Television category: 3830 books
Still Life in Real Time
Theory After Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1994
Television can be imagined in a number of ways: as a profuse flow of images, as a machine that produces new social relationships, as the last lingering gasp of Western metaphysical thinking, as a stuttering relay system of almost anonymous messages, as a fantastic construction of time. Richard Dienst...
Television on Demand
Curatorial Culture and the Transformation of TV
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Since 2010 "curation†? has become a marketing buzzword. Wrenched from its traditional home in the world of high art, everything from food to bed linens to dog toys now finds itself subject to this formerly rarified activity. Most of the time the term curation is being inaccurately used to refer...
by Peter Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This lively and ground-breaking collection brings together work on forms of popular television within the authoritarian regimes of Europe after World War Two. Ten chapters based on new and original research examine approaches to programming and individual programmes in Spain, Greece, Czechoslovakia,...
Disability and Digital Television Cultures
Representation, Access, and Reception
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Disability and Digital Television Cultures offers an important addition to scholarly studies at the intersection of disability and media, examining disability in the context of digital television access, representation and reception.
Television, as a central medium of communication, has marginalized...
Season Finale
The Unexpected Rise and Fall of the WB and UPN
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In the mid-1990s, two major Hollywood studios, Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures, each launched their own broadcast television network with the hope of becoming the fifth major player in an industry long dominated by ABC, CBS, NBC, and, more recently, Fox. Despite the odds against them, the WB and...
Feeling Canadian
Television, Nationalism, and Affect
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
“My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian!” How did a beer ad featuring an unassuming guy in a plaid shirt become a national anthem? This book about Canadian TV examines how affect and consumption work together, producing national practices framed by the television screen. Drawing on the new field of...
by Gary Edgerton
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Television is a form of media without equal. It has revolutionized the way we learn about and communicate with the world and has reinvented the way we experience ourselves and others. More than just cheap entertainment, TV is an undeniable component of our culture and contains many clues to who we...
Television Writing from the Inside Out
Your Channel to Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Television Writing from the Inside Out is a how-to book with a difference: Larry Brody is a television writer-producer who has helped shape the medium. The book is rooted in experience, and told in the breezy style that is the trademark of Brody and his award-winning website TVWriter.Com, which has...
Television Cities
Paris, London, Baltimore
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
In Television Cities Charlotte Brunsdon traces television's representations of metropolitan spaces to show how they reflect the medium's history and evolution, thereby challenging the prevalent assumptions about television as quintessentially suburban. Brunsdon shows how the BBC's presentation of...
by Jonathan Gray
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world’s most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a box, it is deeply embedded in everyday life, in how we think, what we think and care about, and who we think and care about it with.
But...
by J.P. Telotte
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Once confined solely to literature and film, science fiction has emerged to become a firmly established, and wildly popular, television genre over the last half century. The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader provides insight into and analyses of the most important programs in the history...
Time in Television Narrative
Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First-Century Programming
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
This collection analyzes twenty-first-century American television programs that rely upon temporal and narrative experimentation. These shows play with time, slowing it down to unfold the narrative through time retardation and compression. They disrupt the chronological flow of time itself, using...
Time in Television Narrative
Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First Century Programming
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This collection analyzes twenty-first-century American television programs that employ temporal and narrative experimentation. These shows play with time, slowing it down to unfold narrative through time retardation and compression. They disrupt the chronological flow of time itself, using flashbacks...
by Ben Calvert, Neil Casey, Bernadette Casey
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Television Studies: The Key Concepts is the definitive reference guide to an area of rapidly expanding academic interest. Among those aspects of television studies covered in this comprehensive and up-to-date guide are:
theoretical perspectives which have shaped the study of television - Marxism;...