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  • The St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters
    Murray Frame
    The opulent St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters were subsidized and administered by the Russian court from the eighteenth century until the collapse of the tsarist order in 1917. This close association raises many questions about the uses of these theaters and where their loyalties lay in early twentieth century Russia. This history begins in 1900 with the theater flourishing...
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    57,46 €

  • Channeling the Future
    Lincoln Geraghty
    Though science fiction certainly existed prior to the surge of television in the 1950s, the genre quickly established roots in the new medium and flourished in subsequent decades. In Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television, Lincoln Geraghty has assembled a collection of essays that focuses on the disparate visions of the past, present, and future...
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    99,86 €

  • The Tao of Jack Bauer
    Steven Keslowitz
    As the preeminent post-9/11 television thriller, 24 has addressed critical issues relating to striking the proper balance between maintaining our civil liberties and ensuring our national security. The show continues to have a profound impact on the way in which we view the world.The Tao of Jack Bauer is an insightful study of Jack Bauer’s influence in society. What does Jack B...
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    21,80 €

  • Hardcastle and McCormick
    Cheri deFonteny / Deb Ohlin / Lynn Walker
    Milton C. Hardcastle was a law and order judge. Mark McCormick was an ex-con, an ex-racecar driver, and Hardcastle’s last case. On the eve of his retirement, Hardcastle chose an unwilling McCormick to be the fast gun (and even faster driver) for his post-retirement career as a modern day Lone Ranger. Would they get the bad guys, or kill each other, first? Return with us now, to...
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    37,70 €

  • No Sense Of Decency
    Robert Shogan
    With a journalist's eye for revealing detail, Robert Shogan traces the 1954 Army-McCarthy Senate hearings and analyzes television's impact on government. Despite McCarthy's fall, Mr. Shogan points out, the hearings left a major item of unfinished business—the issue of McCarthyism, the strategy based on fear, smear, and guilt by association. ...
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    20,30 €

  • The Encyclopedia of TV Spies
    Wesley Britton
    Before Bond, before Maxwell Smart and Mrs. Emma Peel, we've enjoyed a wide variety of TV Spies. From 1951's Dangerous Assignment to today's Burn Notice, we've watched cloak-and-dagger adventures from popular successes like Alias and Mission: Impossible to thoughtful mini-series like The Sandbaggers to cartoons and even live animals in shows like Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp. Our...
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    32,12 €

  • In the Hunt
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    17,61 €

  • The History of Television, 1880 to 1941
    Albert Abramson
    No other technological innovation can be cited whose impact on the fabric of daily living has been as pervasive as that of television. A sole inventor does not exist; television came about through the remarkable interactions of several hundred scientists. Interviews with these scientists, extensive archival research worldwide, and rare photos make this book--and its follow...
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    71,48 €

  • Sex and the City
    Deborah Jermyn
    With its bold depiction of four female friends navigating the pitfalls of Manhattan’s dating scene, Sex and the City, which aired on HBO from 1998 to 2004, was a unique television drama that evolved into a ubiquitous and widely debated cultural phenomenon. Deborah Jermyn’s Sex and the City investigates the program’s critical and popular success as well as its lasting cultural i...
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    28,64 €

  • Round Up the Usual Suspects
    Raymond Ruble
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    95,77 €

  • Sports on Television
    Alvin Marill
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    95,72 €

  • 'We Will Be Citizens'
    James Fisher
    A dozen essays by a range of established scholars and performing artists address issues in post-1969 American gay and lesbian theatre and drama, the period after the raid at the Stonewall Inn helped spawn a 'gay revolution.' The collection covers playwrights, millennial dramatists, and actors while exploring the history of gay-themed theatre and drama, the breadth of stage r...
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    57,44 €

  • Old-Time Television Memories
    Mel Simons
    'Hello?''Hello, Milton Berle, this is Mel Simons.''Which Mel Simons is this?'Which Mel Simons? It’s the Mel Simons from Boston who is the humorist, accordionist, emcee, radio personality and show business historian. It’s the Mel Simons who has authored four books on the greats of early television and radio. Yes, that Mel Simons.In this follow-up to his acclaimed volume Old-T...
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    18,84 €

  • 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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    60,42 €

  • Red, White, and Spooked
    M. Keith Booker / MKeith Booker
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    82,51 €

  • The Dramatic Method Of Teaching (1912)
    Harriet Finlay-Johnson
    The Dramatic Method of Teaching is a book written by Harriet Finlay-Johnson and originally published in 1912. The book provides a detailed exploration of the use of drama and theatrical techniques in the classroom as a means of engaging students and enhancing their learning experience. Drawing on her own experiences as a teacher and drama enthusiast, Finlay-Johnson offers pract...
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    30,09 €

  • The ABC Movie of the Week Companion
    Michael Karol
    Movies made for television were in their infancy when ABC came up with a novel idea: a weekly series of films made exclusively for the small screen. The ABC Movie of the Week became a great success and a cultural touchstone for a generation of Americans.In this loving tribute to the classic series of TV films, more than two hundred films in the series are reviewed, including we...
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    13,51 €

  • Circuit Chautauqua
    John E. Tapia
    In the late 19th century the chautauqua movement became a popular form of adult education and entertainment in the United States. With noted lyceum speakers (such as Teddy Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan) and local talent, the movement spread throughout the country and was particularly popular in the rural areas of the Midwest. An overview of the lyceum and of adult e...
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    50,17 €

  • Encyclopedia of Stage Lighting
    Jody Briggs
    This encyclopedia contains more than 1500 detailed entries covering such topics as equipment, methods, concepts, design process, electricity, characteristics of light, and lightboard operations. Where applicable, entries present both the historical and current significance of the apparatus or concept being described. Entries are extensively cross-referenced, and many inclu...
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    73,54 €

  • Hills
    Lila Stewart
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    17,24 €

  • Seers, Witches and Psychics on Screen
    Karin Beeler
    This book addresses the pervasive representation of women with unique visionary abilities in postfeminist television series and films from the 1990s to the present. These women mediate between the living and the dead or between different worlds of experience, redefining what it means to be 'normal' and challenging the traditional boundary between science and the inner world ...
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    42,89 €

  • Internet Plays
    Paulette Fein
    These 6 original plays, by Paulette Fein, are of various lengths, types, and interactive! Suitable for the internet,stage,indie film,cable,etc. Their improvisations, and revisions can easily be made adaptable for theatre groups’ target audiences, as well as classroom exercises and experimentation. The improvisations will help free the actors for their performances with creative...
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    29,57 €

  • The Influence of Tennessee Williams
    Philip C. Kolin
    The author of A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was never shy about drawing on his personal and family drama for stage material. This collection of 15 essays examines how Williams’s confessional style and subject matter in turn influenced a diverse group of American playwrights over the past six decades. Critical comparisons with William Inge, Edward Albee...
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    58,59 €

  • Star Trek 101
    Terry J. Erdmann / Terry JErdmann
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    22,03 €

  • The Myth of Lost
    Marc Oromaner
    Can a television show provide insight into the meaning of our lives? The Myth of Lost explores a fascinating solution to the mysterious television series and reveals how the show contains startling hidden wisdom that can be used in real life.From haunting whispers and tropical polar bears, to a shapeless monster and an omnipresent set of numbers, Lost has provided a never-endin...
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    13,62 €

  • The Myth of Lost
    Marc Oromaner
    Can a television show provide insight into the meaning of our lives? The Myth of Lost explores a fascinating solution to the mysterious television series and reveals how the show contains startling hidden wisdom that can be used in real life.From haunting whispers and tropical polar bears, to a shapeless monster and an omnipresent set of numbers, Lost has provided a never-endin...
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    21,18 €

  • M*A*S*H
    David Scott Diffrient
    Few American television series are as deeply entrenched in twentieth-century popular culture as M*A*S*H, a Korean War medical comedy characterized by its dark tone and finesse in tackling serious social and political issues. By the end of its run, M*A*S*H had been a mainstream hit for several seasons and won fourteen Emmys, leading it to be called 'the most popular pre-Seinfeld...
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    28,45 €

  • Lillian Russell
    Armond Fields
    Colorful and boisterous first nights were the rule in New York theaters of the 1880s. Everyone, it seemed, attended, from the rich and powerful to young people who scraped together just enough to buy a ticket. And no star was more popular than Lillian Russell. At a time when serious plays dominated the stages, Lillian Russell was one of the first to popularize musical thea...
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    58,61 €

  • Every Man Out of His Humour
    Ben Jonson
    Despite its popularity when it first appeared in print in 1600, Every Man out of His Humour has never appeared as a single modern critical edition until now. The volume’s introduction and annotations convey early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display by providing historical contexts and pointing out the continuity of those obsessions into modern life. The play is of in...
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    27,78 €

  • A Critical History of Television’s The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964
    Don Presnell / Marty McGee
    Rod Serling’s anthology series The Twilight Zone is recognized as one of the greatest television shows of all time. Always intelligent and thought-provoking, the show used the conventions of several genres to explore such universal qualities as violence, fear, prejudice, love, death, and individual identity. This comprehensive reference work gives a complete history of the...
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    28,06 €