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

• Author(s): William Russo • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsA collection of selective reviews of comedy movies and TV from the past ten years of blogs by Ossurwo...

• Author(s): Raymond Williams • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyTelevision: Technology and Cultural Form by Raymond Williams, first published in 1974, offers a groundbre...

• Author(s): Jason Mittell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismGenre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural categories, offering a set of in-dept...

• Author(s): Marcus K. Harmes | Meredith A. Harmes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Comedy This wide-ranging collection of essays considers comedic screen depictions of war...

• Author(s): Rebecca Feasey • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismThis book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key debates concernin...

• Author(s): Taylor Nygaard | Jorie Lagerwey • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: Discrimination & Race RelationsExamines the bleak television comedies that illustrate the obsession of...

• Author(s): Neil Archer • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAt the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, a global audience of nearly one billion viewers ...

• Author(s): Taylor Nygaard | Jorie Lagerwey • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: Discrimination & Race RelationsExamines the bleak television comedies that illustrate the obsession of...

• Author(s): Curt Hersey • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Television - Genres - ComedyThis book provides the first history of the television news parody genre, analyzing how these shows have functioned as...

• Author(s): Dustin Tahmahkera • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press • BISAC: Native American StudiesNative Americans have been a constant fixture on television, from the dawn of b...

• Author(s): Aaron Barlow • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Popular CultureThis book spotlights the 25 most important sitcoms to ever air on American television--shows that made generations laugh, challenged our ideas reg...

• Author(s): L. J. Potts • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralOriginally published in 1949 this book is a study of comedy based on representative works of drama and narrative, mainly in English, from Ch...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Film - Genres - Comedy The American Film Institute has ranked Some Like it Hot as the greatest comedy of the 20th centu...

• Author(s): Richard Irvin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism An elementary school dropout, George Burns went on to become one of America's most beloved ...

• Author(s): Erin Giannini • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismA fun and engaging overview of the popular television series Community as the show fulfills its own ...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference In November 1939, NBC's fledgling television station W2XBS broadcast the first known holiday special, T...

• Author(s): Bradley Lewis • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: ComedyA lively critique and discussion of four classic 50s comedies (Featuring Some Like it Hot, Guys and Dolls, How to Marry a ...

• Author(s): Shirley R. Steinberg | Mary M. Dalton | Laura R. Linder • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • BISAC: Administration - GeneralTeacher TV: Sevent...

• Author(s): Ethan Thompson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralIn this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and ef...

• Author(s): J. E. Buckrose • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: ClassicsTHIS was no comedy to those most concerned, of course, for comedy is like happi...

• Author(s): Magdalena Cieslak • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: ShakespeareThis book analyzes how twenty-first century film adaptations of Shakespeare's comedies interpret gender-related concepts of their...

• Author(s): Butler • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism • BISAC: Television - GeneralFor over two decades, Television has served as the foremost guide to television ...

• Author(s): Karen J. Harvey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Genres - Comedy In the early days of television, "comedy" often meant stale vaudeville routines and stand-up. The...

• Author(s): James H. Wittebols • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism It has been said that M*A*S*H was a show set in the 1950s which reflected the shifting...

• Author(s): Don P. Haynes • Publisher: iUniverse • Publisher Imprint: iUniverse • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralD.N.R. is a dark comedy following the everyday life of a young man who gets caught in the dark underbelly of hospital life. JOHNNY is a na...

• Author(s): Gene Perret • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: LiteraryThis is the HARDBACK version. Two questions that people ask television comedy writers repeatedly are: "How do you guys ever think them up?...

• Author(s): Robert Pegg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Although some scholars credit Shakespeare with creating in Henry IV's Falstaff the first "seco...

• Author(s): David Womersley • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)The two plays presented in full in this volume – Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the Worl...

• Author(s): Michèle Reich • Publisher: Publibook • Publisher Imprint: Publibook • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)

• Author(s): Michael Klossner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General From the early days of the movies, "cavemen" have been a popular subject for filmmakers--not surprisingly, sin...

• Author(s): David C. Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The Emmy-nominated star of the classic 1950s sitcom I Married Joan, Joan Davis (1912-1961) was also radio's hig...

• Author(s): Adrian Morales • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Television - General'The Cavanaughs' led to the 2008 television pilot and of the Sitcom...

• Author(s): Magdalena Cieslak • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: ShakespeareThis book analyzes how twenty-first century film adaptations of Shakespeare's comedies interpret gender-related concepts of their...

• Author(s): Bill Van Heerden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In Only the Lonely (1991), Ally Sheedy appeases prospective mother-in-law Maureen O'Hara by go...

• Author(s): Karen McNally • Publisher: Wayne State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Wayne State University Press • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Explores the ways television documents, satirizes, and critiques the political er...

• Author(s): William Peskett • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: GeneralThis is a radio comedy script in ten episodes of around 15 minutes each. Deals ...