Television category: 3830 books
TV Horror
Investigating the Darker Side of the Small Screen
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Horror is one of the most pervasive of contemporary TV genres with shows like True Blood, Being Human, The Walking Dead and American Horror Story making a bloody splash across our television screens. Yet not too long ago critics and horror writers claimed that television and horror were incompatible...
Mister Rogers Neighborhood
Children Television And Fred Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1997
Foreword by Bob Garfield. Afterword by Marian Wright Edelman
Born in 1928 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Fred Rogers began his television career in 1951 at NBC. In 1954, he became program director for the newly founded WQED-TV in Pittsburgh, the first community-supported television station in the...
Movies Made for Television
2005-2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
In 2005, Scarecrow published Movies Made for Television, 1964-2004, a five-volume reference set commemorating 40 years of every made for TV film since See How They Run debuted in 1964. These books provided a comprehensive listing of every television film and mini-series, detailing each film's original...
Below the Line
Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Below the Line illuminates the hidden labor of people who not only produce things that the television industry needs, such as a bit of content or a policy sound bite, but also produce themselves in the service of capital expansion. Vicki Mayer considers the work of television set assemblers, soft-core...
Crafty TV Writing
Thinking Inside the Box
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
A professional TV writer's real-world guide to getting paid to write great television
"No need for me to ever write a book on TV writing. Alex Epstein has covered it all . . . along with a few things I wouldn't have thought of. Save yourself five years of rookie mistakes. Crafty TV Writing...
Television
Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
For over two decades, Television has served as the foremost guide to television studies, offering readers an in-depth understanding of how television programs and commercials are made and how they function as producers of meaning. Author Jeremy G. Butler shows the ways in which camera style, lighting,...
Fashion on Television
Identity and Celebrity Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Fashion on Television provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion, television and celebrity culture. The book brings together theoretical approaches to the symbolic force of television and fashion-forward programming on a global scale.
Examining case studies...
Quality TV
Contemporary American Television and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
In his seminal book'Television's Second Golden Age', Robert Thompson described quality TV as 'best defined by what it is not': 'it is not “regular” TV'. Audacious maybe, but his statement renewed debate on the meaning of this highly contentious term. Dealing primarily with the post-1996 era shaped...
How Television Shapes Our Worldview
Media Representations of Social Trends and Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Over the last half of the twentieth century, television has become the predominant medium through which the public accesses information about the world. Through the news, situation comedies, police dramas, and commercials, we learn about the world around us, and our role within it. These genres, narratives,...
Television Introductions
Narrated TV Program Openings since 1949
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Since the beginning of network television, many shows have been preceded by an announcement or theme song that served various purposes. In the 1950s and ’60s, it was common for announcers to declare that a program had been “brought to you by” a sponsor who paid for the privilege of introducing...
Contemporary British Television Crime Drama
Cops on the Box
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the medium’s most popular genres and places it within its historical and industrial context. The television crime drama has proved itself capable of numerous generic reinventions and continues to enjoy some of the highest viewing figures....
by Joanne Morreale
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS 1961–66) was a uniquely self-reflexive sitcom that drew on vaudevillian tropes at a time when vaudeville-based comedy variety was disappearing from television. At the same time, it reflected the liberal politics of the Kennedy era and gave equal time to home and work as...
by Tracey Gold Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
For generations, movies and television have been sources of entertainment that have shaped the country�s consciousness. Washington, DC, Film and Television chronicles popular and obscure films and television programs that feature Washington, DC. Sharing the sites, neighborhoods, institutions, and monuments...
Transnational Television in Europe
Reconfiguring Global Communications Networks
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Today transnational TV networks count among television's most prestigious brands and rank among Europe's leading TV channels. This is the first, dynamically told story of the extraordinary journey of transnational television in Europe from struggling origins to its present day boom. It is based on...