Television Books

Philip Rapp will remain immortal through his catty creation, The Bickersons, an insanely funny radio vignette that later emerged on TV and stage, and which influenced a generation of Honeymooners-loving viewers. But he was a far more prolific author than...

This book contains four screenplays and one stage play. The reader will enter into tragedy, comedy, a variety of world settings, compassion, romance, and pages and pages of imagination.

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...

This is a story of a forward little French girl who grew up to be a wise young lady facing danger for being in love with a German officer during World War II.

This book carries you into a deep human spirit into one human soul. It gives you a deep look at human life; in its past, present, and future. This book is a good screenplay. It helps you to find yourself, in life, and to let you know who you are as a...

Histoire De La Censure Theatrale En France (1862) est un livre �����crit par Hallays-Dabot, Victor. Ce livre traite de l'histoire de la censure th����������trale en France. L'auteur explore les diff�����rentes formes de censure qui ont �����t�����...

Histoire de la Com�����die en France (1886) est un livre �����crit par Charles Barth�����lemy. Il s'agit d'une �����tude compl�����te de l'histoire de la com�����die en France, depuis ses origines jusqu'������ l'�����poque contemporaine. L'auteur explore...

Histoire Anecdotique Des Marionnettes Modernes (1892) par De Neuville, Louis Lemercier est un livre qui raconte l'histoire des marionnettes modernes de mani�����re anecdotique. L'auteur explore l'origine des marionnettes, leur �����volution ������...

Grammaticorum Graecorum De Arte Tragica Iudiciorum Reliquiae est opus quod auctor est Trendelenburg, Adolf. In hoc libro, grammatici Graeci de arte tragica et iudiciis reliquias tradunt. Haec reliquiae sunt ex diversis scriptoribus Graecis collectae,...

Before he made The Late Show #1 in late night comedy, Stephen Colbert revolutionized television satire as host of The Colbert Report. Whether you're new to Colbert's work, or are an original member of the "Colbert Nation," Bears & Balls is the...

"Pobody's nerfect"--or whatever the saying might be! As humans we are constantly worried about how our actions may come back to haunt us. The Good Place (2016-2020) is a high-concept American sitcom that brought light to the dark topic of the...

As far as I know, nobody thought of keeping a diary during the unforgettable years of our show. As it turns out, it wasn't necessary. Reading his book, I would swear that David had been there every step of the way. It tweaked my memory in wonderful ways...

With its gentle humour, bumbling escapades, and endearing charm, Last of the Summer Wine became a cultural phenomenon around the globe. Step into the picturesque Yorkshire countryside and prepare for a delightful exploration of this long-running and...

Not long after the end of World War II, television began to comeinto its own as an important household entertainment and informationalmedium. In the 1950s, New York expanded as the major broadcast hubfor a wide spectrum of programs: dramatic anthologies,...

Head 'em up, move 'em out!Saddle up for the first full-length account of one of the most authentic and enduring western series in television history: Rawhide! Including:* Foreword by Charles Gray* Cast biographies* Production details* Summaries of all...

Every one of us is the host to an almost unimaginable array of independent microscopic organisms - such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi - with which we share a symbiotic, mutually beneficial relationship. They have evolved along with the human species,...

That's right! Can you imagine flubbing your line in front of the whole country without a chance to try again to make it right? That's what it was like back in the 1940s and 1950s. Week after week we saw these brave actors and actresses take on the...

The same people who brought you The Dick Van Dyke Show and That Girl scored another innovative sitcom in 1967 with Good Morning World. Bill Persky and Sam Denoff's creation, which aired Tuesday nights on CBS, was the first-ever TV series set in a radio...

This book is about people who left their country to find work in a different one. They also look to have a better lifestyle. Some light is shed on the detail in certain days of these characters. An introduction to a group of people who find friendship...

A time travel epic featuring history and romance, Outlander--unlike most adventure series--is aimed at women audiences. The kilted male characters, the female narrator, the fantastic period costumes are atypical of male-gendered television. Both the...

Sandra O'Shea shows up to school early to beat the crowd and see the science exhibits before the crowd shows up. Three wild girls Audrey Karos (the mayor's daughter), Brenda McMillan and Jane Talley enter the gym putting their hands on the exhibits and...

""Der F�����hrer durch die Oper V1, Deutsche Opern: Des Theaters der Gegenwart, Text, Musik und Szene erl�����uternd"" ist ein Buch, das 1890 von Otto Neitzel ver������ffentlicht wurde. In diesem Buch werden deutsche Opern der Gegenwart beschrieben und...

Toward an Urban Cultural Studies is a call for a new interdisciplinary area of research and teaching. Blending Urban Studies and Cultural Studies, this book grounds readers in the extensive theory of the prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre...

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The early years of the twenty-first century have seen dramatic changes within the television industry. The development of the internet and mobile phone as platforms for content directly linked to television programming has offered a challenge to the...

Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world's most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a box, it is deeply embedded in everyday life, in how we think, what we think and...

News and Journalism in the UK is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the political, economic and regulatory environments of press and broadcast journalism in Britain and Northern Ireland. Surveying the industry in a period of radical...

Addressing the wide range of programmes and formats from news, to documentary, to popular factual genres, Annette Hill's new book examines the ways viewers navigate their way through a busy, noisy and constantly changing factual television environment...

In an ever-growing field of study, this is a major contribution to one of the key areas in cultural studies and cultural theory - the spaces, practices and mythologies of our everyday culture. Drawing on the work of such continental theorists as Henri...

'Popular Factual Programming' has rapidly come to occupy a place at the forefront of contemporary television culture on an international scale. Tracing the history of reality TV from Candid Camera to The Osbournes, Understanding Reality Television...

This book covers everything you need to know to master the fundamentals of location sound recording and postproduction sound in a comprehensive one-stop guide.This user-friendly book provides real world situations to analyze the many kinds of location...

More than 150 million Americans have seen Ken Burns's documentaries on the Civil War, baseball, and jazz. With their signature blending of images and interviews, Burns's series have redefined documentary television--and no one, before or since, has made...

The Twilight Zone Haiku explores the essence of Rod Serling's iconic, uncanny 1960s television show through haiku, giving us dazzling, spot-on snapshots of each episode. In seventeen syllables, Boykin captures the show's main objective: to...

From the author of Marlon & Greg American Cable How Basic Cable Changed America Beyond Fake News and Unreal Reality In that media-changing era between a three TV network world and today's digital streaming, cable television came along and...

Before The Twilight Zone and before The Outer Limits, there was Tales of Tomorrow, the first science fiction series on television aimed at adult viewers. Premiering on ABC on August 3, 1951, the live drama featured several actors just beginning their...

Before The Twilight Zone and before The Outer Limits, there was Tales of Tomorrow, the first science fiction series on television aimed at adult viewers. Premiering on ABC on August 3, 1951, the live drama featured several actors just beginning their...

From the author of Marlon & Greg American Cable How Basic Cable Changed America Beyond Fake News and Unreal Reality In that media-changing era between a three TV network world and today's digital streaming, cable television came along and...

THE SARCOMA CYCLE is a thematic trilogy of plays exploring grief, technology, and intensity in three distinct time periods:1. NANOBLADE 1998 set in the Cook County Hospital during a technological overhaul in medical practice. Romance, chaos,...

A Burglar of the Better Sort offers, in the English translation of Charles S. Kraszewski, the entirety of Czyżewski’s surviving literary output, from surrealistic plays like Donkey and Sun in Metamorphosis and his inimitable ‘formistic...

Ptushkina's plays reflect her keen interest in constructing multidimensional characters that reflect the myriad ways people are affected by today's turbulent world. Often writing strong female roles, she does not shy away from exploring the sometimes...

Performing on TV commercials is bread and butter for actors. It not only helps them pay the rent while striving for recognition, frequently it enables them to break into film, television and theater. Plus, acting in commercials can be a rewarding and...