Television category: 3830 books
Wallowing in Sex
The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Passengers disco dancing in The Love Boat’s Acapulco Lounge. A young girl walking by a marquee advertising Deep Throat in the made-for-TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. A frustrated housewife borrowing Orgasm and You from her local library in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Commercial television...
Tuning Out Blackness
Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Tuning Out Blackness fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television. In exploring the political and cultural dynamics that have shaped racial representations in Puerto Rico’s commercial media from the late 1940s to the...
by Albert Moran, Chris Keating
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Australians have become increasingly visible outside of the country as speakers and actors in radio and television, their media moguls have frequently bought up foreign companies, and people around the world have been able to enjoy such Australian productions as The Flying Doctors, Neighbours, and...
Television Talk
A History of the TV Talk Show
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Flip through the channels at any hour of the day or night, and a television talk show is almost certainly on. Whether it offers late-night entertainment with David Letterman, share-your-pain empathy with Oprah Winfrey, trash talk with Jerry Springer, or intellectual give-and-take with Bill Moyers,...
Television Versus the Internet
Will TV Prosper or Perish as the World Moves Online?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This book will explore the questions raised by the technological developments that have encouraged the multiplication of TV channels. TV is moving through a period of rapid change. Governments around the world are switching from analogue to digital forms of transmission to further expand the amount...
Beyond Prime Time
Television Programming in the Post-Network Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Daytime soap operas. Evening news. Late-night talk shows. Television has long been defined by its daily schedule, and the viewing habits that develop around it. Technologies like DVRs, iPods, and online video have freed audiences from rigid time constraints—we no longer have to wait for a program...
by Jeremy Tunstall
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
This book considers British television from the point of view of executive producers: the people who employ the workforce and are in charge of making all television series. The focus of the book is twenty-one separate genres, at least seven of which are in significant decline – namely current affairs,...
Television Brandcasting
The Return of the Content-Promotion Hybrid
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Television Brandcasting examines U. S. television’s utility as a medium for branded storytelling. It investigates the current and historical role that television content, promotion, and hybrids of the two have played in disseminating brand messaging and influencing consumer decision-making. Juxtaposing...
On Location
Canada's Television Industry in a Global Market
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Film and television production are important components of the Canadian economy. In Vancouver, popular American television series like The X-Files and Canadian series like Da Vinci's Inquest have boosted the city's profile as a centre for international and domestic productions. Serra Tinic's On Location...
Television Rewired
The Rise of the Auteur Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
In 1990, American television experienced a seismic shift when Twin Peaks premiered, eschewing formulaic plots and clear lines between heroes and villains. This game-changing series inspired a generation of show creators to experiment artistically, transforming the small screen in ways that endure...
Bright Signals
A History of Color Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
First demonstrated in 1928, color television remained little more than a novelty for decades as the industry struggled with the considerable technical, regulatory, commercial, and cultural complications posed by the medium. Only fully adopted by all three networks in the 1960s, color television was...
by ASHOK JAILKHANI
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In spite of the fact that India produces the maximum number of films each year, quality books and magazines related to the production of programmes for television channels and even those related to cinema, video, and television are difficult to find. To pave this gap, the two writers have penned down...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Although Film Studies has successfully (re)turned attention to matters of style and interpretation, its sibling discipline has left the territory uncharted - until now. The question of how television operates on a stylistic level has been critically underexplored, despite being fundamental to our...
by Randy Tatano
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
It's time for reporters to get street smart. And not just about reporting.
There's more to the television news business than gathering facts and getting your face on camera. You need to navigate the minefield present in every newsroom in America. Broadcast Journalism Street Smarts is a survival...