Kategoria BISAC: Performing Arts >> Television - General

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Not exactly a memoir, My Story is the saga of one man's fifty-year, often hilarious, journey through a life filled with assorted notables, nut cases, celebrated fiends, and, yes, even a few famous friends.

Along the way, you will bump into the likes of Groucho Marx, Oscar Levant, Billy Wilder, Tiny Tim, Ginger Rogers, Spiro Agnew, Jimmy Stewart, Norman Lear, George Kennedy, Susan Strasberg, Andy Warhol, Jack Palance, Bob Hope, Jill St. John, George C. Scott, Dick Van Dyke, George Burns, Farrah Fawcett, Gene Kelly, Jack Webb, Stan...

Better known as a literary genius for his Nobel Prize winning novels, Gao Xingjian is the epitome of a well-rounded scholar. Built up a career diverse in both academic and artistic disciplines, Gao is a novelist, translator, dramatist, director, critic and artist.

Gao's art are definitely not overshadowed by his revolutionary and wildly reputed literary works. Equal to his literary oeuvre, his paintings are works of art with a level of originality. Different from writing, ink and wash painting is for him another creative channel which he articulates his inner mindscape where words...

Spanning the 1950s to the present day, The changing spaces of television acting is both a historical overview and a then-and-now comparison of performance in British television drama. By examining acting styles from distinct eras of television production - studio realism and location realism - the book makes a unique contribution to the fields of television and performance studies, going behind the scenes to unpack the various determinants that influence how performers work in the medium.

The case studies are programmes that emerged in distinct eras of television...

The media's coverage of religion is an important question for academic researchers, given the central role which news media play in ensuring that people are up-to-date with religion news developments.

Not only is there a lack of treatment of the subject in other countries, but there is also the absence of comparative study on news and religion. A key question is how the media, the political system, the religions themselves, the culture, and the economy influence how religion is reported in different countries. The book SPIRITUAL NEWS: Reporting Religion around the...

There are as many different types of celebrities as there are people. All have a story to tell and most want to tell it. What they really want is not just someone who will ask the questions, but also listen to their answers. That's the basis of a great conversation.

So let's head down Memory Lane with some of the biggest stars and a couple of really high achievers. From Academy Award(c) winners such as, Cloris Leachman, Karl Malden, and Christopher Plummer; to Emmy(c) winners such as Ed Asner, Michael Moriarty, and Lindsay Wagner; to Tony(c) winners such as Carol Channing,...

Don't Look at the Camera tells the extraordinary inside story of what it's like to spend a lifetime making television. Ian Fisher is an international award winning producer/director who started his television career as a news reporter and presenter. This first volume of his memoirs is an often hilarious, sometimes emotional journey through a series of adventures, regular occurrences in his working day.

As a reporter he impersonated a cabinet minister to secure an interview with the Home Secretary, tracked down Richard Branson's balloon at the end of his...