Something on My Own

Glenn D Smith Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• In 1929 T he Goldbergs debuted on the air, introducing Gertrude Berg--and her radio alter ego, Bronx housewife Molly Goldberg--to the nation. The show... Lees meer

Athena's Daughters

Frances Early

• Paperback | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• A critical inquiry into the new woman warrior's appropriation of violence and the Western war narrative. It delves into the meaning of that appropriat... Lees meer

Cue the Bunny on the Rainbow

Alan Rafkin

• Hardcover | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• For director Alan Rafkin, television is probably the silliest and most volatile business in the world. Yet whether he was catching a pie in the face o... Lees meer

TV Creators

Longworth Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• ER, Law & Order, and The Sopranos are just a few of the dramas that launched a new era of television at the tum of the millennium. TV Creators gives s... Lees meer

Gladiators in Suits

• Hardcover | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• One of the most popular shows to come out of Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes's production company, is ABC's political drama Scandal (2012-18)--a series whos... Lees meer

The West Wing

Peter C Rollins

• Paperback | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• Informed by historical scholarship and media analysis, this book takes a critical look at the award-winning show from a wide range of perspectives. Me... Lees meer

You Can't Air That

David S Silverman

• Hardcover | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• In this illuminating book, David S. Silverman assesses four controversial television programs from the perspective of media history, assessing the cen... Lees meer

TV on Strike

Cynthia Littleton

• Paperback | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• TV on Strike examines the upheaval in the entertainment industry by telling the inside story of the first writers' strike--the hundred-day writers' st... Lees meer

Television Finales

• Hardcover | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• Today more than ever, series finales have become cultural touchstones that feed watercooler fodder and Twitter storms among a committed community of v... Lees meer

Deny All Knowledge

• Hardcover | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• The X-Files was one of the most subversive and longest-running science fiction series in US television history. Yet very little serious work has been ... Lees meer

Gladiators in Suits

• Paperback | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• One of the most popular shows to come out of Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes's production company, is ABC's political drama Scandal (2012-18)--a series whos... Lees meer

King of the Half Hour

David Everitt

• Hardcover | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• Regarded by his contemporaries as one of television's premier comedy creators, Nat Hiken was the driving creative force behind the classic 1950s and 1... Lees meer

Reading Joss Whedon

• Hardcover | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• In an age when geek chic has come to define mainstream pop culture, few writers and producers inspire more admiration and response than Joss Whedon. F... Lees meer

Captain America, Masculinity, and Violence

J Richard Stevens

• Paperback | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• Since 1940, Captain America has battled his enemies in the name of American values, and as those values have changed over time, so has Captain America... Lees meer

Watching TV with a Linguist

• Hardcover | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• In "Watching TV with a Linguist," Fagersten challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. R... Lees meer

Comic Drunks, Crazy Cults, and Lovable Monsters

David Scott Diffrient

• Paperback | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• Contradictory to its core, the sitcom-an ostensibly conservative, tranquilizing genre-has a long track record in the United States of tackling controv... Lees meer

Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

• Hardcover | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• With an off-putting title and a decidedly retrograde premise, the CW dramedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a surprising choice for critical analysis. But, lo... Lees meer

Our Movie Houses

Norman O Keim

• Hardcover | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• Conventional screen histories tend to concentrate on New York City and Hollywood in chronicling the evolution of American cinema. Notwithstanding both... Lees meer

Framework

Tom Stempel

• Paperback | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• Updated and expanded for the third edition, this volume combines scholarship with movie lore to present a comprehensive account of the development and... Lees meer

Lou Grant

Douglas K Daniel

• Paperback | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• This text is an account of the TV program Lou Grant. The creation of characters, casting of actors, the script writing process and the impact of netwo... Lees meer

Watching TV

Harry Castleman, Walter J Podrazik

• Paperback | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• Castleman and Podrazik present a sweeping season-by-season survey, capturing the essence of television from its inception to the present. The authors ... Lees meer

Screwball Television

• Hardcover | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• Bringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, Screwball Television offers a variety of international perspectives on ... Lees meer

Black Male Frames

Roland Leander Williams Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: "the shaman" or "th... Lees meer

Inside the TV Writer's Room

Lawrence Meyers

• Hardcover | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• Aspiring writers often ask how they can break into the television writing business. Meyers believes that the answer can be found by asking why people ... Lees meer