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  • A Tribute to The Golden Girls: From Sharing Cheesecake to Relaxing on the Lanai

    by M. A. Cassata ...
    Can't get enough of The Golden Girls? It's been 38 years since the show first aired and became an instant cult classic. Viewers quickly became enamored with the extraordinary cast of female characters.A Tribute to The Golden Girls: From Sharing Cheesecake to Relaxing on the Lanai is everything you need to know about Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche and Rose through trivia questions, fun facts, memorable ... Read more

    $7.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Her Stories

    Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History

    by Elana Levine ...
    Series series Console-ing Passions
    Since the debut of These Are My Children in 1949, the daytime television soap opera has been foundational to the history of the medium as an economic, creative, technological, social, and cultural institution. In Her Stories, Elana Levine draws on archival research and her experience as a longtime soap fan to provide an in-depth history of the daytime television soap opera as a uniquely gendered ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Doctor Who: Whotopia

    Welcome to the Whoniverse. First stop: everywhere.Six decades may only be a handful of heartbeats to a Time Lord, but for Doctor Who it's the adventure of several lifetimes. Evolving over 60 years, the world's longest-running sci-fi TV show has gifted us a universe of menacing monsters and unforgettable heroes. You might even call it a 'Whotopia'.Now you can roam free through the Doctor's ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Between The Laughs: Our Greatest Comedians Talk Seriously About Comedy and Each Other

    by Garry Berman ...
    Discover the gift behind the guffaws inside the minds of our greatest comedians. Through their words, as they discuss their profession, we learn how they feel about comedy, and about each other.The great comics of Vaudeville, silent movies, talkies and sound films, radio, TV, and stand-up deliver comments on various topics such as Comedy as Art, The Vaudevillians, The Silent Films Comedians, The ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Digital Filmmaking for Beginners A Practical Guide to Video Production

    Discover how to create professional-quality digital videos--faster than you can say "lights, camera, action"Digital video cameras are everywhere--even on our phones! But cameras don't make great movies; filmmakers do. Written by a seasoned pro with 40 years of teaching experience, Digital Filmmaking for Beginners is your fully illustrated introduction to all technical aspects of digital filmmaking ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Perpetual Outsider: An Unofficial, Unauthorised Fan Guide To Doctor Who: Vol 1 1963-1969

    Volume One of John Bensalhia's guide to the popular television series Doctor Who, charting the William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton eras. Includes story reviews, brief overviews of books, video and DVD releases, plus recording and transmission dates. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Comedy Writing Step by Step

    Revised and Updated with Words of Instruction, Encouragement, and Inspiration from Legends of the Comedy Profession

    by Gene Perret ...
    Three-time Emmy Award-winner Gene Perret's ""Comedy Writing Step by Step"" has been the manual for humor writers for 25 years. In this new book, his first update, Perret offers readers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a broad range of comedy writing situations, along with many all-important insights into the selling of one's work. Perret covers all aspects of comedy writing ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The New Female Antihero

    The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century US Television

    The New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television.The last ten years have seen a shift in television storytelling toward increasingly complex storylines and characters. In this study, Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman zoom in on a key figure in this transformation: the archetype of the female antihero. Far from the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Kindness and Wonder

    Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever

    by Gavin Edwards ...
    New York Times–bestselling Author: “A crisply told biography” of Fred Rogers that “vibrantly captures [his] spirit and wisdom.” —Publishers WeeklyFor more than thirty years, Fred Rogers was a beloved fixture in American homes. Warm and welcoming, he spoke directly to children—and their parents—about the marvels of the world, the things that worried them, and above all, the importance of being ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cinematography for Directors

    A Guide for Creative Collaboration

    Through interviews with current ASC cinematographers, and a balance between technical, aesthetic, and historical content, this book guides the director into a powerful collaboration with their closest on-set ally. Topics include selecting a cinematographer, collectively discussing the script, choosing an appropriate visual style for a film, color palette, film and digital formats, lenses, camera ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Colorblind Screen

    Television in Post-Racial America

    The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the realization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a defining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a “colorblind” racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals of integration and equal treatment without regard to race, in actuality this attitude serves to reify and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977

    by Joshua Glick ...
    Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958–1977 explores how documentarians working between the election of John F. Kennedy and the Bicentennial created conflicting visions of the recent and more distant American past. Drawing on a wide range of primary documents, Joshua Glick analyzes the films of Hollywood documentarians such as David Wolper and Mel Stuart, along with ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Stephen Colbert: Beyond Truthiness

    by Bruce Watson ...
    Stephen Colbert is far more than a comedian and improv genius. As head of his fanciful Colbert Nation, the quick-witted host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report has delighted fans with his wit, audacity, and innovative uses of language and the media. In this biography, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson, author of Jon Stewart: Beyond the Moments of Zen, charts Colbert's rise from boyhood ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hope, Grace, & Faith

    by Leah Messer ...
    Leah was first thrust under the reality television microscope when her teen pregnancy was documented on MTV’s groundbreaking series, 16 and Pregnant. Since then, fans of Teen Mom 2 have watched her life play out on the small screen—from her struggle to rise to the challenges of motherhood, through her harrowing journey to find a diagnosis for one of her twin girls with a rare form of muscular ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Underneath It All (La' Femme Fatale' Publishing)

    by Erica Mena ...
    I've gotten used to living behind mirrors and smoke screens, it's easier to portray an image for the world to see. When I m alone I am haunted by my truth. A girl who entered this world in a jail cell. A girl who was served struggle with a side of pain on a broken platter. A girl who was thrown into a tank with sharks deep in a world whose motto is to eat or be eaten. I can still see the dirt ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Always On Sunday: An Inside View of Ed Sullivan, the Beatles, Elvis, Sinatra & Ed's Other Guests

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!How The Beatles Came To AmericaFamous television Master of Ceremonies, Ed Sullivan first learns I have written a book about him and his show when I hand him a finished manuscript. Naively, I imagine he'll be flattered, but when he reads it, he's furious. I am revealing more about him, more backstage gossip and more details about the inner workings of the show than he ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Doctor Who

    A History

    by Alan Kistler ...
    Premiering the day after the JFK assassination, Doctor Who humbly launched one of the entertainment world’s first super-brands. We begin with a look at TV programming of the day and the original pitch documents before delving into the Daleks, which almost didn’t make the cut but inspired many monsters to follow. After three years, First Doctor William Hartnell left, prompting the BBC to recast ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Craft of Character: How to Create Deep and Engaging Characters Your Audience Will Never Forget

    Screenplay and fiction writing books

    by M Boutros ...
    “The most complete and comprehensive guide to character I've ever read." - Adam CroftCharacter is at the heart of every story. We love stories because we fall in love with characters, we want to see what happens to them and we want to see them experience hope and despair. Yet a lot of storytelling books focus on structure and plot, when those things are worthless without a character an audience ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Science of Storytelling

    Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better

    by Will Storr ...
    The compelling, groundbreaking guide to creative writing that reveals how the brain responds to storytellingStories shape who we are. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions and mold our beliefs. Storytelling is an essential part of what makes us human. So, how do master storytellers compel us? In The Science of Storytelling, award-winning writer and acclaimed teacher of creative writing ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rapid Story Development #5: The Moral Premise—How to Build a Bulletproof Narrative Engine for Any Story

    Rapid Story Development, #5

    by Jeff Lyons ...
    Series Book 5 - Rapid Story Development
    All the story experts talk about it. Screenwriters, novelists, short story writers—everyone—speaks about the importance of writing stories with a moral core, having characters who are flawed, creating heroes and heroines with relatable human foibles. But few if any of these experts talk about how to pull these things off in practice. The fact is, stories that lack a moral premise deliver flat, one ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Babylon 5 Asked & Answered: Centauri Excerpt - B5 Creator J. Michael Straczynski Answers 5,296 Questions About Babylon 5

    The title says it all -- In this FREE excerpt from the 5-part series, "Asked & Answered" J. Michael Straczynski answers questions about the alien race of the Centauri, from how long the average Centauri lives to what happened to the XON. ... Read more

    Free

  • A Dream Given Form

    The Unofficial Guide to the Universe of Babylon 5

    The only comprehensive critical guide to the beloved sci-fi phenomenonA Dream Given Form provides an accessible, comprehensive, and critical look at Babylon 5, one of the most groundbreaking series of all time. Nearly 20 years after the show ended, this indispensable companion not only covers all five seasons of Babylon 5, but also the feature-length TV movies, the spinoff series Crusade ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Perfectly Amanda: Gunsmoke's Miss Kitty

    More than just a typical biography, Perfectly Amanda is the story of Amanda Blake and the legendary character of Miss Kitty she portrayed on Gunsmoke. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Pop Culture Holiday Sampler The Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Buffy, Firefly, The Avengers, and More

    Sample chapters of the greatest fannish guides by Valerie Estelle Frankel: Every Canon Reference You May Have Missed in BBC’s Sherlock, Series 1-3. Guides to all the pop culture in Doctor Who along with background on the characters and top fan questions. There's a similar, incredibly popular guide to Game of Thrones, detailing the host of characters and their myriad of devilish agendas . Another ... Read more

    Free