Search results for “[subject: television-genres-comedy]”

• Author(s): Darrell Y. Hamamoto • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralCritically analyzing four decades of television situation comedies from The Honeymooners to The Bill Cosby Show, Hamamoto shows how the sitcom refl...

• Author(s): Nick Marx • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: ComedyIn Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television, Nick Marx examines some of the genre's most memorable--and...

• Author(s): Chiara Bucaria | Luca Barra • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism1.Taboo Comedy on Television: Issues and Themes. Chiara Bucaria and Luca Barra.- Part I....

• Author(s): Nick Marx • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: ComedyIn Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television, Nick Marx examines some of the genre's most me...

• Author(s): Victoria Sturtevant • Publisher: University of Texas Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismHow changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century t...

• Author(s): Lewis Freeman • Publisher: VDM Verlag • Publisher Imprint: VDM Verlag • BISAC: GeneralThis book examines the symbolic representation of social class and social mobility in situation comedy from a content analysis of 13 sitcoms, inclu...

• Author(s): Metta Spencer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media Studies"An extraordinary book which makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the potential power for healing and goodness in 'television ent...

• Author(s): Liz Giuffre • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Instruction & Study - TheoryThe study of television and music has expanded greatly in recent years, yet to date no book has focused on the genr...

• Author(s): Manny Basanese • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - GeneralNavigating through the challenging process of writing a comedy pilot, this book will help screenwriters to create an original scri...

• Author(s): Sarah Steppke • Publisher: Grin Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag • BISAC: GeneralSeminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, Ernst Moritz Arndt University ...

• Author(s): Jeanette M. Berard | Klaudia Englund • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism In the early days of television, many of its actors, writers, produc...

• Author(s): Gene Perret | Jim Nabors • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: LiteraryTwo questions that people ask television comedy writers repeatedly are: "How do you guys ever think them up?" and "Is writing...

• Author(s): Alan Siegel • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Television - Genres - ComedyThis comprehensive account of the meteoric rise of The Simpsons combines incisive pop culture critic...

• Author(s): Brian Carver • Publisher: Brian Carver • Publisher Imprint: Brian Carver • BISAC: Television - Genres - ComedyThe 1980s was a golden age for British comedy. There were many sitcoms made, with traditional series such as Yes, Minister ...

• Author(s): Richard Irvin • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Television - ReferenceThis is the HARDBACK version. Spinning Laughter: Profiles of 111 Proposed Comedy Spin-offs and Sequels that Never Became a...

• Author(s): Samantha Pickette • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismThis book analyzes how contemporary representations of Jewish women on television challenge stereotypes ...

• Author(s): Alvin H. Marill • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Television - GeneralTelevision has always augmented its dramatic and variety programming with sports. After covering wrestling and boxin...

• Author(s): Brett Mills • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesWhat is it like to make television comedy? How do writers get their ideas made, and how do commissioners and producers decide what to ...

• Author(s): Anthony Balducci • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Classic comedy routines and individual gags have been around for many hundreds of years, proba...

• Author(s): Huw Watkins • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Television - Genres - ComedyHow well do you remember the great British sitcoms of the 1990s?The Great 1990s British Sitcom Quiz Bo...

• Author(s): Rosie White • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris & Company • BISAC: Board GamesCan comedy on television harbour elements of gender transgression or subversion? If a man is permitted to be 'fun...

• Author(s): Andrew Horton • Publisher: University of Texas Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Among the pioneers of television, Ernie Kovacs was one of the most original and imagina...

• Author(s): Jonathan Gray | Jeffrey P. Jones | Ethan Thompson • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismA fascinating look into what happens when comedy bec...

• Author(s): Alan Craig Hueth • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Film - ScreenwritingWhat are the foundations of scriptwriting? Why do some scripts gain more prestige th...

• Author(s): Huw Watkins • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Television - Genres - ComedyStep back into the living rooms, boarding houses, corner shops, bus depots, prison wings and chaotic h...

• Author(s): Christine Cornea • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the Back CoverLooking at contemporary film and television, this book explores how ...

• Author(s): David Everitt • Publisher: Syracuse University Press • Publisher Imprint: Syracuse University Press • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsRegarded by his contemporaries as one of television's premier comedy creators, Nat Hiken ...

• Author(s): Laura Minor • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Television - Direction & ProductionThis book explores female authorship in UK television comedy, with a focus on British...

• Author(s): Laura Minor • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Television - Direction & ProductionThis book explores female authorship in UK television comedy, with a focus on British...

• Author(s): Johnnie Mortimer • Publisher: Concord Theatricals • Publisher Imprint: Concord Theatricals • BISAC: Type - ComedyMessrs. Mortimer and Cooke, the top writers of British television "sitcoms," have turned their delightful senses of humo...

• Author(s): Alexander Prokhorov • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismMost histories of Soviet cinema portray the 1970s as a period of stagnation with the gradual decline...

• Author(s): Karina Judd • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis book explores how women scientists are portrayed in hit American TV comedies The Big Bang Theory, Never Have I Ever, and Zoey's Ext...

• Author(s): Norman Lear • Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rizzoli International Publications • BISAC: Television - ReferenceAll in the Family creator Norman Lear takes fans behind the scenes of the groundbreaki...

• Author(s): Neil Archer • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris & Company • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAt the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, a global audience of nearly one billion ...

• Author(s): Spencer Metta • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesCan television be a positive force in society? Can socially conscious entertainment change the world? This book asks these questions and more a...

• Author(s): Richard Nelson • Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Broadway Play Publishing • BISAC: American - GeneralA mock 1930s farce in which hilarity reigns supreme. "...if you can believe that a play can be part ROOM S...