Television category: 3830 books
The Simpsons
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2019
From its crudely drawn vignettes on The Tracey Ullman Show to its nearly 700 episodes, The Simpsons has evolved from an alternative programming experiment to a worldwide cultural phenomenon. At 30 seasons and counting, The Simpsons boasts the distinction as the longest-running fictional primetime...
Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before
Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Yet several decades passed before many other black women began playing significant roles in speculative (i.e., science...
Into the Newsroom
Exploring the Digital Production of Regional Television News
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Into the Newsroom provides a rigorous investigation into the everyday rituals that are performed in the television newsroom, and offers a unique suggestion that news is both a highly haphazard and yet technologically complicated process of deliberate construction involving the interweaving of reflexive...
Saturday Night Live FAQ
Everything Left to Know About Television's Longest Running Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Television history was made on Saturday, October 11, 1975, at 11:30pm (ET), when Chevy Chase welcomed America to the first episode of a new late-night comedy series. With its cutting edge satire and cast of young, talented performers, Saturday Night Live set a new standard for television comedy while...
Reality Gendervision
Sexuality and Gender on Transatlantic Reality Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
This essay collection focuses on the gendered dimensions of reality television in both the United States and Great Britain. Through close readings of a wide range of reality programming, from Finding Sarah and Sister Wives to Ghost Adventures and Deadliest Warrior, the contributors think through questions...
Adjusting the contrast
British television and constructs of race
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Through contextual and textual analyses, this title explores a range of texts and practices that address the ongoing phenomenon of race and its relationship to television. Chapters explore policies and the management of race; transnationalism and racial diversity; historical questions of representation;...
by Raymond Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
'Keeping the Dream Alive' is a unique and intriguing memoir charting the life and times of how someone growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in a very poor working class environment in post-War Britain was able to journey to the glittering arena of Hollywood, providing an inspirational insight...
Damn Fine Cherry Pie
And Other Recipes from TV's Twin Peaks
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A damn fine collection of seventy-five mouthwatering recipes, inspired by iconic scenes and characters from David Lynch’s groundbreaking cult classic series Twin Peaks—returning to television in 2017 with eighteen new episodes on Showtime.
Widely hailed as the best television show ever...
How To Break Your Child Actor Into Stage Film Television and Commercials
A Comprehensive Parent's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
An expert guide to successful "guerilla” marketing of your child actor to stage, film, television and commercial sdvertising. The book includes many shortcuts, secrets and top access points developed over the years by the author Meredith M. Day during her career as a top talent manager and developer in the entertainment industry.
by Matt Whyman
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
A stunning full-color, illustrated, behind-the-scenes guide to the Good Omens television series, adapted for the screen by Neil Gaiman himself and starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant.
Following the original novel’s chronological structure—from “the Beginning” to “End Times”—this...
The Good Neighbor
The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Fred Rogers (19282003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children and...
by Barbara Eden, Wendy Leigh
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
A magical, heartwarming memoir from one of Hollywood’s most beloved actresses, best known for her iconic role on I Dream of Jeannie
The landmark NBC hit television series I Dream of Jeannie has delighted generations of audiences and inspired untold numbers of teenage crushes on its beautiful...
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted
And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
"Jennifer Keishin Armstrong's deft weave of social history and sharp entertainment reporting explains how [The Mary Tyler Moore Show] made the world safe for Lena Dunham" (Peter Biskind, author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls)—the making of a classic and groundbreaking TV show, as experienced...
I'm Just Sayin'!
Three Deaths, Seven Husbands, and a Clone! My Life on Guiding Light and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
As the notorious Reva Shayne on the daytime television drama Guiding Light, Kim Zimmer portrayed a vixen, a manic-depressive, an Amish woman, a time traveler, a Civil War belle, a talk show host, a cancer survivor, a loving mother, and a devoted wife. In her more than two decades on the show, she...