Looks at how TV programs are recorded and broadcast, discusses special effects, explains how TV sets work, and considers video games and home computers.
This essay collection explores the phenomenon of "teen TV" in the United States, analyzing the meanings and manifestations of this category of programming from a variety of perspectives.
Tribal Television: Viewing Native People in Sitcoms
Examining the broadcasting traditions of the UK and USA, 'The Television History Book' make connections between events and tendencies that both unite and differentiate these national broadcasting traditions.
Examines the repeated association of new electronic media with spiritual phenomena from the telegraph in the late 19th century to television. “Death, desire and distance are Jeffrey Sconce's companions in this truly spooky journey through ...
"The closer the new media future gets, the further victory appears." --Michael Wolff This is a book about what happens when the smartest people in the room decide something is inevitable, and yet it doesn’t come to pass.
The 12th edition addresses the realities of students who live in this new era. This text is available in a variety of formats – print and digital.
Updated advice and practical suggestions on how to break into one of the most lucrative areas of the acting profession explain how to create a resume, get an agent, develop one's commercial acting techniques, prepare for an audition, and ...
Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world's most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a box, it is deeply embedded...
In this book, esteemed television executive and Harvard lecturer Ken Basin offers a comprehensive overview of the business, financial, and legal structure of the U.S. television industry, as well as its dealmaking norms.
For models of hope, this volume acknowledges the civic discourse that has thrived in the margins of public broadcasting--in the independent community and in the homespun programming of the public access movement.