Television category: 3830 books
The City Since 9/11
Literature, Film, Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Charting the intersection of aesthetic representation and the material conditions of urban space, The City Since 9/11 posits that the contemporary metropolis provides a significant context for reassessing theoretical concerns related to narrative, identity, home, and personal precarity. In the years...
by David Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
To those born and raised in Chattanooga, certain names bring a smile to their faces: Miss Marcia, Bob Brandy, Mort Lloyd, Dr. Shock, and, of course, �Luther.� These are among the icons of Chattanooga broadcasting. They are the faces and voices that awakened Chattanoogans each morning, delivered the...
Hollywood TV
The Studio System in the Fifties
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The 1950s was one of the most turbulent periods in the history of motion pictures and television. During the decade, as Hollywood's most powerful studios and independent producers shifted into TV production, TV replaced film as America's principal postwar culture industry. This pioneering study offers...
Stealing the Show
How Women Are Revolutionizing Television
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
From a leading cultural journalist, the definitive cultural history of female showrunners—including exclusive interviews with such influential figures as Shonda Rhimes, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Mindy Kaling, Amy Schumer, and many more. “An urgent and entertaining history of the transformative powers...
Young and Restless Life of William J. Bell
Creator of The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Praise for THE YOUNG AND RESTLESS LIFE OF WILLIAM J. BELL
"A beautiful dedication to Bill and the pioneering legacy of the Bell family. Their endless commitment, passion, and creativity have left an indelible mark on the genre."-Frank Valentini, executive producer of General Hospital...
TV-a-Go-Go
Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
From Elvis and a hound dog wearing matching tuxedos and the comic adventures of artificially produced bands to elaborate music videos and contrived reality-show contests, television-as this critical look brilliantly shows-has done a superb job of presenting the energy of rock in a fabulously entertaining...
Joss Whedon
Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
No recent television creator has generated more critical, scholarly, and popular discussion or acquired as devoted a cult following as Joss Whedon (b. 1964). No fewer than thirty books concerned with his work have now been published (a forthcoming volume even offers a book-length bibliography), and...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Payola involved the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, celebrity disc jockeys like Alan Freed and Dick Clark, and the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. American President Dwight Eisenhower asked his attorney general to look into the matter following...
by Mary Debrett
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Once regarded as a system in decline, public service broadcasters have acquired renewed legitimacy in the digital environment, as drivers of digital take-up, innovators and trusted brands.Exploring this remarkable transformation, Reinventing Public Service Television for the Digital Future engages...
True South
Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
“[TRUE SOUTH] does several things at once. On one level, it’s a biography . . . On another, it’s a lucid recap of many of the signal events of the civil rights movement . . . A warm and intelligent book.”—The New York Times
“No one is better suited to write this moving account of perhaps...
It's Been Beautiful
Soul! and Black Power Television
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Soul! was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri Baraka and Stokely Carmichael enjoyed a sympathetic forum for their radical politics. Broadcast on public...
The Definitive Andy Griffith Show Reference
Episode-by-Episode, with Cast and Production Biographies and a Guide to Collectibles
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
On the February 2, 1960, episode of The Danny Thomas Show, entertainer Danny Williams (Danny Thomas) is arrested for a traffic violation by a small-town sheriff named Andy Taylor, played by a good-natured Southern actor named Andy Griffith. Thus was born one of the most popular television shows of...
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A Bingewatcher's Notebook
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Television and TV viewing are not what they once were—and that’s a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columnist for the London Observer from 1972 to 1982, James has witnessed a radical change in content, format, and programming, and in...
by Dr. Dean J. DeFino
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
No advertisers to please, no censors to placate, no commercial interruptions every eleven minutes, demanding cliffhangers to draw viewers back after the commercial breaks: HBO has re-written the rules of television; and the result has been nothing short of a cultural ground shift. The HBO Effect details...