The first book to consider the rapid rise of makeover shows from the perspectives of their viewersWatch this show, buy this product, you can be a whole new you!Makeover television shows repeatedly promise self-renewal and the opportunity for reinvention,...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008After occupying a central space in American living rooms for the past fifty years, is television, as we've known it, dead? The capabilities and features of that simple box have been so radically redefined that...

“Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the circulation of black cultural products and their...

[part] 1 : The Production Contexts Of Television -- Women's Work / Lynn Spigel -- The Discourse Of Scientific Anti-communism In The Golden Age Of Documentary / Michael Curtin -- Disneyland / Christopher Anderson -- Television Production Techniques As...

Winner of the 2022 Edgar Award for Best BiographyAn Economist Best Book of 2021A fresh, innovative biography of the twentieth century’s most iconic filmmaker.In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon―what...

We all talk about the "tube" or "box," as if television were simply another appliance like the refrigerator or toaster oven. But Cecilia Tichi argues that TV is actually an environment--a pervasive screen-world that saturates almost every aspect of...

A basic reference book for anyone interested in musical films, it contains over 1600 entries covering not only the most important actors, composers, lyricists, directors, choreographers, and producers but also the most memorable songs and films.

In 1953, Mary McCarthy published an article in Harper's entitled "Artists in Uniform" telling the story of a woman who encountered an anti-Semitic colonel on a train. Readers approached the tale as fiction, finding symbolic meaning in everything from...

In his new book, William J. Bernstein, the celebrated author of A Splendid Exchange, chronicles the history of media, starting with the origin of writing thousands of years ago in Mesopotamia. The revolutionary tool gave rise to the world's ancient...

Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication AssociationHow Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyondFrom Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Shonda Rhimes to their audiences and the industry...

John Simon. Includes Index.

At the barricades: Forty years on the cutting edge of history Wilfred G Burchett.

A noted black woman journalist recounts her experiences as an outsider in the newsroom of The Washington Post in the late 1980s. National ad/promo. Tour.

From Turner Classic Movies, this is the essential guide to all the must-know detail on the style, achievements, and landmark films of the most influential directors in cinema history from the silent era through the 1970s. For well over a century, those...

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Godfather, this authorized, annotated and illustrated edition of the complete, unedited screenplay includes all the little-known facts, behind-the-scenes intrigue, and first-person reflections from cast and crew...

The first collection of Annette Michelson's influential writings on film, with essays on work by Marcel Duchamp, Maya Deren, Hollis Frampton, Martha Rosler, and others.The celebrated critic and film scholar Annette Michelson saw the avant-garde...

Pref. By H. A. R. Gibb. Bibliography: P. 207-215. A List Of Some Arabic Plays, 1848-1956: P. 216-273.

Imagologies: Media Philosophy is no ordinary book. Provocative, irritating and stimulating, this is a work to be engaged, questioned and pondered. As the web of telecommunications technology spreads across the globe, the site of economic development,...

Many contemporary television series from Modern Family to How to Get Away with Murder open an episode or season with a conflict and then go back in time to show how that conflict came to be. In Figures of Time Toni Pape examines these narratives, showing...