Tag: Television

Free Download Máire Messenger Davies, "’Dear BBC’: Children, Television Storytelling and the Public Sphere"
English | 2001 | pages: 290 | ISBN: 0521780772 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Drawing on the diverse views of over 1,300 children in the UK between the ages of 6-12, "Dear BBC" discusses key controversies in the public sphere about children’s relationship with the media, especially television drama. Máire Messenger Davies draws on material gathered from an audience research project commissioned by the BBC, based on surveys, structured discussions with children and interviews with program makers and policy makers.

Free Download Dennis Abrams, "Barbara Walters: Television Host and Producer (Women of Achievement)"
English | 2010 | pages: 129 | ISBN: 1604136863 | PDF | 6,0 mb
Barbara Walters is the most unexpected of television pioneers. The daughter of a nightclub owner, she possessed a pronounced Boston accent and a slight speech impediment-making her an unlikely candidate for a career in the polished world of television journalism, especially at a time when jobs for women in television news were few and far between. Yet, in her nearly 50-year career, Barbara Walters has broken barriers for women journalists everywhere. As the first female cohost of the Today show and the first coanchor of a nightly news show, she has helped to reshape not only the role of women in television news but also the perception of women in society at large. Read more about this pioneering role model for generations of female journalists in Barbara Walters: Television Host and Producer.

Free Download Lynn Spigel, "Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America"
English | 1992 | pages: 246 | ISBN: 0226769666 | EPUB | 5,5 mb
Between 1948 and 1955, nearly two-thirds of all American families bought a television set-and a revolution in social life and popular culture was launched.

Free Download E. Charlotte Stevens, "Fanvids: Television, Women, and Home Media Re-Use "
English | ISBN: 9462985863 | 2020 | 278 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Fanvids, or vids, are short videos created in media fandom. Made from television and film sources, they are neither television episodes nor films; they resemble music videos but are non-commercial fanworks that construct creative and critical analyses of existing media. The creators of fanvids-called vidders-are predominantly women, whose vids prompt questions about media historiography and pleasures taken from screen media. Vids remake narratives for an attentive fan audience, who watch with a deep knowledge of the source text(s), or an interest in the vid form itself. Fanvids: Television, Women, and Home Media Re-Use draws on four decades of vids, produced on videotape and digitally, to argue that the vid form’s creation and reception reveals a mode of engaged spectatorship that counters academic histories of media audiences and technologies. Vids offer an answer to the prevalent questions: What happens to television after it’s been aired? How and by whom is it used and shared? Is it still television?

Free Download Ivan Cury, "Directing and Producing for Television: A Format Approach"
English | 2010 | pages: 298 | ISBN: 024081293X | PDF | 13,9 mb
Directing and Producing for Television provides you with the tools you’ll need to direct and produce effectively in a variety of settings. Based on his years of experience in the industry and teaching the subject, Cury illustrates fundamental principles with engaging anecdotes that teach by example.

Free Download Mark Phillips, "Science Fiction Television Series: Episode Guides, Histories, and Casts and Credits for 62 Prime-Time Shows, 1959 throug"
English | ISBN: 078642835X | 2006 | 707 pages | EPUB | 36 MB
Whether rocketing to other worlds or galloping through time, science fiction television has often featured the best of the medium. The genre’s broad appeal allows youngsters to enjoy fantastic premises and far out stories, while offering adults a sublime way to view the human experience in a dramatic perspective.

Free Download James F. Iaccino, "Arrow and Superhero Television: Essays on Themes and Characters of the Series"
English | ISBN: 0786497874 | 2017 | 243 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This collection of new essays focuses on The CW network’s hit television series Arrow-based on DC Comic’s Green Arrow-and its spin-offs The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl. Comic book adaptations have been big business for film studios since Superman (1978) and in recent years have dominated at the box office-five of the 11 highest grossing films of 2016 were adapted from comics. Superheroes have battled across the small screen for considerably longer, beginning with The Adventures of Superman (1952-1958), though with mixed results. The contributors explore the reasons behind Arrow’s success, its representation of bodies, its portrayal of women, its shifting political ideologies, and audience reception and influence on storylines.

Free Download Vincent Terrace, "Television Movies of the 21st Century"
English | ISBN: 147668412X | 2021 | 404 pages | PDF | 73 MB
For the major broadcast networks, the heyday of made-for-TV movies was 20th Century programming like The ABC Movie of the Week and NBC Sunday Night at the Movies. But with changing economic times and the race for ratings, the networks gradually dropped made-for-TV movies while basic cable embraced the format, especially the Hallmark Channel (with its numerous Christmas-themed movies) and the Syfy Channel (with its array of shark attack movies and other things that go bump in the night). From the waning days of the broadcast networks to the influx of basic cable TV movies, this encyclopedia covers 1,370 films produced during the period 2000-2020. For each film entry, the reader is presented with an informative storyline, cast and character lists, technical credits (producer, director, writer), air dates, and networks. It covers the networks (ABC, CBS, Fox, Ion, and NBC) and such basic cable channels as ABC Family, Disney, Fox Family, Freeform, Hallmark, INSP, Lifetime, Nickelodeon, Syfy, TBS and TNT. There is also an appendix of "Announced but Never Produced" TV movies and a performer’s index.

Free Download Robert Pegg, "Comical Co-Stars of Television: From Ed Norton to Kramer"
English | ISBN: 0786413417 | 2002 | 393 pages | PDF | 42 MB
Although some scholars credit Shakespeare with creating in Henry IV’s Falstaff the first "second banana" character (reviving him for Henry IV Part Two), most television historians agree that the popular co-star was born in 1955 when Art Carney, as Ed Norton, first addressed Jackie Gleason with a "Hey, Ralphie-boy," on The Honeymooners. The phenomenon has proved to be one of the most enduring achievements of the American sitcom, and oftentimes so popular that the co-star becomes the star.

Free Download Ann-Gee Lee, "A Sense of Community: Essays on the Television Series and Its Fandom"
English | ISBN: 0786475900 | 2014 | 240 pages | EPUB | 684 KB
Television’s Community follows the shenanigans of a diverse group of traditional and nontraditional community college students: Jeff Winger, a former lawyer; Britta Perry, a feminist; Abed Nadir, a pop culture enthusiast; Shirley Bennett, a mother; Troy Barnes, a former jock; Annie Edison, a naive overachiever; and Pierce Hawthorne, an old-fashioned elderly man. There are also Benjamin Chang, the maniacal Spanish teacher, and Craig Pelton, the eccentric dean of Greendale Community College, along with well-known guest stars who play troublemaking students, nutty professors and frightening administrators.