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Errancies Of Desire - Monstrous Masculinities Across The Atlantic

de Vartan P. Messier

25,67€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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

de Yael Levy

64,89€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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

86,52€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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

41,91€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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

86,52€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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

de J. Richard Stevens

31,08€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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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Bigger Than Ben-Hur - The Book, Its Adaptations, And Their Audiences

46,31€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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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King Of The Half Hour - Nat Hiken And The Golden Age Of Comedy

de David Everitt

32,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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

de Robert J. Thompson

20,27€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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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Watching Tv - Eight Decades Of American Television

de Harry Castleman e Walter J. Podrazik

54,08€

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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

de Harry Castleman e Walter J. Podrazik

60,83€

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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

de 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

de David Scott Diffrient

50,15€

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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

de Vartan P. Messier

82,40€

portes grátis

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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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Comic Drunks, Crazy Cults, And Lovable Monsters - Bad Behavior On American Television

de 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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Chick Tv - Antiheroines And Time Unbound

de Yael Levy

28,26€

portes grátis

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 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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Race Across America - Eddie Gardner And The Great Bunion Derbies

de Charles B. Kastner

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 On April 23, 1929, the second annual Transcontinental Foot Race across America, known as the Bunion Derby, was in its twenty-fifth day. Eddie ""the Sheik"" Gardner, an African American runner from Seattle, was leading the race. Kastner traces Gardner's remarkable journey from his birth in 1897 to his success as a long-distance runner.
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Television Finales - From Howdy Doody To Girls

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 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.
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Black Male Frames - African Americans In A Century Of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003

de Roland Leander Williams Jr.

21,83€

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 Charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: "the shaman" or "the scoundrel". 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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Television Finales - From Howdy Doody To Girls

43,71€

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 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.
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Screwball Television - Critical Perspectives On Gilmore Girls

33,41€

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 Bringing together essays by scholars from around the world, Screwball Television offers a variety of international perspectives on Gilmore Girls. Adored by fans and celebrated by critics for its sophisticated wordplay and compelling portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship, this contemporary American TV program finally gets its due as a cultural production unlike any other.
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Inside The Tv Writer'S Room - Practical Advice For Succeeding In Television

de Lawrence Meyers

21,83€

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 Aspiring writers often ask how they can break into the television writing business. Meyers believes that the answer can be found by asking why people become television writers and what makes them successful. Inside the TV Writer's Room reveals these insights and much more. This volume, a collection of interviews with some of today's top episodic writers arranged in a roundtable format, explores the artists drive to express how the writers honed their creativity, and what compromises they have made to pursue their craft both before and after finding success.
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