Television

This is the first collection of original critical essays devoted to exploring the misunderstood, neglected and frequently caricatured role played by the film producer.

With its fourth season due to air in January 2008, the award-winning Battlestar Galactica continues to be exceptionally popular for non-network television, combining the familiar features of science fiction with direct commentary on life in mainstream America.

Adapting Detective Fiction is a study of specific instances of adaptation, with close readings of both the originating sources and adapted texts.

Faced with what many were calling a dying medium, US network television producers became much more aggressive in seeking out alternative business and artistic models in the beginning of this century.

Since the 1990s, the screening of sex on American, British and Asian television screens has become increasingly prolific.

An eviscerating look at the state of journalism in the age of the 24 hour news cycle by a Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic and a veteran news correspondent.

An eviscerating look at the state of journalism in the age of the 24 hour news cycle by a Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic and a veteran news correspondent.

Perhaps the most sophisticated and complex of shows in HBO's recent history, Deadwood has surprisingly little coverage in our current scholarship.

Dreams in Television Narratives is the first comprehensive analysis of one of American television's most frequently utilized tropes, the dream.

This is the first collection of original critical essays devoted to exploring the misunderstood, neglected and frequently caricatured role played by the film producer.

Dreams in Television Narratives is the first comprehensive analysis of one of American television's most frequently utilized tropes, the dream.

If you're looking for a book that will teach you how to write comedy, we suggest you keep moving.

There are hundreds of books on the market, all trying to teach you how to write a screenplay.

With cases studies used throughout to help illustrate the more general points, this is an analysis of the most important characteristics of television dialogue, with a focus on fictional television.

Since 2010 "e;curation"e; has become a marketing buzzword.

Robots in Popular Culture: Androids and Cyborgs in the American Imagination seeks to provide one go-to reference for the study of the most popular and iconic robots in American popular culture.

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

This volume explores our cultural celebration of food, blending lobster festivals, politicians' roadside eats, reality show "e;chef showdowns,"e; and gravity-defying cakes into a deeper exploration of why people find so much joy in eating.

Let Gilligan's Island teach you about situational ethics.

Insider Secrets from Hollywood's Top WritersThis book not only shows how to be a screenwriter, but what it's actually like to be one.

A Collection of Plays by Mark Frank: Volume III introduces ten new plays by playwright Mark Frank.

Jackie Chan-mania swept America when Rumble in the Bronx gave movie audiences a thrilling look at the athletic actor known for performing his own jaw-dropping stunts.

The original novel as seen in Showtime's Californication, starring David Duchovny.

';An under-read and engaging show-biz memoir.

Each week, the writers of The A.

The Ferengi are greedy, avaricious, ruthless, cowardly and completely unscrupulous.

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Welcome to Paradise.

"e;A comprehensive examination of the ways in which [the series] uses American cultural memory .

Lukacsian film theory and cinema explores Georg Lukacs' writings on film.

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.

Here's Johnny is like sitting with Ed and Johnny over lunch:The last time I saw Johnny, about a year before he died, we had chicken, a couple of glasses of red wine, and then we just sat there and reminisced, going back and forth the way we did on the show.

An outrageous collection from the uniquely legendary John Waters, updated with new materialincluding Waters's 2002 New York Times article, ';Finally, Footlights on the Fat Girls.

"e;Me, I want what's coming to me.

The one where we remember the good times with Friends.

The official TV tie-in to accompany the ITV drama scripted by Andrew DaviesThe World of Sanditon delves behind the scenes of Sanditon, giving you the inside scoop on Jane Austen's unfinished masterpiece, adapted for television by Andrew Davies.

This is the definitive, the official, the most lavish, the completely-different-to-anything-done-before Pythons' autobiography, reissued to coincide with the eagerly-anticipated live shows.

The story behind the nation's new darling - the former EMMERDALE and STRICTLY COME DANCING star, Lisa Riley.

The candid and highly entertaining autobiography of one of the UK's most popular TV presentersEamonn Holmes is one of the most popular TV presenters in the UK.

In summer 2000 a new media phenomenon was born - Big Brother.

The magnificent, hilarious autobiography of the man who created the immortal Reginald Perrin.

'The message is consistent: it's not what you do in life, but how you do it.