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King of the Half Hour: Nat Hiken and the Golden Age of TV Comedy
ISBN: 9780815606765 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Regarded by his contemporaries as one of television s premier comedy creators, Nat Hiken was the driving creative force behind the classic 1950s and 1960s series Sgt. Bilko and the hilarious Car 54, Where Are You? Regarded by his contemporaries as one of television s premier comedy creators, Nat Hiken was the driving creative force behind the classic 1950s an... |
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113,84 |
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Prime-Time Authorship: Works about and by Three TV Dramatists
ISBN: 9780815628798 / Angielski / Miękka / 467 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mixing interviews, essays, and representative scripts of three successful television dramatists, the book will be of immeasurable use to the novice scriptwriter. Designed to inspire the fledgling scriptwriter, this book combines analytical essays on the work of three successful television writers with interviews and complete scripts printed in correct professional format. The writers Marion Hargrove (Maverick, The Waltons), James Dougherty (thirtysomething), and Michael Kozell (Hill Street Blues) are used as examples of professionals who developed a personal voice and a distinctive style...
Mixing interviews, essays, and representative scripts of three successful television dramatists, the book will be of immeasurable use to the novice sc...
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77,52 |
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You Can't Air That: Four Cases of Controversy and Censorship in American Television Programming
ISBN: 9780815631507 / Angielski / Twarda / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this illuminating book, David S. Silverman assesses four controversial television programs from the perspective of media history, assessing the censorship present at all four networks and the political and intellectual inertia it produces in broadcast television. Beginning with "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" in the sixties, the author also examines "The Richard Pryor Show", "TV Nation", and "Politically Incorrect". Drawing on firsthand accounts by the writers, producers, and performers of these programs, Silverman offers an unbiased view of the ways in which censorship, sponsor...
In this illuminating book, David S. Silverman assesses four controversial television programs from the perspective of media history, assessing the cen...
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82,36 |
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Exeter Performance Studies
ISBN: 9780859897495 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John McGrath's plays are compulsory reading and viewing for students of drama, film and television courses in many university and further education departments, and yet despite recognition of the central importance of McGrath's work, very little has been written about him. This is the first full-length study of his work.This book illuminates the importance of John McGrath's role in the development of theatre, film and television in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Through play and script-writing, through directing, producing and co-ordinating work, and through his critical,...
John McGrath's plays are compulsory reading and viewing for students of drama, film and television courses in many university and further education de...
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84,84 |
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Texas Signs on: The Early Days of Radio and Television
ISBN: 9780890968130 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On Thanksgiving Day, 1921, a man in Waco listened intently to a series of dots and dashes coming over his crystal radio receiver. The electronic signal spelled out "T FP 8Y L." The man took off his headphones, walked over to a window, and with a megaphone yelled out that window, "Texas forward pass; eight yard loss." He was receiving the broadcast account of the annual Turkey Day football rivalry between the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Texas and Texas University, being played at Kyle Field in College Station and broadcast in a play-by-play, coded account over 5XB, the college's...
On Thanksgiving Day, 1921, a man in Waco listened intently to a series of dots and dashes coming over his crystal radio receiver. The electronic signa...
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121,15 |
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Popular Spanish Film Under Franco: Comedy and the Weakening of the State
ISBN: 9781403941176 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Popular Spanish Film Under Franco is the first book of its kind to analyze cinematic comedy during the initial two decades of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Focusing on the intersection between popular culture and political populism, it breaks new theoretical ground in re-evaluating the policies of the regime and the tactics employed by those who sought to undermine it. Its cultural studies approach - combining Gramsci, de Certeau and Bakhtin - interrogates the ambiguous nature of subversion and challenges common assumptions concerning post-war Spanish film.
Popular Spanish Film Under Franco is the first book of its kind to analyze cinematic comedy during the initial two decades of Francisco Franco's dicta...
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200,77 |
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Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation
ISBN: 9781403970602 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years. The essays offer bold and insightful engagement with anime's concerns with gender identity, anxieties about body mutation and technological monstrosity, and apocalyptic fantasies of the end of history. The contributors dismantle the distinction between 'high' and 'low' culture and offer compelling arguments for the value and importance of the study of anime and popular culture as...
This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads o...
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200,77 |
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A New Guide to Italian Cinema
ISBN: 9781403975607 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993) . This guide retains earlier editions' interest in renowned films and directors but is also attentive to the popular films which achieved box office success among the public.
This book is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993) . This guide retains earli...
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200,77 |
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Theorizing Desire: From Freud to Feminism to Film
ISBN: 9781403989604 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the nature of desire? This book gives an accessible introduction to the concept, and a coherent critique of the competing theories of desire within contemporary theory. Through analysis of representations of desire in television and film, it considers ways in which the conceptis theorized and presented on screen."
What is the nature of desire? This book gives an accessible introduction to the concept, and a coherent critique of the competing theories of desire w...
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200,77 |
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World Cinema's 'Dialogues' with Hollywood
ISBN: 9781403998958 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Cookelooks at Hollywood's interaction with national and transnational cinemas, from German Expressionism to Bollywood and Chinese film. While Hollywood has had a huge impact on the medium - doing all the talking in the 'dialogue' - world cinema's economic, aesthetic and political relationship with Hollywood is of profound importance."
Paul Cookelooks at Hollywood's interaction with national and transnational cinemas, from German Expressionism to Bollywood and Chinese film. While Hol...
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200,77 |
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Televangelism Reconsidered: Ritual in the Search for Human Community
ISBN: 9781555409074 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By closely examining four television programs--Falwell's "The Old-Time Gospel Hour," Robertson's "700 Club," the Bakkers' "PTL Club," and the telecasts of Jimmy Swaggart--this work considers the attraction of televangelism for its conservative Christian audience. It argues that televangelism, as ritual performance, both legitimates the beliefs of viewers and at the same time adapts other beliefs of its viewers to the broader culture.
By closely examining four television programs--Falwell's "The Old-Time Gospel Hour," Robertson's "700 Club," the Bakkers' "PTL Club," and the telecast...
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43,32 |
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Living Life Inside the Lines: Tales from the Golden Age of Animation
ISBN: 9781578067497 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Martha Sigall worked with all the classic cartoon characters-Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tom & Jerry, Droopy Dawg, Beany & Cecil, Tweety, and Porky Pig-and the madcap artists who created them-Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Frank Tashlin, Friz Freleng, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Bill Melendez, and Ben (Bugs) Hardaway. As a teenager Sigall became an apprentice painter working in the Golden Age of Hollywood at the Leon Schlesinger studio, making $12.75 per week coloring animation cels that would introduce Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd to the world. She recounts her wild and... Martha Sigall worked with all the classic cartoon characters-Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tom & Jerry, Droopy Dawg, Beany & Cecil, Tweety, and Porky Pig... |
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96,90 |
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Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television
ISBN: 9781586481414 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In more than a half century with CBS News, Don Hewitt has been responsible for many of the greatest moments in television history, including the first broadcasts of political conventions in 1948; the first Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960; and, most spectacularly, for the past 34 years, 60 Minutes, for which he has been the creator, executive producer, and driving force of the news program that has redefined television journalism. Here, Hewitt presents his own remarkable life story in his own words, from his time as a reporter for Stars & Stripes during the Second World War, to the heady...
In more than a half century with CBS News, Don Hewitt has been responsible for many of the greatest moments in television history, including the first...
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83,58 |
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Alias Smith & Jones: The Story of Two Pretty Good Bad Men
ISBN: 9781593930318 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western television series that originally aired on ABC from January 1971 to January 1973. It starred Pete Duel and Ben Murphy as outlaw cousins who are trying to reform. The series evolved from a made-for-TV movie of the previous year called The Young Country, about con artists in the Old West. It was produced, written, and directed by Roy Huggins and starred Roger Davis and Sally Field, but the series origins can be tracked back to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford and a comment in the film when, prior to... Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western television series that originally aired on ABC from January 1971 to January 1973. It starred Pete Duel... |
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140,49 |
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Incorrect Entertainment
ISBN: 9781593930936 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cultural Historian Anthony Slide, who has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a one-man publishing phenomenon, strikes again with a book guaranteed to contain something OFFENSIVE for everyone.
Chapters on subjects as varied as CAMP, FASCISM in Hollywood, Hedda Hopper and the PORKYS movies. The latest topical jokes on Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Challenger disaster. Subjects such as ALCOHOL, DRUG and SPOUSAL ABUSE, COMMUNISM, ETHNICITY, GAYS and LESBIANS and RELIGION. Commentary on leading figures of the era, including Father Coughlin, Kinky Friedman, Tom Lehrer and John... Cultural Historian Anthony Slide, who has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a one-man publishing phenomenon, strikes again with a book guaran...
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119,20 |
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Pittsburgh Film History: On Set in the Steel City
ISBN: 9781540207333 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,59 |
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Video Art, a Guided Tour: A Guided Tour
ISBN: 9781850435464 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Video art dominates the international art world to such an extent that its heady days on the radical fringes are sometimes overlooked--often unknown. This book is an essential and highly entertaining guide to video art and its history. Elwes, herself a pioneer of early video, traces the story from the weighty Portapak equipment of the '60s and '70s to today's digital technology, from early experiments in ""real time"" to the ""new narrative"" movement of the 1980s. She also examines video's love-hate relationship with television, from its literal destruction in ""scratch"" video to its...
Video art dominates the international art world to such an extent that its heady days on the radical fringes are sometimes overlooked--often unknown. ...
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163,24 |
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Mass Culture and National Traditions
ISBN: 9788883980046 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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114,94 |
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Watching Television Audiences: Cultural Theories and Methods
ISBN: 9780340741429 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Please note: We are supplying a hardback copy of this title for scanning because that is the only copy we have in-house. This title, however, is to be set-up as a perfect bound POD title. Thanks
Please note: We are supplying a hardback copy of this title for scanning because that is the only copy we have in-house. This title, however, is to be...
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255,10 |
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Center Field Shot: A History of Baseball on Television
ISBN: 9780803248250 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Baseball Weekly s list of things that most affected baseball in the twentieth century, television ranked second behind only the signing of Jackie Robinson. The new medium of television exposed baseball to a genuinely national audience; altered the financial picture for teams, owners, and players; and changed the way Americans followed the game. Center Field Shot explores these changes all even more prominent in the first few years of the twenty-first century and makes sense of their meaning for America s pastime. Center Field Shot traces a sometimes contentious...
In Baseball Weekly s list of things that most affected baseball in the twentieth century, television ranked second behind only the signing of J...
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94,84 |
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