Athena's Daughters

Frances Early

• Paperback | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• This book is unique in its critical inquiry into the new woman warrior's appropriation of violence and the Western war narrative. Informed by feminist... 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

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

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

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

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

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

Watching TV with a Linguist

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

Comic Drunks, Crazy Cults, and Lovable Monsters

David 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 contr... 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

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

Lou Grant

Douglass Daniel

• Paperback | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• When Lou Grant premiered in the fall of 1977, it quickly became a symbol of television drama at its best. During its five years on the air, Lou Grant ... 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

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

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

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

Errancies of Desire

Vartan P Messier

• Hardcover | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• Social commentators, psychologists, and journalists all point to the idea that in the new millennium, traditional masculinity is in crisis. In contemp... Lees meer

Laughs, Luck . . . and Lucy

Jess Oppenheimer

• Boek | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• Jess Oppenheimer, the man Lucille Ball called the "brains" of I Love Lucy , gives us a rare first-hand look at television history as it was being made... Lees meer

Prime-Time Authorship

Douglas Heil

• Paperback | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• Designed to inspire the fledgling scriptwriter, this book combines analytical essays on the work of three successful television writers with interview... Lees meer

Watching TV with a Linguist

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

Inside the TV Writer's Room

Lawrence Meyers

• Paperback | 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

Prime Time, Prime Movers

David Marc, Robert Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | Television and Popular Culture
• From dominant performers such as Jackie Gleason and Carol Burnett to powerhouse producers such as Norman Lear and Steven Bochco, this book reviews the... Lees meer