Tag: Television

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.

Free Download Something Wicked: Witchcraft in Movies, Television, and Popular Culture
by Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka
English | 2025 | ASIN: B0CXGFC1RZ | 324 Pages | True PDF | 5.3 MB

Free Download Thomas Riggs, "Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television"
English | 2010 | pages: 526 | ISBN: 1414439938 | PDF | 2,9 mb
This popular series brings you extensive biographical and career information on more than 20, 000 professionals currently working in the entertainment industry, including performers, choreographers, directors, technicians, writers, composers, producers, executives, designers, critics and more.

Free Download Thomas Riggs, "Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television"
English | 2008 | pages: 503 | ISBN: 1414400225 | PDF | 3,0 mb
This popular series brings you extensive biographical and career information on more than 20, 000 professionals currently working in the entertainment industry, including performers, choreographers, directors, technicians, writers, composers, producers, executives, designers, critics and more. Recent biographees include:

Free Download Thomas Riggs, "Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television"
English | 2008 | pages: 503 | ISBN: 1414400225 | PDF | 3,0 mb
This popular series brings you extensive biographical and career information on more than 20, 000 professionals currently working in the entertainment industry, including performers, choreographers, directors, technicians, writers, composers, producers, executives, designers, critics and more. Recent biographees include:

Free Download Anne Ganzert, "Serial Pinboarding in Contemporary Television"
English | ISBN: 3030352714 | 2020 | 244 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book provides an in-depth study of pinboards in contemporary television series and develops the interdisciplinary and innovative concept of Serial Pinboarding. Pinboards are character attributes; they visualize thought processes; are used for conspiracy theories, as murder walls, or for complex cases in any genre. They significantly condition, and are conditioned by, seriality. This book discusses how the pinboards in Castle, Homeland, Flash Forward, and Heroes connect evidence, knowledge, and seriality and how through transmediality and fan practices an "age of pinboarding" has formed. Serial Pinboarding in Contemporary Television will appeal to TV enthusiasts, professionals and researchers, and students of TV and production studies, fan studies, media studies, and art theory.

Free Download Monica MacDonald, "Recasting History: How CBC Television Has Shaped Canada’s Past"
English | ISBN: 0773556311 | 2019 | 288 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
Since 1952, CBC television has played a unique role as the primary mass media purveyor of Canadian history. Yet until now, there have been no comprehensive accounts of Canadian history on television. Monica MacDonald takes us behind the scenes of the major documentaries and docudramas broadcast on the CBC, including in Explorations (1956-64) and the series Images of Canada (1972-76), The National Dream (1974), The Valour and the Horror (1992), and Canada: A People’s History (2000-02). Drawing on a wide range of sources, MacDonald explores how producers struggled to represent the Canadian past under a range of external and internal pressures. Despite dramatic shifts in the writing of history over this period, she determines that television themes and interpretations largely remained the same. The greater change was in the production and presentation, particularly in the role of professional historians, as journalists emerged not only as the new producers of Canadian history on CBC television, but also as the new content authorities. A critique of public history through the lens of political economy, Recasting History reveals the conflicts, compromises, and controversies that have shaped the CBC version of the Canadian past.

Free Download Jim Cullen, "From Memory to History: Television Versions of the Twentieth Century"
English | ISBN: 1978813813 | 2021 | 255 pages | AZW3 | 9 MB
Our understanding of history is often mediated by popular culture, and television series set in the past have provided some of our most indelible images of previous times. Yet such historical television programs always reveal just as much about the era in which they are produced as the era in which they are set; there are few more quintessentially late-90s shows than That ’70s Show, for example.