Television

Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany plays a host of the show's main characters, all clones of an illegal experiment.

Shine is your chance to sit down with Samantha Armytage, co-host of Channel Seven's top-rating Sunrise, where she takes you inside her world and the lessons she's learned (and is still learning!

In Scripted Affects, Branded Selves, Gabriella Lukacs analyzes the development of a new primetime serial called "e;trendy drama"e; as the Japanese television industry's ingenious response to market fragmentation.

"e;Blows the lid on so many TV secrets"e; Tom Archer, Controller Factual, BBC"e;If every first-time producer read this before pitching a program, I guarantee a greater success rate"e; Gary Lico, President/CEO, CABLEready, USAIn recent years there has been an explosion of broadcast and cable channels with a desperate need for original factual/reality programming to fill their schedules: -documentaries, observational series, makeover formats, reality competitions.

Featuring 1,000 detailed entries, this encylopedia examines the phenomenon of television theme songs.

In post-9/11 America, while all eyes were on Iraq and Afghanistan, The Wire (2002-2008) focused on the dark realities of those living in America's disintegrating industrial heartlands and drug-ravaged neighborhoods, striving against the odds in its schools, hospitals and legal system.

The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen documents the public's seemingly insatiable fascination with the warrior woman archetype in film and on television.

Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition examines contemporary Russian television genres in the age of transition from broadcast to post-broadcast television.

Since the late 1990s, when broadcasters began adapting such television shows as Big Brother, Survivor and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

As Andrzej Sapkowski was fleshing out his character Geralt of Rivia for a writing contest, he did not set out to write a science textbook--or even a work of science fiction.

Voyage musical dans l'univers de Claude Rajotte

Depuis son enfance dans le village de Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil jusqu'à aujourd'hui, la musique a toujours fait partie de la vie de cet animateur, VJ et critique impitoyable.

Most of the bright and talented actresses who made America laugh in the 1950s are off the air today, but their pioneering Hollywood careers irrevocably changed the face of television comedy.

'Paris in the Cinema' offers a new approach to the representation of Paris on screen.

People today remember Jayne Mansfield as a famous Hollywood movie star.

Robert Englund, legendary star of A Nightmare on Elm Street, peels back the Freddy Krueger mask and reveals the stuff of every horror buff's dreams.

This book explores vampire narratives that have been expressed across multiple media and new technologies.

The 40-year history of high definition television technology is traced from initial studies in Japan, through its development in Europe, and then to the United States, where the first all-digital systems were implemented.

Jane Austen wrote for a Regency-period audience and could never have predicted the lasting success of her original works.

This collection of new essays focuses on The CW network's hit television series Arrow--based on DC Comic's Green Arrow--and its spin-offs The Flash, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl.

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Survivor with a look back at one of history's most popular and long-running reality shows.

More than sixty years after the The Twilight Zone debuted on television, the show remains a cultural phenomenon, including a feature film, three television reboots, a comic book series, a magazine and a theatrical production.

Apart from its brilliance as television, it's amazing what "e;Deadwood"e; gets away with.

This comprehensive study of the Western covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, True Grit, and Cowboys & Aliens.

Marvel, like other media "e;universes,"e; is a collection of highly profitable and audience-satisfying products that exist not only as individual items of popular culture but coalesce to form a unique and all-encompassing identity.

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As Westeros returns to our screens, relive all eight seasons of Game of Thrones with the ONLY official tie-in guide to the biggest TV series in the worldTHE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANYONE OBSESSED WITH HOUSE OF THE DRAGON__________Delve deeper into Westeros than ever before .

From the mid-90s to the present, television drama with religious content has come to reflect the growing cultural divide between white middle-America and concentrated urban elites.

Notwithstanding the challenges of a limited population size and the struggle to fund such costly forms of screen production as high-end film and television, both of these New Zealand screen industries have been the site of significant expectation, achievement and cultural influence.

All is not well in the beautiful county of Midsomer.

Laughing Matters takes an analytic approach to film, television and radio comedy and provides an accessible overview of its forms and contexts.

Roberto Benigni, the Italian comedian, actor, director, and writer, gained international fame when his film La vita e bella/ Life Is Beautiful (1997) won three Oscars in 1999, including Best Foreign Film and Best Actor.

Beginning in the 1930s and moving into the post millennium, Newton provides a historical analysis of policies invoked, and practices undertaken as the Service attempted to assist white Britons in understanding the impact of African-Caribbeans, and their assimilation into constructs of Britishness.

'Law and Justice on the Small Screen' is a wide-ranging collection of essays about law in and on television.

Scholar and Who fan Miles Booy has written the first historical account of the public interpretation of Doctor Who.

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We can t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist.

Introduction to Cinematography offers a practical, stage-by-stage guide to the creative and technical foundations of cinematography.

This teaching pack, suitable for AS/A2 Media and Film Studies, offers a suitable case study for industry and institution and help students demonstrate an understanding of key concepts and contemporary Hollywood.

The screenplay of the 1987 movie, as written by Charles Bukowski.

'In those weeks following the audition I'd started to think that maybe I could do well in the competition, and even to see beyond bootcamp and what doing well could mean.

Women remain woefully underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Alongside the commercial cinema of narrative and spectacle there has always been another practice - call it avant-garde, experimental or artists' film (as opposed to art cinema).

Written by senior compositor, technical director and master trainer Steve Wright, this book condenses years of production experience into an easy-to-read and highly-informative guide suitable for both working and aspiring visual effects artists.

Just when you thought paper couldn t be more exciting, this book comes your way!

Food journalist, podcast producer and former academic Gilly Smith offers fresh insights into the creation of contemporary British food culture.

Emily Bronte's beloved novel Wuthering Heights has been adapted countless times for film and television over the decades.

One of the ';Best Books' of the year from The Smithsonian, The Washington Independent Review, and more!