Television category: 3830 books
The ABC Movie of the Week
Big Movies for the Small Screen
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
On September 23, 1969, five years after the first made-for-television movie premiered, the ABC network broadcast Seven in Darkness. This was the first television film for an anthology show called the Tuesday Night Movie of the Week. Dedicating ninety minutes of weekly airtime to a still-emerging genre...
The Wire
Truth Be Told
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Welcome to the critically acclaimed HBO drama series The Wire, hailed as "the best show on television, period" by the San Francisco Chronicle. The New York Times calls it "a vital part of the television landscape...unvarnished realism." Time declares that The Wire, "like its...
MR. ROBOT: Red Wheelbarrow
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The only tie-in book for USA’s award-winning series MR. ROBOT, Elliot’s journal—Red Wheelbarrow—is written by show creator Sam Esmail and show writer Courtney Looney.
Before and during the events of season two, Elliot recorded his most private thoughts in this journal—and now you can...
The Glass Teat
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The classic collection of criticism about television and American culture from the late, multi-award-winning legend.
From 1968 through 1972, Harlan Ellison penned a series of weekly columns, sharing his uncompromising thoughts about contemporary television programming for the Los Angeles Free...
Make It Reality
Create Your Opportunity, Own Your Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The creator and producer of several mega-hit television series, including The Surreal Life, Flavor of Love, Rock of Love, and Charm School, shares his incredible journey of making it to the top—and how you can too.
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“No one paves the road for you. You have to create your own path. If you...
When Television Was Young
The Inside Story with Memories by Legends of the Small Screen
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2007
When television was young . . .
Legendary movie producer Darryl Zanuck declared, "People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
Before 5:30, there were only test patterns. Howdy Doody was the first show of the day.
CBS agreed to put I Love Lucy on film only if Desi...
by Toby Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Television Studies: The Basics is a lively introduction to the study of a powerful medium. It examines the major theories and debates surrounding production and reception over the years and considers both the role and future of television.
Topics covered include:
broadcasting history...
by Paul Green
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
On September 19, 1962, The Virginian made its primetime broadcast premiere. The 1902 novel by Owen Wister had already seen four movie adaptations when Frank Price mentioned the story’s series potential to NBC. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television’s first 90-minute western series. Immensely...
Upstairs and Downstairs
British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
The international success of Downton Abbey has led to a revived interest in period dramas, with older programs like The Forsyte Saga being rediscovered by a new generation of fans whose tastes also include grittier fare like Ripper Street. Though often criticized as a form of escapist, conservative...
by Jeannie Gayle Pool, H. Stephen Wright
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Unlike traditional music, film music sources are often difficult to locate and do not follow the patterns that researchers are trained to identify. Although there have been several self-described introductions to the field and articles that summarize the problems and state of research, there is no...
Looking for Carrascolendas
From a Child's World to Award-Winning Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
If your childhood friends were Agapito, the bombastic, bilingual lion; Campamocha, the fix-it man; Caracoles, the restaurant owner; Uncle Andy, the shoe seller; Berta and Dyana, the life-size dolls; and Seorita Barrera, then you grew up watching Carrascolendas. This award-winning show, which originally...
The Reality Television Quiz Book
1,000 Questions on Reality TV Shows
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Are you addicted to reality TV? Do you watch all the shows from Britain’s Got Talent to The Apprentice? Can you name every contestant ever to walk through the doors of the Big Brother house? Then The Reality Television Quiz Book is definitely for you. Who can forget Jade Goody, Peter Andre and Jordan,...
Television Westerns
Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Westerns have featured prominently in films almost since motion pictures were first produced at the end of the nineteenth century and when televisions invaded American homes in the late 1940s and early '50s, Western programs filled the small screen landscape. Throughout the 1950s and well into the...
by Richard Irvin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The history of American television is finally written. The shows your grandparents chose as their favorites during the dawn of network television inspired the series of today. The genesis of genres began with The Laytons; Barney Blake, Police Reporter; Off the Record; The Dennis James Carnival; Meet...