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Free Download Colored Television: A Novel by Danzy Senna
English | September 3, 2024 | ISBN: 0593544374 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 1 MB
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Free Download Ben Brady, "The Understructure of Writing for Film and Television"
English | ISBN: 0292785143 | | 282 pages | AZW3 | 444 KB
This unique, comprehensive introduction to screenwriting offers practical advice for the beginning writer, whether college student or freelancer. Based on their experience as professional writers and as teachers in a large, successful screenwriting program at California State University, Northridge, the authors provide a progression of assignments at manageable screenwriting lengths for beginners. They lead students through development of a premise, treatment, stepsheet, and, finally, miniscreenplay-essential elements in writing a longer script.

Free Download Vincent Terrace, "Television Specials: 5,336 Entertainment Programs, 1936-2012"
English | 2013 | pages: 488 | ISBN: 0786474440 | EPUB | 1,3 mb
This is a complete revision of the author’s 1993 McFarland book Television Specials that not only updates entries contained within that edition, but adds numerous programs not previously covered, including beauty pageants, parades, awards programs, Broadway and opera adaptations, musicals produced especially for television, holiday specials (e.g., Christmas and New Year’s Eve), the early 1936-1947 experimental specials, honors specials. In short, this is a reference work to 5,336 programs-the most complete source for television specials ever published.

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.