Author: Jeff Alexander Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780425221556 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
A longtime television writer and advocate of education by TV shares the important life lessons that he has garnered from years of dedicated television viewing, covering topics ranging from Saved by the Bell: School on TV, to Tell Me Why I Love Your Like I Do: Relationships on TV, or Somebody Save Me: Super Powers and Magic Spells. Original.
Author: Stephen F. Hofer Publisher: Bangzoom Publishers ISBN: 9780977292714 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
This book looks at the origins and growth of television through the pages of TV Guide and covers the complete run of this American icon from the first guides in 1953 to the last issue in guide format on October 9, 2005. It includes full color reproductions of every cover ever printed, and is both a collector's guide with pricing included, and a retrospective view of the medium.
Author: Joy Wilt Berry Publisher: Children's Press(CT) ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 136
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Discusses some of the good and bad aspects of television and points out safety factors to observe while watching television, how to choose a suitable program, and how to adopt a critical approach to commercials.
Author: TV Guide's Cinebooks Publisher: Spark Publishing Group ISBN: 9781586638122 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
At a whopping 1,600 pages, with some 35,000 of the greatest movies ever made, this encyclopedia by the editors of TV Guide's award winning, world-renowned Cinebooks Database is simply indispensable. Die-hard movie buffs and the merely curious will both be thrilled at how easily they'll find the answer to any question they have: everything is cross-referenced, including indexes to the actors, the directors, and the films themselves (also arranged by star ranking). Independent and foreign films appear along with Hollywood favorites, and all the movies receive far more in-depth reviews than in any other guide to cinema. Each generous entry includes complete cast listing, detailed plot synopses, exhaustive production credits, musical score information, lists of Oscar™ nominees and winners, and much more. Millions of fans of TV Guide, the world's most widely read weekly publication with 30 million loyal readers, will want to own this!
Author: Ruth Langmore Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1647225272 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 65
Book Description
Discover the rich philosophy of Ruth Langmore, everyone’s favorite foul-mouthed criminal, in this irreverent, playful, and profanity laden “guide to life” inspired by the hit Netflix television series Ozark. Toughened by both her criminal ties and her dedication to her family, Ruth Langmore is guided by one principal: She doesn’t know sh*t about f*ck. Far from being willfully ignorant, Ruth admits that she has much to learn, forming a personal philosophy based on a positive attitude toward lifelong learning. A born survivor, Ruth knows a thing or two about persevering through life’s most difficult situations. In this blunt but profound guide to life, Ruth herself shows you how to navigate your own personal blind sides, while simultaneously learning the skills you need to thrive. So, listen motherfu*kers, and forget everything you think you know.
Author: Lynn Spigel Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226769677 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 250
Book Description
Between 1948 and 1955, nearly two-thirds of all American families bought a television set—and a revolution in social life and popular culture was launched. In this fascinating book, Lynn Spigel chronicles the enormous impact of television in the formative years of the new medium: how, over the course of a single decade, television became an intimate part of everyday life. What did Americans expect from it? What effects did the new daily ritual of watching television have on children? Was television welcomed as an unprecedented "window on the world," or as a "one-eyed monster" that would disrupt households and corrupt children? Drawing on an ambitious array of unconventional sources, from sitcom scripts to articles and advertisements in women's magazines, Spigel offers the fullest available account of the popular response to television in the postwar years. She chronicles the role of television as a focus for evolving debates on issues ranging from the ideal of the perfect family and changes in women's role within the household to new uses of domestic space. The arrival of television did more than turn the living room into a private theater: it offered a national stage on which to play out and resolve conflicts about the way Americans should live. Spigel chronicles this lively and contentious debate as it took place in the popular media. Of particular interest is her treatment of the way in which the phenomenon of television itself was constantly deliberated—from how programs should be watched to where the set was placed to whether Mom, Dad, or kids should control the dial. Make Room for TV combines a powerful analysis of the growth of electronic culture with a nuanced social history of family life in postwar America, offering a provocative glimpse of the way television became the mirror of so many of America's hopes and fears and dreams.
Author: Jake Austen Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 1569762414 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
From Elvis and a hound dog wearing matching tuxedos and the comic adventures of artificially produced bands to elaborate music videos and contrived reality-show contests, television--as this critical look brilliantly shows--has done a superb job of presenting the energy of rock in a fabulously entertaining but patently "fake" manner. The dichotomy of "fake" and "real" music as it is portrayed on television is presented in detail through many generations of rock music: the Monkees shared the charts with the Beatles, Tupac and Slayer fans voted for corny American Idols, and shows like" Shindig! "and "Soul Train "somehow captured the unhinged energy of rock far more effectively than most long-haired guitar-smashing acts. Also shown is how TV has often delighted in breaking the rules while still mostly playing by them: Bo Diddley defied Ed Sullivan and sang rock and roll after he had been told not to, the Chipmunks' subversive antics prepared kids for punk rock, and things got out of hand when" Saturday Night Live "invited punk kids to attend a taping of the band Fear. Every aspect of the idiosyncratic history of rock and TV and their peculiar relationship is covered, including cartoon rock, music programming for African American audiences, punk on television, Michael Jackson's life on TV, and the tortured history of MTV and its progeny.
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