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Errancies Of Desire - Monstrous Masculinities Across The Atlantic

by Vartan P. Messier

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 Focuses on the intersections of phallocratic violence and masculine identity in contemporary works of fiction across North America, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, Messier details the ways in which male desire is predicated on mediated forms of predatory and misogynistic sexuality that cross national and cultural divides.
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Chick Tv - Antiheroines And Time Unbound

by Yael Levy

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 Brings antiheroines to the forefront of television criticism, revealing the subtle ways in which they perform feminist resistance. Offering a retooling of gendered media analyses, Yael Levy finds antiheroism not only in the morally questionable cop and tormented lawyer, but also in characters who inhabit more stereotypical feminine roles.
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Perspectives On Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Nuanced Postnetwork Television

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 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.
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Gladiators In Suits - Race, Gender, And The Politics Of Representation In Scandal

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 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.
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Becoming - Genre, Queerness, And Transformation In Nbc'S Hannibal

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 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.
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Gladiators In Suits - Race, Gender, And The Politics Of Representation In Scandal

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 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.
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Captain America, Masculinity, And Violence - The Evolution Of A National Icon

by J. Richard Stevens

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 Reveals how the comic book hero has evolved to maintain relevance to America's fluctuating ideas of masculinity, patriotism, and violence. The book outlines the history of Captain America's adventures and places the unfolding storyline in dialogue with the comic book industry as well as America's varying political culture.
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Watching Tv With A Linguist

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 Challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, FÃ¤gersten champions the use of fictional television to learn about linguistics and at the same time promotes enriched television viewing experiences by explaining the role of language in creating humour, conveying drama, and developing identifiable characters.
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Screwball Television - Critical Perspectives On Gilmore Girls

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 Bringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, this title offers a variety of international perspectives on Gilmore Girls (WB/CW, 2000-2007).
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Inside The Tv Writer'S Room - Practical Advice For Succeeding In Television

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 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.
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Interrogating The Shield

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 The first book dedicated to the analysis of this immensely successful series, Interrogating The Shield brings together ten critical essays, written from a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives. Topics range from an exploration of the seriesâ€™ derivation, genre, and production, to expositions of the ethics, aesthetics, and politics of the show.
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Black Male Frames - African Americans In A Century Of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003

by Roland Leander Williams Jr.

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 Charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: â€œthe shamanâ€ and â€œthe scoundrelâ€. Starting with colonial times, Williams identifies the origins of these roles in an America where black men were forced either to defy or to defer to their white masters.
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Watching Tv With A Linguist

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 Challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, FÃ¤gersten champions the use of fictional television to learn about linguistics and at the same time promotes enriched television viewing experiences by explaining the role of language in creating humour, conveying drama, and developing identifiable characters.
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Captain America, Masculinity, And Violence - The Evolution Of A National Icon

by J. Richard Stevens

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 Reveals how the comic book hero has evolved to maintain relevance to Americaâ€™s fluctuating ideas of masculinity, patriotism, and violence. Stevens outlines the history of Captain Americaâ€™s adventures and places the unfolding storyline in dialogue with the comic book industry as well as Americaâ€™s varying political culture.
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Bigger Than Ben-Hur - The Book, Its Adaptations, And Their Audiences

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 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.
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Reading Joss Whedon

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 This book, ambitious in both length and scope, offers the Whedon fan and scholar alike a diversity of current, insightful, original scholarship by dozens of Whedon Studies most established and respected writers.
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King Of The Half Hour - Nat Hiken And The Golden Age Of Comedy

by David Everitt

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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.
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Television'S Second Golden Age - From Hill Street Blues To Er

by Robert J. Thompson

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 Offers an insider's tour, touching on the network's dizzying decision-making process, and the artists who have revolutionized the medium.
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You Can'T Air That - Four Cases Of Controversy And Censorship In American Television Programming

by David S. Silverman

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 Assesses four controversial television programs from the perspective of media history, assessing the censorship present at all four networks and the political and intellectual inertia it produces in broadcast television. This book reinvigorates the subject of free speech in American society.
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Watching Tv - Eight Decades Of American Television

by Harry Castleman e Walter J. Podrazik

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 Presents a sweeping season-by-season story, capturing the essence of television from its inception to the contemporary era of anytime access and online streaming, including every prime time fall schedule since 1944. Watching TV provides a fascinating history of how the personalities, popular shows, and coverage of key events have evolved across eight decades.
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Watching Tv - American Television Season By Season, Fourth Edition

by Harry Castleman e Walter J. Podrazik

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 In Watching TV, Castleman and Podrazik present a season-by-season narrative that encompasses the eras of American television from the beginning in broadcast, through cable, and now streaming. Full of facts, firsts, insights, and exploits from now back to the earliest days, the book is the standard chronology of American television.
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Tv On Strike - Why Hollywood Went To War Over The Internet

by Cynthia Littleton

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 Examines the upheaval in the entertainment industry by studying the hundred-day writersâ€™ strike that thwarted Hollywood in late 2007 and early 2008. The industryâ€™s uneasy transition to the digital age was the driving force behind what seemed to be the most significant labor dispute of the century. Now, in 2024, we know it was only the first battle.
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Comic Drunks, Crazy Cults, And Lovable Monsters - Bad Behavior On American Television

by David Diffrient e David Scott Diffrient

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 Examining a broad range of network and cable TV shows across the history of the medium, this book explores the ways in which social imaginaries related to â€˜bad behaviourâ€™ have been humorously exploited over the years.
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Errancies Of Desire - Monstrous Masculinities Across The Atlantic

by Vartan P. Messier

25,16€ + 10% CARD

 Focuses on the intersections of phallocratic violence and masculine identity in contemporary works of fiction across North America, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, Messier details the ways in which male desire is predicated on mediated forms of predatory and misogynistic sexuality that cross national and cultural divides.
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