Television Books

The revised edition considers recent research to extend a discussion of children's experiences in war. It includes an examination of comic books, considers fitness standards, and expands a discussion of Boy Scouts and other groups for children.

JOAN OF THE DOCKYARDS. a play by Caridad Svich.A working-class, poetic drama that explores faith, longing, and climate change through the lens of a modern-day Joan and her family and friends in a small industrial town.

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""Casar und die Gallier: Vortrag (1882)"" von Hermann Koechly ist eine historische Abhandlung �����ber den r������mischen Feldherrn Julius Caesar und seine Auseinandersetzungen mit den gallischen St�����mmen im 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Der Autor beschreibt...

The Director's Toolkit is a comprehensive guide to the role of the theatrical director. Following the chronology of the directing process, the book discusses each stage in precise detail, considering the selection and analysis of the script, the audition...

Until this publication, Jeanne De Recqueville's 1978, Rudolph Valentino has only been available in French and copies of her book are scarce. Her book has always been a source of curiosity for Valentino afficianados as Ms. De Recqueville was a...

This volume presents an analysis of the children's television community--the organizations, major players, and approaches to programming--and offers an overview of the history, current state, and future of children's TV.  The Children's Television...

The past several decades have witnessed thousands of studies into children and the media. Yet, much academic research is still in its infancy when it comes to our knowledge about the uses, preferences, and effects of different media. This distinctive...

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 televis

AMC's episodic drama Mad Men has become a cultural phenomenon, detailing America's preoccupation with commercialism and image in the Camelot of 1960s Kennedy-era America, while self-consciously exploring current preoccupations. The 12 critical essays...

The heroes, villains, and monsters portrayed in such popular science fiction television series as Heroes, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Doctor Who, and Torchwood, as well as Joss Whedon's many series, illustrate a shift from traditional,...

This analysis of how filmmakers have portrayed England's Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), and the audience's perception of Elizabeth based upon these portrayals, examines key representations of the Tudor monarch in various motion pictures from the...

This collection of scholarly essays examines reality television. The first show, Survivor, inspired a national craze when it aired in the summer of 2000. Ever since, successors and copycats have been on each of the four largest networks. The basics...

Based on extensive fieldwork, this book examines how parents make decisions regulating media use, and how media practices define contemporary family life.

Using our favourite Springfield family as a case study, Watching with The Simpsons examines the textual and social role of parody in offering critical commentary on other television programs and genres.

Jerry. George. Elaine. Kramer. We've followed their misadventures for nearly ten years on Thursday nights. Here, finally, are the scripts of the first two seasons that will take you back to the beginning of "Seinfeld." Featuring the first 17 episodes...

For your reading pleasure. These four screenplays in Volume 2 were written over a two-decade period. La Gare Miramar The Karmic Khromosome The Dharma Kings

Aprender a convivir escuchando cuentos es una antologíade cuentos, poemas, coplas, trabalenguas y adivinanzas. Fue pensada para ser utilizada como un recurso con los más chiquitos, fundamentalmente en la construcción de habilidades sociales.Es mi...

DISCOVER THE MAGIC BEHIND THE CAMERA AND TRANSFORM YOUR FILMMAKING DREAMS INTO REALITY.Ever wonder how filmmakers bring a story to life? Curious about the secrets behind crafting unforgettable cinematic experiences? Ready to dive into the world of film...

Step into the electrifying world of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, a titan whose charisma and versatility have catapulted him from the wrestling ring to the silver screen. In "The Rise of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson," Scarlett Nora explores the meteoric...

Jeder Haushalt zahlt in Deutschland für den öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk einen Rundfunkbeitrag von 18,36 Euro im Monat.Der Beitrag fällt pro Haushalt an, egal wie viele Menschen in der Wohnung leben und ob sie das Angebot der öffentlich-rechtlichen...

3 Entertainments brings together three works for film and television by the American poet Weldon Kees, whose work was introduced to the United Kingdom by Michael Hofmann and Simon Armitage in the 1990s and published by Faber & Faber. A champion of...

International Emmy nominated writer, Mark Boutros, offers a guide to creating characters who are engaging, emotionally driven and memorable. With experience writing comedy, drama and novels, Mark shares a mixture of theory, exercises and pitfalls,...

Celebrated as an author of travel and fiction, Tahir Shah has published more than forty books in a career that’s spanned three decades. In that time he’s turned his hand to many kinds of writing – from journalism to novels, and from...

Émile Zola (1840-1902) has become one of the most adapted authors of all time, but while much has been made of his adaptation into cinema and theatre, television has largely been overlooked. Yet television, with its serial structures and popular...

A pocket guide to British horror cinema and television of the 1970s.

Learn more about some of America's great women and have fun learning about them by inviting them to a tea party. Party-goers can "meet" cut-out paper dolls women in history, learn about their lives, and share fun activities.

The Tragedy at Cambria, a three-act play written in rhyming iambic pentameter, tells a story of love, deception, and power. In the medieval kingdom of Cambria, aging King John faces a grave decision. His forebearers created extremely strict laws...

 A complete history of the 1945 horror film, with forward by producer Paul Malvern and introduction by film star John Carradine. It contains complete original shooting script, details of the making, rare photographs, complete pressbook, and...

This is the hardback edition.The Wolf Man (Universal Filmscript Series)Universal Filmscripts Series Classic Horror Films, Vol. 12"Even a man who is pure of heart, as says his prayers at night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the moon...