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The Avengers Dossier

Author : Paul Cornell
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 057513321X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Avengers Dossier written by Paul Cornell and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other series, THE AVENGERS typified the Swinging Sixties - beginning in 1961 with Patrick Macnee starring with Ian Hendry in a grainy, realistic spy thriller, and ending in 1969 with Macnee and the glamorous Linda Thorson blasting off into space in a surreal episode appropriately entitled 'Bizarre'. Meanwhile we had seen the memorable Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg in roles unusually progressive for British television. THE NEW AVENGERS in the mid-seventies reflected changing times but retained the essence of the show - as Macnee returned to play alongside another strong, independent heroine in the form of Joanna Lumley's Purdey. And then there was the film... THE AVENGERS DOSSIER is a uniquely comprehensive yet humorous survey of all the show's incarnations. As well as a remarkably detailed episode guide to both series - even covering the kinkiness factor and champagne count in both - this volume gives behind the scenes insights and revelations about every aspect of the programme. The film and its production are examined, and critical essays look at the history behind the cult.

The Avengers: The Definitive Dossier, Box Set 2

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 995 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (263 download)

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The Avengers,1965

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book The Avengers,1965 written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Avengerworld - The Avengers in Our Lives

Author : Alan Hayes
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326522507
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Avengerworld - The Avengers in Our Lives written by Alan Hayes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avengers was a revolutionary series that always playfully twisted perceptions, pushed the boundaries of its genre and defied those who wished to pigeonhole it. The team behind The Avengers never forgot its primary objective was to entertain. And entertain it certainly did, inspiring successive generations to welcome The Avengers into their hearts. Right from its foreword by pioneering television historian Dave Rogers to its afterword by Jason Whiton of SpyVibe, Avengerworld celebrates the series, its international fandom and its fans. Over the course of more than forty essays, Avengers fans the world over relate how they first encountered the series, how they grew up with it at their sides, made friends, engaged with fandom and were inspired to do extraordinary things. Proceeds from this book will be donated to Champion Chanzige, a charity organisation that exists to improve conditions for underprivileged children at a primary school in Southern Tanzania - and helps them to do extraordinary things too.

Action TV: Tough-Guys, Smooth Operators and Foxy Chicks

Author : Anna Gough-Yates
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136358722
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Action TV: Tough-Guys, Smooth Operators and Foxy Chicks written by Anna Gough-Yates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From re-runs of 'TV classics' like The Avengers or Starsky and Hutch, to soundtracks, club nights and film remakes such as Mission Impossible II, the action series is enjoying a popular revival. Yet little attention has been paid to the history, nature and enduring appeal of the action series, and its place in popular culture, past and present. Action TV traces the development of the action series from its genesis in the 1950s. From The Saint to Knigh t Rider, contributors explore the key shows which defined the genre, addressing issues of audiences and consumption, gender and sexuality, fashion and popular culture. They examine the institutional and cultural factors influencing the action series, and relate shifts in the genre to other forms of popular culture including film, pop music, fashion and popular literature. Chapters include: * Of leather suits and kinky boots: The Avengers, style and popular culture * 'Who loves ya, baby?': Kojak, action and the great society *'A lone crusader in a dangerous world': heroics of science and technology in Knight Rider * Angels in chains? feminism, femininity and consumer culture in Charlie's Angels * 'Who's the cat that won't cop out?' Black masculinity in American action shows of the sixties and seventies

Mrs. Peel, We're Needed

Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326120093
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Peel, We're Needed written by Rodney Marshall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-12-13 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avengers was a unique, genre-defying television series which blurred the traditional boundaries between 'light entertainment' and disturbing drama. It was a product of the constantly-evolving 1960s yet retains a timeless charm. The monochrome filmed Emma Peel season had established a cult following for a series which became an intrinsic part of the 'Swinging Sixties'. Backed by US dollars, the show was now filmed 'in color' and Avengerland becomes stranger and more playful than ever: Steed is shrunk to the size of a desk pad, forced to evade a machine-gun-toting nanny; Emma Peel is tortured in a medieval ducking stool and turned into a living cybernaut. Mrs. Peel, We're Needed draws on the knowledge of a broad range of experts and fans of The Avengers as it explores the wonderfully mad Technicolor world of Emma Peel.

Avengerland: A Critical Guide

Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326461796
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Avengerland: A Critical Guide written by Rodney Marshall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the vanguard of a 1960s cultural revolution, The Avengers was both critically acclaimed and commercially popular. As Britain's imperial power crumbled away, the television series began to colonise the globe. Critic Rodney Marshall is the son of Avengers script writer Roger Marshall. He has written and/or edited nine books on the series. Avengerland: A Critical Guide brings the main chapters from these previous volumes under one cover. In addition to a number of general essays, the guide explores fifty of the filmed episodes in depth, analysing the show from monochrome film through 'Glorious Technicolor' to its reincarnation as The New Avengers. Avengerland is an indispensable guide for fans of this iconic show.

Walking Distance

Author : Victor L. Cahn
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630873527
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Walking Distance written by Victor L. Cahn and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this entertaining and informative book, Victor L. Cahn revisits memorable episodes from eleven classic television shows, including The Twilight Zone, Maverick, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Fugitive, The Avengers, and All in the Family. He provides background for each program, details about the creative individuals involved, close readings of the scripts, and reflections on why these series were influential when originally broadcast and why they continue to be enjoyed decades later by "baby boomers," their children, and their grandchildren. With a scholar's insight and a fan's enthusiasm, he offers a unique perspective on an integral part of mid-twentieth-century American culture.

Subversive Champagne

Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326141716
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Subversive Champagne written by Rodney Marshall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subversive Champagne re-examines the 1960s cult television series, The Avengers, through a close analysis of 25 filmed episodes. The book examines how The Avengers - during the classic Emma Peel era (1964-1967) - was continually shifting the boundaries of audience expectation, defying both genre classification and viewers' traditional desire for kitchen sink drama. Subversive Champagne centres on eighteen episodes from the monochrome Peel Season 4 - widely acknowledged as the artistic pinnacle of the series. It is in this era - caught between video-tape and colour film - that The Avengers was undergoing arguably its most profound stylistic and thematic transitions, from mild eccentricity to something genuinely experimental. The author extends his journey into the exhilarating but 'uneven' colour Season 5, adding chapters on seven more episodes, thus allowing us to explore the entire Emma Peel era. Entertaining froth or groundbreaking art? Rediscover the most iconic show in television history.

Investigating Couples

Author : Tom Soter
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786484322
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Investigating Couples written by Tom Soter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Male-female detective pairings often exhibit offbeat, dark humor and considerable chemistry as they investigate crimes. They have proven to be both entertaining and alluring on screen and television. This work reveals an evolutionary progression in the depictions of three detective duos: the married pair Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man, black-humored special agents John Steed and Emma Peel of The Avengers, and finally the smoldering Mulder and Scully in The X-Files. Ten chapters offer critical analysis, rich with background information and insider observations. Production comments are given throughout. Three appendices (one for each series) offer episode guides with original broadcast dates, credits and brief synopses.

Spy Television

Author : Wesley Britton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313052123
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Spy Television written by Wesley Britton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-01-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For half a century, television spies have been trained professionals, reluctant heroes, housewives, businessmen, criminals, and comedians. They have by turns been glamorous, campy, reflective, sexy, and aloof. This is the first book-length treatment of one of TV's oldest and most fascinating genres. Britton's comprehensive guide provides readers, from casual viewers to die-hard fans, with behind-the-scenes stories to this notable segment of television entertainment. From the early 1960s, in which television spies were used essentially as anti-Communist propaganda, through the subsequent years that both built upon and parodied this model, and finally to today's gadget-laden world of murky motives and complex global politics, spy television has served as much more than mere escapism. From the beginning, television spies opened doors for new kinds of heroes. Women quickly took center stage alongside men, and minority leads in spy programs paved the way for other kinds of roles on the small screen. For half a century, television spies have been trained professionals, reluctant heroes, housewives, businessmen, criminals, and comedians. They have by turns been glamorous, campy, reflective, sexy, and aloof. This is the first book-length treatment of one of TV's oldest and most fascinating genres.

Zombies Assemble Vol. 1 Manga

Author : Yusaku Komiyama
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1302501143
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Zombies Assemble Vol. 1 Manga written by Yusaku Komiyama and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting Zombies Assemble #1-3, 0. The original manga is adapted into English for the first time! Time and again, the Avengers have assembled to save the Earth from destruction. But they've never had to face a threat as gruesome and as UNDEAD as this one! Now, Earth's Mightiest Heroes must fight to contain an outbreak of horrifying zombies, and stop them from spreading across the Earth! But not all of the Avengers will escape uninfected...

Zombies Assemble Vol. 2

Author : Yusaku Komiyama
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1302501941
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Zombies Assemble Vol. 2 written by Yusaku Komiyama and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Zombies Assemble 2 #1-4. The Avengers face a threat even bigger and more menacing than they could have imagined as the stakes are raised in the race to cure the zombie outbreak! Caught in a massive explosion, Captain America, Hawkeye and Iron Man wake up in the midst of a city overrun by zombies. Miraculously, they find they havent been turned, though they come face-to-face with Jasper Scott a mysterious scientist who claims to have a cure for the virus. But who is he really, and does he actually possess the antivirus Bruce Banner has been struggling to create? More important: Is the Hulk immune to the zombie plague? Marvels English-language adaptation of the original blockbuster manga series rolls on!

Terry Nation

Author : Alwyn W. Turner
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 184513687X
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book Terry Nation written by Alwyn W. Turner and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “splendidly entertaining” biography of the British tv writer acclaimed for his invention of a fictional alien race for Doctor Who (Dominic Sandrook, author of State of Emergency—The Way We Were: Britain 1970–1974). The Daleks are one of the most iconic and fearsome creations in television history. Since their first appearance in 1963, they have simultaneously fascinated and terrified generations of children, their instant success ensuring, and sometimes eclipsing, that of Doctor Who. They sprang from the imagination of Terry Nation, a failed stand-up comic who became one of the most prolific writers for television that Britain ever produced. Survivors, his vision of a post-apocalyptic England, so haunted audiences in the Seventies that the BBC revived it over thirty years on, and Blake’s 7, constantly rumored for return, endures as a cult sci-fi classic. But it is for his genocidal pepperpots that Nation is most often remembered, and now, more than 50 years after their creation they continue to top the Saturday-night ratings. Yet while the Daleks brought him notoriety and riches, Nation played a much wider role in British broadcasting’s golden age. He wrote for Spike Milligan, Frankie Howerd and an increasingly troubled Tony Hancock, and as one of the key figures behind the adventure series of the Sixties—including The Avengers, The Saint and The Persuaders!—he turned the pulp classics of his boyhood into a major British export. In The Man Who Invented the Daleks, acclaimed cultural historian Alwyn W. Turner, explores the curious and contested origins of Doctor Who’s greatest villains, and sheds light on a strange world of ambitious young writers, producers and performers without whom British culture today would look very different.

X-Treme Possibilities

Author : Paul Cornell
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 057513335X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book X-Treme Possibilities written by Paul Cornell and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Open your mind to extreme possibilities' Scully's desire to be recognised as 'a medical doctor', ooze, mouthfuls of difficult dialogue and the tendency for characters not to make it through the pre-titles sequence were just a few of the tragically underexamined elements of THE X-FILES phenomenon - until the first edition of this book. Now the authors take their study of televisions weirdest show through to the end of series five, and THE X-FILES movie. X-TREME POSSIBILITIES presents a unique analysis of the programme that transformed US television. While sometimes witty and light-hearted, this volume is also a serious study of the elements that made the show such a success. As well as a detailed episode guide of the first five seasons, the book pieces together the nature of the series' Conspiracy - and attempts to discover just what the truth is. Never before has THE X-FILES been put under such focused, affectionate and bizarre scrutiny. Please note this new release of the second edition has not been updated.

The Classic British Telefantasy Guide

Author : Paul Cornell
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 057513352X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Classic British Telefantasy Guide written by Paul Cornell and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Classic British Telefantasy Guide is derived from the second edition of The Guinness Book of Classic British TV with various corrections and a revised introduction to bring it up to date. It was written when the Internet barely existed, and at a time when few books had been published on the subject. This is, however, by no means a new or completely revised version of the original material - too much time has passed, and if we were to start reworking and correcting the text now, it would probably never be finished! Instead, Classic British Telefantasy is an electronic reprint of some of the authors' earliest work, repacked for a new format and, perhaps, a new age.

Doctor Who - King Of Terror

Author : Keith Topping
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446417840
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Doctor Who - King Of Terror written by Keith Topping and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough novel Two alien races the Jex and the Canavitchi are engaged in a battle to invade and either conquer or destroy the planet Earth. The Doctor is summoned to a meeting with Brigadier who shows him a photograph of a powerful media mogul named Sanger who has bought enough plutonium to destroy the world ten times over. UNIT are on the case and it seems that Sanger is one of a frightening number of alien Jex who came to Earth twenty years ago to sow the seeds of their ruthless world-domination When the Canavitchi launch their counter-attack and their alien fleets embark upon full-scale destruction, the Doctor finds himself engaged in a race against time to save planet Earth