Television category: 3830 books
Generation Friends
An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Friends, published for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the show's premiere. Howyoudoin’?
In September 1994, six friends sat down in their favorite coffee shop and began bantering about sex, relationships, jobs, and just about everything else. A quarter...
Mayberry 101
Behind the Scenes of a TV Classic
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2013
On October 3, 1960, The Andy Griffith Show began its eight-year reign as one of the top-ten television shows in the country. Now, almost 50 years later, the original 249 episodes still remain among the most frequently watched syndicated shows on television. In 1991, Neal Brower began to write a...
Vying for the Iron Throne
Essays on Power, Gender, Death and Performance in HBO's Game of Thrones
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Game of Thrones has changed the landscape of television during an era hailed as the Golden Age of TV. An adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy A Song of Fire and Ice, the HBO series has taken on a life of its own with original plotlines that advance past those of Martin’s books. The...
by John Hutnyk
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
With importance for geopolitical cultural economy, anthropology, and media studies, John Hutnyk brings South Asian circuits of scholarship to attention where, alongside critical Marxist and poststructuralist authors, a new take on film and television is on offer.
The book presents Raj-era costume...
Life on Mars
From Manchester to New York
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A hybrid combination of 1970s police series and science fiction time travel, Life on Mars (Kudos/BBC Wales 2006-07) exemplifies the capacity of contemporary British television to find a loyal audience for work that it is innovative and unsettling. The programme rapidly garnered both critical and popular...
Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition
The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Although ostensibly presented as “light entertainment,” the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a cultural critique. Featuring monsters, the undead, as well as drawing upon folklore and fairy tales,...
Things I Can't Explain
A Clarissa Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
A complete re-imagining of the 1990s television hit Clarissa Explains it All as 20-something Clarissa tries to navigate the unemployment line, mompreneurs and the collision of two people in love.
She was a smart, snappy, light-hearted girl who knew it all at fourteen and let television audiences...
Beautiful TV
The Art and Argument of Ally McBeal
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
During its five-year run from 1997 to 2002, the popular TV show Ally McBeal engaged viewers in debates over what it means to be a woman or a man in the modern workplace; how romance factors into the therapeutic understanding of relationships; what value eccentricity has and how much oddity society should...
From Starship Captains to Galactic Rebels
Leaders in Science Fiction Television
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Real-world leaders hold the fates of companies, armies, and nations in their hands, but the leaders portrayed in science fiction play for larger stakes. Their decisions determine the survival of species, planets, or reality itself. They tend, therefore, to be larger-than-life characters like Doc Savage,...
Best TV Reviews
The Nation's Most Influential Sourcebook On Flat TV, LCD TV, Samsung TV, TV Ratings And Reviews, Television Reviews and Much More
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2013
The Best TV Reviews guide gives you an insider's grasp of flat tv, lcd tv, samsung tv, tv ratings and reviews, television reviews.
Revisiting Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Essays on Lessons About Self and Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
During its 33-season run, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968-2001) left an indelible mark on millions of children and their caregivers. Perhaps no series in the history of children's television has done more to develop the identity and ethics of the child. More than a decade after Fred Rogers' death,...
SECRETS FROM SESAME STREET'S PIONEERS
How They Produced a Successful Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
In the history of broadcasting, there has never been a children's television series that has lasted 40 years. Sesame Street is on its 45th year! So, let's discover the secrets to its success by meeting the pioneers. Go behind the scenes and talk with the producers about Muppets, music, and special...
The Survivor Manual
An Official Book of the Hit CBS Television Show
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Survivor Manual is the real deal--based on techniques taught to the U.S. Armed Forces and tested in actual survival situations over decades, the information in this book could help you beat any weather condition, any circumstance, any odds. This fully illustrated guide will show you how to:
--find...
by Ken Feil
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The highest-rated network program during its first three seasons, comedy-variety show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (NBC, 1968–1973) remains an often overlooked and underrated innovator of American television history. Audiences of all kinds—old and young, square and hip, black and white, straight...