Television category: 3830 books
Television Series of the 1950s
Essential Facts and Quirky Details
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Often regarded as the first golden era of television, the 1950s was a decade when many classic programs—from I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke to The Honeymooners and Perry Mason, among others—made their debuts. Even after these shows departed the airwaves, they lived on in syndication, entertaining several...
Friendlyvision
Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Fred Friendly (1915-1998) was the single most important personality in news and public affairs programming during the first four decades of American television. Portrayed by George Clooney in the film Good Night and Good Luck, Friendly, together with Edward R. Murrow, invented the television documentary...
Television Series of the 1970s
Essential Facts and Quirky Details
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Television of the 1970s reflected the shifting attitudes of the nation, as more shows attempted to represent social changes across the country. Edgier programs like All in the Family and M*A*S*H pushed the boundaries of popular programming to become standards of quality viewing. At the same time,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2005
Understanding Television offers an introduction to some of the issues of television broadcasting and its main genres. It examines a number of programme categories, such as news, drama-documentary, sit-com, soap opera, sport and quizzes, and discusses aspects of the history of the organisation of television,...
by Greg Metcalf
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Now that television shows can live forever as DVD sets, the stories they can tell have changed; television episodes are now crafted as chapters in a season-long novel instead of free-standing stories. This book examines how this significant shift in storytelling occurred.
The Evolution of Black Women in Television
Mammies, Matriarchs and Mistresses
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book seeks to interrogate the representation of Black women in television. Cheers explores how the increase of Black women in media ownership and creative executive roles (producers, showrunners, directors and writers) in the last 30 years affected the fundamental cultural shift in Black women’s...
Smart Chicks on Screen
Representing Women's Intellect in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
In Smart Chicks on Screen: Representing Women's Intellect in Film and Television, Laura Mattoon D’Amore brings together an impressive array of scholarship that interrogates the portrayal of females on TV and in movies. Among the questions that the volume seeks to answer are: in what ways are women...
Watching with The Simpsons
Television, Parody, and Intertextuality
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Using our favourite Springfield family as a case study, Watching with The Simpsons examines the textual and social role of parody in offering critical commentary on other television programs and genres.
Jonathan Gray brings together textual theory, discussions of television and the public sphere,...
TV Cops
The Contemporary American Television Police Drama
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The police drama has been one of the longest running and most popular genres in American television. In TV Cops, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick argues that, perhaps more than any other genre, the police series in all its manifestations—from Hill Street Blues to Miami Vice to The Wire—embodies the full...
Time-Travel Television
The Past from the Present, the Future from the Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Stories of time travel have been part of science fiction since H. G. Wells sent his nameless hero hurtling into Earth’s distant future in The Time Machine. Time travel enables the storyteller to depict alternate realities, bring fictional characters face to face with historical figures, and depict...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context.
For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website.
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by Vincent LoBrutto
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
What are the reasons behind enduring popularity of television genres such as police crime dramas, soap operas, sitcoms, and "reality TV"? What impact has television had on the culture and morality of American life? Does television largely emulate and reflect real life and society, or vice...
Television Series of the 2000s
Essential Facts and Quirky Details
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
In the first decade of the new millennium, the four major networks struggled to hold their own as cable channels and unscripted shows began to dominate the television landscape. Network powerhouses like 24, Desperate Housewives, and Two and a Half Men competed for viewers siphoned off by cult shows...
The Women Who Made Television Funny
Ten Stars of 1950s Sitcoms
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Most of the bright and talented actresses who made America laugh in the 1950s are off the air today, but their pioneering Hollywood careers irrevocably changed the face of television comedy. These smart and sassy women successfully negotiated the hazards of the male-dominated workplace with class...