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Television Finales

Douglas L. Howard,David Bianculli
Television Finales Book PDF

Author : Douglas L. Howard,David Bianculli
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780815654476

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Television Finales by Douglas L. Howard,David Bianculli Pdf

Today more than ever, series finales have become cultural touchstones that feed watercooler fodder and Twitter storms among a committed community of viewers. While the final episodes of The Fugitive and M*A*S*H continue to rank among the highest rated broadcasts, more recent shows draw legions of binge-watching fans. Given the importance of finales to viewers and critics alike, Howard and Bianculli along with the other contributors explore these endings and what they mean to the audience, both in terms of their sense of narrative and as episodes that epitomize an entire show. Bringing together a veritable "who’s who" of television scholars, journalists, and media experts, including Robert Thompson, Martha Nochimson, Gary Edgerton, David Hinckley, Kim Akass, and Joanne Morreale, the book offers commentary on some of the most compelling and often controversial final episodes in television history. Each chapter is devoted to a separate finale, providing readers with a comprehensive survey of these watershed moments. Gathering a unique international lineup of journalists and media scholars, the book also offers readers an intriguing variety of critical voices and perspectives.

TV Finales FAQ

Stephen Tropiano,Holly Van Buren
TV Finales FAQ Book PDF

Author : Stephen Tropiano,Holly Van Buren
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781495046063

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TV Finales FAQ by Stephen Tropiano,Holly Van Buren Pdf

(FAQ). TV Finales FAQ is the first book devoted exclusively to television's most memorable series finales. From Mary Richards' heartfelt goodbye to the WJM-TV newsroom in the classic finale of The Mary Tyler Moore Show to the puzzling conclusion of the enigmatic adventure series, Lost , to the tumultuous final hours in the life of Breaking Bad 's Walter White, TV Finales FAQ takes an up close, insightful, and entertaining look at the most memorable final episodes of television's most popular prime time, daytime, and late night series. Crafting the final episode to a long-running television series can be challenging for producers and writers who want to remain faithful to the show's characters and history, yet, at the same time, satisfy the high expectations of its loyal fan base. TV Finales FAQ offers television viewers the inside story on the creation, broadcast, and aftermath of the most famous (and infamous) final episodes of over 50 television series from the 1960s through the present day. The books features such shows as Dexter , Roseanne , Will & Grace , X-Files , The Sopranos , and some classic talk and late-night programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson , and many others.

Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television

M. Stewart
Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television Book PDF

Author : M. Stewart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137319852

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Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television by M. Stewart Pdf

Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and queer relations; the family and psychic identities; the national and emerging public cultures; and morality and ethics.

Television’s Streaming Wars

Arienne Ferchaud,Jennifer M. Proffitt
Television s Streaming Wars Book PDF

Author : Arienne Ferchaud,Jennifer M. Proffitt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000991314

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Television’s Streaming Wars by Arienne Ferchaud,Jennifer M. Proffitt Pdf

This volume addresses contemporary debates and trends regarding the production and distribution, content, and audience engagement with the television streaming industry. The book interrogates the economics and structure of the industry, questions the types and diversity of content perpetuated on streaming services, and addresses how audiences engage with content from US and global perspectives and within various research paradigms. Chapters address television streaming wars, including the debates and trends in terms of its production and competition, diversity and growth of programming, and audience consumption, focusing on multiple platforms, content, and users. This timely and creative volume will interest students and scholars working in television studies, media industry studies, popular culture studies, audience studies, media psychology, critical cultural studies and media economics.

Complex TV

Jason Mittell
Complex TV Book PDF

Author : Jason Mittell
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814769607

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Complex TV by Jason Mittell Pdf

"" Complex TV is one of the most exciting books I have ever read. Each chapter contains useful and well-defined terms to put to work in formal analysis, and every argument is backed up with lively, detailed, and entertaining readings of familiar TV texts. The result is a rich and thorough piece of scholarship that will do for television studies what David Bordwell's historical poetics has famously done for film."--Robyn Warhol, co-editor of Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions

Post-heritage Perspectives on British Period Drama Television

Will Stanford Abbiss
Post heritage Perspectives on British Period Drama Television Book PDF

Author : Will Stanford Abbiss
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000894004

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Post-heritage Perspectives on British Period Drama Television by Will Stanford Abbiss Pdf

Drawing upon the existing scholarship of period drama and emerging research into new media ecologies, instigated by television streaming services such as Netflix, this book establishes a critical framework for understanding the representation of nationhood and cultural identity in television drama. By formalising the term ‘post-heritage’ the book proposes a methodology which recognises the interplay of traditional and innovative elements within period drama productions. The book applies this critical perspective to popular British period drama productions from the 2010s, with examples including The Crown, the ‘society dramas’ of Upstairs Downstairs and Downton Abbey, Steven Knight’s Dickens adaptations, and Stephen Poliakoff’s recent oeuvre, to demonstrate the benefits of evaluating period drama as part of twenty-first century television’s developments. It challenges the assumptions around characteristics and ideological purpose that period drama discourse often contends with, and offers new perspectives on understanding the past through televisual representations. This book will be important reading for students and scholars of television studies, film studies and cultural studies.

The Television Horrors of Dan Curtis

Jeff Thompson
The Television Horrors of Dan Curtis Book PDF

Author : Jeff Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476675022

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The Television Horrors of Dan Curtis by Jeff Thompson Pdf

Before award-winning director Dan Curtis became known for directing epic war movies, he darkened the small screen with the horror genre's most famous soap opera, Dark Shadows, and numerous subsequent made-for-TV horror movies. This second edition serves as a complete filmography, featuring each of Curtis's four-dozen productions and 100 photographs. With the addition of new chapters on Dark Shadows, the author further explores the groundbreaking daytime television serial. Fans and scholars alike will find an exhaustive account of Curtis's work, as well as a new foreword from My Music producer Jim Pierson and an afterword from Dr. Mabuse director Ansel Faraj.

Post-Object Fandom

Rebecca Williams
Post Object Fandom Book PDF

Author : Rebecca Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781623562106

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Post-Object Fandom by Rebecca Williams Pdf

Fandom is generally viewed as an integral part of everyday life which impacts upon how we form emotional bonds with ourselves and others in a modern, mediated world. Whilst it is inevitable for television series to draw to a close, the reactions of fans have rarely been considered. Williams explores this everyday occurence through close analysis of television fans to examine how they respond to, discuss, and work through their feelings when shows finish airing. Through a range of case studies, including The West Wing (NBC, 2000-2006), Lost (ABC 2004 -2010), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), Doctor Who (BBC 1963-1989; 2005-), The X-Files (FOX, 1993-2002), Firefly (FOX, 2002) and Sex and the City (HBO, 1998-2004), Williams considers how fans prepare for the final episodes of shows, how they talk about this experience with fellow fans, and how, through re-viewing, discussion and other fan practices, they seek to maintain their fandom after the show's cessation.

Chick TV

Yael Levy
Chick TV Book PDF

Author : Yael Levy
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780815655251

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Chick TV by Yael Levy Pdf

Tony Soprano, Don Draper, and Walter White ushered in the era of the television antihero, with compelling narratives and complex characters. While critics and academics celebrated these characters, the antiheroines who populated television screens in the twenty-first century were pushed to the margins and dismissed as "chick TV." In this volume, Yael Levy advances antiheroines to the forefront of television criticism, revealing the varied and subtle ways in which they perform feminist resistance. Offering a retooling of gendered media analyses, Levy finds antiheroism not only in the morally questionable cop and tormented lawyer, but also in the housewife and nurse who inhabit more stereotypical feminine roles. By analyzing Girls, Desperate Housewives, Nurse Jackie, Being Mary Jane, Grey’s Anatomy, Six Feet Under, Sister Wives, and the Real Housewives franchise, Levy explores the narrative complexities of "chick TV" and the radical feminist potential of these shows.

Translating Culture Specific References on Television

Irene Ranzato
Translating Culture Specific References on Television Book PDF

Author : Irene Ranzato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317399612

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Translating Culture Specific References on Television by Irene Ranzato Pdf

Translating Culture Specific References on Television provides a model for investigating the problems posed by culture specific references in translation, drawing on case studies that explore the translational norms of contemporary Italian dubbing practices. This monograph makes a distinctive contribution to the study of audiovisual translation and culture specific references in its focus on dubbing as opposed to subtitling, and on contemporary television series, rather than cinema. Irene Ranzato’s research involves detailed analysis of three TV series dubbed into Italian, drawing on a corpus of 95 hours that includes nearly 3,000 CSR translations. Ranzato proposes a new taxonomy of strategies for the translation of CSRs and explores the sociocultural, pragmatic and ideological implications of audiovisual translation for the small screen.

As Seen on TV

Meredith Schorr
As Seen on TV Book PDF

Author : Meredith Schorr
Publisher : Forever
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538754733

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As Seen on TV by Meredith Schorr Pdf

Fans of the Hallmark Channel and Gilmore Girls will adore this delightful rom‑com about a city girl who goes in search of small-town happiness, only to discover life—and love—are nothing like the TV movies. Emerging journalist Adina Gellar is done with dating in New York City. If she’s learned anything from made-for-TV romance movies, it’s that she’ll find love in a small town—the kind with harvest festivals, delightful but quirky characters, and scores of delectable single dudes. So when a big-city real estate magnate targets tiny Pleasant Hollow for development, Adi knows she’s found the perfect story—one that will earn her a position at a coveted online magazine, so she can finally start adulting for real . . . and maybe even find her dream man in the process. Only Pleasant Hollow isn’t exactly “pleasant.” There’s no charming bakery, no quaint seasonal festivals, and the residents are more ambivalent than welcoming. The only upside is Finn Adams, who’s more mouthwatering than the homemade cherry pie Adi can’t seem to find—even if he does work for the company she’d hoped to bring down. Suddenly Adi has to wonder if maybe TV got it all wrong after all. But will following her heart mean losing her chance to break into the big time?

Starring Mandela and Cosby

Ron Krabill
Starring Mandela and Cosby Book PDF

Author : Ron Krabill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226451893

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Starring Mandela and Cosby by Ron Krabill Pdf

Media, democratization, and the end(s) of apartheid -- Structured absences and communicative spaces -- In the absence of television -- "They stayed 'til the flag streamed"--Surfing into Zulu -- Living with the Huxtables in a state of emergency -- I may not be a freedom fighter, but I play one on TV -- Television and the afterlife of apartheid

Northern Exposure

Michael Samuel
Northern Exposure Book PDF

Author : Michael Samuel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538117453

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Northern Exposure by Michael Samuel Pdf

When Northern Exposure first aired on television in 1990, viewers were introduced to the small fictional town of Cicely, Alaska, and its quirky yet endearing citizens. During its run, Northern Exposure received critical acclaim, winning two Peabody Awards, seven Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globes. Though the show was cancelled after six seasons, it has had a profound impact on contemporary television. In Northern Exposure: A Cultural History, Michael Samuel revisits the cult television series and celebrates its legacy, from its surreal narrative to its diverse onscreen representations. Covering the show’s production history, characters, individual episodes, fan culture, and critical response, Samuel reveals Northern Exposure’s wide cultural impact during its time on air and ever since. Complete with an exploration of the town where the series was shot and a comprehensive guide to all 110 episodes, Northern Exposure: A Cultural History is the perfect companion to this classic series. A fascinating and accessible retrospective, this book recalls a cultural moment in American television defined by a series that wasn’t afraid to push boundaries.

American Militarism on the Small Screen

Anna Froula,Stacy Takacs
American Militarism on the Small Screen Book PDF

Author : Anna Froula,Stacy Takacs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317402886

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American Militarism on the Small Screen by Anna Froula,Stacy Takacs Pdf

Anna Froula is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English at East Carolina University, USA Stacy Takacs is Associate Professor and Director of American Studies at Oklahoma State University, USA

Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition

Kristopher Karl Woofter,Lorna Jowett
Joss Whedon vs the Horror Tradition Book PDF

Author : Kristopher Karl Woofter,Lorna Jowett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786735416

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Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition by Kristopher Karl Woofter,Lorna Jowett Pdf

Although ostensibly presented as “light entertainment,” the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a cultural critique. Featuring monsters, the undead, as well as drawing upon folklore and fairy tales, his many productions both celebrate and masterfully repurpose the traditions of horror for their own means. Woofter and Jowett's collection looks at how Whedon revisits existing feminist tropes in the '70s and '80s “slasher” craze via Buffy the Vampire Slayer to create a feminist saga; the innovative use of silent cinema tropes to produce a new fear-laden, film-television intertext; postmodernist reflexivity in Cabin in the Woods; as well as exploring new concepts on “cosmic dread” and the sublime for a richer understanding of programmes Dollhouse and Firefly. Chapters provide the historical context of horror as well as the particular production backgrounds that by turns support, constrain or transform this mode of filmmaking. Informed by a wide range of theory from within philosophy, film studies, queer studies, psychoanalysis, feminism and other fields, the expert contributions to this volume prove the enduring relevance of Whedon's genre-based universe to the study of film, television, popular culture and beyond.