Television

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).

Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on screen media.

Savor moments of Zen like never before, with our Senior Philosophical Correspondents The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy is revised, expanded, and updated to probe deeper than ever before the philosophical significance of the quintessential fake news show of the 21st century.

Set in a time of immense change, Dancing on the Edge tells the story of a black jazz group, the Louis Lester Band, as they rise to fame, entertaining guests at exclusive high society gatherings in 1930s London.

Explore the physics behind the world of Star Wars, with engaging topics and accessible information that shows how we're closer than ever before to creating technology from the galaxy far, far awayperfect for every Star Wars fan!

Few morose thoughts permeate the brain when Yosemite Sam calls Bugs Bunny a ';long-eared galut' or a frustrated Homer Simpson blurts out his famous catch-word, ';D'oh!

A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television s current incarnation, and predict its likely future Covers technology and aesthetics, television s relationship to the state, televisual commerce; texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effects Essays are by an international group of first-rate scholars For information, news, and content from Blackwell's reference publishing program please visit www.

In the past, the examination of myth has traditionally been the study of the "e;Primitive"e; or the "e;Other.

TV's American Dream examines how the U.

Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts speaks to how a transnational array of recent screen entertainments participate, through horror, in public discourses of history, the social and creative work of reshaping popular understanding of our world through the lens of the past.

Game of Thrones, one of the hottest series on television, leaves hundreds of critics divided on how "e;feminist"e; the show really is.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer earned critical acclaim for its use of metaphor to explore the conflicts of growth, power, and transgression.

Remember the finales of M*A*S*H, Cheers and Seinfeld?

An exciting new strand in The Television Series, the 'Moments in Television' collections celebrate the power and artistry of television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television scholarship.

An effective filmmaker needs to have a good understanding of how film language works, and more importantly, how to actively influence an audience's thoughts and feelings and guide their gaze around the screen.

Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In was one of the most unusual programs on television, defying definition as simply comedy, variety, or burlesque.

From the stage of the Grand Ole Opry to concert halls around the world, and on television's Hee Haw and Prime Time Country, Cousin Minnie Pearl entertained fans and friends with her stories about Grinder's Switch and her jokes.

Health Economics and Financing What are the metaphysics of time travel?

The eminent psychologist Carl Jung is best known for such indelible contributions to modern thought as the concept of the collective unconscious, but his wide-spread work can also be fruitfully employed to analyze popular culture.

Genre is central to understanding the industrial context and visual form of television.

The Red Skelton Show was on the air for 20 years, the longest-running primetime network comedy variety series on television.

One of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century, Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces is an elaborate articulation of the monomyth: the narrative pattern underlying countless stories from the most ancient myths and legends to the films and television series of today.

Promoted as a 'disturbingly perfect' and 'deeply shallow' television drama and created by Ryan Murphy, who is also behind the teen musical show Glee, Nip/Tuck has been one of the most popular and controversial shows on cable TV.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Reality television is continuing to grow, both in numbers and in popularity.

When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work.

In the years following 9/11, American TV developed a preoccupation with apocalypse.

Here is the one-stop handbook to make your studio production shine.

International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory.

This is the remarkable, and sometimes shocking, life story of one of the most famous faces of British television.

From his first comic-book appearance in 1939 through his many incarnations on the big screen, the archetypal superhero known as The Batman has never been far from the American consciousness.

It's conventional wisdom that Hollywood has no use for a woman over forty.

Sixty extraordinary years of Eurovision, from C line Dion to Dustin the Turkey, from Abba to Conchita Wurst - the drag acts, the bad acts and all the nul points heroes.

Between the nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century television transformed from an idea to an institution.

After a slow and inauspicious beginning, Seinfeld broke through to become one of the most commercially successful sitcoms in the history of television.

From Vampira to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, female horror movie hosts have long been a staple of late-night television.

Here's the lowdown on the unforgettable show about the Forgotten War.

This is the first-ever critical work on Jack Rosenthal, the award-winning British television dramatist.

Ever since the first scheduled television broadcasts began in the 1930s, newspapers and magazines took quickly to reviewing this revolutionary new medium.

Christopher Bigsby explores the potential of television drama to offer a radical critique of American politics, myths and values.

HBO's critically acclaimed drama The Wire has seen increasing use as course material in college classrooms since the 2008 series finale.

Male-female detective pairings often exhibit offbeat, dark humor and considerable chemistry as they investigate crimes.

The New York Times bestseller about two guys who went out for coffee and dreamed up Seinfeld';A wildly entertaining must-read not only for Seinfeld fans but for anyone who wants a better understanding of how television series are made' (Booklist, starred review).

From 1963-1965, The Outer Limits, an anthology television show co-created by Joseph Stefano and Leslie Stevens, was broadcast on ABC.

A rip-snorting rock ‘n’ roll memoir from the legendary disc jockey who’s been called “the missing link to the Sixties.