Kategoria BISAC: Performing Arts >> Television - General

The way we watch television is changing. While consumption of traditional broadcast television is going down, consumption of non-traditional platform television--including subscription viewing, box-set series and online streaming--is going up. This is the first study to consider the ways in which recent technologies of television can be understood in terms of the gendering of audiences. Taking a viewer-based approach, Sarah Arnold shows how old claims that television is a female medium are now being called into question, due to changes in the spatial practices of viewing and developments in...

Have you written the script for the next box office blockbuster or hit TV show and just need the right agent to sell it? Not sure whether to accept an if-come deal or a script commitment? Debating which manager is the right choice to steer your career? Well, worry no more...

How to Manage Your Agent is a fun, friendly guide to the world of literary representation. Enter the inner sanctums of Hollywood's power-brokers and learn how they influence what pitches get bought, what projects get sold, and which writers get hired.

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Join Butch Patrick and some of the biggest Munsters fans as they reminisce abut their love of this television classic Take a look at the comics and collectibles and enjoy rare and never before seen art, photos and personal stories from the fans, collectors and the actors themselves.

This is an unofficial guide to 'Alias', the espionage television series that mixes high-tech spy action, glamorous disguises, shocking plot twists and an ongoing family saga into what aims to be an entertaining television.

Charting the intersection of aesthetic representation and the material conditions of urban space, The City Since 9/11 posits that the contemporary metropolis provides a significant context for reassessing theoretical concerns related to narrative, identity, home, and personal precarity. In the years since the September 11 attacks, writers and filmmakers have explored urban spaces as contested sites shaped by the prevailing discourses of neoliberalism, homeland security, and the war on terror, but also haunted by an absence in the landscape that registers loss and prefigures future menace. In...

Nominated for Pulitzer, Tony and Obie awards, among others, Lee Blessing has shaped American theatre over the last 40 years. This book examines for the first time all 45 of his plays, along with one of his unpublished scripts, providing a definitive text on a playwright whose thought-provoking work has been performed around the world.

With the decline of print media and the rise of online journalism, theatre critics are facing hard times. In this book, Matt Windman, theatre critic for amNewYork, interviews more than 50 critics from New York and around the US. They discuss their long careers and the nightly process of evaluating plays and musicals, and offer their thoughts on the future of the profession.

Doc Savage is the prototype of the modern fictional superhero. The character exploded onto the scene in 1933, with the Great Depression and the gathering clouds of war as a cultural backdrop. In this volume, the adventure series is examined in relation to historical events and the changing tastes of readers, with special attention paid to the horror and science fiction elements.

Cindy Williams, half of the comedic duo of Laverne & Shirley, has had a wild and lively career in show business. This book is an engaging and heartfelt journey from Williams's blue collar roots to unexpected stardom--from being pranked by Jim Morrison while waiting tables at Whisky a Go Go to starring in one of the most iconic shows on television. With wit and candor, Cindy tells stories of her struggles as a child growing up with meager means and dreaming of becoming an actress. She also shares many misadventures and amusing anecdotes about some of the most famous actors in Hollywood. Never...

The first full-length study of Nollywood, exploring the rise, evolving structure and global connections of Nigeria's popular movie industry. Based on extensive fieldwork, this critical text redefines our understanding of global media flows while analysing the commercial and professional practices of one of the most prolific media industries.

The first full-length study of Nollywood, exploring the rise, evolving structure and global connections of Nigeria's popular movie industry. Based on extensive fieldwork, this critical text redefines our understanding of global media flows while analysing the commercial and professional practices of one of the most prolific media industries.

Serienheldinnen begegnen uns in vielfaltigen Medien. Die Gesamtheit dieser Medienangebote kann als Content-Universum bezeichnet werden. Anhand einer Analyse von Content-Universen zu erfolgreichen nordamerikanischen Fernsehserien (Akte X, Alias, Buffy, CSI, Dark Angel, Emergency Room, JAG, Nikita, Without a Trace und Xena) zeigt die Autorin, dass es sich hier um mehr als eine reine Vermarktungsstrategie handelt. An einer Schnittstelle von Medienwissenschaften, Medienpadagogik und Gender Studies entsteht ein differenziertes...

Das Kommunikationsverhalten der Figuren in amerikanischen und deutschen Fernsehserien unterscheidet sich. Die Kernthese lautet, dass die Unterschiede in der Kommunikation durch verschiedene Formen der Beziehungsgestaltung in den beiden Kulturen begrundet sind.
Im theoretischen Teil werden das Konzept der Imagearbeit und dessen Kulturspezifik dargestellt und die Charakteristika der Textsorte Fernsehseriendialog beschrieben. Gerade in Fernsehserien gestalten die Charaktere ihre Beziehung vor allem durch Dialoge. Im empirischen Teil werden Dialogsequenzen mit Hilfe der kontrastiven...

Das zentrale Thema dieser Untersuchung ist die Frage, welchen Einfluss die Moral, die in Fernsehsendungen -versteckt- ubermittelt wird, auf die moralische Vorstellungswelt von Kindern hat. Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage wird ein qualitativ empirisches Verfahren zur Analyse moralischer Werthaltungen in Fernsehsendungen entwickelt und exemplarisch an einer Zeichentrickserie des Kinderprogramms erprobt. Im Anschluss an diese Analyse erfolgt in einem hermeneutischen Zugriff eine Untersuchung moglicher Wirkungen solcher Sendungen auf Kinder. Da die hier angesprochene Problematik ein weites Feld der...

Diese Arbeit beschaftigt sich mit dem Einsatz von Product Placement in den offentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten in der Bundesrepublik, wobei die Geschichte und Entwicklung von PP sowohl in Deutschland wie auch in anderen Landern (z.B. den USA) untersucht wurde. Trotz des 1990 durch den BGH verhangten Verbots von Product Placement wird diese integrierte Werbeform auch weiterhin im Programm von offentlich-rechtlichen und privaten TV-Sendern eingesetzt, die damit die Fernsehzuschauer beeinflussen und manipulieren."

Why is rudeness such a prominent feature of contemporary broadcasting? If broadcasting is about the enactment of sociability, then how can we account for the fact that broadcasting has become a sphere of anger, humiliation, anger, dispute and upset? And to what extent does belligerence in broadcasting reflect broader social and cultural developments?

This book reflects upon and analyses the development of 'belligerent broadcasting' beginning with an examination of belligerence in its historical context and as an aspect of wider cultural concerns surrounding the retreat of...

Television for Women brings together emerging and established scholars to reconsider the question of television for women . In the context of the 2000s, when the potential meanings of both terms have expanded and changed so significantly, in what ways might the concept of programming, addressed explicitly to a group identified by gender, still matter?

The essays in this collection take the existing scholarship in this field in significant new directions. They expand its reach in terms of territory (looking beyond, for example, the paradigmatic Anglo-American axis) and also...