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

• Author(s): Rick DesRochers • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Media StudiesThe Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy examines how contemporary writer/performers are influenced by th...

• 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): Moss Hart • Publisher: Tradd Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Tradd Street Press • BISAC: American - General"Once in a Lifetime" is a sharp-witted satirical comedy that captures the chaotic transition of the film industry from silen...

• Author(s): Claire Mortimer • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesRomantic comedy is an enduringly popular genre which has maintained its appeal by constantly evolving, from the screwball comedy t...

• Author(s): Charles Mills Gayley | Alwin Thaler • Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurre...

• Author(s): William Gillette • Publisher: Hutson Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Hutson Street Press • BISAC: CanadianAll the Comforts of Home is a four-act comedy by the renowned American actor and playwright William Gillette. First published...

• Author(s): Arthur Asa Berger • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • 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...

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

• Author(s): Hunter Hargraves • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismFrom The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audien...

• Author(s): Laura Little • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Media & the LawFew people associate law books with humor. Yet the legal world--in particular the American legal system--is it...

• Author(s): Phil Norman • Publisher: William Collins • Publisher Imprint: William Collins • BISAC: Form - ParodiesAn entertaining and illuminating celebration of televisual history by cultural historian Phil Norman For decades, television occupi...

• Author(s): Charles Mills Gayley | Alwin Thaler • Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurre...

• Author(s): Manuel J. Gomez-Lara | Maria Jose Mora | Paula De Pando Mena • Publisher: Teneo Press • Publisher Imprint: Teneo Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThe present work is set in the context of a long-term venture: The Resto...

• Author(s): Paul Julian Smith • Publisher: Tamesis Books • Publisher Imprint: Tamesis Books • BISAC: Film - GeneralAny follower of Spanish cinema who turns to television finds that the locally produced programs most appreciated by both audiences...

• Author(s): David Bruce • Publisher: David Bruce • Publisher Imprint: David Bruce • BISAC: Form - Anecdotes & QuotationsThis is a short, quick, and easy read.Most of these anecdotes are probably just OK, but there should be at least one or t...

• Author(s): Hal Erickson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Beginning with Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms, released in America near the end of World War I, the military come...

• Author(s): Julia Havas • Publisher: Wayne State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Wayne State University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismWhile American television has long relied on a strategic foregrounding of feminist p...

• Author(s): Professor Ellis Cashmore | Ellis Cashmore • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & HumanitiesFirst published in 1994, this book examines the extent to which televisi...

• Author(s): Harold Brighouse | B. Iden Payne • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshHobson's Choice is a three-act comedy play written by Harold Brighouse an...

• Author(s): Albert Auster | Leonard Quart • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Television - History & Criticismthirtysomething examines one of television's most emotionally and culturally resonant progra...

• Author(s): Aristophanes Aristophanes • Publisher: SMK Books • Publisher Imprint: SMK Books • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalEleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama ...

• Author(s): Paddy Chayefsky • Publisher: Applause Books • Publisher Imprint: Applause Books • BISAC: American - GeneralA collection of six television plays by this brilliant writer: Holiday Song, Printer's Measure, The Big Deal, Marty, The Mothe...

• Author(s): Andrew Goodwin • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Television & VideoUnderstanding Television offers an introduction to some of the issues of television broadcasting and its main genres. It e...

• Author(s): Craig S. Simpson • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismTelevision Is Where You Find It is a revelatory journey into the overlooked world of fe...

• Author(s): Jim Harmon | Donald F. Glut • Publisher: Digital Parchment Press • Publisher Imprint: Digital Parchment Press • BISAC: Puppets & Puppetry

• Author(s): Danzy Senna • Publisher: Riverhead Books • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books • BISAC: African American & Black - WomenA NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YO...

• Author(s): Craig Shemin | Dave Goelz • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Television - Screenwriting

• Author(s): David L. Hirst • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshFirst published in 1979, this book traces comedy of manners from the 1660s to the then present - a sco...

• Author(s): Stephen Wagg • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Popular CultureBecause I Tell a Joke or Two explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social differences of class, region, age, gender, sexual...

• Author(s): Amanda Konkle | Charles Burnetts | David Diffrient • Publisher: Syracuse University Press • Publisher Imprint: Syracuse University Press • BISAC: Television - Genres - DramaWith an off-putting title and a decidedly retrograde premise...

• Author(s): Vincent L. Stephens | Barry Keith Grant • Publisher: Wayne State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Wayne State University Press • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism How a new generation of women-centered dramedies has re...

• Author(s): Danzy Senna • Publisher: Riverhead Books • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books • BISAC: African American & Black - WomenA NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YO...

• Author(s): Jeanne Nagle • Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Rosen Publishing Group • BISAC: Television - General

• Author(s): Tom Paulus • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom Chaplin's tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many ...

• Author(s): Steve Newvine • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: ComedyJack Benny dominated radio in the 1930s and 1940s. He transitioned to television in the 1950s where he enjoyed success to his death in 1974. Johnny Cars...