Television category: 3830 books
Bewitched Again
Supernaturally Powerful Women on Television, 1996-2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Starting in 1996, U.S. television saw an influx of superhuman female characters who could materialize objects like Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, defeat evil like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and have premonitions like Charmed's Phoebe. The extraordinary abilities of these women showed resistance to traditional...
Heroines of Film and Television
Portrayals in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
As portrayals of heroic women gain ground in film, television, and other media, their depictions are breaking free of females as versions of male heroes or simple stereotypes of acutely weak or overly strong women. Although heroines continue to represent the traditional roles of mothers, goddesses,...
by Laurie Ouellette
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social...
Complex TV
The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Over the past two decades, new technologies, changing viewer practices, and the proliferation of genres and channels has transformed American television. One of the most notable impacts of these shifts is the emergence of highly complex and elaborate forms of serial narrative, resulting in a robust...
Sid and Marty Krofft
A Critical Study of Saturday Morning Children's Television, 1969-1993
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
H.R. Pufnstuf, Lidsville, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Land of the Lost: For a generation of children growing up in the late sixties and early seventies, these were some of the most memorable shows on Saturday morning television. At a time when television cartoons had lost some of their luster, two...
Television Specials
5,336 Entertainment Programs, 1936-2012, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
This is a complete revision of the author's 1993 McFarland book Television Specials that not only updates entries contained within that edition, but adds numerous programs not previously covered, including beauty pageants, parades, awards programs, Broadway and opera adaptations, musicals produced...
Undead TV
Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
When the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired in 2003, fans mourned the death of the hit television series. Yet the show has lived on through syndication, global distribution, DVD release, and merchandising, as well as in the memories of its devoted viewers. Buffy stands out from much entertainment...
TV Finales FAQ
All That's Left to Know About the Endings of Your Favorite TV Shows
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
TV Finales FAQ is the first book devoted exclusively to television's most memorable series finales. From Mary Richards' heartfelt goodbye to the WJM-TV newsroom in the classic finale of The Mary Tyler Moore Show to the puzzling conclusion of the enigmatic adventure series, Lost, to the tumultuous...
by Christopher P. Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
As a wildly popular local dance show, Soul Train provided a venue for Chicago’s soul singers and political activists and gave African American teenagers their first significant chance to see and identify with their peers on television. The subsequent national series garnered even more popularity,...
Contemporary Westerns
Film and Television since 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Though one of the most popular genres for decades, the western started to lose its relevance in the 1960s and 1970s, and by the early 1980s it had ridden into the sunset on screens both big and small. The genre has enjoyed a resurgence, however, and in the past few decades some remarkable westerns...
by Matthew B. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
American guerrillas fight small-scale battles that, despite their implications for large-scale American victories, often go untold. This book evaluates those stories to illumine the ways in which film and television have created, reinforced, and circulated an "American Guerrilla" fantasy—a...
by John Kenneth Muir
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond made its television debut in 1959, nine months before Rod Serling’s classic The Twilight Zone, and paved the way for a generation of television programs devoted to paranormal topics such as the occult, ESP, and ghost stories. One Step Beyond was also where some of...
While America Watches
Televising the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2000
The Holocaust holds a unique place in American public culture, and, as Jeffrey Shandler argues in While America Watches, it is television, more than any other medium, that has brought the Holocaust into our homes, our hearts, and our minds. Much has been written about Holocaust film and literature,...
Reimagining Brazilian Television
Luiz Fernando Carvalho's Contemporary Vision
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The Brazilian television industry is one of the most productive and commercially successful in the world. At the forefront of this industry is TV Globo and its production of standardized telenovelas, which millions of Brazilians and viewers from over 130 countries watch nightly. Eli Lee Carter examines...