CK - Television 4

Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and unfam……続きを見る

Through a wide spectrum of horror sub-genres, this book examines how the current state of horror reflects the anxieties in Western culture. Horror films bring them to a mass audience and offer new f……続きを見る

This first full-length scholarly study about animal horror cinema defines the popular subgenre and describes its origin and history in the West. The chapters explore a variety of animal horror films……続きを見る

This book analyses the success and adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel War Horse to stage, radio, live events, and feature film, in different cultures, on tours, and in translation. In under a de……続きを見る

No other cinematic genre more sharply illustrates the contradictions of American society - notions about social class, politics, and socio-economic ideology - than the war film. This book examines t……続きを見る

The bombing of the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001, marked a major turning point in modern American culture. Authors Bruce Tucker and Priscilla L. Walton examine critical moments in th……続きを見る

Kristi McKim offers close-analyses of films in which attachment and detachment, intimacy and distance, ephemera and endurance become more visible and meaningful. Films discussed include Wim Wenders'……続きを見る

The Internet is the most terrifying and most beautifully innovative invention of the twentieth century. Using film theory and close textual analysis, Tucker offers an explanation of the Internet and……続きを見る

At one time every station in Chicagoーa maximum of five, until 1964–produced or aired some programming for children. From the late 1940’s through the early 1970’s, local television stations created ……続きを見る

La voie du pirate... Xavier Niel est avant tout l'homme qui a inventé la Freebox, en 2002. Une première mondiale ! Avec elle, l'Internet coule dans les foyers comme l'eau du robinet, avec un prix fi……続きを見る

Appalachian literature is filled with silent or non-discursive characters. The reasons for their wordlessness vary. Some are mute or pretend to be, some choose not to speak or are silenced by grief,……続きを見る

This guided tour of the American situation comedy is given by one of the most prolific directors of the genre. Brooklyn native Joel Zwick began his career in the late 1960s at La MaMa, a New York ex……続きを見る

H.R. Pufnstuf, Lidsville, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Land of the Lost: For a generation of children growing up in the late sixties and early seventies, these were some of the most memorable shows……続きを見る

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. These s……続きを見る

The Emmy-nominated star of the classic 1950s sitcom I Married Joan, Joan Davis (1912-1961) was also radio's highest paid comedienne in the 1940s--and she displayed her unique brand of knockabout com……続きを見る

Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In was one of the most unusual programs on television, defying definition as simply comedy, variety, or burlesque. The show had audiences laughing for six seasons and contin……続きを見る

Lebanon Levi Stoltzfus The Amish Life of Lebanon Levi Stoltzfus; Businessman, Storyteller, and Star of the Hit Reality Show Called Amish Mafia By Patrick Bunker This is a book which details the life……続きを見る

Although there are different opinions about where cable television actually began, a great deal of the ingenuity that developed cable into today's multibillion dollar industry came from Pennsylvania……続きを見る

This book presents an incisive analysis of how fundamental issues in education are portrayed in film. Focusing on recent films, the author draws on a wide range of educational thinkers and fields of……続きを見る

This collection contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable. The first table of contents lists the titles of all novels included in this volume.……続きを見る

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. Her prize was a movie contra……続きを見る

Contenuti dalla forte valenza politica attraversano da sempre la televisione americana. In anni recenti la presidenza di Barack Obama, abilissimo nel costruire la sua narrazione anche attraverso i m……続きを見る

Tom Brokaw The Inspirational Life Story of Tom Brokaw; Pioneer, Patriot, and One of the World Most Well-Known News Broadcasters By Patrick Bunker In order to better understand Tom Brokaw, it is impo……続きを見る

Vicky Pattison was once best known as the outspoken, fiery star of the notorious reality show Geordie Shore. It took the challenging conditions and terrifying trials of the I'm a Celebrity jungle fo……続きを見る

'Fabulous memoirs from the two great writers . . . I loved every second of it' Eric Idle Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais's unique writing partnership has lasted over fifty years. After creating the ……続きを見る

This study explores the representation of international migration on screen and how it has gained prominence and salience in European filmmaking over the past 100 years. Using Polish migration as a ……続きを見る

This book examines queer visibility in reality television, which is arguably the most prolific space of gay, lesbian, transgender and otherwise queer media representation. It explores almost two dec……続きを見る

Today more than ever, series finales have become cultural touchstones that feed watercooler fodder and Twitter storms among a committed community of viewers. While the final episodes of The Fugitive……続きを見る

Listen up chumps, basically the Vicar asked us to edit the parish newsletter this month, we weren't gonna do it at first cos the vicar said 'I want you to channel your energy into doing something cr……続きを見る

TV antiquity explores representations of ancient Greece and Rome throughout television history. The first comprehensive overview of the ‘swords and sandals’ genre on the small screen, it argues that……続きを見る