Television category: 3830 books
Vampira and Her Daughters
Women Horror Movie Hosts from the 1950s into the Internet Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
From Vampira to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, female horror movie hosts have long been a staple of late-night television. Broadcast on local stations and cable access channels, characters such as Moona Lisa, Stella, Crematia Mortem and Tarantula Ghoul brought an entertaining blend of macabre camp...
Beyond the Bottom Line
The Producer in Film and Television Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This is the first collection of original critical essays devoted to exploring the misunderstood, neglected and frequently caricatured role played by the film producer. The editors' introduction provides a conceptual and methodological overview, arguing that the producer's complex and multifaceted...
Who Is Sherlock?
Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Nearly 130 years after the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to readers, the Great Detective’s identity is being questioned, deconstructed, and reconstructed more than ever. Readers and audiences, not to mention scholars and critics, continue to analyze who Sherlock Holmes is or has become and why...
That's Me, Groucho!
The Solo Career of Groucho Marx
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Groucho Marx’s career as a solo performer began long before the Marx Brothers and lasted almost until the end of his life, with a series of controversial sold-out concerts in his eighties. In between came several films, numerous television and radio appearances, theater performances, dramatic acting...
Gale Storm
A Biography and Career Record
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
On December 31, 1939, nationwide radio audiences listened as 17-year-old Josephine Owaissa Cottle, a Texas schoolgirl, won Gateway to Hollywood’s new talent competition. Her prize was a movie contract at RKO and a memorable stage name—“Gale Storm.” One of the United States’ most beloved...
CBS’s Don Hollenbeck
An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
Loren Ghiglione recounts the fascinating life and tragic suicide of Don Hollenbeck, the controversial newscaster who became a primary target of McCarthyism's smear tactics. Drawing on unsealed FBI records, private family correspondence, and interviews with Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Charles Collingwood,...
The Complete Trailer Park Boys
How to Enjoy the Trailer Park Boys When the Cable is Out
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
The first of its kind – a heavily illustrated, all-you-need-to-know book about the cult hit TV show, for both rabid fans and anyone who enjoys a hot toasted chicken finger.
To the storied and pastoral locales of great Canadian fiction – Leacock’ s Mariposa, Lawrence’s Manawaka, Montgomery’s...
A Family At War
The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to 'Till Death Us Do Part'
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Look … Look … Listen! You might learn somefink. This is the story of Till Death Us Do Part, the most controversial, most influential sitcom ever made for television. It is the story of a family at war – with each other, with the world, with religion, with royalty, with politics, with the...
by Alice Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2018
Phillip McGraw of the Dr. Phil show defines psychopaths, sociopaths and other bad characters as BAITERs, an acronym for Backstabbers/Abusers/Imposters/Takers/Exploiters/Reckless people. However, despite his contempt for such people, McGraw has at one time or another exhibited many of their characteristics....
by John J Joex
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Sure, everybody knows Star Trek and Star Wars and Harry Potter and the other “big name” sci fi / fantasy franchises, but there’s so much more to the genre than just those juggernauts. Anybody remember Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski’s other TV series, the post-apocalyptic Jeremiah?...
by Garry Berman
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Discover the gift behind the guffaws inside the minds of our greatest comedians. Through their words, as they discuss their profession, we learn how they feel about comedy, and about each other.
The great comics of Vaudeville, silent movies, talkies and sound films, radio, TV, and stand-up...
Not Just Batman's Butler
The Autobiography of Alan Napier
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
In January 1966, Alan Napier became a household name on ABC’s hit series Batman (1966–1968) as Alfred Pennyworth, loyal butler to the show’s title character. This “overnight success” came after 16 years of stage work (and the occasional film) in his native England and 26 years of film and...
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition
Cultural Contexts in Monty Python
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Monty Python’s Flying Circus was one of the most important and influential cultural phenomena of the 1970s. The British program was followed by albums, stage appearances, and several films, including Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian,and Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. In all,...
Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom
Essays on the BBC Series
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
The critically-acclaimed BBC television series Sherlock (2010– ) re-envisions Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective for the digital age, joining participants in the active traditions of Sherlockians/Holmesians and fans from other communities, including science fiction, media, and anime. This collection...