Television

On December 31, 1939, nationwide radio audiences listened as 17-year-old Josephine Owaissa Cottle, a Texas schoolgirl, won Gateway to Hollywood's new talent competition.

Classics in the Modern World brings together a collection of distinguished international contributors to discuss the features and implications of a 'democratic turn' in modern perceptions of ancient Greece and Rome.

This book explores the various issues raised by women's fraught integration into the mainstream in film and television, whether it be off screen as filmmakers and film critics or on screen in film and TV series.

Tony Garnett is the first book-length study of one of the most respected and prolific producers working in British television.

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.

Television is the most powerful system of images in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Gail Porter burst on to our TV screens in the late 90s presenting The Movie Chart Show, Alive and Kicking and Top of the Pops.

There has been a recent revival of interest in the work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk, a label-defying auteur and escape artist if there ever was one.

Frank Bank's story is a sometimes wild, sometimes bawdy, often poignant, always funny account of a real-life Louie Louie who led a nation to California-dreamin'.

This book is an exploration of the changes in Russian cultural identity in the twenty years after the fall of the Soviet state.

When the BBC launched the world's first regular, high-definition television service on 2 November, 1936 it was the culmination of decades of technological innovations.

Music and the Broadcast Experience explores the complex ways in which music and broadcasting have developed together throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries.

Updated and revised, the fourth edition of The Radio Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the medium of radio and the radio industry in the UK.

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

PHILOSOPHY/POP CULTURE The contributors to Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy strive to make things relevant to fans of the show, and they put their information out in a way that is accessible to folks who wouldn't know Heidegger from Heineken.

Der Narzissmus-Doc meldet sich zum Dienst!

Supernatural is one of the most successful horror TV shows ever, providing fifteen seasons of the adventures of Dean and Sam Winchester as they hunt monsters and save the world.

The Writing Dead features original interviews with the writers of today's most frightening and fascinating shows.

The Ritz Brothers were a popular comedy trio in vaudeville, nightclubs, movies and television for more than four decades.

'The TV series of the decade stars a bunch of rescue dogs' Caitlin Moran'Channel 4 series The Dog House has captured hearts across the nation.

The complete, authorised scripts, including deleted scenes, of the multiple award-winning Succession.

This volume demonstrates that television comedies are conduits through which we might resist normative ways of thinking about cultural crises.

This beautifully produced, lavishly illustrated book is the ultimate celebration of the series, the town, the characters, and the state of mind that is Schitt's Creek.

Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes.

'A formidable freestyle book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' ROLLING STONEThe music of James Brown was almost a genre in its own right, and he was one of the biggest and most influential cultural figures of the twentieth century.

Throughout its history, British television has found a place, if only in its margins, for programmes that consciously worked to expand the boundaries of television aesthetics.

Contributions by Apryl Alexander, Alisia Grace Chase, Brian Faucette, Laura E.

The story of Star Trek's resurrection between the 1969 cancellation of the original series and the 1979 release of Robert Wise's Star Trek--The Motion Picture, has become legend and like so many other legends, it tends to get printed instead of the facts.

Evaluating the existing position of film as research, Filmmaking in Academia offers clear guidance and practical advice from the planning and conception of research films to the making, evaluation, dissemination and impact of practice-based research.

The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system.

Creator of television series such as Shameless, Clocking Off, State of Play, Reckless, Linda Green and Children's Ward, Paul Abbott is a British 'showrunner' and writer whose name and reputation for edgy, intelligent, successful and socio-political programmes holds significant weight both in the contemporary television industry and with the public.

Cultural criticism for people who grew up with television as the primary background noise.

In Orphan Black, several apparently unconnected women discover that they are exact physical doubles, that there are more of them out there, that they are all illegally produced clones, and that someone is having them killed.

In its evolution from graphic novels to a sprawling multimedia universe, the impact of The Walking Dead cannot be understated.

Science fiction series have remained a staple of American television from its inception: classic programs such as The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Star Trek, along with recent and current series including Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1, have been some of the most enduring and influential of all television shows.

The #MeToo movement has heightened awareness about the prevalence of sexual violence across professional, public, and private spheres.

Aliens: They have taken the form of immigrants, invaders, lovers, heroes, cute creatures that want our candy or monsters that want our flesh.

While every new TV series has to face some problems, no show had to overcome greater obstacles than Gilligan's Island.

Vor dem Drehbuch kommt das Treatment, kommt das Exposee, kommt vielleicht auch die Outline oder das Serienkonzept.

Since its premiere in November 1963, the classic British television programme Doctor Who has been a cornerstone of popular culture for half a century.

Fernsehserien erfreuen sich einer ungebrochenen - populären wie wissenschaftlichen - Aufmerksamkeit.

This book examines how Shakespeare's plays resurface in current complex TV series.

During the fertile decade 1955-65 the television institution emerged in a form which would be familiar for the next half century: this book attends to two aspects of its formation.

In November 2007, Channel 4 will be twenty-five years old.

The Ad-Makers looks at the cinematic form where commerce and creativity collide most dramatically: the TV commercial.

The ultimate TV companion book to Good Omens, a massive new television launch on Amazon Prime Video and the BBC, written and show-run by Neil Gaiman and adapted from the internationally beloved novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

This fully revised and updated fourth edition of Motion Picture and Video Lighting explores the technical, aesthetic, and practical aspects of lighting for film and video.

The official tie-in to the popular Discovery reality series that follows a Louisiana-based custom firearms business.

The Hatfield-McCoy feud has long been the most famous vendetta of the southern Appalachians.

As Doctor Who nears its 50th anniversary, it is very much a part of British popular culture, and the Doctor has become a British icon.