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  • Does the Crew Sleep Onboard? From Cruise Ships to International Game Shows
    Bruce J. Starin / Bruce JStarin
    Get ready to sail on a Cruise Ship Confidential! Ever wonder what goes on below decks of a real-life Love Boat? Bruce J. Starin knows. He was hired as a Social Director, and soon promoted to Assistant Cruise Director (First Officer of Entertainment) on a ship he calls the 'S.S. Luna Sea' because, if he used its real name in this funny, wise, revelatory memoir, a lot of marriage...
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    32,65 €

  • The History of Hiram Holliday
    Ian Dickerson
    Based on a best-selling book by Paul Gallico The Adventures of Hiram Holliday aired on NBC in the mid-1950s. Hiram was a mild-mannered newspaper proof-reader who, in his downtime, acquired skills such as combat shooting, fencing, rock climbing and scuba diving and put them to good use in various adventures. Great things were expected of the show; it’s star, Wally Cox, was just ...
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    24,17 €

  • The History of Hiram Holliday (hardback)
    Ian Dickerson
    Based on a best-selling book by Paul Gallico The Adventures of Hiram Holliday aired on NBC in the mid-1950s. Hiram was a mild-mannered newspaper proof-reader who, in his downtime, acquired skills such as combat shooting, fencing, rock climbing and scuba diving and put them to good use in various adventures. Great things were expected of the show; it’s star, Wally Cox, was just ...
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    34,34 €

  • Robots in Popular Culture
    Richard Hall
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    140,99 €

  • Tastemakers and Tastemaking
    Niamh Thornton
    Considers how and why taste persists in the analysis of Mexican film and television by looking at key figures and their impact on the curation of violence. ...
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    42,14 €

  • Capitán Latinoamérica
    Vinodh Venkatesh
    Analyzes contemporary superhero-themed cinema, television, and web series in Latin America. ...
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    41,97 €

  • Rebels
    Will Stevens
    CLEAR THE NEUTRON BLASTERS FOR FIRING!The battles of the crew of the Liberator against the totalitarian Federation captivated children and adults alike from 1978 to 1981, attracting millions of viewers and becoming a playground favourite. Blake’s 7 had sets that wobbled, alien planets that looked like quarries and effects that were cardboard cut-outs but it was the smart, intel...
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    21,51 €

  • Where To Land
    Hal Hartley
    Joe Fulton is a semi-retired director of romantic comedies. He decides he should have his last will and testament drawn up. At the same time, eager to be outdoors and work with his hands, he applies for a job as assistant grounds keeper at a nearby cemetery. His highly dramatic girlfriend, his impressionable young niece, his neighbors and friends all assume he is dying but is t...
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    22,65 €

  • Was It Yesterday?
    Matthew Leggatt
    Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television. ...
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    121,60 €

  • Nickelodeon ’90s
    Chris Morgan
    There is an entire generation that grew up on Nickelodeon. The network started to get its footing in the ’80s and in the ’90s became the defining voice in entertainment for kids. For the first time ever, in this book, the entire expanse of ’90s Nickelodeon has been collected in one place. A mix of personal reflection and media criticism, it delves into the history of each show ...
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    42,74 €

  • LEXX Unauthorized, Series 4
    D.G. Valdron
    LEXX Unauthorized, Series 4 - The Little Blue Marble. The final chapter in the saga of LEXX, and its crew: Kai, an undead assassin, Zev, a combination of love slave and cluster lizard, Stanley Tweedle, a hapless security guard and 790, a robot head, careening through space together a stolen, planet destroying, biological warship shaped like a dragonfly. The fourth series once a...
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    22,59 €

  • Transferences
    Maren Scheurer
    Why are psychoanalysts fascinated with literature and other arts? And why do so many novels, plays, films, and television series feature therapy sessions? Transferencesinvestigates the interdisciplinary attraction between psychoanalysis and the arts by exploring the therapeutic relationship as a recurring figure in psychoanalytic discourse, literature, theater, and television. ...
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    51,96 €

  • Television
    Vincent Terrace
    It never made it to the air, but in 1953, Frank Sinatra starred in a proposed private eye series called Blues in the Night. Also not becoming series were adaptations of old time radio programs like The First Nighter, The Witch’s Tale and Mandrake the Magician. There were also some strange proposals like Grave Sight (about a young woman who can communicate with spirits) and Sutu...
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    27,71 €

  • Television
    Vincent Terrace
    It never made it to the air, but in 1953, Frank Sinatra starred in a proposed private eye series called Blues in the Night. Also not becoming series were adaptations of old time radio programs like The First Nighter, The Witch’s Tale and Mandrake the Magician. There were also some strange proposals like Grave Sight (about a young woman who can communicate with spirits) and Sutu...
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    37,88 €

  • After Shtisel
    maurice yacowar
    The author of the well-received analysis, Reading Shtisel: A TV Masterpiece from Israel, here provides an analysis of the themes and structure of each episode of the new Season Three. In addition he analyzes Autonomies, the brilliant political drama that the Shtisel writers presented after Shtisel. ...
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    13,61 €

  • The Food Network Recipe
    When the Television Food Network launched in 1993, its programming was conceived as educational: it would teach people how to cook well, with side trips into the economics of food and healthy living. Today, however, the network is primarily known for splashy celebrity chefs and spirited competition shows. These new essays explore how the Food Network came to be known for con...
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    79,29 €

  • Batman
    Joe Sutliff Sanders
    It’s possible that no other version of Batman has been more influential than the one that debuted as a children’s cartoon in 1992. For millions of fans around the world, the voices of Batman and the Joker introduced in Batman: The Animated Series (BTAS) remain the default. The characters, designs, and major themes of the show went on to shape other cartoons, films, and bestsell...
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    22,51 €

  • The Binge Watcher’s Guide to Riverdale
    Melissa Ford Lucken
    Busted families, broken hearts, secrets and corruption are the lifeblood of The CW’s gothic horror series Riverdale. The show is based on the original Archie comics, but this sinister town is a far cry from the wholesome, anyplace USA depicted in 80 years of the teen adventures featuring Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica, and the rest of the gang. This Riverdale is an other-worl...
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    22,59 €

  • Media Power and Global Television News
    Saba Bebawi
    The Middle East has been a particular focus of global crisis reporting. Yet, international coverage of these conflicts has historically been presented through a ’Western’ perspective. The absence of Arab voices in the global public sphere has created a discursive gap between the Middle East and the rest of the world. The arrival of Al Jazeera English might, therefore, be regard...
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    52,58 €

  • Watching Game of Thrones
    Clarissa Smith / Feona Attwood / Martin Barker
    How did audiences across the world engage with the blockbuster TV series Game of Thrones? This book presents the findings of a major research project that gathered the responses of more than 10,000 people. Its findings challenge many conventional approaches and open up new ways of thinking about the value of contemporary ’fantasy’. ...
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    157,56 €

  • Motherless Children
    Hal Hartley
    When his wife dies young, Canadian immigrant ironworker, Jim Fulton, is left with four children he hardly knows and a neighborhood of relatives willing to help raise them. But his stubborn independence keeps getting in his way as he grapples clumsily with a world changing fast and sometimes violently. Set in the Long Island suburbs and up on the girders of the Manhattan skyline...
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    30,46 €

  • Surviving Cissy
    Kathy Garver
    Kathy Garver, the teenage heartthrob from the hit series Family Affair (1966-1971), was no one-hit wonder, but a journeywoman actress who appeared in such classic films as Night of the Hunter and The Ten Commandments long before she became a television icon. This memoir is a recollection of a working actress’s experiences, from the many films, television shows, and stage plays ...
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    16,17 €

  • Millennials Killed the Video Star
    Amanda Ann Klein
    Between 1995 and 2000, the number of music videos airing on MTV dropped by 36 percent. As an alternative to the twenty-four-hour video jukebox the channel had offered during its early years, MTV created an original cycle of scripted reality shows, including Laguna Beach, The Hills, The City, Catfish, and Jersey Shore, which were aimed at predominantly white youth audiences. In ...
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    34,06 €

  • Millennials Killed the Video Star
    Amanda Ann Klein
    Between 1995 and 2000, the number of music videos airing on MTV dropped by 36 percent. As an alternative to the twenty-four-hour video jukebox the channel had offered during its early years, MTV created an original cycle of scripted reality shows, including Laguna Beach, The Hills, The City, Catfish, and Jersey Shore, which were aimed at predominantly white youth audiences. In ...
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    132,00 €

  • The Body Onscreen in the Digital Age
    Susan Flynn
    This collection examines the peculiarly modern phenomenon of voyeurism as it is experienced through the digital screen. Violence, voyeurism, and power populate film more than ever, and the centrality of the terrified body to many digital narratives suggests new forms of terror and angst, where bodies are subjected to an endless knowing look. The particular perils of the digital...
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    79,55 €

  • Play for Today
    Simon Farquhar
    'The British film industry was alive and well in the Seventies. It was just in television rather than cinema.'In 1970, after a six-year grip on the public imagination, The Wednesday Play changed its name to Play for Today. A new name for a new and very different decade, but the principles of the series that had introduced millions to bold new talents such as Dennis Potter, Ken ...
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    44,73 €

  • Working While Black
    Latoya T Brackett
    In recent years, there has been a rise in diverse racial representation on television. In particular, Black characters have become more actualized and have started extending beyond racial stereotypes. In this collection of essays, the representation of Black characters in professionally defined careers is examined. Commentary is also provided on the portrayal of Black people in...
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    64,81 €

  • THE BROTHERS COMPANION
    Rob Cope
    The Brothers was one of the BBC’s biggest drama successes of the 1970s. Over five years between 1972 - 76 the nation was gripped by the story of the haulage company Hammond Transport and it’s dysfunctional founding family. Author and fan Rob Cope has accessed public and private archives to tell the story of the series and it’s consequent success which saw the cast being mobbed ...
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    35,84 €

  • Policing the Monstrous
    Ashley Szanter
    This collection of new essays examines how the injection of supernatural creatures and mythologies transformed the hugely popular crime procedural television genre. These shows complicate the predictable and comforting patterns of the procedural with the inherently unknowable nature of the supernatural. From Sherlock to Supernatural, essays cover a range of topics including the...
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    42,96 €

  • There Once Was a Show from Nantucket
    Bob Leszczak
    Author Bob Leszczak has been a TV sitcom fanatic since he was still in diapers and just learning to walk (see the photo below). His fascination for the format has never waned. After having ten books published previously, he carefully weighed his next project and said, 'Volumes have been written about other popular situation comedies such as I Love Lucy, Cheers, Frasier, M*A*S*H...
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    32,54 €


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