Television at Work

DescriptionSigns and images of Chinese martial arts increasingly circulate through global media cultures. As tropes of martial arts are not restric...

Reducere. Pleasure/keyf in the form of food, drink or drugs, is the subject of this book, which looks at how their consumption has played a key role in socia...

Reducere. One of the most continuously influential figures of the past half century, Joan Jonas was among the first artists to embrace the forms of video, pe...

In recent years, there has been a rise in diverse racial representation on television. In particular, Black characters have become more actualized ...

Reducere. After his acclaimed and best-selling Finishing the Hat (named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010), Stephen Sondheim returns with the s...

In 1972, while living in London, Gruyaert created the striking seriesTV Shots by turning the dial on a television set at random and photographing t...

Unbuttoned: The Art and Artists of Theatrical Costume Design documents the creative journey of costume creation from concept to performance. Each c...

As the movie and music industries have changed, film scoring has become an overwhelmingly independent process. Film composers have more responsibil...

Reducere. Lauer Series in Rhetoric and CompositionSeries Editors: Thomas Rickert and Jennifer BayThe scholars in FEMINIST CIRCULATIONS: RHETORICAL EXPLORATIO...

Reducere. "A film comedy is assembled with the same precision as the inner working of a watch." With his trademark porkpie hat, floppy shoes, and deadpan fac...

Reducere. An easily accessible introduction to Kristeva's work in English. The essays have been selected as representative of the three main areas of Kristev...

Reducere. DescriptionJim Henson was the creative force behind a huge catalog of television series, films, specials, and other productions, even excepting the...

Reducere. For the first time, Julia Collin Davison and Bridget Lancaster, the beloved stars of America's Test Kitchen and Cook's Country public television sh...

"Being Kevin Smith is my favorite thing in the world. . . . I don't have a job. I don't even have a career anymore. I'm just me for a living." Maki...

Reducere. Though he never reached the lead actor status he labored so relentlessly to achieve, Warren Oates (1928--1982) is one of the most memorable and ski...

Reducere. In 1994, historian Scott Allen Nollen published the critically acclaimed Robert Louis Stevenson: Life, Literature and the Silver Screen, the only v...

Like many aspects of the nation's history, its elections have had their share of behind the scenes activity and drama. This work is an examination ...

Reducere. DescriptionBrand new photo book going behind the scenes of the hit documentary film Woodstock Where were you in the summer of '69? During these tum...

Richard Gilman referred to How to Read a Film as simply -the best single work of its kind.- And Janet Maslin in The New York Times Book Review marv...

What are Monsters? Monsters are everywhere, from cyberbullies online to vampires onscreen: the twenty-first century is a monstrous age. The root of...

About the AuthorDon Troiani is well known for his extremely accurate historical and military paintings, scenes of great characters and grand action...

Reducere. Meg is an "intuitarian", passionate plant-pusher, natural foods chef, yogi, inspirational speaker, retired TV director, cookbook author, and eating...

Reducere. From sapphire, mammy, and jezebel, to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured h...

Reducere. First published in 1973, this follow-up to Alistair Cooke's acclaimed 1972 television documentary series America: A Personal History of the United ...

DescriptionDetectives Ruth Lake and Greg Carver, introduced in the electrifying Splinter in the Blood, must stop a serial killer whose victims are ...

Envy, irritation, paranoia--in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated ...

Reducere. Would you like to have better solutions to your problems? Struggling to understand why things went wrong when you did everything right? Learn to Th...

Reducere. Innovative film and theater director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915-1985) was the last true Re...

Reducere. It's 1971, and the Naval Investigate Service, or "NIS" as it's better known, is nothing like the NCIS of present-day television. There are no cell ...

Colonel March of Scotland Yard was a British made television series that ran from 1954-56 starring Boris Karloff, who played Colonel March, a detec...

Reducere. About the AuthorHolding a Ph. D. from Columbia University, Elizabeth K. Wallace has taught British literature and culture at Boston College for mor...

Reducere. A talented young dancer and his brilliant teacher In this long-awaited memoir, dancer and choreographer John Clifford offers a highly personal look...

Reducere. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded ...

There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. Jos Esteban Mu oz looks at how those outside the raci...

DescriptionSurely America's greatest storyteller, no single author has been adapted more regularly than Stephen King. With 65 existing movies and 3...

Reducere. The first biography of a great television writer and the story of his magnum opus In early 1957, a low-budget black-and-white movie opened across t...

DescriptionFor fans of Let's Pretend This Never Happened and I Heart My Little A-Holes comes a candid and hilarious collection of essays on motherh...

The first in a thrilling new series from Emmy Award-winning journalist Tamron Hall, in which a reporter unravels the disturbing mystery around the ...

Reducere. The creator of numerous television workshops on investment opportunities offers tips and easy strategies for building wealth, covering topics such ...

Reducere. Breaking the Glass CeilingThis book gives readers a glimpse into the thoughts of a strong Black woman whose humble but auspicious beginning in life...

Reducere. Dramatica: A New Theory of Story is the definitive guide to the most profoundly original and complete paradigm of story since Aristotle wrote Poeti...

In Danielle Steel's riveting novel, three women raised by their father on a sprawling California ranch now confront difficult truths about their pa...

Color television, transistors, lasers, digital memory, computers, liquid-crystal displays, medical electronics, and digital video-these technologie...

Reducere. "Story Line: Finding Gold in Your Life Story" is a practical and spiritual guide to drawing upon your own story and fictionalizing it into your wri...

Reducere. DescriptionOn May 20, 2015, Dave said, "Thank you and goodnight." The Foo Fighters sang "Everlong, " and Late Show with David Letterman ended its r...

DescriptionCharlotte Bronte: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Br...

"Music is part of my oxygen, Without it I would dry up" Mention the name Carly Simon to some people and they will probably think of one song in par...

Reducere. Bible John killed three women, and took three souvenirs. Johnny Bible killed to steal his namesake's glory. Oilman Allan Mitchelson died for his pr...

Reducere. DescriptionA hypnotizing work of historical fiction that stars 1920s magician Charles the Great, a young master performer whose skill as an illusio...

DescriptionIn a post-war, post-crash, post-disaster, post-everything world, the environmental-action trawler Kapital scours the earth's oceans for ...

Reducere. For 3, 000 years, the woman known as Helen of Troy has been both the ideal symbol of beauty and a reminder of the terrible power beauty can wield.I...

Truman Locke is a television executive. His job - to seek out extraordinary people and stories to put on TV - gives him a licence for adventure; fr...

Reducere. Cousin Bette (1846) is a novel by French author Honor de Balzac. Part of Balzac's La Com die humaine sequence, the novel is recognized as being the...

Reducere. Welcome to the world of that archetypal American, Reuben Lucius Goldberg, the dean of American cartoonists for most of the twentieth century. For m...

Reducere. Equal parts romance and gothic novel, this engrossing tale of unrequited love, musical genius, and physical deformity has been the basis for many a...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Life of a Wannabe Mogul: Mental Disarray, Bella Thorne's collection of illuminating and inspiring poems chronicles her personal stru...

Reducere. "A seductive page-turner" about a murderously ambitious cable-news star by the New York Times-bestselling author of Labor Day (The New York Times B...

DescriptionLouise Brooks, the Persistent Star brings together 15 years work by Thomas Gladysz, the Director of the Louise Brooks Society. Gathered ...

"Jess Phoenix's work encompasses science and representation in such a delightful melding that it could only come from as spry and playful a soul as...

DescriptionFeaturing a foreword from legendary director Martin Scorcese, Woodstock: Interviews and Recollections combines stories, anecdotes, and p...

DescriptionAn incredible memoir from Sharon Robinson about one of the most important years of the civil rights movement. In January 1963, Sharon Ro...

Reducere. An inspiring life story about the difficulties in breaking patterns, handling and understanding your emotions, and finding the way back to yourself...

Every unpacked frontline is one cutting edge of an economic system and political ideology that is destroying life on earth. Revealing our ecosystem...

Reducere. DescriptionWould you like to have better solutions to your problems? Struggling to understand why things went wrong when you did everything right? ...

Reducere. DescriptionGold Medal: Best Mystery Novel, Readers' Favorite...Silver Medal: Best Novel (Pacific), IPPY Awards......Gold Award: Benjamin Franklin A...

DescriptionIn this provocative work, Alvin H. Rosenfeld contends that the proliferation of books, films, television programs, museums, and public c...

Reducere. There is no such thing as a poor memory--only a trained or untrained one. Harry Lorayne proves it by showing that anyone can accomplish amazing mem...

Reducere. All your students can shine thanks to the flexible casting options provided in Readers' Theater, Grade 3. To support struggling readers, cast two o...

Reducere. Andy Rooney is a classic chronicler of America and her foibles. Over more than six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Rooney has tol...

Sam Adams loved intelligence work, and that enthusiasm shines throughout this memoir of his years with the Central Intelligence Agency. His career ...