Television Books

This is the hardback version. On a South American rubber plantation stands the home of Klaas Van Gelder-a house whose claim to fame is murder. Barney the foreman, beguiled by Van Gelder's beautiful young wife Dina, pushed his employer into the afterlife,...

This is the hardback version. Richard Anderson is perhaps best-known in recent years for his roles as the Narrator, Captain Stiles, in the television series Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993-1997) with David Carradine and Chris Potter, as well as his...

The Gunsmoke Chronicles: A New History of Television's Greatest Western by David R. Greenland is a detailed account of the long-running classic containing information not found in previous books about the series, including an excerpt from Dennis Weaver's...

FESS PARKER GREW UP IN TEXAS, SERVED IN WORLD WAR II, ANDLATER BECAME TV'S INCREDIBLY POPULAR "DAVY CROCKETT" AND"DANIEL BOONE." AFTER HIS FILM AND TV CAREER, PARKER BECAMEA SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN, HOTEL BUILDER, AND VINTNER.WILLIAM R. CHEMERKA'S...

Had enough Britney-Lindsay-Paris-Nicole? Here's a book about a real celebrity. and one you probably never heard of! Gordon 'Whitey' Mitchell has been at the heart of show business as a top jazz musician/studio player, then, in a mid-life career change,...

Interviews with TV legends!Bewitched/Designing Women: Alice Ghostley The Big Valley: Peter Breck Father Knows Best / The Andy Griffith Show:Elinor Donahue Hazel: Lynn Borden Hazel: Ray Fulmer I Love Lucy: Keith Thibodeaux The Jeffersons / 227: Marla...

The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) anthology series created by Rod Serling presented a series of unrelated drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and horror stories that often concluded with...

There is an entire generation that grew up on Nickelodeon. The network started to get its footing in the '80s and in the '90s became the defining voice in entertainment for kids. For the first time ever, in this book, the entire expanse of '90s...

Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare, yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and other media meant for children. They emerge as expressions of anxiety about change and growing up but...

Game of Thrones has changed the landscape of television during an era hailed as the Golden Age of TV. An adaptation of George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy A Song of Fire and Ice, the HBO series has taken on a life of its own with original plotlines that...

Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany plays a host of the show's main characters, all clones of an illegal experiment. The mighty heroines save one another and destroy the patriarchy while subverting gender expectations. The feminist clones are Sarah, who...

The Duffer Brothers' award-winning Stranger Things exploded onto the pop culture scene in 2016. The Netflix original series revels in a nostalgic view of 1980s America while darkly portraying the cynical aspects of the period. This collection of 23...

British author and essayist George Orwell shot to fame with two iconic novels: the anti-Stalinist satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. A few years after his death in 1950, the CIA bankrolled screen adaptations of...

FOX's musical drama Empire has been hailed as the savior of broadcast television, drawing 15 million viewers a week. A "hip-hopera" inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear and 1980s prime-time soap Dynasty, the series is at the forefront of a black...

Over the past half-century Doctor Who has defined science fiction television. The women in the series--from orphans and heroic mothers to seductresses and clever teachers--flourish in their roles yet rarely surmount them. Some companions rescue the...

Covering the years 1945-2018, this alphabetical listing provides details about 2,923 unaired television series pilots, including those that never went into production, and those that became series but with a different cast, such as The Green Hornet,...

One of FX's most successful original productions, Sons of Anarchy roared onto the screen in 2008 and dominated the cable network's programming for seven seasons. Following an outlaw motorcycle club on its Shakespearean journey, the series took...

The debut of Saturday Night Live and the 1976 presidential election between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter had enduring effects on American culture. With its mix of sketch comedy and music, SNL grabbed huge ratings and several Emmys in its first season...

On December 31, 1939, nationwide radio audiences listened as 17-year-old Josephine Owaissa Cottle, a Texas schoolgirl, won Gateway to Hollywood's new talent competition. Her prize was a movie contract at RKO and a memorable stage name--"Gale Storm."...

When the BBC's Sherlock debuted in summer 2010--and appeared in the U.S. on PBS a few months later--no one knew it would become an international phenomenon. The series has since gathered a diverse and enthusiastic fandom. Like their hero, Sherlock...

Women remain woefully underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Negative stereotypes about women in these fields are pervasive, rooted in the debunked claim that women have less aptitude than men in science and math. While...

Launched in 1977 by the Christian Broadcasting Service (originally associated with Pat Robertson), the ABC Family/Freeform network has gone through a number of changes in name and ownership. Over the past decade, the network--now owned by Disney--has...

From his first appearance in 1912, Tarzan became a multimedia franchise whose cultural influence extended well beyond mere entertainment. The original 20th century superhero, the Lord of the Apes was the inspiration behind such early archetypes as The...

Historically, zombies have been portrayed in films and television series as mindless, shuffling monsters. In recent years, this has changed dramatically. The undead are fast and ferocious in 28 Days Later... (2002) and World War Z (2013). In Warm...

Set in politically unstable environments, Shakespeare's history plays--Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV and Henry V--and HBO's Western series Deadwood (2004-2006) all stand as critiques of myths of national origin, the sanitized stories we tell...

The 1950s television game show was a cultural touchstone, reflecting the zeitgeist of a flourishing modern nation. The author explores the iconography of the mid-20th century U.S. in the context of TV watching, game playing and prize winning. The...

This is Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1920 lyrical drama in four acts, 'Prometheus Unbound'. It concerns the torture of Prometheus, the Greek mythological figure who defies the gods by giving fire to humanity. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) was a...

This text situates binge watching as one of several new television viewing behaviors which collectively contribute to a fundamental change in the way we view television today.

Time on TV examines the massive aesthetic and structural changes happening across today's television programs. Time travel, flash forwards, fake memories: Paul Booth's analysis reveals the theory and practices that are changing television and online...

The Royal Blue Book: Prize Productions Of The Pittsburgh International Eisteddfod (1916) is a historical book written by Robert Humphrey Davies. The book is a comprehensive collection of the prize-winning productions of the Pittsburgh International...

In the wake of the juvenile space operas of the early 1950s, a groundbreaking series debuted and paved the way for one of viewers' favorite genres today: adult-oriented science fiction. Science Fiction Theatre aired with a fresh anthology-style narrative...

In American Television during a Television Presidency, Karen McNally and contributors critically examine the various ways in which television became transfixed by the Trump presidency and the broader political, social, and cultural climate. This book is...

"I was there the day it started. Flying a MATS C-54, we landed at Seoul. The Commies strafed the base and our aircraft was the first US airplane lost in the Korean War, Aircraft # 5521. While the events depicted here are true to the best of my...

Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic...

This book analyzes how and why Al Jazeera English (AJE) became the channel of choice to understand the massive protests across the Arab world 2011. Aiming to explain the 'Al Jazeera moment,' it tracks the channel's bumpy road towards international...

The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins's Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory. Supplementing the...

FRINGE unautorisiert - Das inoffizielle Kompendium: Staffel 1Mutationen, Teleportation, Parallelwelten: Das sind nur einige der mysteriösen Fälle, mit denen sich das FBI-Team um Olivia Dunham beschäftigen muss. Ganz in der Tradition der Kultserie Akte-X...

The mission of the FBI is to protect the innocent and identify the enemies of the Government of the United States.The proclamation above opened many episodes of The FBI, Quinn Martin's longest running television series (airing nine seasons on...

Behind the scenes of two of Australia's most outrageous television shows- - - - - - - - - - Two shows changed the face of Australian television forever, and rocked the nation to its foundations. And now, the creator of 'Number 96' and the Executive...

Sweethearts and soulmates for 60 years, June and Leon Bernicoff had a lifetime of love and laughter together. We fell in love with them on Gogglebox, where their warmth, cheeky gags and unending love for each other shone through our screens. When...

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I wrote "Daisy and Ducky Mallard" for my great nephews and great niece. It is a first-person story with some of the story I experienced. As people reviewed it, they suggested publishing the book. This is a great book for young ones and the parents to...

Superboy & Superpup: The Lost VideosA comprehensive view of two long lost videos from the Golden Age of Television. Both created by "The Adventures of Superman" producer and D.C. Comics pioneer Whitney Elsworth, "The Adventures of Superboy" and "The...

Superboy & Superpup: The Lost VideosA comprehensive view of two long lost videos from the Golden Age of Television. Both created by "The Adventures of Superman" producer and D.C. Comics pioneer Whitney Elsworth, "The Adventures of Superboy" and "The...

Remember when Dorothy Zbornak found out she was suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome on The Golden Girls? Or when Alex P. Keaton dealt with the death of a friend on Family Ties? Did you know that the dangers of cults featured in episodes of both...

Remember when Dorothy Zbornak found out she was suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome on The Golden Girls? Or when Alex P. Keaton dealt with the death of a friend on Family Ties? Did you know that the dangers of cults featured in episodes of both...