'ridiculous' school included such inspirations as Hollywood B movies, camp, drag, and opera. His shows were also a study in self-collaboration; Ludlam acted as playwright, director, designer, and actor in his own Off Broa...
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    57,58 €

  • Susan Glaspell
    Susan Glaspell
    The first complete collection of the works of American playwright Susan Glaspell, this book includes all of the Pulitzer Prize winner’s works: Suppressed Desires, Trifles, The People, The Outside, Woman’s Honor, Close the Book, Tickless Time, and Free Laughter (these eight are all one acts) and the full length plays Bernice, Inheritors, The Verge, Alison’s House, The Comic A...
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    110,41 €

  • American Women Theatre Critics
    Alma J. Bennett
    While the history of American theatre has been widely documented, the history of its female reviewers has been routinely overlooked. This book seeks to correct that oversight by exploring the role of the great female American critics, thereby expanding their canonical status. The anthology provides a brief description of the women’s lives, their working conditions, samples o...
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    57,58 €

  • History on British television
    Robert Dillon / TBD
    A unique and overdue insight and study into how the landscape, institutions and collective memory has influenced the representation of the past on British television from 1946 to the present day, promoting a very singular view of what it means to be British. ...
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    157,34 €

  • Reality Television and Arab Politics
    Marwan M. Kraidy / Marwan MKraidy
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    25,81 €

  • Reality Television and Arab Politics
    Marwan M. Kraidy / Marwan MKraidy
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    114,41 €

  • Locating Migrating Media
    Greg Elmer
    Locating Migrating Media details the extent to which media productions, both televisual and cinematic, have sought out new and cheaper shot locations, creative staff, and financing around the world. The book contributes to debates about media globalization, focusing on the local impact of new sites of media production. The book’s chapters also question the role that film and te...
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    132,02 €

  • House of Dan Curtis
    Jeff Thompson
    The award-winning auteur producer-director Dan Curtis made television history with the epic miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, the horror movies The Night Stalker and Trilogy of Terror, and the cult-classic Gothic serial Dark Shadows. Curtis also generated a large body of work in the mystery genre. This book provides an overview of Dan Curtis's 40-year-long c...
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    37,60 €