Television category: 3830 books
Stephen J. Cannell Television Productions
A History of All Series and Pilots
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2009
The face of 1980s television was shaped by a man who stayed behind the scenes. Stephen Cannell’s reluctant white knights—put-upon private eye James Rockford, World War II fly-boys the Black Sheep Squadron, hapless superhero Ralph Hinckley, fugitive mercenaries the A-Team, and maverick cop Hunter—traversed...
Why The Monkees Matter
Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
A hit television show about a fictitious rock band, The Monkees (1966–1968) earned two Emmys—Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy. Capitalizing on the show’s success, the actual band formed by the actors, at their peak, sold more albums than The Beatles...
by Janet McCabe
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
With its fast and furious dialogue, crackling wit, and political savvy, The West Wing became appointment TV for millions during its seven-season run between 1999 and 2006. The behind-the-scenes ensemble drama about Washington politics premiered on the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, was the first...
Groove Tube
Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2001
Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune—or even willfully blind—to the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1960s. Groove Tube is Aniko Bodroghkozy’s rebuttal of this claim. Filled with entertaining and enlightening discussions of popular shows of the time—such...
Amazon Town TV
An Audience Ethnography in Gurupá, Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In 1983, anthropologist Richard Pace began his fieldwork in the Amazonian community of Gurupá one year after the first few television sets arrived. On a nightly basis, as the community’s electricity was turned on, he observed crowds of people lining up outside open windows or doors of the few homes...
MASH FAQ
Everything Left to Know About the Best Care Anywhere
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Here's the lowdown on the unforgettable show about the Forgotten War. M*A*S*H began as a novel written by a surgeon who had been in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. After being rejected multiple times, the novel would go on to become a bestseller, leading to 14 sequels, an Oscar-winning...
by Alfonso Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
The Google Chromecast is a truly powerful device that will turn your television into an Internet content powerhouse! The second generation Chromecast was released in the last half of 2015 and now offers increased speed, reliability, and mobility. If you’ve been considering a device that can take your...
A Reference Guide to Television's Bonanza
Episodes, Personnel and Broadcast History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Bonanza aired on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973, playing to 480,000,000 viewers in over 97 countries. It was the second longest running western series, surpassed only by Gunsmoke, and continues to provide wholesome entertainment to old and new fans via syndication. This book provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the changing ideas about children and childhood in the United States. Each chapter connects relevant events, attitudes, or anxieties in American culture to an analysis of children or childhood in select American television programs....
Foreign News on Television
Where in the World Is the Global Village?
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Spanning several years of research, this book compares and contrasts how public and commercial TV stations present foreign, domestic, and hybrid news from a number of different countries. It examines what viewers of television news think about foreign news, their interest in it, and what sense they...
Doctor Who and the Art of Adaptation
Fifty Years of Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Although it started as a British television show with a small but devoted fan base, Doctor Who has grown in popularity and now appeals to audiences around the world. In the fifty-year history of the program, Doctor Who’s producers and scriptwriters have drawn on a dizzying array of literary sources...
Global Media
The Television Revolution in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book is about the processes of globalization, demonstrated through a comparative study of three television case histories in Asia. Also illustrated are different approaches to providing television services in the world: public service (NHK in Japan), state (CCTV in China) and commercial (STAR...
by Barbara Villez
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This book examines the American television legal series from its development as a genre in the 1940s to the present day. Villez demonstrates how the genre has been a rich source of legal information and understanding for Americans. These series have both informed and put myths in place about the legal...
Amazing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postmans Brave New World Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Neil Postman’s most popular work, Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), provided an insightful critique of the effects of television on public discourse in America, arguing that television’s bias towards entertaining content trivializes serious issues and undermines the basis of democratic culture....