Television category: 3830 books
by Barry Spicer, Michael Powell, David Emanuel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Remaking of Television New Zealand outlines and analyses the radical changes made to television broadcasting in New Zealand during the period 1984-1992. It looks closely at how TVNZ, a division of the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand, was transformed into a successful commercial company...
Reality TV
Factual Entertainment and Television Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Reality TV restores a crucial, and often absent, element to the critical debate about reality television: the voices of people who watch reality programmes.
From Animal Hospital to Big Brother, Annette Hill argues that much can be learned from listening to audience discussion about this popular...
by Shannon Wells-Lassagne
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
As American television continues to garner considerable esteem, rivalling the seventh art in its "cinematic" aesthetics and the complexity of its narratives, one aspect of its development has been relatively unexamined. While film has long acknowledged its tendency to adapt, an ability that contributed...
Reading Mystery Science Theater 3000
Critical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
First broadcast in the not too distant past on a television station in Minnesota, Mystery Science Theater 3000 soon grew out of its humble beginnings and found a new home on cable television. This simple show about a man and two robots forced to watch bad movies became a cult classic, and episodes...
Prime Time Animation
Television Animation and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In September 1960 a television show emerged from the mists of prehistoric time to take its place as the mother of all animated sitcoms. The Flintstones spawned dozens of imitations, just as, two decades later, The Simpsons sparked a renaissance of primetime animation. This fascinating book explores...
by William and Esther Powers
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
From the back cover:Throughout years of a popular television series, an entity has guided, and misguided, people and events to suit its own purposes. A dark fictional world is made darker with the knowledge of a controlling being whose powers could be called supernatural.The book revealing...
by Norman Ball
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Drawing heavily from David Foster Wallace and Sven Birkerts and aided at almost every turn by the ghosts of poets and great thinkers past and present, Between River and Rock is an impressionistic exposé like nothing you've read before. Here, the oldest son of Scottish closed-caption pioneer...
Paranoid visions
Spies, conspiracies and the secret state in British television drama
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Paranoid visions explores the history of the spy and conspiracy genres on British television, from 1960s Cold War series through 1980s conspiracy dramas to contemporary ‘war on terror’ thrillers. It analyses classic dramas including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Edge of Darkness, A Very British Coup...
Alan Ball
Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Alan Ball: Conversations features interviews that span Alan Ball's entire career and include detailed observations and insights into his Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and Emmy Award-winning television shows Six Feet Under and True Blood. Ball began his career as a playwright in New York,...
Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television
Mediating Post-Soviet Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television...
The Middle Ages on Television
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The 21st century has seen a resurgence of popular interest in the Middle Ages. Television in particular has presented a wide and diverse array of “medieval” offerings. Yet there exists little scholarship on television medievalism. This collection fills the gap with 10 new essays focusing on the...
Prescription TV
Therapeutic Discourse in the Hospital and at Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Tracing the history of television as a therapeutic device, Joy V. Fuqua describes how TVs came to make hospitals seem more like home and, later, "medicalized" the modern home. She examines the introduction of television into the private hospital room in the late 1940s and 1950s and then...
Scripted Affects, Branded Selves
Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
In Scripted Affects, Branded Selves, Gabriella Lukács analyzes the development of a new primetime serial called “trendy drama” as the Japanese television industry’s ingenious response to market fragmentation. Much like the HBO hit Sex and the City, trendy dramas feature well-heeled young sophisticates...
Don't Look at the Camera
Making television at Britain's smallest ITV station
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Don't Look at the Camera tells the extraordinary inside story of what it’s like to spend a lifetime making television. Ian Fisher is an international award winning producer/director who started his television career as a news reporter and presenter. This first volume of his memoirs is an often...