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Serial Television: Big Drama on the Small Screen
ISBN: 9781844570218 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Serial Television focuses on contemporary television drama, offering detailed accounts of hugely popular, influential, and groundbreaking shows such as The Sopranos, Queer as Folk, Sex and the City, Twin Peaks, This Life, Prime Suspect, Cold Lazarus, The Kingdom, Holocaust, Heimat, and Roots.
Serial Television focuses on contemporary television drama, offering detailed accounts of hugely popular, influential, and groundbreaking shows...
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Telefantasy
ISBN: 9781844570768 / Angielski / Miękka / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Telefantasyis the first book-length study to consider the place of fantasy, science fiction, and horror dramas in the history of British and U.S. television. Looking at two periods--the 1950s and 1960s, and the 1990s and 2000s--when telefantasy was particularly prevalent on television, this book provides detailed historical accounts of the production of key telefantasy programs: the Quatermass serials, The Prisoner, Star Trek, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, andRandall and Hopkirk.
Telefantasyengages with current debates about television history,... Telefantasyis the first book-length study to consider the place of fantasy, science fiction, and horror dramas in the history of British and U....
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Television Sitcom
ISBN: 9781844570881 / Angielski / Miękka / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite its global reach, long-standing popularity, and immense profitability, the sitcom has been repeatedly neglected in theoretical work on television and media. This book brings the analysis of sitcom up to date with a wealth of contemporary examples, a range of new approaches to the genre, and an examination of the roles sitcom and comedy play within society.
With specific case studies ofWill and Grace, The Office, andThe Cosby Show, as well as analysis of a broad range of contemporary and historical examples throughout, this book will be of interest to students of... Despite its global reach, long-standing popularity, and immense profitability, the sitcom has been repeatedly neglected in theoretical work on televis...
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175,23 |
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Global Television Marketplace
ISBN: 9781844571048 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What television viewers around the world watch often depends less on popularity or government policies than on the personal relationships between buyers and sellers in the international programme market. A few thousand acquisitions and distribution professionals decide what programmes the earth's inhabitants can watch, and who can watch them. This book provides an inside look at the cultural assumptions and business practices of these television merchants. It argues that the market in television programs responds principally to institutional needs, rather than to the wishes of the viewing...
What television viewers around the world watch often depends less on popularity or government policies than on the personal relationships between buye...
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166,48 |
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Seven Up
ISBN: 9781844571963 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive account of the acclaimed Granada TV series Seven Up. It traces Seven Up's origins and production history up to 49 Up, places it within the context of the history of British documentary and includes invaluable insights from Michael Apted, his series producer and two of the 'children' - Nick and Bruce.
The first comprehensive account of the acclaimed Granada TV series Seven Up. It traces Seven Up's origins and production history up to 49 Up, places i...
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123,68 |
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Queer as Folk
ISBN: 9781844571994 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When thegroundbreaking drama Queer as Folk was first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999, it was both hailed and reviled for its realistic depiction of gay lives. Davis examines its conception and production, alongside the political and social context in which it was recieved and the concerns addressed throughout the series.
" When thegroundbreaking drama Queer as Folk was first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999, it was both hailed and reviled for its realistic depiction of gay...
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Seinfeld
ISBN: 9781844572014 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reflective, funny account of one of the most popular tv sitcoms ever made.Nicholas Mirzoeff situates Seinfeld as an expression of Clinton-era America, from its consistently ironic take on social life, to the changing culture of sexuality and ethnicity.
" This is a reflective, funny account of one of the most popular tv sitcoms ever made.Nicholas Mirzoeff situates Seinfeld as an expression of Clinton-er...
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123,68 |
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A Licence to Be Different: The Story of Channel 4
ISBN: 9781844572052 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traces the history and development of Channel 4, one of the UK's best loved and most controversial TV channels. Identifies key figures and signature programmes such as 'Brookside, ' 'The Big Breakfast' and 'Wife Swap, ' as well assuccessful American imports including 'Friends' and 'Sex and the City.'
" Traces the history and development of Channel 4, one of the UK's best loved and most controversial TV channels. Identifies key figures and signature p...
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175,23 |
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The League of Gentlemen
ISBN: 9781844572694 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leon Hunt's study examines The League of Gentlemen's status as a 'cult' comedy, and places it in the context of traditions of British comedy and Northern humour, horror and the Gothic. The book includes insights from interviews with two of the 'Gents'.
Leon Hunt's study examines The League of Gentlemen's status as a 'cult' comedy, and places it in the context of traditions of British comedy ...
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Prime Suspect
ISBN: 9781844573059 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prime Suspect, starring Helen Mirren asDCI Jane Tennison, was a grim UK police drama that becameone of the most talked about programs in recent memory. DeborahJermyn's study of the series examinesexactly what made Prime Suspect so distinctive, so controversial and, ultimately, so influential, its innovations transformingthe tv crime drama. Jermyn places the series in the context of tv crime fictions that had gone before it, particularly those featuring female detectives, such as Cagney and Lacey. Jermyn also addresses the institutionalized sexism and misogyny... Prime Suspect, starring Helen Mirren asDCI Jane Tennison, was a grim UK police drama that becameone of the most talked about programs in rec... |
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Cathy Come Home
ISBN: 9781844573165 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the classic television drama Cathy Come Home (BBC 1966) which tells the moving story of a young couple's struggles with poverty, debt and homelessness. Stephen Lacey places Cathy in its institutional context and examines its impact on first broadcast and its lasting influence.
A study of the classic television drama Cathy Come Home (BBC 1966) which tells the moving story of a young couple's struggles with poverty, d...
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Reality Television and Class
ISBN: 9781844573974 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does class get 'cast' and made performative? What modes are there for people to wrestle-back their forms of representation? And how should we understand this intense manipulation of feeling? This bookexamines why class politics matter against much political and academic rhetoric which refract inequality through other means.
How does class get 'cast' and made performative? What modes are there for people to wrestle-back their forms of representation? And how should we unde...
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170,08 |
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Bleak House
ISBN: 9781844574179 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new edition to our BFI TV Classics series, this analysis of BBC's Bleak House aims to analyze this critically acclaimed production in terms of its adaptation status, narrative organization, acting, setting and mise-en-scene, while also using it to comment on more general issues in television studies.
A new edition to our BFI TV Classics series, this analysis of BBC's Bleak House aims to analyze this critically acclaimed production in terms of its a...
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Ephemeral Media: Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube
ISBN: 9781844574346 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ephemeral Media explores the practices, strategies and textual forms helping producers negotiate a fast-paced mediascape. Examining dynamics of brevity and evanescence in the television and new media environment, this book provides a new perspective on the transitory, and transitional, nature of screen culture in the early twenty-first century.
Ephemeral Media explores the practices, strategies and textual forms helping producers negotiate a fast-paced mediascape. Examining dynamics ...
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166,48 |
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British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker's Guide
ISBN: 9781845110482 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Doctor Who to Red Dwarf, Thunderbirds to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, some of the most memorable and cherished British television has been in the area of science fiction.This pioneering book, by leading writers in TV history and science fiction, offers for the first time a detailed national survey of this most well-loved of TV genres and provides in-depth reassessments of these shows, as well as others including Threads, Sapphire and Steel, Invasion: Earth and The Last Train. The volume argues that British science fiction television, too often...
From Doctor Who to Red Dwarf, Thunderbirds to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, some of the most memorable and cherished Brit...
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133,99 |
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The Angry Buzz: This Week and Current Affairs Television
ISBN: 9781845110512 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Angry Buzz argues for the importance of current affairs broadcasting in the UK through the history of the Independent Television series This week, which ran for 35 years. The book explores the current affairs agenda; regulation and public service television; issues of gender, and much more.
The Angry Buzz argues for the importance of current affairs broadcasting in the UK through the history of the Independent Television series Thi...
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128,84 |
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Television and Consumer Culture: Britain and the Transformation of Modernity
ISBN: 9781845110796 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The radical expansion and dramatic changes in television broadcasting during the third quarter of the twentieth century reflected and promoted the development of a new form of consumer culture in Britain. Society was becoming marked by fragmentation, individualism and consumerism and at the same time, ITV, a new commercial service, was challenging the middle-class, public service BBC. This book's examination of television's novel intervention in and re-articulation of British culture over this period pinpoints a crucial moment in the development of consumer capitalism when television's novel...
The radical expansion and dramatic changes in television broadcasting during the third quarter of the twentieth century reflected and promoted the dev...
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128,84 |
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Reading the Sopranos: Hit TV from HBO
ISBN: 9781845111212 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Sopranos has rewritten the rules of television drama and changed attitudes toward television itself. Topics explored include the extraordinary characterization of Tony Soprano; racism; dreams; Dr. Melfi as narratee; Carmela as a feminist; Italian-American womanhood; mafia theatrics; use and abuse of family values and feudal codes; the HBO brand; food's role on the show; and more. The book features Lavery's comprehensive guide to the show's intertextual moments and allusions, a timeline, and character and episode guides.
The Sopranos has rewritten the rules of television drama and changed attitudes toward television itself. Topics explored include the extraordin...
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93,01 |
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Re-Viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Television History
ISBN: 9781845111885 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by leading scholars in the field, this book is an internationally relevant, cutting-edge reassessment of both current methods and practices in television historiography and of assumptions about television history itself. The book focuses on debates about the canon, on institutions, texts and audiences, and the interconnections between these distinct areas. Through discussions and case studies, it covers a wide selection, from television's approaches to immigration and natural history to economic histories of television, the framing of television aesthetics, and problems in...
Written by leading scholars in the field, this book is an internationally relevant, cutting-edge reassessment of both current methods and practices in...
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133,99 |
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Reading "Desperate Housewives" : Beyond the White Picket Fence
ISBN: 9781845112202 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The darkly comic series about the secret lives of Bree, Gabrielle, Lynette, Susan and the other ladies living on Wisteria Lane became an instant breakthrough hit when it premiered in the fall of 2004. Reading Desperate Housewives offers a wide-ranging critical assessment of one of the most talked about shows on American television, dissecting its appeal and tapping into early responses to the show and the controversy surrounding it. Essays consider such diverse issues as its representation of the war of the sexes and how it illuminates contemporary feminism, Republican politics and the...
The darkly comic series about the secret lives of Bree, Gabrielle, Lynette, Susan and the other ladies living on Wisteria Lane became an instant break...
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97,90 |
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