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Free Download Holly Willson Holladay, "Television Sitcom and Cultural Crisis "
English | ISBN: 1032699590 | 2024 | 180 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This volume demonstrates that television comedies are conduits through which we might resist normative ways of thinking about cultural crises.

Free Download Vincent Terrace, "Television Series of the 2000s: Essential Facts and Quirky Details"
English | 2018 | pages: 249 | ISBN: 1538103796 | PDF | 2,9 mb
In the first decade of the new millennium, the four major networks struggled to hold their own as cable channels and unscripted shows began to dominate the television landscape. Network powerhouses like 24, Desperate Housewives, and Two and a Half Men competed for viewers siphoned off by cult shows like The Closer, Gilmore Girls, and Veronica Mars. In that decade, shows such as 30 Rock and Modern Family were vying for awards while programs like Bones, CSI, and Dexter were pushing the envelope for graphic violence. All of these shows live on in syndication, streaming services, and DVDs, generating a constant wave of new viewers.

Free Download David C. Tucker, "Lost Laughs of ’50s and ’60s Television: Thirty Sitcoms That Faded Off Screen"
English | 2010 | pages: 249 | ISBN: 0786444665 | PDF | 2,9 mb
Originally broadcast on American television between 1952 and 1969, the 30 situation comedies in this work are seldom seen today and receive only brief and often incomplete and inaccurate mentions in most reference sources. Yet these sitcoms (including Angel, The Governor and J.J., It’s a Great Life, I’m Dickens … He’s Fenster and Wendy and Me), and the stories of the talented people who made them, are an integral part of television history. With a complete list of production credits and rare publicity stills, this volume, based on multiple screenings of episodes, corrects other sources and expand our knowledge of television history.

Free Download Vincent Terrace, "Internet Drama and Mystery Television Series, 1996-2014"
English | 2014 | pages: 277 | ISBN: 0786495812 | PDF | 53,5 mb
Created around the world and available only on the Web, internet "television" series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through online crowd-funding, they are produced with borrowed equipment and volunteer casts and crews, and viewers find them through word of mouth or by chance. The second in a first-ever set of books cataloging Internet television series, this volume covers in depth the drama and mystery genres, with detailed entries on 405 shows from 1996 through July 2014. In addition to casts, credits and story lines, each entry provides a website, commentary and episode descriptions. Index of performers and personnel are included.

Free Download Vincent Terrace, "Internet Comedy Television Series, 1997-2015"
English | 2016 | pages: 380 | ISBN: 0786497602 | EPUB | 15,4 mb
Created around the world and available only on the web, Internet "television" series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through crowd-funding, they are filmed with borrowed equipment and volunteer casts and crews, and viewers find them through word of mouth or by chance.

Free Download Vincent Terrace, "Internet Children’s Television Series, 1997-2015"
English | 2016 | pages: 200 | ISBN: 1476664625 | PDF | 2,5 mb
Created around the world and available only on the web, internet "television" series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through crowd-funding, they are filmed with borrowed equipment and volunteer casts and crews, and viewers find them through word of mouth or by chance.

Free Download Vincent Terrace, "Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010"
English | 2011 | pages: 1331 | ISBN: 0786464771 | PDF | 11,7 mb
This fully updated and expanded edition covers over 10,200 programs, making it the most comprehensive documentation of television programs ever published. In addition to covering the standard network and cable entertainment genres, the book also covers programs generally not covered elsewhere in print (or even online), including Internet series, aired and unaired pilot films, erotic series, gay and lesbian series, risque cartoons and experimental programs from 1925 through 1945.

Free Download Ellen Mulder, "Descriptive Metadata for Television: An End-to-End Introduction"
English | 2006 | pages: 156 | ISBN: 0240807308, 1138177350 | PDF | 1,4 mb
Descriptive Metadata for Television is a comprehensive introduction for television professionals that need to understand metadata’s purpose and technology. This easy-to-read book translates obscure technical to hands-on language understandable by real people.

Free Download Ralph Beliveau, "Catholic Horror on Television: Haunting Faith "
English | ISBN: 1666947660 | 2024 | 160 pages | EPUB, PDF | 613 KB + 1187 KB
Catholic Horror on Television: Haunting Faith explores the significant intersection of horror media and the Catholic Church. Religious themes enjoy a long history in film and television, with narratives featuring the supernatural, science fiction, and horror making use of Roman Catholicism in particular. The horror genre frequently tells fantastic stories about the mysteries that we seek to understand, helping to come to terms with the destructive and the monstrous. This book analyzes the genre of Catholic horror in the current television and streaming media environment, exploring its treatment of physical mortality, the metaphysics of meaning, and morality. Catholic Horror on Television: Haunting Faith offers a fresh take on how television and streaming horror series critique, expand, and interrogate Catholicism and its place in the modern world. In doing so, this book contributes to conversations in several disciplines including media, cultural, television, and religious studies.

Free Download The Business of Television: Updated and Expanded
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032012986 | 647 Pages | PDF (True) | 5.5 MB
In this expanded and updated second edition, esteemed television executive and Harvard lecturer Ken Basin offers a comprehensive and readable overview of the business, financial, and legal structure of the U.S. television industry, as well as its deal-making norms.