Television category: 3830 books
Global TV
Exporting Television and Culture in the World Market
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
A reporter for the Los Angeles Times once noted that “I Love Lucy is said to be on the air somewhere in the world 24 hours a day.” That Lucy’s madcap antics can be watched anywhere at any time is thanks to television syndication, a booming global marketplace that imports and exports TV shows....
by Rebecca A. Umland
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Unlike such romanticized renegades as Robin Hood and Jesse James, there is another kind of outlaw hero, one who lives between the law and his own personal code. In times of crisis, when the law proves inadequate, the liminal outlaw negotiates between the social imperatives of the community and his...
by Anikó Imre
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
In TV Socialism, Anikó Imre provides an innovative history of television in socialist Europe during and after the Cold War. Rather than uniform propaganda programming, Imre finds rich evidence of hybrid aesthetic and economic practices, including frequent exchanges within the region and with Western...
The Walking Dead Live!
Essays on the Television Show
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
In 2010, The Walking Dead premiered on AMC and has since become the most watched scripted program in the history of basic cable. Based on the graphic novel series by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead provides a stark, metaphoric preview of what the end of civilization might look like: the collapse...
Real Sister
Stereotypes, Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to be rehashing old stereotypes of black women,...
TVtherapy
The Television Guide to Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Finally, a home theater companion that understands what we’ve all known for years–our favorite TV shows are more than an escape, they’re best friends and a form of therapy that can help us cope with everything from a bad hair day to a nuclear family meltdown.
Life getting boring in your...
Post-Object Fandom
Television, Identity and Self-narrative
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Fandom is generally viewed as an integral part of everyday life which impacts upon how we form emotional bonds with ourselves and others in a modern, mediated world. Whilst it is inevitable for television series to draw to a close, the reactions of fans have rarely been considered. Williams explores...
Heartbeat and Beyond
Memoirs of 50 Years of Yorkshire Television
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In 1968 a group of young people took over a derelict trouser factory in a rundown part of Leeds and set about producing programmes that were to define the British television world of the late 20th Century.
These included the investigative documentary series First Tuesday, Darling Buds of May,...
The Indecent Screen
Regulating Television in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
The Indecent Screen explores clashes over indecency in broadcast television among U.S.-based media advocates, television professionals, the Federal Communications Commission, and TV audiences. Cynthia Chris focuses on the decency debates during an approximately twenty-year period since the Telecommunications...
by Richard Brice
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002
The second edition has been updated with all the key developments of the past three years, and includes new and expanded sections on digital video interfaces, DSP, DVD, video servers, automation systems, HDTV, 8-VSB modulation and the ATSC system. Richard Brice has worked as a senior design engineer...
by Nick Beer
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 1998
This is the definitive practical guide to fault-finding, troubleshooting and servicing satellite television equipment, both indoors and outdoors. It will take you through all areas of satellite television system servicing from the simplest fixed dish to fully motorised systems. From PAL to Mac to...
The American Television Critic
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Aren’t we all TV critics? It’s a question that overlooks the importance of professional critics whose print and online columns reach large audiences. Their work helps viewers engage with programming and helps shape the conversations that arise. This book covers more than five decades of American...
Guts
The Anatomy of The Walking Dead
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
In this first and only guide to AMC’s exceptional hit series The Walking Dead, the Wall Street Journal’s Walking Dead columnist celebrates the show, its storylines, characters, and development, and examines its popularity and cultural resonance.
From its first episode, The Walking Dead...
by Michael Curry
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
One of the problems of becoming a father in his late forties that he DIDN’T expect was watching television with his pre-schooler: “Daddy, can we watch Barney?” “Sure! The Andy Griffith Show is on in a few minutes!” “No Daddy, the purple dinosaur.” “Dino? I LOVE The Flinstones...”
In...