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Television Entertainment

Author : Jonathan Gray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113525348X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Television Entertainment written by Jonathan Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world’s most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a box, it is deeply embedded in everyday life, in how we think, what we think and care about, and who we think and care about it with. But is television entertainment art? Why do so many love it and so many hate or fear it? Does it offer a window to the world, or images of a fake world? How is it political and how does it address us as citizens? What powers does it hold, and what powers do we have over it? Or, for that matter, what is television these days, in an era of rapidly developing technologies, media platforms, and globalization? Written especially for students, Television Entertainment addresses these and other key questions that we regularly ask, or should ask. Jonathan Gray offers a lively and dynamic, thematically based overview with examples from recent and current television, including Lost, reality television, The Sopranos, The Simpsons, political satire, Grey’s Anatomy, The West Wing, soaps, and 24.

Entertaining Politics

Author : Jeffrey P. Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742565297
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Politics written by Jeffrey P. Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this completely revised and updated edition (including eight new chapters), Jeffrey Jones charts the evolution and maturation of political entertainment television by examining The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Politically Incorrect/Real Time with Bill Maher, and Michael Moore's TV Nation and The Awful Truth. This volume investigates how and why these shows have been central locations for the critique of political and economic power and an important resource for citizens during numerous political crises. In an age of Truthiness, fake news and humorous political talk have proven themselves viable forms of alternative reporting and critical means for ascertaining truth, and in the process, questioning the legitimacy of news media's role as the primary mediator of political life. The book also addresses the persistent claims that these programs have cynical effects and create misinformed young citizens, demonstrating instead how such programming provides for an informed, active, and meaningful citizenship. The new edition takes account of the many changes that have occurred in television and political culture since Entertaining Politics' initial release.

Entertaining television

Author : Su Holmes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526101602
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Entertaining television written by Su Holmes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining television challenges the idea that the BBC in the 1950s was elitist and ‘staid’, upholding Reithian values in a paternalistic, even patronising way. By focusing on a number of (often controversial) programme case studies – such as the soap opera, the quiz/ game show, the ‘problem’ show and programmes dealing with celebrity culture - Su Holmes demonstrates how BBC television surprisingly explored popular interests and desires. She also uncovers a number of remarkable connections with programmes and topics at the forefront of television today, ranging from talk shows, 'Reality TV', even to our contemporary obsession with celebrity. The book is iconclastic, percipient and grounded in archival research, and will be of use to anyone studying television history.

Entertaining Politics

Author : Jeffrey P. Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742530881
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Politics written by Jeffrey P. Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to arguments that television is detrimental to democracy, Entertaining Politics explores the role of new political television in shaping a changing civic culture. Jeffrey P. Jones shows how viewers understand and make use of the increasingly blurred lines between 'serious' and 'entertainment' programming and argues that alarmist critics who predict the end of politics in the age of television have misconstrued the role of the medium and the commitment of audiences to both TV and public life. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Ruoyun Bai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317755537
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century written by Ruoyun Bai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past two decades witnessed the rise of television entertainment in China. Although television networks are still state-owned and Party-controlled in China, the ideological landscape of television programs has become increasingly diverse and even paradoxical, simultaneously subservient and defiant, nationalistic and cosmopolitan, moralistic and fun-loving, extravagant and mundane. Studying Chinese television as a key node in the network of power relationships, therefore, provides us with a unique opportunity to understand the tension-fraught and , paradox-permeated conditions of Chinese post-socialism. This book argues for a serious engagement with television entertainment. rethinking, It addresses the following questions. How is entertainment television politically and culturally significant in the Chinese context? How have political, industrial, and technological changes in the 2000s affected the way Chinese television relates to the state and society? How can we think of media regulation and censorship without perpetuating the myth of a self-serving authoritarian regime vs. a subdued cultural workforce? What do popular televisual texts tell us about the unsettled and reconfigured relations between commercial television and the state? The book presents a number of studies of popular television programs that are sensitive to the changing production and regulatory contexts for Chinese television in the twenty-first century. As an interdisciplinary study of the television industry, this book covers a number of important issues in China today, such as censorship, nationalism, consumerism, social justice, and the central and local authorities. As such, it will appeal to a broad audience including students and scholars of Chinese culture and society, media studies, television studies, and cultural studies.

Making Crime Television

Author : Anita Lam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134114451
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Making Crime Television written by Anita Lam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. As a unique examination of the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing process, Making Crime Television: Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast examines not only the semiotic relations between ideas about crime, but the material conditions under which those meanings are formulated. Using ethnographic and interview data, Anita Lam considers how textual representations of crime are assembled by various people (including writers, directors, technical consultants, and network executives), technologies (screenwriting software and whiteboards), and texts (newspaper articles and rival crime dramas). The emerging analysis does not project but instead concretely examines what and how television writers and producers know about crime, law and policing. An adequate understanding of the representation of crime, it is maintained, cannot be limited to a content analysis that treats the representation as a final product. Rather, a television representation of crime must be seen as the result of a particular assemblage of logics, people, creative ideas, commercial interests, legal requirements, and broadcasting networks. A fascinating investigation into the relationship between television production, crime, and the law, this book is an accessible and well-researched resource for students and scholars of Law, Media, and Criminology.

The Entertainment Functions of Television

Author : P. H. Tannenbaum
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317770390
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Entertainment Functions of Television written by P. H. Tannenbaum and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Television Specials

Author : Vincent Terrace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Television Specials written by Vincent Terrace and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A listing of programs broadcast from 1939 through 1993. Enries listed alphabetically contain casts, credits (music, producer, writer, and director), formats, dates, networks, and running times.

The Cold War and Entertainment Television

Author : Lori Maguire
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443899259
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Cold War and Entertainment Television written by Lori Maguire and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential dimension of the Cold War took place in the realm of ideas and culture. While much work exists on cinema, relatively little research has been conducted on this subject in relation to television, despite the latter being a technology and popular cultural form that emerged during this period. This book rectifies that absence by examining the impact of the Cold War on entertainment television, and underlines the comparative aspect by studying programs from both blocs – without forgetting, of course, the outsize impact of American television. Although most of the focus is on the two main protagonists, the US and the USSR, chapters also consider programming from the UK, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and both East and West Germany. This book represents a contribution to the debate about the cultural Cold War through a rigorously comparative analysis of the two blocs. For this reason, the approach used is thematic. The study begins by considering the subject of censorship, and then goes on to look at the very particular case of the two Germanys. A series of comparative genre studies follow, including police and war, variety shows, and documentaries and docudramas. Perhaps surprisingly, the similarities are often greater than the differences between television in the two blocs.

Commercialization of Children's Television

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Commercialization of Children's Television written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Science, Entertainment and Television Documentary

Author : Vincent Campbell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137385383
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Science, Entertainment and Television Documentary written by Vincent Campbell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shift from traditional documentary to “factual entertainment” television has been the subject of much debate and criticism, particularly with regard to the representation of science. New types of factual programming that combine documentary techniques with those of entertainment formats (such as drama, game-shows and reality TV) have come in for strident criticism. Often featuring spectacular visual effects produced by Computer Generated Imagery these programmes blur the boundaries between mainstream science and popular beliefs. Through close analysis of programmes across a range of sciences, this book explores these issues to see if criticisms of such hybrid programmes as representing the “rotting carcass of science TV” really are valid. Campbell considers if in fact; when considered in relation to the principles, practices and communication strategies of different sciences; these shows can be seen to offer more complex and rich representations that construct sciences as objects of wonder, awe and the sublime.

Educational Television, what Do People Want?

Author : Manfred Meyer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781860205286
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Educational Television, what Do People Want? written by Manfred Meyer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The results of the educational television conference held by the Internationales Zentralinstitut fA1/4r das Jugend-und Bildungsfernsehen are presented in this book. These essays evaluate the uses and acceptance of educational television based on an examination of educational programs produced by European television stations that audiences thought ""interesting"" or ""instructive."" Analysis focuses on types of viewers and users, differences in learning styles, images of educational programs, and viewers expectations of television as a medium for education and learning.

Time-Travel Television

Author : Sherry Ginn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442255773
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Time-Travel Television written by Sherry Ginn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of time travel have been part of science fiction since H. G. Wells sent his nameless hero hurtling into Earth’s distant future in The Time Machine. Time travel enables the storyteller to depict alternate realities, bring fictional characters face to face with historical figures, and depict moral and ethical dilemmas in which millions of lives (or the world as we know it) are at stake. From Doctor Who and Quantum Leap to the multiple incarnations of Star Trek, time travel has been a staple of science fiction television for more than fifty years. Time-Travel Television: The Past from the Present, the Future from the Past surveys the whole range of time travel stories on the small screen. The essays in this collection explore time travel series both familiar (Babylon 5, Stargate SG-1) and forgotten (The Time Tunnel, Voyagers!), as well as time-travel themed episodes and arcs in series where it is not central, such as Red Dwarf, Lost, and Heroes. Contributors to this volume consider some of the classic themes of time-travel stories: the promise (and peril) of “fixing” the past, the chance to experience (and choose) possible futures, and the potential for small changes to have great effects. Exploring time travel as a teaching tool, as a vehicle for moral lessons, and as a background for high adventure, this book offers new perspectives on many familiar programs and the first serious study of several unjustly neglected ones. Time-Travel Television is essential reading for science fiction scholars and fans, and for anyone interested in the many ways that television brings the fantastic into viewers’ living rooms.

This Business of Television

Author : Howard J. Blumenthal
Publisher : Billboard Books
ISBN 13 : 0823077632
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book This Business of Television written by Howard J. Blumenthal and published by Billboard Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication reflects the changes in television, both domestically and internationally and is a useful guide to the legal, economic, and production aspects of the industry.

The Business of Television

Author : Ken Basin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351254162
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book The Business of Television written by Ken Basin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, esteemed television executive and Harvard lecturer Ken Basin offers a comprehensive overview of the business, financial, and legal structure of the U.S. television industry, as well as its dealmaking norms. Written for working or aspiring creative professionals who want to better understand the entertainment industry — as well as for executives, agents, managers, and lawyers looking for a reference guide — The Business of Television presents a readable, in-depth introduction to rights and talent negotiations, intellectual property, backend deals, licensing, streaming platforms, international production, and much more. The book also includes breakdowns after each chapter summarizing deal points and points of negotiation, a glossary, a list of referenced cases, and a wealth of real-world examples to help readers put the material into context.

Exploring Television Acting

Author : Tom Cantrell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474248594
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Television Acting written by Tom Cantrell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of its kind to bring together scholarly and practitioner perspectives, this book analyses the experiences, skills and techniques of actors when working on television. Featuring eleven chapters by internationally distinguished researchers and actor trainers, this collection examines the acting processes and resulting performances of some of the most acclaimed television actors. Topics include: studio and location realism; actor training for television; actor well-being in the television industry; performance in reality television and British and Irish actors in contemporary US television and film. The book also contains case studies examining the work of Emmy-award-winning actor Viola Davis and the iconic character of Gene Hunt in Life on Mars (BBC, 2006-2007).

Making Crime Television

Author : Anita Lam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134114389
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Making Crime Television written by Anita Lam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. As a unique examination of the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing process, Making Crime Television: Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast examines not only the semiotic relations between ideas about crime, but the material conditions under which those meanings are formulated. Using ethnographic and interview data, Anita Lam considers how textual representations of crime are assembled by various people (including writers, directors, technical consultants, and network executives), technologies (screenwriting software and whiteboards), and texts (newspaper articles and rival crime dramas). The emerging analysis does not project but instead concretely examines what and how television writers and producers know about crime, law and policing. An adequate understanding of the representation of crime, it is maintained, cannot be limited to a content analysis that treats the representation as a final product. Rather, a television representation of crime must be seen as the result of a particular assemblage of logics, people, creative ideas, commercial interests, legal requirements, and broadcasting networks. A fascinating investigation into the relationship between television production, crime, and the law, this book is an accessible and well-researched resource for students and scholars of Law, Media, and Criminology.