Staging the real: Factual TV programming in the age of 'Big Brother'
ISBN: 9780719056826 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Staging the Real' is a lively, stimulating account of recent developments in factual TV programming, including 'Big Brother'. Primarily aimed at Media Studies students, it will also be of interest to the more general reader.
'Staging the Real' is a lively, stimulating account of recent developments in factual TV programming, including 'Big Brother'. Primarily aimed at Medi...
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82,95 zł |
Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text
ISBN: 9780719076367 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Martha Gellhorn was the doyenne of twentieth century war correspondence. Opinionated, honest and unafraid, she covered conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to Reagan's wars in Central America in the 1980s. Martha Gellhorn: the war writer in the field and in the text is the first critical study of her Second World War fiction and journalism.
Often overlooked in accounts of war literature is the writer's precise position in relation to battle and his or her resultant standing in the text. Kate McLoughlin traces Gellhorn's daring attempts to access the war zone and her constructions of the... Martha Gellhorn was the doyenne of twentieth century war correspondence. Opinionated, honest and unafraid, she covered conflicts from the Spanish Civi...
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470,35 zł |
Time and Relative Dissertations in Space: Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780719076817 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first study of "Doctor Who" to explore the Doctor's adventures in all their manifestations: on television, audio, in print and beyond. Although focusing on the original series (1963-89), the collection recognizes that "Doctor Who" is a cultural phenomenon that has been "told" in many ways through a myriad of texts. Combining essays from academics as well as practitioners who have contributed to the ongoing narrative of "Doctor Who," the collection encourages debate with contrasting opinions on the strengths (and weaknesses) of the program, offering a multi-perspective view of...
This book is the first study of "Doctor Who" to explore the Doctor's adventures in all their manifestations: on television, audio, in print and beyond...
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470,35 zł |
Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
ISBN: 9780742516809 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For every television series, the original vision grows within a press of forces-both social and artistic expectations, conventions of the business, as well as conventions of the art. Bad television--predictable, commercial, exploitative--simply yields to the forces. Good television, like the character of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, fights them. Fighting the Forces explores the struggle to create meaning in an impressive example of popular culture, the television series phenomenon Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the essays collected here, contributors examine the series using a variety of...
For every television series, the original vision grows within a press of forces-both social and artistic expectations, conventions of the business, as...
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658,49 zł |
Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
ISBN: 9780742516816 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For every television series, the original vision grows within a press of forces-both social and artistic expectations, conventions of the business, as well as conventions of the art. Bad television--predictable, commercial, exploitative--simply yields to the forces. Good television, like the character of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, fights them. Fighting the Forces explores the struggle to create meaning in an impressive example of popular culture, the television series phenomenon Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the essays collected here, contributors examine the series using a variety of...
For every television series, the original vision grows within a press of forces-both social and artistic expectations, conventions of the business, as...
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232,41 zł |
The Soap Opera Paradigm: Television Programming and Corporate Priorities
ISBN: 9780742520028 / Angielski / Miękka / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Soap Opera Paradigm is an engaging look at the pervasive use of daytime soap opera storytelling techniques in most television program genres, from prime time soap operas and reality shows to the nightly news, coverage of political campaigns, and sports programming. Drawing from a wealth of research, James Wittebols shows how programming techniques have changed over time and what roles media concentration and commercial influences have played in these changes.
The Soap Opera Paradigm is an engaging look at the pervasive use of daytime soap opera storytelling techniques in most television program genres, from...
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243,47 zł |
The Broadcast Journalism Handbook: A Television News Survival Guide
ISBN: 9780742525061 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Broadcast Journalism Handbook has everything you ever wanted to know about working in the television news business but were afraid to ask College courses teach the theory of how a television newsroom works; here, working journalists show the reality of the business. Learn the ropes--and how to head off amateur errors--from the authors' vast experiences and dozens of interviews with news professionals. The economic recession and new advances in technology are making this exciting career more competitive than ever, and this book will give budding journalists a head start with an insider's...
The Broadcast Journalism Handbook has everything you ever wanted to know about working in the television news business but were afraid to ask College...
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199,21 zł |
Women and Soap Opera: A Study of Prime Time Soaps
ISBN: 9780745605685 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first major study of the roles of women in prime time soap operas. In a comparative analysis of British and North American television soaps, Christine Geraghty examines the relationship between the narratives on the screen and the women viewers who make up the traditional soap audience.
Within the structure of many of the most popular soaps, such as Dallas, Dynasty, Coronation Street and EastEnders, the split between public and personal life, reason and emotion, work and leisure is turned into a lynchpin of the plot. The author argues that these themes are also... This is the first major study of the roles of women in prime time soap operas. In a comparative analysis of British and North American television soap...
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199,98 zł |
The Contemporary Television Series
ISBN: 9780748619016 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An engaging and provocative study of the contemporary prime-time 'quality' serial television format, this book gives a timely account of prominent programmes such as 24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER, The Sopranos and The West Wing and explores their influential position within the television industry. Divided into the areas of history, aesthetics and reception, the text provides an illuminating overview of an increasingly hybrid television studies discipline. Chapters consider the formal and aesthetic elements in the contemporary television serial through approaches ranging from those...
An engaging and provocative study of the contemporary prime-time 'quality' serial television format, this book gives a timely account of prominent pro...
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162,96 zł |
Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain
ISBN: 9780748625383 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does film and video censorship operate in Britain? Why does it exist? And is it too strict? Starting in 1979, the birth of the domestic video industry - and the first year of the Thatcher government - this critical study explains how the censorship of films both in cinemas and on video and DVD has developed in Britain. As well as presenting a detailed analysis of the workings of the British Board of Film Classification, Petley casts his gaze well beyond the BBFC to analyse the forces which the Board has to take into account when classifying and censoring. These range from laws such as the...
How does film and video censorship operate in Britain? Why does it exist? And is it too strict? Starting in 1979, the birth of the domestic video indu...
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525,68 zł |
Over the Top Judaism: Precedents and Trends in the Depiction of Jewish Beliefs and Observances in Film and Television
ISBN: 9780761826248 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the Top Judaism offers criticism of scores of television episodes and films, mainly between 1980 and 2002, that highlight the beliefs and practices of Judaism, real or perceived. Author Elliot Gertel examines parallels and precedents in both media, and organizes the works topically, concluding with the most promising efforts. Chapters on classic television episodes cite interviews with writers and producers from Gertel's rare oral histories.
Over the Top Judaism offers criticism of scores of television episodes and films, mainly between 1980 and 2002, that highlight the beliefs and practic...
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564,06 zł |
Tune In, Log on: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community
ISBN: 9780761916482 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tune In, Log Out is an ethnographic study of an Internet soap opera fan group. Bridging the fields of computer-mediated communication and audience studies, the book shows how verbal and non verbal communicative practices create collaborative interpretations and criticism, group humor, interpersonal relationships, group norms and individual identity. While much has been written about problems and inequities women have encountered online, Nancy K Baym's analysis of a female-dominated group in which female communication styles prevail demonstrates that women can build successful online... Tune In, Log Out is an ethnographic study of an Internet soap opera fan group. Bridging the fields of computer-mediated communication and audience ... |
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799,04 zł |
Tune In, Log on: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community
ISBN: 9780761916499 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An ethnographic study of an Internet soap opera fan group. Bridging the fields of computer-mediated communication and audience studies, it shows how verbal and non verbal communicative practices create collaborative interpretations and criticism, group humour, interpersonal relationships, group norms and individual identity.
An ethnographic study of an Internet soap opera fan group. Bridging the fields of computer-mediated communication and audience studies, it shows how v...
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573,00 zł |
The Unauthorized Guide to the Simpsons(tm) Collectibles: A Handbook and Price Guide
ISBN: 9780764305450 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Woo hoo Here, at long last, is a guide to the ever-expanding world of collectibles inspired by America's longest-running animated sitcom, "The Simpsons." Since their first appearance in 1987, the Simpsons have lent their familiar faces to literally hundreds of items, from dolls and action figures to clocks and cookie jars. With over 500 full-color pictures of Simpsonabilia that range from the everyday to the obscure, Robert W. Getz invites you to join him as he braves this forbidding, spiky-topped Everest. Prefaced with an essay that traces the history of the show and the reasons for its...
Woo hoo Here, at long last, is a guide to the ever-expanding world of collectibles inspired by America's longest-running animated sitcom, "The Simpso...
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147,14 zł |
An Unauthorized Guide to Rugrats(r) Collectibles
ISBN: 9780764308772 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1991, the Rugrats(R) gang has trooped across our television screens on their hilarious adventures, entertaining anyone who knows just what an adventure "baby-hood" can be In fact, the Rugrats have become the biggest babies on television, and their movie debut has lauched them into super-stardom. With their fame has come a colorful variety of toys and merchandise that Rugrats fans have been snatching up to build their collections, including dolls, action figures, school supplies, and promotional items. This full-color handbook and price guide is just in time for our favorite team of...
Since 1991, the Rugrats(R) gang has trooped across our television screens on their hilarious adventures, entertaining anyone who knows just what an ad...
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84,05 zł |
The Hidden Screen: Low Power Television in America
ISBN: 9780765604200 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By any standards, the most eclectic form of broadcasting in the U.S. today is called low-power television (LPTV). Not an insignificant blip in the industry, LPTV offers true local and community programming to tens of thousands of U.S. viewers. Because it can go where the cable industry doesn't go, LPTV tends to serve either outlying rural communities or disenfranchised communities such as gangs and new immigrant groups who have no other way to stay connected.This is the first book available that tells the complete story of this unique and powerful movement from its inception to the formidable...
By any standards, the most eclectic form of broadcasting in the U.S. today is called low-power television (LPTV). Not an insignificant blip in the ind...
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131,37 zł |
The Television Crime Fighters Factbook: Over 9,800 Details from 301 Programs, 1937-2003
ISBN: 9780786415335 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Did you know that detective Adrian Mont (Monk) is afraid of milk? That Pinky's real first name on The Roaring '20s is Delaware? That on Charlie's Angels, Sabrina was the only Angel who was never seen in a bikini or swimsuit? These are only a few of the more than 9,800 facts readers will find in this work, which presents detailed information on 134 syndicated and cable series broadcast from 1948 to 2003, plus six experimental programs broadcast from 1937 to 1946 and 204 unsold pilots broadcast from 1948 to 1996, that featured the work of television's law enforcers who risk their lives to solve...
Did you know that detective Adrian Mont (Monk) is afraid of milk? That Pinky's real first name on The Roaring '20s is Delaware? That on Charlie's Ange...
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189,89 zł |
Survivor Lessons: Essays on Communication and Reality Television
ISBN: 9780786416684 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of scholarly essays examining 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.
A collection of scholarly essays examining reality television. The first show, Survivor, inspired a national craze when it aired in the summer of 2000...
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189,89 zł |
Radio Live! Television Live!: Those Golden Days When Horses Were Coconuts
ISBN: 9780786418121 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the golden age of live radio and television, writers, performers, and producers created their programs in an environment far different from the studios of today. With live programming, anything could happen, and often did. Robert L. Mott, a veteran writer and Emmy-nominated sound effects creator of the live era, recreates the days when television and radio programs were performed live. He includes personal reminiscences as well as a forthright look behind the microphones: horses hooves were played by coconuts, African-American women were played by white males, andtelevision actors...
During the golden age of live radio and television, writers, performers, and producers created their programs in an environment far different from the...
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220,85 zł |
This Is a Thriller: An Episode Guide, History and Analysis of the Classic 1960s Television Series
ISBN: 9780786419692 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The show's origins and troubled history is first discussed here, followed by biographies of such key figures as producer William Frye, executive producer Hubbell Robinson, writers Robert Block and Donald S. Sanford, and Karloff.
The show's origins and troubled history is first discussed here, followed by biographies of such key figures as producer William Frye, executive produ...
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189,89 zł |