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  • Story

    Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

    by Robert McKee ...
    Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development executives and agents all flock to his lecture series ... Read more

    10,06 €

  • Xena: Their Courage Changed Our World

    Xena: Warrior Princess is a cult classic starring Lucy Lawless & Renee O'Connor. September 04, 2020 is the 25th Anniversary of a show that changed lives forever. A phenomenal fandom - the Xenaverse - was born at the birth of the internet. It set the standard for all other fandoms to follow! Celebrate with us and discover the rich tapestry of the Xenaverse.It has taken an Amazon Village to produce ... Read more

    8,49 €

  • Digital Culture Unplugged

    Probing the Native Cyborg’s Multiple Locations

    Edited by Nalini Rajan ...
    This edited volume is an exploration of the many different ways in which contemporary society negotiates digital technologies and media in South Asia. It especially focuses on cyber-religion, the notion of self-formation and digital technology, urban cybercultural phenomenon, digital era in cinema and photography that represent an eclectic mix o ... Read more

    30,52 €

  • Upstairs and Downstairs

    British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey

    The international success of Downton Abbey has led to a revived interest in period dramas, with older programs like The Forsyte Saga being rediscovered by a new generation of fans whose tastes also include grittier fare like Ripper Street. Though often criticized as a form of escapist, conservative nostalgia, these shows can also provide a lens to examine the class and gender politics of both the ... Read more

    90,30 €

  • Kiss Your Television

    by Ben Baker ...
    An new anthology of telly tales and broadcast bimbling from semi-professional "TV rememberist" Ben Baker, author of "Christmas Was Better In The 80s" and "The Dreams We Had As Children: Children's ITV and Me". A celebration of the past and a desperate search for something in the present with retrospectives on the lost art of teatime television, Jasper Carrott and the excitement live TV, the failed ... Read more

    6,99 €

  • Back to the Vortex

    The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who 2005

    by J Shaun Lyon ...
    The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who 2005The adventures in time and space continue, as the Doctor and his faithful companion Rose Tyler travel time and space fighting evil, righting wrongs and saving the course of history.This is the ultimate guide to the first series of 21st Century Doctor Who: an archive of information, analysis and commentary, from the press to the production to ... Read more

    6,09 €

  • Twin Peaks FAQ

    All That's Left to Know About a Place Both Wonderful and Strange

    by David Bushman ...
    Series series FAQ
    Twin Peaks, the infamously strange, seductive, and confounding murder mystery that made network television safe for surrealism, is returning to the small screen after 25 years. Created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, the series enjoys a hallowed standing in popular culture and remains a touchstone in the evolution of TV as an artistic medium. For its many intensely devoted fans, Twin Peaks ... Read more

    14,94 €

  • And ... Action: My Life in Television

    by Andrew Morgan ...
    ‘When the location filming came to an end, there was a party in the unit hotel and we were entertained by Sylvester playing the spoons. He was brilliant and JNT immediately wanted to put it in the script and sure enough a pair of alien spoons appeared in the Rani’s laboratory which Sylvester proceeded to play all over the Rani. ’Andrew Morgan has enjoyed an amazing career in television. From AFM ... Read more

    6,72 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Television Westerns

    Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders

    Westerns have featured prominently in films almost since motion pictures were first produced at the end of the nineteenth century and when televisions invaded American homes in the late 1940s and early '50s, Western programs filled the small screen landscape. Throughout the 1950s and well into the 1960s, these shows dominated television with such long-running successes as Bonanza, Wagon Train, and ... Read more

    57,23 €

  • How To Win Game Shows

    Winning Tips, Tactics And Strategies From Game Show Producers, Hosts, Writers... and Champions!

    by Stephen Hall ...
    Do you dream of competing on a game show?The excitement! The cash! The fabulous prizes!What if there was a resource that compiled all the most powerful game show tips and hints – from both sides of the camera - in one place?Now there is. Two-time game show champion Stephen Hall has been blogging at HowToWinGameShows.com since 2013, where he's distilled all of his own best game show winning tips, ... Read more

    3,49 €

  • A Research Guide to Film and Television Music in the United States

    Unlike traditional music, film music sources are often difficult to locate and do not follow the patterns that researchers are trained to identify. Although there have been several self-described introductions to the field and articles that summarize the problems and state of research, there is no resource that gathers together all of the basic information that is vital to film music research. In ... Read more

    57,23 €

  • Something In the Darkness

    The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Torchwood Series Two

    Series Book 2 - Torchwood
    Torchwood. Protecting the Earth against alien threats in the 21st Century – the time when everything changes.A Doctor Who spin-off created by Russell T Davies and starring John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness, Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper, Burn Gorman as Owen Harper, Naoko Mori as Toshiko Sato andGareth David-Lloyd as Ianto Jones, Torchwood is a high-octane sci-fi thriller, full of adventure, ... Read more

    4,92 €

  • TV Geek

    The Den of Geek Guide for the Netflix Generation

    by Simon Brew ...
    Essential nerdtastic reading! - Jason IssacsFrom the author of Den of Geek, this is the ultimate, nerdy television guide for TV geeks everywhere!TV Geek recounts the fascinating stories of cult-classic series, reveals the nerdy Easter eggs hidden in TV show sets, and demonstrates the awe-inspiring power of fandom, which has even been known to raise TV series from the dead.Includes:- How th... ... Read more

    4,49 €

  • It's... The Little Guide to Monty Python

    by OH ...
    Made from the paper of the mightiest tree in a forest and cut to size with a herring, this Little Guide to Monty Python may be only-ever-so slightly bigger than one of Mr Creosote's wafer-sized mints, but it's packed with enough preposterous comedy power to keep Pythonites stuffed with laughter until breakfast.Monty Python, of course, do not require an introduction. Python are the UK's original ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television

    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    Australians have become increasingly visible outside of the country as speakers and actors in radio and television, their media moguls have frequently bought up foreign companies, and people around the world have been able to enjoy such Australian productions as The Flying Doctors, Neighbours, and Kath and Kim. The origins, early development, and later adaptations of radio and television show how ... Read more

    42,28 €

  • Ghost Signals

    The Shadowlands Of British Analogue Television 1968-1995

    Exploring the Haunted Airwaves Before the ubiquity of streaming, British television was a landscape with room for strange experiments, folk-horror nightmares, and "wyrd" transmissions. Today, many of these programmes have vanished from official channels, leaving behind only "ghost signals": a shadowland of terrestrial TV hidden in plain sight across the unmediated and unmarketed corners of the ... Read more

    5,29 €

  • Behind the Laughter

    Join Loose Women's Sherrie Hewson on her rollercoaster ride through the laughter, tears and tantrums of an extraordinary life lived on and off the screen.Sherrie Hewson is one of Britain's best loved telly stars. From her dazzling performances in the Carry On films to Russ Abbott's Madhouse, to her favourite character Maureen Holdsworth in Coronation Street to the green hills of Emmerdale, Sherrie ... Read more

    8,05 €

  • Closed Captioning

    Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television

    Series series Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
    This engaging study traces the development of closed captioning—a field that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s from decades-long developments in cinematic subtitling, courtroom stenography, and education for the deaf. Gregory J. Downey discusses how digital computers, coupled with human mental and physical skills, made live television captioning possible. Downey's survey includess the hidden ... Read more

    44,72 €

  • Encyclopedia of Television Miniseries, 1936-2020

    In 1936, as television networks CBS, DuMont, and NBC experimented with new ways to provide entertainment, NBC deviated from the traditional method of single experimental programs to broadcast the first multi-part program, Love Nest, over a three-episode arc. This would come to be known as a miniseries. Although the term was not coined until 1954, several other such miniseries were broadcast, ... Read more

    44,83 €

  • Seinfeld

    Seasons 1 -5. An Episode Guide

    by Stephen Lambe ...
    When the final episode of Seinfeld aired on 14 May 1998, an amazing 76.3 million Americans tuned in, making it the most popular situation comedy is US television history. Co-created by Larry David, this 'comedy about nothing' made celebrities of its four stars: stand up comedian Jerry Seinfeld; comedian and actor Michael Richards who played eccentric neighbour Kramer; Julia Louis-Dreyfus who ... Read more

    Was 4,99 € Now 0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Manual de Flujo de Trabajo Multipista

    del sonido directo a la postproducción

    by Ramiro Fierro ...
    ESTA VERSIÓN ES SOLO PARA WINDOWS Y ANDROID. PARA OBTENER LA VERSIÓN PARA EQUIPOS APPLE DIRÍJASE A LA TIENDA DE LIBROS DE APPLE.Junto a los avances tecnológicos que se han presentado en los últimos años en el sonido cinematográfico, han surgido nuevas necesidades en cuanto a modos de trabajo para la grabación de sonido en el set y para el manejo de la información digital a lo largo de la cadena de ... Read more

    Free

  • Lady Mary Crawley and Matthew Crawley Esq.

    Series Book 1 - Downton Abbey Shorts
    This richly illustrated short, extracted from the official book The Chronicles of Downton Abbey, focuses on the characters individually, examining their motivations, their actions and the inspirations behind them. Forwarded by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes.‘There’s an independence about Mary,” says Michelle Dockery, the actress who plays her. “She’s not influenced by anyone and she’s very ... Read more

    1,88 €

  • Doctor Who: Dalek Combat Training Manual

    Series series DOCTOR WHO
    Know your enemy.The Daleks are the most evil creatures ever created - genetically engineered mutants encased in a machine that is optimised to kill. They hate all other life forms and will stop at nothing to destroy those who stand in their way - their single-minded imperative? To become the dominant species in the universe.The Dalek Combat Training Manual collates intelligence gathered by Time ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television

    A Blow-by-Blow History from 1921 to 1964

    Radio and television broadcasting were as important to the growth and popularity of boxing as it was to the reshaping of our very culture. In The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television, Frederick V. Romano explores the many roles that each medium played in both the development and the depiction of the sport. Principal among the topics covered are the ever-changing role of technology during ... Read more

    30,93 €