Tag: Television

Dracula in Visual Media Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010


Free Download Caroline Joan Picart, Ian Holt, "Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010"
English | 2010 | pages: 313 | ISBN: 0786433655 | PDF | 5,6 mb
Featuring a foreword by Dacre Stoker, sectional introductions by David J. Skal, Laura Helen Marks, Mitch Frye, and Dodd Alley, an afterword by Ian Holt, and a bibliographical essay by Robert Eighteen-Bisang and J. Gordon Melton, this comprehensive sourcebook on the world’s most famous vampire documents over 700 domestic and international "Dracula" films, television programs, documentaries, adult features, animated works, and video games, as well as nearly a thousand comic books and stage adaptations. While they vary in length, significance, quality, genre, moral character, country, and format, each of the cited works adopts some form of Bram Stoker’s original creation, and Dracula himself, or a recognizable vampiric semblance of Dracula, appears in each.

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247 Politics Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News [Audiobook]


Free Download 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBNBP3R4 | 2023 | 12 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 362 MB
Author: Kathryn Cramer Brownell
Narrator: Patricia Shade

As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Yet over the next three decades, the expansion of a different technology, cable, changed all of this. 24/7 Politics tells the story of how the cable industry worked with political leaders to create an entirely new approach to television, one that tethered politics to profits. In this timely and provocative book, Kathryn Cramer Brownell argues that cable television itself is not to blame for today’s rampant polarization and scandal politics-the intentional restructuring of television as a political institution is.

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