Television Genre Book, Paperback - ***

Genre is central to understanding the industrial context and the visual form of television. This third edition of a key textbook brings together le...

Reducere. An anthology on film noir, this book contains early writings on the genre as well as more recent literature, some published here for the first time...

Reducere. Pearl Zane Grey (1872 -1939) was an American dentist and author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western...

With its focus on the popular television genre of Nordic noir, this book examines subtle and explicit manifestations of geopolitics in crime series...

Since the movie industry's earliest days, Hollywood has mythologized itself through stories of stardom. In the first book to focus exclusively on t...

Description Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics is a comprehensive exploration into the art and craft of directing for film and television. I...

"My very first grown-up book, I distinctly remember going to the library and my mom helping me pick out an Agatha Christie book. I tore through The...

DescriptionWhen it premiered in 2014, the first season of HBO's True Detective immediately became a pop-culture phenomenon. Created by Nic Pizzolat...

Now brought completely up to date, the new edition of this classic work on documentary films and filmmaking surveys the history of the genre from 1...

Reducere. This trade paperback edition is a fully annotated reprint of the 1928 publication by London, K. Paul Trench, Trubner. This book contains a detailed...

Reducere. A caveat is in order. This is not another feel-good, self-help book, containing the usual platitudes, clich truisms, and banal commonplace mantras,...

American culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality,...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tami D. CowdenAuthor: Caro LafeverAuthor: Sue VidersThe Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines reveals the sixteen ...

Reducere. DescriptionFor a brief period in the mid-1960s, the whole world went spy crazy. From Sri Lanka to Poland, from the US to India, cinemas were filled...

Reducere. The Man of the Forest combines many of the elements that have drawn millions of readers to Zane Grey's work for nearly a century - plucky heroines,...

Reducere. Breaking Bad (2008-2013), a remarkable synthesis of the crime film, the sitcom, the western, and the family melodrama, is a foundational example of...

Reducere. Back in print, a wry and moving . . . rare and minute accounting of growing up. (Time) Exiles is the story of two glamorous people--one, a beautifu...

Reducere. Live Life Aggressively What Self-Help Gurus Should Be Telling You is a much different take on the self-help genre. This book is a slap in the face ...

Reducere. DescriptionSecret, strange, dark, impure and dissonant... Enter the haunted landscapes of folk horror, a world of -pagan -village conspiracies, wit...

Reducere. Renowned for its unique visual style, Homicide: Life on the Street fundamentally changed the police procedural genre. The show broke records, featu...

Reducere. Tyce Greyson, a TV journalist and reporter, visits the Wailing Wall at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. He is confronted by a Jewish cleric while he ...