Television category: 3830 books
The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States
Revolution or Evolution?
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
In 1971, the Sloan Commission on Cable Communications likened the ongoing developments in cable television to the first uses of movable type and the invention of the telephone. Cable's proponents in the late 1960s and early 1970s hoped it would eventually remedy all the perceived ills of broadcast...
Living Color
Race and Television in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 1998
Recent media events like the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas, the beating of Rodney King and its aftermath, and the murder trial of O.J. Simpson have trained our collective eye on the televised spectacle of race. Living Color combines media studies, cultural studies, and critical race theory...
Recycled Stars
Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system. Yet many aging Hollywood stars used television to revive their fading careers. In Recycled Stars, Mary R. Desjardins examines the recirculation, ownership, and control of female...
Street Gang
The Complete History of Sesame Street
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
**Coming soon as a documentary from Focus Films, The New York Times bestselling account of the story behind one of the most influential, durable, and beloved shows in the history of television: Sesame Street.
“Davis tracks down every Sesame anecdote and every Sesame personality in his book...
Here We Go Again
My Life In Television
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
A memoir of Betty White's first five decades on television—as irreverent and irresistible as the beloved actress herself.
Betty White first appeared on television in 1949 and has gone on to have one of the most amazing careers in TV history, starring in shows such as Life with Elizabeth,...
A Life in Time and Space
The Biography of David Tennant
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
**The astounding life and career of David Tennant, acclaimed classical actor and television's 10th dramatic and eccentric Doctor Who-now revised and updated
Energetic and charismatic, David Tennant achieved international acclaim for his riveting portrayal of the 10th Time Lord in...
My Life to Live
How I Became the Queen of Soaps When Men Ruled the Airwaves
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
From the Emmy-winning creator and writer of All My Children and One Life to Live, a memoir of her trailblazing rise to the top of the television industry, including behind-the-scenes stories from some of the most beloved soaps of all time.
Before there was Erica Kane, Adam Chandler, or Victoria...
Netflix Nations
The Geography of Digital Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
How streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture.
Television, once a broadcast medium, now also travels through our telephone lines, fiber optic cables, and wireless networks. It is delivered to viewers via apps, screens large and small, and media...
by EUGENE TRUNDLE
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1999
This well-known book is an essential tool for every service engineer, and an extremely useful reference source for a wide range of engineers, students, sales and installation staff. It presents a wide range of data and key information in a compact form, covering television reception, satellite and...
Twilight Zone
19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
An original anthology celebrating Rod Serling's landmark television series
When it first aired in 1959, The Twilight Zone was nothing less than groundbreaking television. Freed from much of the censors' strict oversight because of the show's classification as "science fiction," the...
by Mark McCray
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Mark McCray wasn’t the only boy who loved Saturday morning cartoons, but he may have been the only one to call the networks and tell them what he liked and disliked about them.
For instance, he was blown away by the direction Hanna-Barbera took with Josie and the Pussycats, the kids in the wrong...
by Evan S. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
This new edition of Writing Television Sitcoms features the essential information every would-be teleplay writer needs to know to break into the business, including: - Updated examples from contemporary shows such as 30 Rock, The Office and South Park - Shifts in how modern stories are structured...
Billion-Dollar Kiss
The Kiss That Saved Dawson's Creek, and Other Adventures inTV Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
When Jeffrey Stepakoff was graduating with an MFA in playwriting, he imagined a life in the New York theater, wearing a beret and smoking clove cigarettes. Writing for the "boob tube" didn’t even cross his mind. But he ended up in L.A. in the late 80’s, when television writers were experiencing...
Friday Night Lights
The Untold History of Television
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
The Untold History of Television provides a captivating glimpse behind the scenes of the groundbreaking series that have both defined and changed the pop culture landscape.
Honest, compelling and full of heart, Friday Night Lights brought small-town Texas football into the lives of television...