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  • Staging the real
    Richard Kilborn
    ’Staging the Real’ is a lively, stimulating account of recent developments in factual TV programming, including ’Big Brother’. Primarily aimed at Media Studies students, it will also be of interest to the more general reader. ...
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    22,33 €

  • Seven Seasons of Buffy
    Glenn Yeffeth
    This collection of irreverent and surprising essays about the popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer includes pieces by leading science fiction and fantasy authors. Contributors include bestselling legend David Brin, critically acclaimed novelist Scott Westerfeld, cult-favorite vampire author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and award-winner Sarah Zettel. The show and its cast...
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    17,89 €

  • Survivor Lessons
    This collection of scholarly essays examines reality television. The first show, Survivor, inspired a national craze when it aired in the summer of 2000. Ever since, successors and copycats have been on each of the four largest networks. The basics stay the same: put a group of people into situations bound to cause conflict, and watch them squirm. Rather than criticize the ser...
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    42,80 €

  • Over the Top Judaism
    Elliot B Gertel / Elliot B. Gertel / Elliot BGertel
    Over the Top Judaism offers criticism of scores of television episodes and films, mainly between 1980 and 2002, that highlight the beliefs and practices of Judaism, real or perceived. Author Elliot Gertel examines parallels and precedents in both media, and organizes the works topically, concluding with the most promising efforts. Chapters on classic television episodes cite in...
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    112,17 €

  • Granada Television
    Unique, readable first hand accounts of one of the most significant periods in British television history. Introductory essay from leading academic Julia Hallam (University of Liverpool), sets the creation of Granada in the context of British broadcasting history and of television as it is today. Provides an insight into the culture of Granada TV during its pioneering early yea...
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    29,28 €

  • War and the Media
    `No book is more timely than this collection, which analyses brilliantly the Western media’s relentless absorption into the designs of dominant, rapacious power’ - John PilgerThis book examines the changing contours of media coverage of war and considers the relationship between mass media and governments in wartime. ...
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    98,31 €

  • The Doctor Who Programme Guide
    Jean-Marc / Randy Lofficier
    The Doctor Who Programme Guide is the complete guide to every Doctor Who story shown on television. The stories are listed in order of broadcasting, starting with the first episode broadcast in 1963. Each entry includes the storyline, the cast list, and the names of the producer, script editor, writer and director, and the details of novelizations, video and audio cassette rele...
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    20,84 €

  • The Nth Doctor
    Jean-Marc Lofficier
    Over the last three decades, several film production companies have held the rights to make a 3 ...
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    23,08 €

  • Into The Twilight Zone
    Jean-Marc Lofficier / Randy Lofficier
    Into The Twilight Zone: The Rod Serling Programme Guide includes complete episode guides with cast, credits and story summaries of the original Twilight Zone series, as well as its many film and television revivals, and Rod Serling’s Night Gallery. The book features an overview and filmography of Serling’s life and career, and interviews with many of his colleagues, including B...
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    22,98 €

  • Black, White, and in Color
    Sasha Torres
    This book examines the representation of blackness on television at the height of the southern civil rights movement and again in the aftermath of the Reagan-Bush years. In the process, it looks carefully at how television’s ideological projects with respect to race have supported or conflicted with the industry’s incentive to maximize profits or consolidate power. Sasha Torres...
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    57,52 €

  • Wagner and Suicide
    John Louis DiGaetani
    Composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) likely suffered from a manic-depressive disorder but in his time very little was known about mental illness, and suicide was not a topic for general discussion. Wagner was often plagued by extreme mood swings; he used his operas, especially the librettos, to express himself and his personal difficulties. This investigation of the suicidal t...
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    57,56 €

  • Sarah Bernhardt’s First American Theatrical Tour, 1880-1881
    Patricia Marks
    On October 15, 1880, with great excitement and fanfare, two Sarah Bernhardts set sail for New York from Le Havre for a theatrical tour of the United States. One wanted to introduce French culture to a backward country, and the other wanted to make money. As an actress, she behaved in a fashion that amused and scandalized her audiences, and as a woman, she was an unwed mother an...
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    57,48 €

  • Legislative Television as Political Advertising
    Franklin G. Mixon
    Using theoretical and statistical models, along with several new sets of empirical results, this book examines the impact of legislative television on the political process in the United States. It examines the relationship between political-economic variables and the tendency to adopt/support live television in the U.S. Congress, the impact of television on the length of U.S. ...
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    15,26 €

  • Ordinary Television
    Frances Bonner
    Other books on Television tend to ignore ’ordinary’ television - lifestyle programmes and ’reality TV’, just the sort of programmes which increasing dominate the schedules. Bonner provides a distinctive angle on the content of television and the relations between television genres and audiences. ...
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    96,05 €

  • How to Meet the Famous
    Bruce Robertson
    Do you know anyone who has met over two hundred famous people 3 ...
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    19,83 €

  • Beyond Ideology
    Reginald Estoque Ecarma
    Beyond Ideology addresses the predominance of television news. This research attempts to rise above partisanship, that is, go beyond ideology in order to focus on cultural influences, if any, that may exist in the network newsrooms. ...
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    83,80 €

  • The Politics and Plays of Bernard Shaw
    Judith Evans
    Do politics and the playhouse go together? For Bernard Shaw they most certainly did. As a playwright with a message he saw the theatre as the ideal medium for conveying his view of life, which was essentially socialistic. The theatre was to Shaw a latter-day temple of the arts within a community. But Shaw was, of course, multi-voiced, not only through the characters he create...
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    57,46 €

  • Critiquing the Sitcom
    Joanne Morreale
    This anthology presents writings that examine the TV sitcom in terms of its treatment of gender, family, class, race and ethnic issues. The selections range from early shows such as I Remember Mama to the more recent Roseanne. The volume also looks unflinchingly at major controversies, for example, the NAACP boycott of the stereotypical yet wildly popular Amos n' Andy and t...
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    34,94 €

  • Television News Anchors
    Thomas Fensch
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    19,97 €

  • How TV Changed America’s Mind
    Edward Wakin
    A prize-winning journalist and widely published professor of communications examines how TV coverage shaped the way Americans viewed pivotal events over a 50-year span. Mixing the drama of what happened with insights into why TV has such great impact, the author looks beyond the images and analyzes the power of the medium. Leading media professionals praised the book for going ...
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    20,81 €

  • The Beverly Hillbillies
    Stephen Cox
    Come and listen to the story ’bout a man named Jed' and the rest of the colorful Clampett family, perhaps television’s most unlikely phenomenon to spring from the sixties. Hated by the critics but enthusiastically embraced by audiences around the world, to this day The Beverly Hillbillies still holds the Nielsen record for the highest rated half-hour show in the history of tele...
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    17,90 €

  • In All His Glory
    Sally Bedell Smith
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    24,62 €

  • Broadway Musicals
    David H. Lewis
    Musicals have been a major part of American theater for many years, and nowhere have they been more loved and celebrated than Broadway, the theater capital of the world. The music of such composers as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Berlin, the Gershwin brothers, Lerner and Loewe, Steven Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber continues to run through people’s minds, and such productions as...
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    73,27 €

  • The Star Trek
    David Mack
    As the brave men and women of Starfleet carry out their duties -- mapping countless solar systems, greeting new species and establishing ties with civilizations large and small -- they live, work, and face the possibility that they could die in space. How do Starfleet’s finest survive the countless dangers to be discovered as they boldly go where no one has gone before? Find ou...
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    13,09 €

  • Adaptation revisited
    Sarah Cardwell
    Offers a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, as well as bringing new material into the broader field of Television Studies. Surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing the unspoken assumptions and common misconceptions that underlie them and explores the problems inherent in previous approaches, developing an original perspective that consi...
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    28,33 €

  • American film and politics from Reagan to Bush Jr
    Covers a crucial two decades in American history, when the links between Hollywood and Washington DC were at their strongest.. The period is ’book-ended’ by the mighty political and cinematic figures of Reagan and Clinton.. Covers a period in which movies have become targets of political rhetoric of ’family values’.. Essays examine cinematic views of key American political inst...
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    28,36 €

  • Manufacturing the Gang
    Ra L. Damacio Tovares / Ra LDamacio Tovares / Ra?l Damacio Tovares / Raul Damacio Tovares
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    121,90 €

  • LIFE ON THE HOT SEAT
    Lawrence Caplan
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    25,25 €

  • The Du Mont Television Network
    Ira Skutch / Ted Bergmann
    ABC, NBC, CBS are the three names commonly associated with network television. The fourth name, Du Mont, is not usually recognizable by those younger than 50 or those who are not communications students. The Du Mont Television Network tells the story of the rise, the development, and the failure of this fourth network.Bergmann and Skutch present the Du Mont network’s story in a...
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    107,16 €

  • Jason Robards Remembered
    Eugene O’Neill Society
    Jason Robards won consecutive Oscars as best supporting actor for the films All the President’s Men (1977) and Julia (1978) but he is particularly remembered for having created central roles in the later plays of Eugene O’Neill. This tribute honors Robards in two parts. Part One presents recent interviews of the late actor as well as articles by Arthur and Barbara Gelb which ...
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    57,48 €


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