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Nat Hiken was the driving force behind the 1950s and 1960s series ""Sgt Bilko"" and ""Car 54, Where Are You?"". This biography of the television pioneer places him in broadcast history, drawing on first-hand interviews with some well-known TV personalities such as Carol Burnett and Alan King.
First published in 1880, Ben-Hur became a best-seller. For over a century, it has become a ubiquitous pop cultural presence, representing a deeply powerful story and monumental experience for some and a defining work of bad taste and false piety for others. Bigger Than "Ben-Hur" to explores its polarizing effect and expands the contexts within which it can be studied.
Analyses the communication, politics, stereotypes, and genre techniques featured in the television series Scandal while raising key questions about the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and viewing audiences.
Explores questions of authorship and audience response as well as themes of horror, gore, cannibalism, queerness, and transformation in the NBC series Hannibal. Contributors also address Hannibal's distinctive visual, auditory, and narrative style.
Analyses the communication, politics, stereotypes, and genre techniques featured in the television series Scandal while raising key questions about the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and viewing audiences.
Explores questions of authorship and audience response as well as themes of horror, gore, cannibalism, queerness, and transformation in the the NBC series Hannibal. Contributors also address Hannibal's distinctive visual, auditory, and narrative style.
A collection of interviews with some of today's top episodic TV writers contains revealing insights to why people become television writers and what makes them successful. Each chapter's topic is distilled into a practical lesson for both professionals and aspirants to heed if they wish to find or maintain success in writing for television.
An anthology of writings that examine the TV sitcom in terms of its treatment of gender, family, class, race and ethnic issues. The selections range from early shows such as ""I Remember Mama"" to the more recent ""Roseanne"".
I Love Lucy remains a popular sitcom 45 years after its debut. Written by the producer and head writer of the show Jess Oppenheimer, with his son Gregg, this book provides an insight into how the comedy was conceived and executed, and gives an account of the broadcasting industry's development.
Focusing on themes of feminism, gender identity, and mental health, contributors explore the ways in which the CW dramedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend challenged viewer expectations, as well as the role television critics play in identifying a show's ""authenticity"" or quality.
Given the importance of finales to television viewers and critics alike, Howard and Bianculli along with the other contributors explore endings and what they mean to the audience, both in terms of their sense of narrative and as episodes that epitomize an entire show.
Offers an insider's tour, touching on the network's dizzying decision-making process, and the artists who have revolutionized the medium.
Updated and expanded for the third edition, this volume presents a comprehensive account of the development and influence of the American screenwriter.
A critical inquiry into the new woman warrior's appropriation of violence and the Western war narrative. It delves into the meaning of that appropriation for alternative storytelling, and provides a forum to recognize women's increasing role in popular culture as they are cast as action heroes.
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