When The Shield first appeared on US television in March 2002, it broke ratings records with the highest audience-rated original series premiere in cable history.
Mothers on American television takes an in-depth look at how motherhood is represented on some of the most popular television series produced this century.
Despite the steady rise in adaptations of Samuel Beckett's work across the world following the author's death in 1989, Beckett's afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to this creative phenomenon.
One of FX's most successful original productions, Sons of Anarchy roared onto the screen in 2008 and dominated the cable network's programming for seven seasons.
Despite the steady rise in adaptations of Samuel Beckett's work across the world following the author's death in 1989, Beckett's afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to this creative phenomenon.
Set in politically unstable environments, Shakespeare's history plays--Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV and Henry V--and HBO's Western series Deadwood (2004-2006) all stand as critiques of myths of national origin, the sanitized stories we tell ourselves about how power imposes order on chaos.
Mothers on American television takes an in-depth look at how motherhood is represented on some of the most popular television series produced this century.
A Waterstones Best Book of 2024There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.
Were it not for authoritarian state censorship, Cecilia Bartolome's name would figure alongside those of her contemporaries Agnes Varda and Claire Denis as a pioneering feminist filmmaker of the twentieth century.
One of FX's most successful original productions, Sons of Anarchy roared onto the screen in 2008 and dominated the cable network's programming for seven seasons.
Were it not for authoritarian state censorship, Cecilia Bartolome's name would figure alongside those of her contemporaries Agnes Varda and Claire Denis as a pioneering feminist filmmaker of the twentieth century.
A staple of television since the early years of the BBC, British crime drama first crossed the Atlantic on public broadcasting stations and specialty cable channels, and later through streaming services.
One of the most popular shows to come out of Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes's production company, is ABC's political drama Scandal (2012-18)-a series whose tremendous success and marketing savvy led LA Times critic Mary McNamara to hail it as "e;the show that Twitter built"e; and Time magazine to name its protagonist as one of the most influential fictional characters of 2013.
One of the most popular shows to come out of Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes's production company, is ABC's political drama Scandal (2012-18)-a series whose tremendous success and marketing savvy led LA Times critic Mary McNamara to hail it as "e;the show that Twitter built"e; and Time magazine to name its protagonist as one of the most influential fictional characters of 2013.
An updated edition - with completely new chapters - of the most accessible and compelling history of the cinema yet published, and complements Mark Cousins' fascinating 15-hour film documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.
A staple of television since the early years of the BBC, British crime drama first crossed the Atlantic on public broadcasting stations and specialty cable channels, and later through streaming services.
When The Shield first appeared on US television in March 2002, it broke ratings records with the highest audience-rated original series premiere in cable history.
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Ever since John Logie Baird first publicly demonstrated this now all-pervasivemedium in his small Soho laboratory, the history of television has been litteredwith remarkable but true tales of the unexpected.
The inspiration behind 'Life of Pi' director Ang Lee's 'Brokeback Mountain' is one of the short stories to be found in this haunting collection of Wyoming tales.
En No me acuerdo muy bien, traducida por Walter Romero, Gérard Watkins reconstituye el espacio mental de Antonio, un hombre de 93 años que pierde la memoria.
Estas Tres clases proponen un recorrido literario cautivador y educativo por las obras de tres dramaturgos emblemáticos: William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht y Tennessee Williams.
¿Y no fue así, en realidad, como empezó todo: con una dicotomía rígida, esquemática, taxativa, que asignaba a quien la profería el garantido lugar del bien y reservaba para sus oponentes el inexorable lugar del mal?
Straight, traducida por Juan Pablo Pizarro de Trenqualye, da cuenta de que, durante mucho tiempo, Sudáfrica fue marginada del resto del mundo por causa del apartheid.
