Frames of Mind: A Post-Jungian Look at Film, Television and Technology
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The Impact of International Television: A Paradigm Shift
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Radio-Television and Elections (Concept's International Series in Communication Education and Development-2)
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last lone inventor a tale of genius deceit and the birth of television
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The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography
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Screening Twentieth Century Europe: Television, History, Memory
This book offers a comparative study of historical television genres in Europe, with a special focus on Germany and Great Britain and their way of narrating twentieth century European history. The book analyses our common European past and memory
Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video
The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system. Yet many aging Hollywood stars used television to revive their fading careers. In Recycled Stars, Mary R. Desjar
Music and the Atomic Bomb on American Television, 1950-1969
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Directed by God: Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television
As part of its effort to forge a new secular Jewish nation, the nascent Israeli state tried to limit Jewish religiosity. However, with the steady growth of the ultraorthodox community and the expansion of the settler community, Israeli society is
The Dominion of Signs: Television, Advertising and Other New Zealand Fictions
If you have ever wondered what led to the rise and fall of New Zealand's Telethon, or pondered the appeal of Metro magazine, or sought to understand the popularity of Billy T. James, this book is for you. The Dominion of Signs is a brilliant and p
The Faulty Television Receiver: A Not Really SF Short Story
Bertha and Alfred, married for twenty years, enjoy a truly science fictional life in the twenty-first century. But in spite of all the technological marvels surrounding them, a faulty television receiver can still lead to argument and cause them t
Humor and Satire on Contemporary Television: Animation and the American Joke
This book examines contemporary American animated humor, focusing on popular animated television shows in order to explore the ways in which they engage with American culture and history, employing a peculiarly American way of using humor to discu
Poe Evermore: The Legacy in Film, Music and Television
Edgar Allan Poe exerted a profound influence on many aspects of 20th century culture, and continues to inspire composers, filmmakers, writers and artists. Popularly thought of as a "horror" writer, Poe was also a philosophical aesthete, a satirist
Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity
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"Sesame Street" and the Reform of Children's Television
"[An] accessible, well-researched introduction to the people and principles behind the show's creation... Essential." -Choice (An Outstanding Academic Title of the Year)By the late 1960s more than a few critics
European Television Crime Drama and Beyond
This book is the first to focus on the role of European television crime drama on the international market. As a genre, the television crime drama has enjoyed a long and successful career, routinely serving as a prism from which to observe the loc
Housework and Gender in American Television: Coming Clean
Housework and Gender in American Television: Coming Clean examines representations of housework and their relationships with gender in sixty of the most popular television shows of the 1950s through the 1980s, searching for trends, simila
Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box
Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the medium's most popular genres and places it within its historical and industrial context. The television crime drama has proved itself capable of numerous generic reinventions and cont
The Vision of a Nation: Making Multiculturalism on British Television, 1960-80
Telling the stories behind television's approaches to race relations, multiculturalism and immigration in the 'Golden Age' of British television, the book focuses on the 1960s and 1970s and argues that the makers of television worked tirelessly to
A Companion to Reality Television
International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of fo
Television and Serial Adaptation
As American television continues to garner considerable esteem, rivalling the seventh art in its "cinematic" aesthetics and the complexity of its narratives, one aspect of its development has been relatively unexamined. While film has long acknowl
Adapting Nineteenth-Century France: Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print
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The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America
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Tribal Warfare: Survivor and the Political Unconscious of Reality Television
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Time in Television Narrative: Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First Century Programming
This collection analyzes twenty-first-century American television programs that employ temporal and narrative experimentation. These shows play with time, slowing it down to unfold narrative through time retardation and compression. They disrupt t
History on Television
In recent years non-fiction history programmes have flourished on television. This interdisciplinary study of history programming identifies and examines different genres employed by producers and tracks their commissioning, production, marketing
Children and Television
Does violence on TV lead to violent behaviour? How does screen time impact child development? What is the effect of advertising on a child's behaviour? Twenty years after the publication of the first edition of Children and Television, th
Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies
Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies describes, analyses and evaluates the phenomenon of private television in Europe, clustered around the themes of European and national experiences, content and markets, and policies.
Eyepiece: Adventures in Canadian Film and Television
In Eyepiece: Adventures in Canadian Television and Film, brilliant Kashmiri/Canadian cinematographer and director Vic Sarin lays out the landscape of his life, focusing on highlights of his over 150 documentary and dramatic films. As a cinematogra
NORMAN LEAR: Transforming Screens, Shaping Minds - A Pioneer's Journey Through Television, Activism, and the Enduring Legacy of Socially Conscious Storytelling
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Dream of Italy: Travel. Transform. Thrive.: A Companion to the Public Television Special
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Television in Bangladesh: News and Audiences
This book examines the role of 24/7 television news channels in Bangladesh. By using a multi-sited ethnography of television news media, it showcases the socio-political undercurrents of media practices and the everydayness of TV news in Banglades
Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film
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Film and Television Distribution and the Internet: A Legal Guide for the Media Industry
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Television Series of the 1980s: Essential Facts and Quirky Details
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. Els
The Little Emperors' New Toys: A Critical Inquiry into Children and Television in China
Drawing on original research I conducted in the late 1980s, the book argues for a critical approach to the study of children and television. It begins with critical reappraisals of previous empiricist and interpretative studies to set the ground f
How He-Man Mastered the Universe: Toy to Television to the Big Screen
Elaborate cinematic universes and sophisticated marketing tie-ins are commonplace in entertainment today. It's easy to forget that the transmedia trend began in 1982 with a barbarian action figure. He-Man and the other characters in Mattel's popul
Presentation of Data in Science: Publications, slides, posters, overhead projections, tape-slides, television Principles and practices for authors and teachers
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Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory
The Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory clearly and accessibly explains the major theoretical approaches now deployed in the study of the moving image, as well as defining key theoretical terms.This dictionary provide
The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry
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The Vampire Diaries as Postmodern Storytelling: Essays on the Television Series and Novels
Taking a postmodern critical approach, this collection of new essays explores The CW Network's popular television drama The Vampire Diaries, taking in the complete original series (2009-2017), its spinoffs, source novels and fan fiction.
Television: A Critical Review
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The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950s America
The Citizen Machine is the untold political history of television's formative era. Historian Anna Mc Carthy goes behind the scenes of early television programming, revealing that long before the age of PBS, leaders from business, philanthropy, and
Queer Representation, Visibility, and Race in American Film and Television: Screening the Closet
This book traces the uneven history of queer media visibility through crucial turning points including the Hollywood Production Code era, the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the so-called explosion of gay visibility on television during the1990s, and th
Television Series of the 1990s: Essential Facts and Quirky Details
In the 1990s the big three networks were being challenged by upstarts FOX and the WB for viewer loyalty. Alongside must-see stalwarts like Frasier, Friends, and Seinfeld, the new networks introduced pop culture touchston
Selling Catholicism: Bishop Sheen and the Power of Television
When the popularity of Milton Berle's television show began to slip, Berle quipped, "At least I'm losing my ratings to God!" He was referring to the popularity of "Life Is Worth Living" and its host, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. The show aired from 195
How to Start a Monitoring Equipment for Radio and Television Business (Beginners Guide): How to Start a Monitoring Equipment for Radio and Television Business (Beginners Guide)
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The Joy of Sets: A Short History of the Television
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Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy
Below the Line illuminates the hidden labor of people who not only produce things that the television industry needs, such as a bit of content or a policy sound bite, but also produce themselves in the service of capital expansion. Vicki
Television and the Legal System
This book examines the American television legal series from its development as a genre in the 1940s to the present day. Villez demonstrates how the genre has been a rich source of legal information and understanding for Americans. These series ha
Country Music Television's 100 Greatest Songs of Country Music
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). In 2003, Country Music Television compiled a panel of experts to discuss, debate and then finally rank the 100 greatest country songs of all time. The list was presented in a six-hour special that ran on the c
A Critical History of Television's The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964
Rod Serling's anthology series The Twilight Zone is recognized as one of the greatest television shows of all time. Always intelligent and thought-provoking, the show used the conventions of several genres to explore such universal qualit
There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises
There She Goes Again interrogates the representation of ostensibly powerful women in transmedia franchises, examining how presumed feminine traits-love, empathy, altruism, diplomacy-are alternately lauded and repudiated as possibilities f
The Animated Dad: Essays on Father Figures in Cartoon Television
The Homer Simpson-esque stereotype has been a persistent trope in cartoons since programming aimed directly at children and adolescents began. Young viewers are exposed to the incapable and incompetent "hapless father" archetype on a regular basis
It's Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era
Since first going on the air in 1972, HBO has continually attempted to redefine television as we know it. Today, pay television (and HBO in particular) is positioned as an alternative to network offerings, consistently regarded as the premier site
Representations of the Mother-in-Law in Literature, Film, Drama, and Television
This book is a comprehensive study of some ways of treating the subject that demonstrate new and unusual perspectives, and provides a different approach to the popularly-held views of mothers-in-law; and that further address these works as popular
Biographical Television Drama
"Biographical Television Drama breaks new ground as, to my knowledge, the first book-length exploration of the terms in which television engages in biographical storytelling. Backed by robust research in biography studies and British tele
The Complete Kay Francis Career Record: All Film, Stage, Radio and Television Appearances
This book is the definitive guide to the film, stage, radio and television career of Kay Francis, one of the most glamorous stars from the golden age of Hollywood. For each film, the authors provide a thorough synopsis plus cast and crew informati
Media Experiences: Engaging with Drama and Reality Television
Media Experiences: Engaging with Drama and Reality Television travels across people and popular culture, exploring the pathways to engagement and the various ways in which we shape and are shaped by the media landscapes in which we move.
Republic on the Wire: Cable Television, Pluralism, and the Politics of New Technologies, 1948-1984
The history of cable television in America is far older than networks like MTV, ESPN, and HBO, which are so familiar to us today. Tracing the origins of cable TV back to the late 1940s, media scholar John Mc Murria also locates the roots of many cu
If It Bleeds, It Leads: An Anatomy Of Television News
You've been watching television news forever. You're intimately familiar with the friendly faces and soothing voices that nightly tell you what's wrong with the world. You think you know everything there is to know about them. You're wrong.If It B
Acting in Television Commercials for Fun and Profit, 4th Edition: Fully Updated 4th Edition
The Ultimate Guide to Commercial Success Acting in television commercials is a highly competitive business, but it can also be very lucrative. Whether you're looking for your first break or want to take your acting career to the next level,
Philo Farnsworth and the Television
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The Impact of Watching Violent Television Programs on Secondary School Children in Tanzania
Violent television programs are highly preferred by children. They stimulate their emotions and increase curiosity about violence-related issues. This means that watching violent television programs has an impact upon their way of perceiving the w
Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era
Most histories of Soviet cinema portray the 1970s as a period of stagnation with the gradual decline of the film industry. This book, however, examines Soviet film and television of the era as mature industries articulating diverse cultural values
Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture
For over two decades, Television has served as the foremost guide to television studies, offering readers an in-depth understanding of how television programs and commercials are made and how they function as producers of meaning. Author
The New Heroines in Film and Television: Post-Jungian Perspectives on Contemporary Female Characters
This thought-provoking volume offers an overview of contemporary representations of prominent female characters as they appear in an array of moving-image narratives from a Jungian and post-Jungian perspective.Applying a theoretical frame
The Life and Mysterious Death of Ian MacKintosh: The Inside Story of The Sandbaggers and Television's Top Spy
No spy drama has ever matched The Sandbaggers, which featured a tiny, covert intelligence unit based in London during the Cold War. The show that the New York Times called the ôbest spy series in television historyö was the vision of Ian Mac Kintosh,
Film and Television After DVD
Heralded as "the most significant invention [for film] since the coming of sound" (The Observer 2003), by 2005 DVD players were in approximately 84 million homes in the US, making it the "fastest selling item in history of US consumer ele
Television and the Moral Imaginary: Society through the Small Screen
Just how bad is television? Drawing on a range of theoretical sources including Husserl Lacan, Lefebvre, Sartre, Schutz and Adam Smith, this book takes a phenomenological approach to the small screen to offer an original sociological approach to t
Turkish Cinema and Television Industry in the Digital Streaming Era
Turkish Cinema and Television Industry in the Digital Streaming Era addresses three main comprehensions: aesthetic transformation in the Turkish Cinema and television industry, new authors and changing filmmaking ways in the Turkish Cinema's SVOD
Television Criticism
Television Criticism, Third Edition by Victoria O'Donnell provides a foundational approach to the nature of television criticism. Rhetorical studies, cultural studies, representation, narrative theories, and postmodernism are esta
Relocating Television: Television in the Digital Context
For over half a century, television has been the most central medium in Western democracies - the political, social and cultural centrepiece of the public sphere. Television has therefore rarely been studied in isolation from its socio-cultural an
Hackers as Heroes in German Film and Television
This book examines German feature films and television series centered around the figure of the computer hacker as a hero, introducing the German hacker genre to the ongoing scholarly discussion of genre in German cinema. William Mahan argues that
Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed.
This fully updated and expanded edition covers over 10,200 programs, making it the most comprehensive documentation of television programs ever published. In addition to covering the standard network and cable entertainment genres, the book also c
Autism in Film and Television: On the Island
Global awareness of autism has skyrocketed since the 1980s, and popular culture has caught on, with film and television producers developing ever more material featuring autistic characters. Autism in Film and Television brings together m
Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture
Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to Mc Carthyism. But Thomas Doherty argues that, through the influence of television, A
Parental Control of Television Broadcasting
This project, originally developed for the European Community, examines parental roles in controlling television programs watched by children in Europe. The structure of the study includes:*an analysis of the technical devices available to
Islam, Security and Television News
Focusing on British, French and Russian television news coverage of Islam as a security threat, this book provides the first comparative account of how television broadcasting in different geo- and socio-political environments integrates discourse
What Television Remembers: Artifacts and Footprints of TV in Toronto
Television in Canada has been undervalued as a cultural form. Despite being publicly funded, Canadian television programs are also notoriously difficult to access once they go off the air, which has compounded the problem.In What Telev
Radio And Television Repairing Coursebook
This book introduces the teacher to the main principles and practices of the revised pedagogy which is activity-based, process oriented and learner-centred. The realisation that learning is not mere storing information in memory and that really ea
Supernatural: A History of Television's Unearthly Road Trip
A captivating exploration of the television phenomenon that is Supernatural, with insights into characters, plots, and the show's impact on pop culture.When Supernatural first aired on the CW in 2005, it was dismissed by many for being "pr
Puzzling Stories: The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and Literature
Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, strange incongruities, inviting enigmas and persistent ambiguities have been central to the effects of many literary and cinematic traditions, a great d
Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television
Trump Fiction:Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television examines depictions of Donald Trump and his fictional avatars in literature, film, and television, including works that took up the subject of Trump before his successful pre
Olympic Media: Inside the Biggest Show on Television
Located in the United States, NBC (National Broadcasting Company) is the biggest and most powerful Olympic network in the world, having won the rights to televise both the Summer and the Winter Olympic Games. By way of attracting more viewers of b
Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders
Westerns have featured prominently in films almost since motion pictures were first produced at the end of the nineteenth century and when televisions invaded American homes in the late 1940s and early '50s, Western programs filled the small scree
Primetime 1966-1967: The Full Spectrum of Television's First All-Color Season
The year 1966 was when many TV viewers all over America discovered the wonders of "in living color." The 1966-1967 primetime television lineup was remarkable not only for the legendary shows that aired, but also because it was the first season in
User-Centered Interaction Design Patterns for Interactive Digital Television Applications
Technology is meant to make life easier and to raise its quality. Our interaction with technology should be designed according to human needs instead of us being required to adapt to technology. Even so, technology may change quickly and people an
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The Television Genre Book
In this new edition of The Television Genre Book, leading international scholars have come together to offer an accessible and comprehensive update to the debates, issues and concerns of the field.As television co
Teacher TV: Seventy Years of Teachers on Television, Second Edition
Teacher TV: Seventy Years of Teachers on Television, Second Edition examines some of the most influential teacher characters presented on television from the earliest sitcoms to contemporary dramas and comedies. Both topical and chronolog
TV Cops: The Contemporary American Television Police Drama
The police drama has been one of the longest running and most popular genres in American television. In TV Cops, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick argues that, perhaps more than any other genre, the police series in all its manifestations-from
Reading American Horror Story: Essays on the Television Franchise
Looming onto the television landscape in 2011, American Horror Story gave viewers a weekly dose of psychological unease and gruesome violence. Embracing the familiar horror conventions of spooky settings, unnerving manifestations and terr
You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television
In this highly entertaining and insightful memoir, one of television's most respected broadcasters interweaves the story of his life and career with lively firsthand tales of some of the most thrilling events and fascinating figures in modern spor
The Dynasty Years: Hollywood Television and Critical Media Studies
The Dynasty Years documents and analyses in detail 'the Dynasty phenomenon', the hotly debated success of the Hollywood-made 'Rolls Royce of a primetime soap' which heralded a profound transformation of European television.From the operatic
Computers in Broadcast and Cable Newsrooms: Using Technology in Television News Production
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 abou
Children's Media and Modernity: Film, Television and Digital Games
Throughout the modern era the figure of the child has consistently reflected adult concerns about industrialisation, urbanisation, technology, consumerism and capitalism. Children represent a symbolic retreat from modern life, culturally aligned w
Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture
Genre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural categories, offering a set of in-depth historical and critical examinations to explore five key aspects of television genre: history, industry, audience, t
Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status
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 soci
The Collar: Reading Christian Ministry in Fiction, Television, and Film
Combining thematic analysis and stimulating close readings, The Collar is a wide-ranging study of the many ways-heroic or comic, shrewd or dastardly-Christian ministers have been represented in literature and film. Since all Christians are expec
