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

• Author(s): Scott V. Palmer • Publisher: Cypress Hills Press • Publisher Imprint: Cypress Hills Press • BISAC: Film - ReferenceThis is a sequel to a reference book called Great Comedy Films. This book includes 44 films made between 1935 and 1981...

• Author(s): Phillip Barcio • Publisher: Lulu Press • Publisher Imprint: Lulu Press • BISAC: General

• Author(s): Chris Barsanti • Publisher: Applause Books • Publisher Imprint: Applause Books • BISAC: Television - Guides & ReviewsA rich and heartfelt look at a series that rewrote the rules of TV sitcoms

• Author(s): Ed Sikov • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the Back Cover'Sikov's work is an engaging quirky exploration of the comedy of the 1950s throu...

• Author(s): Silas Kaine Ezell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Television - GeneralThis book examines contemporary American animated humor, focusing on popular animated television shows in order to explore the ways ...

• Author(s): Mickey Coburn • Publisher: Havescripts • Publisher Imprint: Havescripts • BISAC: Theater - GeneralA delightful entertainment for children and adults alike, this comedy brings all the elements of the original characters to the stage o...

• Author(s): Richard Irvin • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Television - ReferenceThe history of American television is finally written. The shows your grandparents chose as their favorites during the daw...

• Author(s): Andrew Stott • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Books & ReadingThis new edition of Andrew Stott's Comedy builds on themes presented in the first edition such as focusing on the significance ...

• Author(s): David Macfadyen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismExamining the role of dramatized narratives in Russian television, this book stresses the ways in which the Russian go...

• Author(s): Jeff Robbins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews This work offers a complete episode guide and comprehensive history of Second City Television. ...

• Author(s): Wesley Hyatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews Remember the finales of M*A*S*H, Cheers and Seinfeld? Do you know who shot J.R. on Dallas? This...

• Author(s): Gray Jonathan • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismUsing our favourite Springfield family as a case study, Watching with The Simpsons examines the textual and social role ...

• Author(s): Ronald W. Rodman | Ron Rodman • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Instruction & Study - TheoryMusic has always been at the heart of American television. Amongst the many role...

• Author(s): Garry Berman • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Comedy"Author Garry Berman gives readers a history lesson in comparing and overlapping the mediums of radio artists and film comedies during the ...

• Author(s): Sarah Cardwell • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismOffers a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, as well as bringing ...

• Author(s): Brian Dunbar • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralComedy Films: A Teacher's Guide offers the ideal introduction for teachers of GCSE and AS/A level Film and Medi...

• Author(s): Garry Berman • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismThis is the Hardback edition. What was the very first situation comedy on American television? What was the f...

• Author(s): Arthur Asa Berger • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Communication StudiesIs television a cultural wasteland, or a medium that has brought people more great art, music, dance, and drama than any previous m...

• Author(s): Jonathan C. Friedman • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Judaism - GeneralHaunted Laughter is a comprehensive study of film productions that have used comedy to represent Adolf Hitler, the Third...

• Author(s): Margaret Haerens • Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Greenhaven Publishing • BISAC: Performing Arts - Television & RadioThis volume explores the topics relating to television by presenting varied expert opinio...

• Author(s): D. T. Klika • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismSituation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis puts the sitcom character on the analyst's couch and c...

• Author(s): Garry Berman • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismWhat was the very first situation comedy on American television? What was the first police drama? When was th...

• Author(s): Paul Arras • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book examines the most popular American television shows of the nineties--a decade at the last gasp of network te...

• Author(s): Michael Karol • Publisher: iUniverse • Publisher Imprint: iUniverse • BISAC: Television - Guides & ReviewsENJOY THESE UNIQUE LISTS, PACKED WITH TV TRIVIA AND TIDBITS ON SUCH TOPICS AS: TV REPLACEMENTS * All-TIME FEMALE SITCOM EPI...

• Author(s): Marla Brooks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General The sitcom made its first appearance in January of 1949 with the introduction of television's first family, ...

• Author(s): Daniel Paisner • Publisher: Open Road Distribution • Publisher Imprint: Open Road Distribution • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismAbsurdly funny, trenchant, and provocative, this outside-looking-in account of the stillbirth...

• Author(s): Andy Medhurst • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ComedyComedy is crucial to how the English see themselves. This book considers that proposition through a series of case studies of popular English comedies...

• Author(s): David Lavery • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismAfter a slow and inauspicious beginning, Seinfeld broke through to become one of the most commercially successful sitcoms...

• Author(s): Charles Horn • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: GeneralThat's Just Wrong 2! is the second short collection of sketch comedy by Emmy-nomin...

• Author(s): John Stanley • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - GeneralIn a continuation of his memorable Vol. 1, again journey into a world of comedy featuring some of th...

• Author(s): Brooks 1894-1984 Atkinson | William 1640-1716 Countr Wycherley | William 1670-1729 Way of Congreve • Publisher: Hassell Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Hassell Street Press • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis wo...

• Author(s): Jerry Adler • Publisher: Viva Editions • Publisher Imprint: Viva Editions • BISAC: MemoirsThis must read is your golden ticket to a trip down memory lane with of one of Hollywood's most iconic actors. . . Who almost turned down his i...

• Author(s): Cheryl Campanella Bracken | Joan L. Conners | Mary T. Conway • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Media StudiesThis anthology examines the constructions of intelligence and intellectuality in pop...

• Author(s): Natalie Fullwood • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismCommedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change. This book, utiliz...

• Author(s): D. T. Klika • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismSituation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis puts the sitcom character on the analyst's couch and c...

• Author(s): Gary Poole • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism This book is a real find--for those who enjoy radio nostalgia but more importantly for scholars of ...