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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

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  • The Chronicles of Downton Abbey (Official Series 3 TV tie-in)

    by Jessica Fellowes, Matthew Sturgis ...
    The official companion to all three seasons.The Great War has ended, but Downton Abbey is far from peaceful…A changing world has brought new challenges and new guests. Inside the walls of the Great House there is more intrigue, rivalry and romance than ever.The Chronicles of Downton Abbey take you deep into the lives of the Crawleys, their servants, lovers, friends and guests. So wander the ... Read more

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  • The Forensic Psychology of Criminal Minds

    by Katherine Ramsland ...
    The bestselling author of The Forensic Science of C.S.I. examines the real-life cases behind the hit television series Criminal MindsWeek after week, the hit TV show Criminal Minds gives viewers a look inside the psyches of the fictional serial killers tracked by the BAU (Behavioral Analysis Unit). This elite team of FBI agents travels the country assisting law enforcement officials by examining ... Read more

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  • The War for Late Night

    When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy

    by Bill Carter ...
    Bill Carter, executive producer of CNN’s docuseries The Story of Late Night and host of the Behind the Desk: Story of Late Night podcast, details the chaotic transition of The Tonight Show from host Jay Leno to Conan O’Brien—and back again.In 2010, NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker, had it all worked out when he moved Jay Leno from behind the desk at The Tonight Show, and handed the reins over to Conan O ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Television Westerns

    Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders

    by Alvin H. Marill ...
    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

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  • Torchwood Declassified

    Investigating Mainstream Cult Television

    Edited by Rebecca Williams ...
    Series series Investigating Cult TV
    Torchwood started its life on television as a spin-off from Doctor Who, bringing Captain Jack to join new colleagues in a television series that quickly established itself as fresh and watchable television. It's fourth series, subtitled 'Miracle Day', continued its move from the niche channel of BBC3 to metamorphose into an international production between the BBC and the US network Starz. ... Read more

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  • The A to Z of African-American Television

    by Kathleen Fearn-Banks ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    From Amos 'n' Andy to The Jeffersons to Family Matters to Chappelle's Show, this volume covers it all with entries on all different genres-animation, documentaries, sitcoms, sports, talk shows, and variety shows-and performers such as Muhammad Ali, Louis Armstrong, Bill Cosby, and Oprah Winfrey. Additionally, information can be found on general issues, ranging from African American audiences and ... Read more

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  • Conversa com Bial em casa

    Os 70 anos da TV brasileira em tempos de internet e isolamento social

    by Pedro Bial, Glória Maria, Laura Carvalho, Armínio Fraga, Paulo Gustavo, Xuxa Meneghel, Gilberto Gil, Ary Fontoura, Daniel Filho, Lima Duarte, Betty Faria, Glória Pires, Ricardo Darín, Alceu Valença, David Wilson, Caetano Veloso, Eliane Dias, Silvio Almeida, Luiza Brunet, Ruy Castro, Bruno Mazzeo, Antonio Prata, William Bonner, Luiza Trajano, Paulinho da Viola, Zico ...
    No momento em que a TV brasileira completa 70 anos, o mundo se isola para se proteger contra a covid-19, declarada pandemia pela OMS em março de 2020. E quando as autoridades pedem para todos ficarem em casa, a televisão, o cinema, a música e o teatro assumem um importante papel na nova rotina das pessoas. Os conteúdos são reformulados e adaptados, antecipando uma tendência que já dava sinais de ... Read more

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  • Storia sociale della televisione in Italia

    1954-1969

    by Damiano Garofalo ...
    Il volume analizza il consumo di televisione tra le classi popolari nell'Italia degli anni cinquanta e sessanta. Coincidendo con gli anni del cosiddetto “miracolo economico”, questo periodo offre un’incredibile opportunità per provare a elaborare un primo tentativo di storia sociale della televisione italiana. Partendo dalle origini delle trasmissioni (1954) fino ad arrivare alla fine decennio ... Read more

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  • Closed Captioning

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

    by Gregory J. Downey ...
    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

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  • Film and Television Collections in Europe - the MAP-TV Guide

    Edited by Daniela Kirchner ...
    The MAP-TV Guide to film and television collections in Europe provides detailed information on almost 2,000 sources and archives of film and television in over forty European countries. This authoritative volume includes: the title listing of each collection both in English and the local language; research information; a subject and keyword index; an introduction to the collections in each country ... Read more

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  • A Question of Sport Quiz Book

    by BBC Sport ...
    After more than four decades on the air, A Question of Sport is firmly established as the final word in sports trivia. Now, after countless arguments, sporting debates and lost hours spent directing the action from the sofa, you can finally test your own knowledge to see if you can succeed where so many sporting greats have failed.With over 3,500 brand new questions, A Question of Sport Quiz Book ... Read more

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  • The Golden Age of Pantomime

    Slapstick, Spectacle and Subversion in Victorian England

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century. It remains as true today as it was in the 1830s, that a visit to the pantomime constitutes the first theatrical experience of most children and now, as then, a successful pantomime season is the key to the financial health of most theatres. Everyone ... Read more

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  • Television Series of the 1950s

    Essential Facts and Quirky Details

    by Vincent Terrace ...
    Often regarded as the first golden era of television, the 1950s was a decade when many classic programs—from I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke to The Honeymooners and Perry Mason, among others—made their debuts. Even after these shows departed the airwaves, they lived on in syndication, entertaining several generations of viewers. Devoted and casual fans alike can probably remember basic facts about these ... Read more

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  • Friends Secrets: 236 Episodes, Thousands of Facts

    by Dennis Bjorklund ...
    Friends Secrets: 236 Episodes, Thousands of Facts is written by an authoritative expert who penned the most comprehensive reference book ever written on the series—Friends Behind the Scenes: Backstage Pass to the Series, A Comprehensive History. The follow-up effort, Friends Secrets, is the best source for insider facts and never-before-revealed tidbits about the sitcom that industry experts have ... Read more

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  • You're On!

    The Broadcast Presentation Handbook

    by Alec Sabin ...
    More of us are appearing on the media these days simply because there is more of it about. Radio, TV, YouTube, podcasts, webcasts – you name it – have voracious appetites and their cheap fast food is you and me. Yet more of us want to appear on the media as practised professionals, whether as TV or radio presenter, journalist, or simply guest interviewee on a show.In this brand new edition of You ... Read more

    PHP300.00

  • Todos los hombres deben morir

    La épica historia oficial de cómo se hizo Juego de tronos

    by James Hibberd ...
    La épica historia oficial, avalada por HBO, de cómo se hizo la exitosa serie de televisión Juego de tronos.« Todo está aquí: cómo comenzó, cómo terminó, dragones y lobos huargos, lo que pasó delante de las cámaras y entre bambalinas, los triunfos y tropiezos, las decisiones difíciles, las encrucijadas, los porqués. Actores, directores, showrunners, productores, ejecutivos e incluso a mí... Todos ... Read more

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  • Encyclopedia of Television Miniseries, 1936-2020

    by Vincent Terrace ...
    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

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  • Hamish Macbeth: The Making of a BBC TV Classic

    by Jonathan Melville ...
    Welcome to the Wild West of ScotlandIn 1995, BBC One's Hamish Macbeth broke all the rules of Sunday night TV. Set in the picture-postcard Highlands of Scotland, this genre-defying drama brought cannibalism and ceilidhs, marijuana and murder, love triangles and lobster tanks to millions of viewers each week.With Robert Carlyle starring as the laid-back lawman who preferred poaching to paperwork, ... Read more

    PHP615.37

  • Star Trek FAQ (Unofficial and Unauthorized)

    Everything Left to Know About the First Voyages of the Starship Enterprise

    by Mark Clark ...
    Series series FAQ
    This book is not endorsed, sponsored, or affiliated with CBS Studios Inc., Paramount Pictures, or the “Star Trek” franchise. Star Trek FAQ tells the complete story of Star Trek, from the before the beginning (the books, films, and TV shows that inspired producer Gene Roddenberry to create Star Trek) until after the end (when the show emerged as a cultural phenomenon in syndication), and including ... Read more

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  • THE STORY OF NED BEATTY: A SUMMARIZED BIOGRAPHY

    ‘Deliverance’ & ‘Network’, Superman and Toy Story Actor Dies at 83.

    by SANDRA THOMAS ...
    Ned Thomas Beatty was brought into the world in Louisville, Kentucky, to Margaret (Fortney) and Charles William Beatty. He grew up fishing and chipping away at ranches. His old neighborhood of St. Matthews, Kentucky, is not really the climate to energize a profession in media outlets, however, so when inquired, "How could you get into the entertainment biz?" Beatty reacted, "By spending time with ... Read more

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  • Call the Midwife

    Im Schatten der Armenhäuser. Eine wahre Geschichte aus dem Londoner East End

    by Jennifer Worth ...
    Translated by Tobias Rothenbücher ...
    Das Londoner East End, Ende der fünfziger Jahre: Als junge Hebamme leistet Jennifer Worth zusammen mit ihren Kolleginnen Geburtshilfe im Armenviertel der Stadt. Stets konfrontiert mit der prekären Lage der Menschen, die täglich spüren, das Schlusslicht der Gesellschaft zu sein: Armut, Schmutz, Krankheiten und Verfall prägen das Bild. Inmitten dieses Elends kümmern sich die Hebammen und Schwestern ... Read more

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  • Yes, Chef. The Bear Cookbook: Season 2, Unofficial

    The Bear Cookbooks, #2

    by Hank Finnegan ...
    Series Book 2 - The Bear Cookbooks
    Every second counts.We love The Bear and reckoned some others may too. Hank wrote the Season One cookbook as a gift for his brother and sister; seemed like there was some appetite to see the recipes, restaurants, book recommendations, soundtrack and travel tips from Season Two.Is this associated with the FX and Hulu hit? Nope! It's totally unofficial and only exists because the real deal does not. ... Read more

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