Death On The Small Screen

Author : Jonathan F. Bassett
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476688015

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Death on the Small Screen by Jonathan F. Bassett Pdf

Mortality remains a taboo topic in much of Western society, but death and violence continue to be staples of popular television. We can better understand the appeal of violence by investigating psychological theories surrounding anxiety about death and the defenses we use to manage that anxiety. This book examines five recent television series--Game of Thrones,The Punisher, Jessica Jones, Sons of Anarchy and Hannibal--and shows how fictional characters' motivations teach viewers about both the constructive and destructive ways we try to deal with our own mortality. Instead of dismissing violent television as harmless entertainment or completely condemning it as a dangerous trigger of hostile behavior, this book shows its effects on viewers in a more nuanced manner. It provides a new perspective on the enjoyment of violent television, enhancing fans' appreciation and sparking ongoing discussions about their value to both the individual and society.

Author : Melissa Ames
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813180083

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Small Screen, Big Feels by Melissa Ames Pdf

While television has always played a role in recording and curating history, shaping cultural memory, and influencing public sentiment, the changing nature of the medium in the post-network era finds viewers experiencing and participating in this process in new ways. They skim through commercials, live tweet press conferences and award shows, and tune into reality shows to escape reality. This new era, defined by the heightened anxiety and fear ushered in by 9/11, has been documented by our media consumption, production, and reaction. In Small Screen, Big Feels, Melissa Ames asserts that TV has been instrumental in cultivating a shared memory of emotionally charged events unfolding in the United States since September 11, 2001. She analyzes specific shows and genres to illustrate the ways in which cultural fears are embedded into our entertainment in series such as The Walking Dead and Lost or critiqued through programs like The Daily Show. In the final section of the book, Ames provides three audience studies that showcase how viewers consume and circulate emotions in the post-network era: analyses of live tweets from Shonda Rhimes's drama, How to Get Away with Murder (2010–2020), ABC's reality franchises, The Bachelor (2002–present) and The Bachelorette (2003–present), and political coverage of the 2016 Presidential Debates. Though film has been closely studied through the lens of affect theory, little research has been done to apply the same methods to television. Engaging an impressively wide range of texts, genres, media, and formats, Ames offers a trenchant analysis of how televisual programming in the United States responded to and reinforced a cultural climate grounded in fear and anxiety.

Author : Douglas Brode
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292718494

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Shooting Stars of the Small Screen by Douglas Brode Pdf

Presents an encyclopedia of TV western actors from 1946 to the present.

Author : John Hill,Martin McLoone
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 1860200052

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Big Picture, Small Screen by John Hill,Martin McLoone Pdf

This work features contributions from academics and media professionals who ask: what is the history of involvement between film and television in the US, Europe, Britain and Ireland; what are the sources of television finance for film; and what are the consequences for the type of film made?

Author : Galway Kinnell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0395120985

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The Book of Nightmares by Galway Kinnell Pdf

A book-length poem evokes the horror, anguish, and brutality of 20th century history.

Author : Carol Stephenson
Publisher : Carina Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426891557

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Courting Death by Carol Stephenson Pdf

After watching a murderer walk free on a technicality, Nicole Sterling left the state attorney’s office to start a criminal law practice. She lets her partners handle the assault and murder files while she specializes in white-collar crime. With her own mother’s life slowly slipping away before her eyes, Nicole has had about all she can take of death. But when a client is accused of killing her own baby, Nicole is drawn in to the case. Also looking for answers is Detective Sam Bowie, a man as infuriating as he is sexy. Sparks fly between them, but the last thing Nicole has room in her life for is a romantic entanglement. Their investigation reveals that Nicole’s client could be just one of many innocent victims of a horrific conspiracy. Now, she must put her own life on the line to uncover the truth—and risk her heart—if she’s to have a future with Sam. 55,000 words

Author : James Robert Parish
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780071784764

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The Hollywood Book of Death by James Robert Parish Pdf

Discover the tantalizing details of Hollywood's famous and infamous fatalities The death of a celebrity is often as fascinating as--and sometimes more fascinating than--a star's actual life. From the grisly end of Sharon Tate at the hands of the Manson family and the mysterious demise of Bob Crane to the peaceful passings of Lucille Ball and George Burns, The Hollywood Book of Death is a captivating and appealingly packaged volume of more than 125 television and movie stars' final curtain calls. Arranged by manner of death, these well-researched accounts include details of celebrities' colorful lives and unusual deaths, their funerals, and the intriguing aftermath. With more than 100 rare photographs and a special "necrology" index of more than 6,000 stars and directors, along with a section revealing where Hollywood personalities are resting in eternal sleep, this enthralling reference promises to be on every film and television buff's "Top 10" gift list.

Author : Farmer Richard Farmer
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9781474423144

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Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema by Farmer Richard Farmer Pdf

Over half a century on, the 1960s continue to generate strong intellectual and emotional responses - both positive and negative - and this is no less true in the arena of film. Making substantial use of new and underexplored archive resources that provide a wealth of information and insight on the period in question, this book offers a fresh perspective on the major resurgence of creativity and international appeal experienced by British cinema in that dramatic decade. Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema is the first scholarly volume on this period of British cinema for more than twenty-five years. It provides a major reconsideration of the period by focusing on the central tensions and contradiction between novelty/revolution and continuity/tradition during what remains a highly contentious period of cultural production and consumption.

Author : Ted Chiang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : 1596063173

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The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang Pdf

What's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, "Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English. This process could follow the normal teaching of a child. Things would be pointed out and named, etc. Again I do not know what the right answer is, but I think both approaches should be tried." The first approach has been tried many times in both science fiction and reality. In this new novella, at over 30,000 words, his longest work to date, Ted Chiang offers a detailed imagining of how the second approach might work within the contemporary landscape of startup companies, massively-multiplayer online gaming, and open-source software. It's a story of two people and the artificial intelligences they helped create, following them for more than a decade as they deal with the upgrades and obsolescence that are inevitable in the world of software. At the same time, it's an examination of the difference between processing power and intelligence, and of what it means to have a real relationship with an artificial entity.

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061738005

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Appointment With Death by Agatha Christie Pdf

Hercule Poirot may be on vacation, but a killer isn't. The victim's a hateful tourist despised even by her own children. For the guests at the resort hotel, sympathies are with the murderer, which means a tough job for the Belgian detective.

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061743115

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Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie Pdf

Hercule Poirot must solve a perplexing case of midair murder in Death in the Clouds when he discovers that the woman in seat two of the airborne aeroplane he’s traveling on is quite unexpectedly—and unnaturally—deceased. From seat No. 9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers on the short flight from Paris to London. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No. 13, sat a countess with a poorly concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No. 8, a writer of detective fiction was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. Yes, Poirot is almost ideally placed to take it all in, except what he did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No. 2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman. Murdered, and likely by someone in Poirot’s immediate proximity.

Author : Egil Törnqvist
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789053561379

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Between Stage and Screen by Egil Törnqvist Pdf

Ingmar Bergman is worldwide known as a film and stage director. Yet no-one has attempted to compare his stage and screen activities. In Between Stage and Screen Egil Törnqvist examines formal and thematical correspondences and differences between a number of Bergman's stage, screen, and radio productions. In the prologue Bergman's spiritual and aesthetic heritage and his position in the twentieth century media landscape is outlined. In the epilogue the question is answered to what extent one can speak of Bergman's directorial 'method' irrespective of the chosen medium.

Author : Avner Ben-Amos
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191542145

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Funerals, Politics, and Memory in Modern France 1789-1996 by Avner Ben-Amos Pdf

This is an interdisciplinary study of the state funerals that were celebrated in France between the French Revolution and the death of François Mitterand. Its aim is to explain how the funerals of such prominent figures as Voltaire, Napoleon, Gambetta, Hugo, and de Gaulle became major public events that helped to mould the national memory. Combining the insights of anthropologists and sociologists with a historical analysis, it argues that the dual character of the ceremony, a political festival and final rite of passage, turned the state funeral into a gripping event to which few French people could remain indifferent. The book focuses on the republican tradition of state funerals, which emerged in the French Revolution and has continued through the Fifth Republic. Whether in power or in opposition, the republicans used the funerals of their leaders and militants to educate the masses and mobilize public support. This book, the first comprehensive analysis of French state funerals, is also a major contribution to the study of republican culture.

Author : Sarah E. Fanning,Claire O’Callaghan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031178122

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Serial Killing on Screen by Sarah E. Fanning,Claire O’Callaghan Pdf

This book explores the representation of real-life serial murders as adapted for the screen and popular culture. Bringing together a selection of essays from international scholars, Serial Killing on Screen: Adaptation, True Crime and Popular Culture examines the ways in which the screen has become a crucial site through which the most troubling of real-life crimes are represented, (re)constructed and made accessible to the public. Situated at the nexus of film and screen studies, theatre studies, cultural studies, criminology and sociology, this interdisciplinary collection raises questions about, and implications for, thinking about the adaptation and representation of true crime in popular culture, and the ideologies at stake in such narratives. It discusses the ways in which the adaptation of real-life serial murder intersects with other markers of cultural identity (gender, race, class, disability), as well as aspects of criminology (offenders, victims, policing, and profiling) and psychology (psychopathy, sociopathy, and paraphilia). This collection is unique in its combined focus on the adaptation of crimes committed by real-life criminal figures who have gained international notoriety for their plural offences, including, for example, Ted Bundy, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Aileen Wuornos, Jack the Ripper, and the Zodiac, and for situating the tales of these crimes and their victims’ stories within the field of adaptation studies.

Author : Alan Hancock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Television
ISBN : IND:30000100108962

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The Small Screen by Alan Hancock Pdf