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Investigating Alias : Secrets and Spies
Stacey Abbott
Paperback - $49.95
First aired in 2001, "Alias" is a spy drama with a central action heroine, a complex narrative of moral twists, turns, lies and double-crosses, and an imaginative array of gadgets, gizmos and glamorous costumes. It has become a leading cult televisio ...
The History of Television, 1942 to 2000
Albert Abramson
Paperback - $159.95
This is the follow-up volume to The History of Television, 1880 to 1941. Chapters are devoted to television during World War II and the postwar era, the development of color television, Ampex Corporations contributions, television in Europe, the chan ...
Revolution Televised : Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power
Christine Acham
Paperback - $42.95
After a decade-long hiatus, African-Americans once again began appearing regularly on television in the 1960s. This book deftly illustrates how black television artists operated within the constraints of the television industry to resist and ultimate ...
Inventing Late Night : Steve Allen and the Original Tonight Show
Ben Alba
Hardcover - $46.95
Basing his work on exclusive interviews, Alba has produced a wonderful history of the first "Tonight" show, complete with terrific photos and revealing insights from more than 30 legends who knew and worked with Steve Allen.
A TV Guide to Life : How I Learned Everything I Needed to Know from Watching Television
Jeff Alexander
Paperback - $23.95
Reading Csi : Crime TV Under the Microscope
Michael Allen
Paperback - $26.95
Taking a scalpel to the "CSI" juggernaut
Channels of Discourse, Reassembled : Television and Contemporary Criticism
Robert C. Allen
Paperback - $56.95
Since its original publication in 1987, Channels of Discourse has provided the most comprehensive consideration of commercial television, drawing on insights provided by contemporary criticism: semiotics, narrative theory, reception theory, genre the ...
Global Television and the Shaping of World Politics : CNN, Telediplomacy, and Foreign Policy
Royce J. Ammon
Paperback - $75.95
In 1995, United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said of the Cable News Network, "CNN is the sixteenth member of the [15 member United Nations] Security Council." Scholars as well as diplomats have recognized the existence of a link be ...
Consumer Culture and TV Programming
Robin K. Andersen
Paperback - $96.95
To what extent does the advertising industry control what we see on TV? What is the political and cultural environment that provides for the phenomenon of the corporate shaping of the mass media?Robin