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  • Days of Our Lives
    Maureen Russell
    On November 8, 1965, Days of Our Lives debuted on NBC. The show overcame a rocky beginning to become one of the best-loved and longest running soap operas on daytime television. For 30 years, the story of the show’s Horton family has been closely followed by a dedicated audience. Through extensive research, including the first-ever examination of the show’s archives, and i...
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    35,39 €

  • Television mockumentary
    Craig Hight
    This is the first detailed study of the rich vein of mockumentary television programmes, covering series such as The Larry Sanders Show, The Daily Show, and the British and American versions of The Office to discuss how producers have experimented with mockumentary as a distinctive approach to storytelling. ...
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    31,57 €

  • The BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922-53
    Thomas Hajkowski
    This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the BBC’s desire to construct a strong, unitary sense of Britishness (through empire and the monarchy) with a thorough consideration of the broadcasting in the non-English parts of the United Kingdom. ...
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    157,29 €

  • The Church on TV
    Richard Wolff
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    52,42 €

  • Bonanza
    David R. Greenland / David RGreenland
    Between 1959 and 1973 the Cartwrights of the Ponderosa rode into the lives of nearly 400 million viewers around the world. Perhaps you saw many of the 428 episodes and waited eagerly for the famous blazing map to reveal the Cartwrights riding into your living room. You can relive those days and get the inside story on the TV series that became a legend. Renew old acquaintance...
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    28,78 €

  • The Simpsons in the Classroom
    Denise Du Vernay / Karma Waltonen
    The object of much debate, attention, and scholarship since it first aired more than 20 years ago, The Simpsons provides excellent, if unexpected, fodder for high school and college lesson plans. After all, laughing students are hardly sleeping students! But The Simpsons also provides a familiar student knowledge base which instructors can use as a jumping-off point to intro...
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    42,38 €

  • Screening the Mafia
    George S Larke-Walsh / George S. Larke-Walsh
    The 'post-classic' era of American gangster films began in 1967 with the release of Bonnie and Clyde, achieving a milestone five years later with the popular and highly influential The Godfather. This historical study explores the structure, myths and intertextual narratives found in the gangster films produced since The Godfather. The intense relationship between masculinit...
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    42,60 €

  • Edward Albee
    Phyllis T. Dircks
    This work covers the canon of playwright Edward Albee, perhaps best known as the author of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Comprehensive entries detail the plays and major characters. Other features include biographical information and insights into Albee’s artistic beliefs, his understanding of the playwright’s responsibility, the importance of music in drama, and the techn...
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    73,00 €

  • Wire
    The first collection of critical essays on HBO’s The Wire - the most brilliant and socially relevant television series in years T he Wire is about survival, about the strategies adopted by those living and working in the inner cities of America. It presents a world where for many even hope isn’t an option, where life operates as day-to-day existence without education, without j...
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    51,00 €

  • Telenovelas
    Ilan Stavans
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    85,49 €

  • Ethics and Entertainment
    As modern media shift from the distribution of information to its creation, a fresh inquiry into the ethics of media is needed. This collection of 19 essays provides useful perspectives for both producers and consumers of entertainment. Topics include the creation of celebrity, the effects of entertainment on children, the hybridization of entertainment and news, author and ...
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    42,44 €

  • Entertaining Politics
    Jeffrey P Jones / Jeffrey P. Jones / Jeffrey PJones
    In this completely revised and updated edition (including eight new chapters), Jeffrey Jones charts the evolution and maturation of political entertainment television by examining The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Politically Incorrect/Real Time with Bill Maher, and Michael Moore’s TV Nation and The Awful Truth. This volume investigates how and why these show...
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    60,74 €

  • Entertaining Politics
    Jeffrey P. Jones / Jeffrey PJones
    In this completely revised and updated edition (including eight new chapters), Jeffrey Jones charts the evolution and maturation of political entertainment television by examining The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Politically Incorrect/Real Time with Bill Maher, and Michael Moore’s TV Nation and The Awful Truth. This volume investigates how and why these show...
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    157,61 €

  • A History of Television’s The Virginian, 1962-1971
    Paul Green
    On September 19, 1962, The Virginian made its primetime broadcast premiere. The 1902 novel by Owen Wister had already seen four movie adaptations when Frank Price mentioned the story’s series potential to NBC. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television’s first 90-minute western series. Immensely successful, it ran for nine seasons--television’s third longest running we...
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    58,80 €

  • Riverboat
    J. E. Gessler / JEGessler / S. L. Kotar / SLKotar
    Capitalizing on Darren McGavin’s irresistible charm and his success on the smallscreen, Revue Studios cast him in their new series, Riverboat, which premieredin 1959. Since McGavin was also starring in Mike Hammer at the same time, hebecame the first actor to simultaneously star in two television series.Co-starring the young and inexperienced Burt Reynolds, the series captureda...
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    27,39 €

  • Gangway, Lord, (The) Here Come the Brides Book
    Jonathan Etter
    Its series title mentioned women, but its top three stars were men!It pioneered a new kind of story-telling with its pilot episode; its last episode was years ahead of its time.Many thought it doomed to failure - it became one of the 1968-69 season’s biggest hits!It was the 1968-70 ABC-TV/Screen Gems series, HERE COME THE BRIDES!In ’Gangway, Lord! (The) Here Come the Brides Boo...
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    43,12 €

  • Gangway, Lord, (The) Here Come the Brides Book
    Jonathan Etter
    This comedy Western television series aired for two seasons on the ABC network from September 25, 1968 to April 3, 1970, yet fans still celebrate the episodes. A stellar cast of regulars included Robert Brown, Bobby Sherman, David Soul, Mark Lenard, Bridget Hanley, and veteran star Joan Blondell, who received two Emmy award nominations for Outstanding Continued Performance by a...
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    40,56 €

  • A Temporary European
    Walter C. Christophersen
    Three American journalists are thrust into a bewildering situation when they’re hired by a TV newsmagazine produced in Europe for broadcast on PBS. They encounter a wealth of adventures as they roam the Continent covering news behind the headlines as well as colorful features -- stories dealing with everything from D Day and terrorism to Sherlock Holmes and Vincent van Gogh. Th...
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    12,98 €

  • American Science Fiction Film and Television
    Lincoln Geraghty
    American Science Fiction Film and Television presents a critical history of late 20th Century SF together with an analysis of the cultural and thematic concerns of this popular genre. Science fiction film and television were initially inspired by the classic literature of HG Wells and Jules Verne. The potential and fears born with the Atomic age fuelled the popularity of the ge...
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    44,94 €

  • Circumnavigating the Globe
    Jr. Arthur E. Perkins
    'Circumnavigating the Globe' highlights international travel in a reality television show competition. This book covers what happened in Amazing Race (AR) 10 to 14 and Amazing Race Asia (ARA) 1 to 3. Many of the analysis chapters also cover AR1 to 9. Included are an Amazing Race Vocabulary and listing of all countries and major cities visited by all amazing races(ARs plus ARAs)...
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    23,03 €

  • TV’s M*A*S*H
    Ed Solomonson / Mark O'Neill / Mark O’Neill
    Prepare yourselves, M*A*S*H fans, for the most comprehensive book on the show ever written. Written by fans and for fans, this book covers material never covered in previous books. Aside from an astounding amount of researched info for nearly every episode of the series, this book covers every aspect of the show from the opening theme to the production codes, including a season...
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    53,72 €

  • TV’s M*A*S*H
    Ed Solomonson / Mark O'Neill / Mark O’Neill
    Prepare yourselves, M*A*S*H fans, for the most comprehensive book on the show ever written. Written by fans and for fans, this book covers material never covered in previous books. Aside from an astounding amount of researched info for nearly every episode of the series, this book covers every aspect of the show from the opening theme to the production codes, including a season...
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    63,89 €

  • No Time To Think
    Howard Rosenberg
    An eviscerating look at the state of journalism in the age of the 24 hour news cycle by a Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic and a veteran news correspondent. No Time To Think focuses on the insidious and increasing portion of the news media that, due to the dangerously extreme speed at which it is produced, is only half thought out, half true, and lazily repeated from an...
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    32,82 €

  • Quincy M.E., the Television Series
    James Rosin
    'Filled withfascinatingdetails that willplease anyenthusiast ofthe series....series fanswill love thehistory, photosand storytelling.' ...
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    30,12 €

  • Quincy M.E., the Television Series
    James Rosin
    Tune in to an in-depth look back at the long running, Emmy Award-winning television series (1976-1983) about a crusading Los Angeles County medical examiner, starring Jack Klugman.The series featured relevant story lines and social issues blended with mystery and drama incorporating the fascinating world of forensic medicine. Featuring interesting and insightful commentary from...
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    32,17 €

  • Popular Culture and the Future of Politics
    Ted Gournelos
    Popular Culture and the Future of Politics examines changes in popular culture and political culture in the United States, particularly in terms of progressive change. Because it provides overviews of theory along with concrete examples of politics and textual / content analyses of multiple cultural productions across media, it is ideal for courses that seek to be relevant to c...
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    156,56 €

  • Johnny Olson
    Randy West
    While Johnny Olson is best known as the original announcer on CBS’ The Price Is Right, he was a seminal figure in radio and television whose prolific career is woven into the fabric of broadcasting’s history.Using Olson’s own words and documentation of his career, as well as his personal remembrances of the birth of modern media, this book traces the development of radio and TV...
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    28,78 €

  • Gospel According to the Simpsons, Bigger and Possibly Even Better! Edition
    Mark I. Pinsky / Mark IPinsky / Samuel F. Parvin / Samuel FParvin
    Introducing a complete revision of the study guide to the best-selling book The Gospel according to The Simpsons, complete with new studies on episodes of The Simpsons as well as studies for discussing other popular animated comedies such as Family Guy, King of the Hill, and Futurama.This new edition features a session plan for a 'green retreat' based on The Simpsons feature fi...
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    15,35 €

  • American Science Fiction Film and Television
    Lincoln Geraghty
    American Science Fiction Film and Television presents a critical history of late 20th Century SF together with an analysis of the cultural and thematic concerns of this popular genre. Science fiction film and television were initially inspired by the classic literature of HG Wells and Jules Verne. The potential and fears born with the Atomic age fuelled the popularity of the ge...
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    174,28 €

  • Popular Culture and the Future of Politics
    Ted Gournelos
    Popular Culture and the Future of Politics examines changes in popular culture and political culture in the United States, particularly in terms of progressive change. Because it provides overviews of theory along with concrete examples of politics and textual / content analyses of multiple cultural productions across media, it is ideal for courses that seek to be relevant to c...
    Disponible

    63,84 €