Television Books

With new and updated materials!This timely collection provides high-quality interdisciplinary essays which address lesbian and bisexual representation in popular television shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, E.R., Queer as...

An exploration of the many faces of televangelism in our world today, including Christian, Islamic and Hindu. The collection analyses the correspondences and major differences between global and local televangelism, focusing on the main individuals...

Slavoj Žižek is one of the world's most important contemporary public intellectuals. Much of his popularity stems from his constant and recurring references to popular culture and cinema, as well as his own appearances in films such as The Pervert's...

"Monsters Lead Such Interesting Lives" - Daffy Duck From the 1930s-1950s, no movie show was complete without a cartoon, and no cartoon was complete without an established character like Bugs Bunny or a caricature of a celebrity, or preferably both...

"Monsters Lead Such Interesting Lives" - Daffy Duck From the 1930s-1950s, no movie show was complete without a cartoon, and no cartoon was complete without an established character like Bugs Bunny or a caricature of a celebrity, or preferably both...

Can't get enough of The Golden Girls? It's been 38 years since the show first aired and became an instant cult classic. Viewers quickly became enamored with the extraordinary cast of female characters. A Tribute to The Golden Girls: From Sharing...

Can't get enough of The Golden Girls? It's been 38 years since the show first aired and became an instant cult classic. Viewers quickly became enamored with the extraordinary cast of female characters. A Tribute to The Golden Girls: From Sharing...

Friends Exposed: 1500 Fun Facts About the Show is written by an authoritative expert who penned the most comprehensive reference book ever written on the series-Friends Behind the Scenes: Backstage Pass to the Series, A Comprehensive History. The...

The 1990s saw a climax of adaptations of novels previously accepted into the American literary canon, while television and radio marketed literature through book clubs and literary shows. This book argues that the U.S. mediatized literature of the 1990s...

This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. Exploring key film and TV productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author interrogates concepts of Irish identity, history and nation, making a...

Pirag thinks she isn't quite so strange when you get to know her. Even her new brother, Thomas, is a little wonky but that's only because of his previous family. What can you do about the ones you're born with, especially the ones that came from out of...

Diana's letter" explores tranquility, weaving a serene tapestry up to certain ideas. It delves into history, an ever-flowing river without a fixed point in time but with a known destination, anchored by vivid depictions of an alternate realm revolving...

A Wake at Last is the fourth play from J. S. Wright's ever-imaginative pen. Best described as a dark comedy of bad manners, it is a two act play with only one scene: the lounge of Tom's dishevelled bachelor pad.Now his brother is dead, he demands time...

Coge tus colores, siéntate, relájate y colorea docenas de conjuntos de imágenes originales dibujadas a mano e inspiradas en 10 increíbles temporadas de Friends. Sabes que podrías recrear el Central Perk de memoria... ¡y ahora es tu oportunidad de...

THE TV REFERENCE BOOK THAT BECAME A NATIONAL MEDIA SENSATION"Full of fool's gold and genuine TV treasures," New York Post"A must-browse for media freaks," USA Today"A remarkable encyclopedia," TV GuideThis is the ground-breaking, exhaustively-researched...

@thespeedofJake is a play by Jennifer Maisel.Emily, a professor, and Clark, a tech wizard, had that perfect soccer parent life until their 10 year old died in an inexplicable random accident. Three years later, their son gone, their marriage shattered,...

In this intimate portrait, Sue Whatmough falls pregnant at eighteen and discovers the parental love she had taken for granted is dependent on good behaviour. Her happy childhood is over. Sue's entertaining journey from the early sixties to the late...

Essentials In Conducting is a comprehensive guide to the art of conducting written by Karl Wilson Gehrkens and originally published in 1919. The book covers a wide range of topics related to conducting, including the role of the conductor, techniques for...

Il libro ""Translazione Delle Ceneri Di Vincenzo Bellini (1877)"" scritto da Francesco Florimo, descrive il trasferimento delle ceneri del celebre compositore italiano Vincenzo Bellini dalla tomba originale a Parigi alla sua citt������ natale, Catania...

""Nuovo Teatrino Per Le Marionette"" ����� un libro scritto da Anna Vertua Gentile nel 1892. Si tratta di un manuale che fornisce le istruzioni per la costruzione di un teatro delle marionette, con tutti i suoi elementi fondamentali, come i burattini, i...

Across the globe, nations are switching to digital television at dramatic speed. The technology was in its infancy in the 1990s, but by the end of 2012 about half of the world's 1.2 billion TV households had converted to digital reception and some thirty...

Timely and ground-breaking, Love in Western Film and Television discloses surprising, and often disturbing, information about the complicated (and often conflicted) emotional frontiers found in Western films released after the Second World War. Fourteen...

Cooke's pioneering book discusses changes in televisual style in British television drama from the 1950s to the early 21st century. Taking dinner table scenes as a recurring motif, each chapter analyses the construction of the scene in terms of...

Little Abigail Buffington was dangerously ill from eating a whole box of chocolates that her parents had hidden away for Christmas. Her feverish dreams transported her to the fabulous Land of Chocolate. But her dreams gradually deteriorated, and she...

The Topic of The PlayThere are two different worlds in the play. The real world is where Atlas lives in his room with his aquarium. The world of Atlantis, where Mira lives with her friends and father. Everyone is alone in their own world. Only those who...

This book tells the stories of disabled people who have been influential in creating modern mass media.

The K-Wave On-Screen provides an engaging and accessible exploration of the meaning of 'K-' through the lens of words and objects in K-dramas and K-films.

The remarkable career of American actress Eve Arden (1908-1990) is thoroughly chronicled from her earliest stage work in 1926 (under her given name Eunice Quedens) to her final television role in a 1987 episode of Falcon Crest. Included are detailed...

This book finally casts a spotlight on some short-lived and almost forgotten sitcoms--those which aired for only one single season. Many books have already been written about situation comedies that enjoyed long and storied runs on television but this...

When the space drama Battlestar Galactica debuted on ABC in 1978, it was expected to be the most popular new program of the year. Instead, it was attacked as a Star Wars rip-off and canceled after a mere 17 stories. The author acknowledges the show was...

The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the expanding field of television studies, providing an overview of the discipline and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation.The Reader...

Die immer wieder spannende und unterhaltsame Auflösung der Kriminalfälle von Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, dargestellt von Mark Harmon (Cover, rechtes Foto), mit seinem NCIS-Team begeistert seit mehr als 17 Jahren weltweit eine große Anzahl von...

Alan Ball: Conversations features interviews that span Alan Ball's entire career and include detailed observations and insights into his Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and Emmy Award-winning television shows Six Feet Under and True Blood...

This is the hardback version. The television series that premiered in January 1971 had a short run of only three seasons but its popularity is in inverse proportion to its time on the air. Its fifty episodes were enough to garner fans that have remained...

This is the HARDBACK version.This 2nd expanded edition contains: More personal information from missing wives and friends More photos More/updated credits Letters between Paul and his first wife during WWII New cover! For the same price as the original...

What appears on the surface as a featherweight teenage romp is in reality a hotbed for social and political debate. Patty Duke's Billie is celebrating its 50th birthday as a pop culture oddity. And there's no better time to explore this neo-musical's...

When in the late 1990's I wrote the screenplay, Zappp!,it was a catharsis exercise in creation. The story is alight comedy concerning the comeuppance of anunscrupulous, thievish movie mogul and an unethical,amoral motion picture studio. I had just been...

This latest addition to Philip J Riley's Alternate History of Classic Filmonsters series is a collaborative effort with fellow film historian David Conover that delves into one of the most famous unproduced motion pictures of all time, Merian C...

The jungle is wild and tropical - and a deadly hush of anticipation hangs in the humid air. A man eludes pursuit in the murky water of a swamp pool. His scant clothing ripped and torn, he is obviously exhausted - and terrorized. His face is wild with...

The creators of Total Television, the brains behind Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo and many classic cartoons, reveal the origin of one of cartoon's greatest champions - Underdog! From conception to worldwide megahit, the entire story of the birth of Total...

Korean dramas gained popularity across Asia in the late 1990s, and their global fandom continues to grow. Despite cultural differences, non-Asian audiences find "K-dramas" appealing. They range from historical melodrama and romantic comedy to action,...

Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere documents an emerging news media environment that is characterised by a more and more networked and social structure.

Widely hailed as one of the best feminist-oriented series on television, NBC's Parks and Recreation (2009-2015) presents a multifaceted text for examining the incorporation of feminist ideology into its storylines. This book analyzes the various ways the...