Best Of The Britcoms

Author : Garry Berman
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781589795266

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Best of the Britcoms by Garry Berman Pdf

With crisp dialog, outrageous characters, and an absurd sense of humor, it's no wonder British sitcoms are so well-loved! Best of the Britcoms covers the most noteworthy situation comedies ever to cross the pond. Each entry combines a show summary with descriptions of standout episodes and behind-the-scenes details, plus gives you production data and full cast listings. And now, the revised edition of this Britcom classic contains seven new chapters on programs that have aired in the U.S. since the original edition was published, such as The Office, Extras, and My Family. Fans of old-school Britcoms won't be disappointed either, as the revised edition also includes the later developments of older series' storylines and detailed information on specials and cast reunions that have occurred in the intervening years. Pick up this book, kick back, and get to know a Britcom!

Author : Garry Berman
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781589795662

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Best of the Britcoms by Garry Berman Pdf

This book covers the most noteworthy situation comedies ever to cross the pond. Each entry has a show summary and descriptions of standout episodes and behind-the-scenes details. This revised edition contains 7 new chapters on programs that have aired in the U.S. since the original edition and includes the later developments of older series' storylines and detailed information on specials and cast reunions!

Author : Christopher J. Olson,CarrieLynn D. Reinhard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538122563

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The Greatest Cult Television Shows of All Time by Christopher J. Olson,CarrieLynn D. Reinhard Pdf

Reaching back to the beginnings of television, The Greatest Cult Television Shows offers readers a fun and accessible look at the 100 most significant cult television series of all time, compiled in a single resource that includes valuable information on the shows and their creators. While they generally lack mainstream appeal, cult television shows develop devout followings over time and exert some sort of impact on a given community, society, culture, or even media industry. Cult television shows have been around since at least the 1960s, with Star Trek perhaps the most famous of that era. However, the rise of cable contributed to the rise of cult television throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and now, with the plethora of streaming options available, more shows can be added to this categorization Reaching back to the beginnings of television, the book includes such groundbreaking series as The Twilight Zone and The Prisoner alongside more contemporary examples like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Hannibal. The authors provide production history for each series and discuss their relevance to global pop culture. To provide a more global approach to the topic, the authors also consider several non-American cult TV series, including British, Canadian, and Japanese shows. Thus, Monty Python’s Flying Circus appears alongside Sailor Moon and Degrassi Junior High. Additionally, to move beyond the conception of “cult” as a primarily white, heteronormative, fanboy obsession, the book contains shows that speak to a variety of cult audiences and experiences, such as Queer as Folk and Charmed. With detailed arguments for why these shows deserve to be considered the greatest of all time, Olson and Reinhard provide ideas for discussion and debate on cult television. Each entry in this book demonstrates the importance of the 100 shows chosen for inclusion and highlights how they offer insight into the period and the cults that formed around them.

Author : Evangelia Kindinger,Mark Schmitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351112772

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The Intersections of Whiteness by Evangelia Kindinger,Mark Schmitt Pdf

Trumpism and the racially implied Islamophobia of the "travel ban"; Brexit and the yearning for Britain’s past imperial grandeur; Black Lives Matter; the public backlash against Merkel’s refugee policies in Germany. These seemingly national responses to the changing demographics in a multitude of Western nations need to be understood as effects of a global/transnational crisis of whiteness. The Intersections of Whiteness brings together scholars from different disciplines to shed light on these manifestations in the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Germany. Applying methodology stemming from critical race theory’s investment in intersectionality, the contributions of this edited collection focus on specific intersections of whiteness with gender, class, space, affect and nationality. Offering valuable insights into the contours of whiteness and its instrumentalisation across different nations, societies and cultures, this incisive volume creates transnational dialogue and will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as critical whiteness and race studies, gender studies, cultural studies and social policy.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1639 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Television Series by 20th Century Fox Television by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1479 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Fox Network Shows by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Juergen Kamm,Birgit Neumann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137552952

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British TV Comedies by Juergen Kamm,Birgit Neumann Pdf

This collection offers an overview of British TV comedies, ranging from the beginnings of sitcoms in the 1950s to the current boom of 'Britcoms'. It provides in-depth analyses of major comedies, systematically addressing their generic properties, filmic history, humour politics and cultural impact.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004322271

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English Topographies in Literature and Culture by Anonim Pdf

English Topographies in Literature and Culture takes a spatial approach to the study of English culture, focussing on writing landscapes, London psychogeography, heritage discourses, urban planning and idiosyncratic spatial practices such as suburban gardening. Space thus emerges as both political and shaped by affect.

Author : Julian Dutton
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781909183834

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Keeping Quiet by Julian Dutton Pdf

Keeping Quiet is a love-letter to the modern sight-gag on film and television, tracing the history of physical clowning since the advent of sound. Taking up the story of visual humour where Paul Merton’s Silent Comedy leaves off, Julian Dutton charts the lives and work of all the great comedians who chose to remain silent, from Charlie Chaplin - who was determined to resist the ‘talkies’ - right through to the slapstick of modern-day performers such as Rowan Atkinson, Matt Lucas and Harry Hill. This fascinating chronicle - spanning nine decades - shows how physical comedy, at first overshadowed by dialogue-films in the 1930s, reinvented itself and how this revival was spearheaded by a Frenchman: Jacques Tati. Julian Dutton draws on his own experience as a comedy writer and performer to give an expert analysis of the screen persona and the comedy style of dozens of the screen’s best-loved performers including Laurel & Hardy, Buster Keaton, Harpo Marx, Norman Wisdom, Jerry Lewis, Benny Hill, Peter Sellers, Eric Sykes, Ronnie Barker, Marty Feldman - and many more. This book will appeal both to the serious student of film, television and theatre - including those aspiring to write or perform comedy - and to the general reader and comedy fan.

Author : Kristin Thompson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0674010639

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Storytelling in Film and Television by Kristin Thompson Pdf

Derided as simple, dismissed as inferior to film, famously characterized as a vast wasteland, television nonetheless exerts an undeniable, apparently inescapable power in our culture. The secret of television's success may well lie in the remarkable narrative complexities underlying its seeming simplicity, complexities Kristin Thompson unmasks in this engaging analysis of the narrative workings of television and film. After first looking at the narrative techniques the two media share, Thompson focuses on the specific challenges that series television presents and the tactics writers have devised to meet them--tactics that sustain interest and maintain sense across multiple plots and subplots and in spite of frequent interruptions as well as weeklong and seasonal breaks. Beyond adapting the techniques of film, Thompson argues, television has wrought its own changes in traditional narrative form. Drawing on classics of film and television, as well as recent and current series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Sopranos, and The Simpsons, she shows how adaptations, sequels, series, and sagas have altered long-standing notions of closure and single authorship. And in a comparison of David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, she asks whether there can be an "art television" comparable to the more familiar "art cinema."

Author : Nicholas Nigro
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781495035357

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Seinfeld FAQ by Nicholas Nigro Pdf

(FAQ). Is it a show about nothing or one of the greatest TV series of all time? It's both, of course! Seinfeld 's impact on popular culture was so profound that it continues to this day-years after it left prime time-thanks to its inimitable characters (Newman! Bubble Boy!), its wacky, memorable plots (who can forget "The Contest" or "The Puffy Shirt"?), and the many catchphrases we use regularly (not that there's anything wrong with that). Seinfeld FAQ is the first-ever comprehensive guide to the sitcom, tracing its path from modest beginnings to water-cooler-show status and to its infamous, love-it-or-hate-it finale. This humor-filled reference tells all about Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer, as well as the other unforgettable characters in their world. It features season-by-season episode reviews and a wealth of fun facts about everything from the characters' inevitably doomed relationships to their food obsessions and fashion sense (or lack thereof) as well as profiles of actors and other notables. Broad in scope and yet obsessed with detail (like the show itself), this FAQ is essential reading for anyone who wants to be master of the Seinfeld domain.

Author : Garry Berman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1593936761

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Perfect Fool by Garry Berman Pdf

Perfect Fool: The Life and Career of Ed Wynn is the first-ever biography of the master comedian, chronicling a legendary career that spanned over half a century. It was Ed who coined this famous definition: "A comedian is not a man who says funny things; a comedian is a man who says things funny." Ed did both, first as a vaudeville and Ziegfeld Follies star, then as the "Perfect Fool" (so named from one of his many self-produced Broadway revues), as radio's "Fire Chief" on the popular Texaco-sponsored program, and as an early pioneer at the dawn of network television. He attained a level of praise and respect from his comedy peers, critics, and, of course, the public, rarely matched by any other comedian since. In his later years, he became a highly acclaimed dramatic character actor, much to the surprise and joy of all who didn't know he had it in him (including Ed himself). Yet for all his impressive achievements, this comedian/actor/director/writer has been too often overlooked in the years since his death in 1966. Perfect Fool is meant to help correct this injustice, with reviews, interviews, and never before published photos, some courtesy of grandson Tracy Keenan Wynn. This book is an appreciation of Ed Wynn's talents, foresight, and highly regarded ability to make people laugh virtually at will. About the Author: Garry Berman is an entertainment historian and freelance writer. His previous books include Best of the Britcoms, a celebration of the finest British situation comedies to appear on American television, and We're Going To See The Beatles!, an oral history of the Beatlemania era as told by the original generation of fans who lived it first-hand. Berman has also published a comic novel, Old Wave, and writes comedy scripts in between book projects. He lives in New Jersey with his wife Karen and their two spoiled dogs.

Author : Leonard Pierce
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780879104375

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If You Like The Sopranos... by Leonard Pierce Pdf

IF YOU LIKE THE SOPRANOS...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1886 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111050469

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Al Gini,Abraham Singer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538129722

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The Sanity of Satire by Al Gini,Abraham Singer Pdf

Political humor and satire are, perhaps, as old as comedy itself, and they are crucial to our society and our collective sense of self. Satire is confrontational. It’s about pushback, dissent, discord, disappointment, and demonstrating the absurdity of the status quo. This book is an attempt to explore how these aspects of satire help secure our sanity. Aristotle famously said that humans are naturally political animals. We need political community to flourish and live good lives. But politics also entails unpopular decisions, oppression, and power struggles. Satire is a vehicle through which we reflect on and challenge the irrational, incomprehensible, and intolerable nature of our lives without becoming totally despondent or depressed. In a poignant, pithy, but not ponderous manner, Al Gini and Abraham Singer delve into the history of satire to rejoice in its triumphs and watch its development from ancient graffiti to the latest late-night TV talk show.