Television category: 3830 books
by Kathleen Fearn-Banks, Anne Burford-Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
From Amos 'n' Andy to The Jeffersons to Family Matters to Chappelle's Show, this volume has all different genres—animation, documentaries, sitcoms, sports, talk shows, and variety shows—and performers such as Muhammad Ali, Louis Armstrong, Bill Cosby, and Oprah Winfrey. Additionally, information...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Television and Criticism unites distinguished scholars from the fields of literary criticism, media studies, and film studies to challenge the traditional boundaries between high and low culture. Through a theoretical lens, this volume addresses such topics as the blurring of genres, television and...
by Dean Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Compiled by acclaimed television scriptwriter and novelist Dean Wilkinson, The Classic Children’s Television Quiz Book is packed with fascinating facts about the shows you loved as a child as well as those programmes currently capturing the imagination of today’s young audiences. From timeless classics...
by David Inman
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
T-Bar-V Ranch went off the air in 1970, but ask any Louisville baby boomer to sing the theme song and you�ll instantly hear, �Brush your teeth each morning / Get lots of sleep at night / Mind your mom and daddy / Cause they know what is right.� Such is the power of homegrown television. This book...
Loving The L Word
The Complete Series in Focus
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Loving The L Word explores the groundbreaking series in its entirety through all six seasons, picking up where I.B. Tauris' Reading The L Word: Outing Contemporary Television (2006) left off. With new, updated chapters by many of the same television writers and scholars who contributed to the first...
by Jonathan Etter
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Its series title mentioned women, but its top three stars were men!It pioneered a new kind of story-telling with its pilot episode; its last episode was years ahead of its time.Many thought it doomed to failure - it became one of the 1968-69 season's biggest hits!It was the...
Television Series of the 1990s
Essential Facts and Quirky Details
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
In the 1990s the big three networks were being challenged by upstarts FOX and the WB for viewer loyalty. Alongside must-see stalwarts like Frasier, Friends, and Seinfeld, the new networks introduced pop culture touchstones like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The X-Files. Such shows not only made household...
Raymond Williams on Television (Routledge Revivals)
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
First Published in 1989, this work is based around a monthly TV column which Raymond Williams wrote for The Listener between 1968 and 1972. Those were the years of the Prague Spring, of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, of fighting in Cambodia and Northern Ireland, of hope for McGovern in the United...
Lucille
The Life of Lucille Ball
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Everyone loved Lucy, the scheming, madcap redhead who ruled television for more than twenty years. In life, however, Lucille Ball presented a far more complex and contradictory personality than was ever embodied by the television Lucy. In Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball Kathleen Brady presents the...
A TV Guide to Life
How I Learned Everything I Needed to Know From Watching Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
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A couch potato’s book of wisdom— 100% commercial free!
Some say that entire generations of Americans are being raised by the television…like that’s a bad thing. Not so, says author Jeff Alexander, long-time television writer, advocate...
Television Program Master Index
Access to Critical and Historical Information on 2,273 Shows in Books, Dissertations and Journal Articles, 3d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This work indexes books, dissertations and journal articles that mention television shows. Memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, and some popular works meant for fans are also indexed. The major focus is on service to researchers in the history of television. Listings are keyed to an annotated bibliography....
by Debi Gallo
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Meet the gritty, sexy world of television news and the serenity of life in Italy.
Denise DiBella is asuccessful, beautiful, andintelligentno-nonsense broadcastnewsand sportsreporter.Through her colorful exploits, she paints a vivid picture aboutthe highs, lows and lovesof lifewithin the news...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Digital technology for the production, transmission, and reception of television is expected to replace analogue transmission throughout the world. The timetable for this transition is uncertain and different projections have been made for virtually every country in the world. This book gives the...
The Smallville Chronicles
Critical Essays on the Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
In 2001, yet another adaptation of the Superman comic book came to television. Lasting 10 seasons, Smallville took the traditional Superman story and turned it into an American teen action drama about Clark Kent's life at high school—before he donned the famous blue tights and red cape. Instead...