Television category: 3830 books
Tube of Plenty
The Evolution of American Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1990
Based on the classic History of Broadcasting in the United States, Tube of Plenty represents the fruit of several decades' labor. When Erik Barnouw--premier chronicler of American broadcasting and a participant in the industry for fifty years--first undertook the project of recording its history,...
Computers in Broadcast and Cable Newsrooms
Using Technology in Television News Production
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Computers in Broadcast and Cable Newsrooms: Using Technology in Television News Production takes readers through the use of computers and software in the broadcast/cable newsroom environment. Author Phillip O. Keirstead began writing about television news technology decades ago in an effort to help...
Invasion of the Mind Snatchers
Television's Conquest of America in the Fifties
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
When the first television was demonstrated in 1927, a headline in The New York Times read, “Like a Photo Come to Life.” It was a momentous occasion. But the power of television wasn’t fully harnessed until the 1950s, when the medium was, as Eric Burns says, “At its most preoccupying, its most...
TV Museum
Contemporary Art and the Age of Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
TV Museum takes as its subject the complex and shifting relationship between television and contemporary art. Informed by theories and histories of art and media since the 1950s, this book charts the changing status of television as cultural form, object of critique, and site of artistic invention....
by Jerry Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
From live productions of the 1950s like Requiem for a Heavyweight to big budget mini-series like Band of Brothers, long-form television programs have been helmed by some of the most creative and accomplished names in directing. Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors brings attention to the directors...
The Today Show
Transforming Morning Television
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
In the early 1950s, when television networks did not broadcast regular programming before 11 a.m., radio and newspapers were the most popular and reliable ways for Americans to get their morning news. Then, Sylvester (Pat) Weaver, vice president of programming at NBC, pitched a bold new concept to...
Television Series of the 1960s
Essential Facts and Quirky Details
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
By 1960, watching television had become the pastime of millions of viewers around the world. Week after week, audiences tuned in to watch their favorite programs and catch up with their favorite characters. During the 1960s, some of the most beloved shows of all time originally aired, including The...
Post-TV
Piracy, Cord-Cutting, and the Future of Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In the late 2000s, television no longer referred to an object to be watched; it had transformed into content to be streamed, downloaded, and shared. Tens of millions of viewers have “cut the cord,” abandoned cable television, tuned into online services like Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube, and also...
by Lee Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
THE TV REFERENCE BOOK THAT BECAME A NATIONAL MEDIA SENSATION
This is the ground-breaking, exhaustively-researched book that revealed, for the first time ever, all of the details behind the thousands of TV series ideas that were developed and rejected by the networks since the dawn of television. ...
Television Fast Forward
Sequels, Remakes & Reboots of Cancelled TV Series 1955-1992
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Did Gilligan and his fellow castaways ever get rescued? Is Dr. Marcus Welby still making house calls? Is Marcia Brady single? What kind of father did Beaver Cleaver grow up to be? Did Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers finally tie the bionic knot?
Those burning questions... and many, many more......
by David Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
“The invention, or the quaint piece of furniture, wandered into our lives in the 1940s, as a primitive plaything, a clever if awkward addition to the household. It was expensive, unreliable and a bit of an invalid.” —Television, A Biography
In just a few years, what used to be an immobile...
Television Series of the 1980s
Essential Facts and Quirky Details
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Television screens in the 1980s reflected some of the most memorable programs of all time. In that decade, such critically acclaimed shows as Cheers, The Golden Girls, Hill Street Blues, Newhart, and St. Elsewhere debuted. In that same decade, iconic shows like The A-Team, Baywatch, Cagney & Lacey,...
by Gary R. Edgerton, Jeffrey P. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The founding of Home Box Office in the early 1970s was a harbinger of the innovations that transformed television as an industry and a technology in the decades that followed. HBO quickly became synonymous with subscription television and became the leading force in cable programming. Having interests...
Terror Television
American Series, 1970-1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Although horror shows on television are popular in the 1990s thanks to the success of Chris Carter's The X-Files, such has not always been the case. Creators Rod Serling, Dan Curtis, William Castle, Quinn Martin, John Newland, George Romero, Stephen King, David Lynch, Wes Craven, Sam Raimi, Aaron...