Television category: 3830 books
Living Room Lectures
The Fifties Family in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
With a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and squeaky-clean kids, the 1950s television family has achieved near mythological status as a model of what real families "ought" to be. Yet feature films of the period often portrayed families in trouble, with parents and children in conflict over...
by Ron Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Broadcasters behave outrageously in “Men from the Adverts Telly,” a Welsh journalist’s personal recollection of the Golden Age of Independent Television. Greedy bosses, bolshie unions and hell-raising hacks are recalled in a first book described by top literary agent James Gill as “intriguing...
The Take2 Guide to Lost
Compulsory television generated a sweeping dialogue … and here it is.
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Over 50 contributors ask and answer all your questions in this ultimate eBook compendium of everything related to the most iconic and ‘talked-about’ series in Television history.
Just the ‘Ending’ Chapter alone has over 30 articles, opinions and insights to further challenge your perspective....
Viewers Like You
How Public TV Failed the People
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
How "public" is public television if only a small percentage of the American people tune in on a regular basis? When public television addresses "viewers like you," just who are you? Despite the current of frustration with commercial television that runs through American life,...
by James Donaghy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
As television descends ever further into a bacchanalian orgy of industry gladhanding, ass kissing and nut guzzling, Aerial Telly is the one website you can rely upon to call it exactly how it is.
More hopelessly corrupt TV critics were spotted lunching with worthless TV talent Chernobyls than...
by Theresa L. Geller
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Premiering in 1993 on FOX Network, The X-Files followed the investigations of two FBI special agents, Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully as they pursued the supernatural, the bizarre, and the alien, as well as the government conspiracies at work to conceal the truth of their existence. For nine seasons,...
Glamour, Gidgets, and the Girl Next Door
Television's Iconic Women from the 50s, 60s, and 70s
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Glamour, Gidgets, and the Girl Next Door is the latest creation from entertainment biographer and pop culture consultant Herbie J Pilato. Based on exclusive celebrity interviews, this book runs the gamut of female television legends, from Donna Douglas (who played Elly May Clampett on The Beverly...
Welcome to the Dreamhouse
Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
In Welcome to the Dreamhouse feminist media studies pioneer Lynn Spigel takes on Barbie collectors, African American media coverage of the early NASA space launches, and television’s changing role in the family home and its links to the broader visual culture of modern art. Exploring postwar U.S....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
The MAP-TV Guide to film and television collections in Europe provides detailed information on almost 2,000 sources and archives of film and television in over forty European countries. This authoritative volume includes: the title listing of each collection both in English and the local language;...
German Television
Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambitious volume, the first in English on the subject, provides a much-needed corrective in the form of penetrating...
Ethereal Queer
Television, Historicity, Desire
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
In Ethereal Queer, Amy Villarejo offers a historically engaged, theoretically sophisticated, and often personal account of how TV representations of queer life have changed as the medium has evolved since the 1950s. Challenging the widespread view that LGBT characters did not make a sustained appearance...
by Vincent Terrace
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Created around the world and available only on the Web, internet “television” series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through online crowd-funding, they are produced with borrowed equipment and volunteer...
Inside the Rise of HBO
A Personal History of the Company That Transformed Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
There are two ages in the history of television: before HBO and after HBO. Before the launch of Home Box Office in 1972, the industry had changed little since the birth of broadcast network television in the late 1940s. The arrival of the premium cable channel began a revolution in the business and...
by Dominic Massa
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008
More than 50 years ago, with the flip of a switch and the turn of a dial, local television became an unforgettable part of New Orleans culture. For many viewers, the memories remain vivid, even if much of what they saw was in black and white. This collection of vintage photographs highlights the history...