Zombie Talk
by John Edgar Browning, David Castillo, David Schmid, and David A. Reilly
Zombie Talk offers a concise, interdisciplinary introduction and deep analytical set of theoretical approaches to help readers understand the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary and modern culture. With essays that combine Humanities and Social Science methodologies, the authors examine the zombie through an array of cultural products from different periods and geographical locations: films ranging from White Zombie (1932) to the pioneering films of George Romero, television shows like AMC's T...
LEXX Unauthorized, Series 2 (Lexx Unauthorized, the Making of, #2)
by D G Valdron
This book is a history of how television advertising rose to become a defining force in American culture in the two decades after World War II.
Manchester United scooping the Treble; Schumacher barging Hill off the track; Tyson chewing Holyfield; Argentina beating England on penalties; Germany beating England on penalties; everybody else beating England on penalties . . . Name any one of the defining sporting moments of the last decade, Giles Smith wasn't there. He was at home, watching on the television. Like most people. And then he wrote about it. Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel collects the best of Smith's award-winning colum...
Who's 50: The 50 Doctor Who Stories to Watch Before You Die?an Unofficial Companion
by Graeme Burk
British Youth Television: Cynicism and Enchantment (Oxford Television Studies)
by Lecturer in Theatre Film and Television Studies Karen Lury
Doctor Who (Doctor Who, #142) (Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures, #2)
by Gary Russell
It is 3999. An artificial planetoid, Micawber's World, is hosting the intergalactic Olympic Games, and athletes from all the worlds in the Galactic Federation are arriving to take part. But when the Doctor and Sam arrive, the murders soon begin.The Doctor finds himself drafted in to examine some bizarre new drugs that claim to enhance the natural potential of the competing athletes. But what is their real purpose? Why are members of the Security Forces disappearing randomly? And just why is Chas...
Though the hit television show Lost does not have a Christian foundation or theme, there is much believers can learn about social and cultural attitudes through its episodes. Ankerberg and Burroughs offer practical suggestions for Christians who desire to talk effectively to others about the various themes in the show.
Medien - Migration - Partizipation: Eine Studie Am Beispiel Iranischer Fernsehproduktion Im Offenen Kanal
by Christine Horz
Budgeting Planner 2018 - 2019 (Budget Book Monthly Bill Organizer, #4)
by Terresa Williford
They had names like the Xtreme, the Demons, and the Rage. They eliminated the coin flip and instead had one player from each team race for a ball at midfield to determine possession. They miked anything that moved, bringing viewers inside the huddle, onto the sideline, and into the locker room. And they failed. Miserably. The league opened up the season with higher television ratings than the NFL Pro Bowl but finished with lower ratings than the NFL draft. Long Bomb: How the XFL Became TV's Bigg...
Russian Television Today (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe)
by David Macfadyen
"The Smurfs" began as a comic strip in October 1958 in Belgium and quickly gained popularity, launching popular comic books and the classic figurines still sold today, but it wasn't until the NBC eighties cartoon that audiences everywhere fell in love with Papa Smurf and Smurfette. After years of re-runs the Smurfs are hitting the big screen. This summer Sony is releasing a life-action Smurf film starring Neil Patrick Harris and Hank Azaria (Gargamel) and featuring voices from Katy Perry, Alan C...
Heroes in Contemporary British Culture (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)
by Barbara Korte and Nicole Falkenhayner
This book explores how British culture is negotiating heroes and heroisms in the twenty-first century. It posits a nexus between the heroic and the state of the nation and explores this idea through British television drama. Drawing on case studies including programmes such as The Last Kingdom, Spooks, Luther and Merlin, the book explores the aesthetic strategies of heroisation in television drama and contextualises the programmes within British public discourses at the time of their production...
Historian Sara Eskridge examines television’s rural comedy boom in the 1960s and the political, social, and economic factors that made these shows a perfect fit for CBS. The network, nicknamed the Communist Broadcasting System during the Red Scare of the 1940s, saw its image hurt again in the 1950s with the quiz show scandals and a campaign against violence in westerns. When a rival network introduced rural-themed programs to cater to the growing southern market, CBS latched onto the trend and s...
Emile Zola (1840-1902) has become one of the most adapted authors of all time, but while much has been made of his adaptation into cinema and theatre, television has largely been overlooked. Yet television, with its serial structures and popular reach, is uniquely suited to the adaptation of a novelist who eagerly reworked his writing for the broadest audiences possible. It is not for nothing that broadcasters such as the BBC return to Zola so often - most recently with The Paradise (2012). In o...
Papier-Fernsehen: Eine Ethnographie Der Digitalen Tv-Produktion (Locating Media/Situierte Medien, #9)
by Stephan Schmid