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This guide has been completely updated with all of the latest technological advances to provide an exciting, alternative approach to teaching first-year television production to high school students.

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"Tehachapi Wildlife" is a unique collection of animal and landscape photographs taken by Randy Weinstein on his property in the Tehachapi Mountains of California. Shot over a period of seven years, this book contains photos of the area's most popular animals, including deer, elk, bobcats and condors, as well as beautiful sunsets & landscapes.

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Interviews with some of America's leading cultural TV directors, surveying five decades of American TV. The directors describe the challenge of translating works created for one medium to another and explore their collaborations with great artists of our time.

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Using theories of visual culture, media technology, globalization and gender studies supplemented by visual images and interviews. Huike Wen explores Chinese television history in the pivotal decade of the 1980s from the cultural studies viewpoint and explains the intellectual reception of television in China during the 1980s.

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"Rose presents a comprehensive historical explanation of the related changes in television and in the four performing arts. . . . Highly recommended for both culture students and enthusiasts of the performing arts." Library Journal

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This book analyzes the ways in which television dramas allow audiences to vicariously experience fantasy-indulging, escapism-satisfying, and reality-reckoning stories. Contributors discuss how our innate desire to tell human stories both binds us together and motivates us to persevere as a community on a global scale.

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Anderson provides an unprecedented probe into the inner workings of the quiz shows. He details their honest beginnings and explains how the practice of supplying answers grew out of a desire to keep popular contestants on the air as long as possible to boost ratings.

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Each chapter in the student text features: learning objectives, vocabulary, topic discussion, review questions, student project plans, evaluation sheets, and extension activities. The two earlier student books (for beginning and advanced students) have been combined into one student text.

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Each chapter in the student text features: learning objectives, vocabulary, topic discussion, review questions, student project plans, evaluation sheets, and extension activities. The two earlier student books (for beginning and advanced students) have been combined into one student text.

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Burns and Thompson help to remedy the lack of a forum for current research on television by bringing together, in this volume, some of the best recent research in television studies.

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The author discusses, for each sitcom, the features of its major female characters, including their appearance, work, and education, female friends, relationships with men, and other social issues that have made the situation comedy a powerful lens through which to view 20th-century feminist subjects.

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A towering figure of television news recounts his adventures in broadcast journalism, from TV's earliest days through the controversies and challenges that face the news business today.

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A fully updated and revised edition of the classic album-by-album, song-by-song study of the Beatles

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Tempesta is the stormy musical language employed whenever a composer wishes to inspire terror in an audience. This study explores the large repertoire of such music to examine programmatic storm depictions and the idea of tempesta as a topic in instrumental music.

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Tempesta is the stormy musical language employed whenever a composer wishes to inspire terror in an audience. This study explores the large repertoire of such music to examine programmatic storm depictions and the idea of tempesta as a topic in instrumental music.

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Deals with Precisionism and its ten leading practitioners: George Ault, Peter Blume, Ralston Crawford, Charles Demuth, Preston Dickinson, O. Louis Guglielmi, Louis Lozowick, Morton L. Schamberg, Charles Sheeler and Niles Spencer. Each artist is the subject of a chapter with a biographical sketch.

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Combines aesthetic and cultural insights with a variety of illustrations to make a statement about Chinese art and society.

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Discusses Malick's films as individual objects, as a corpus, within contemporary film studies, and within a wider cultural discussion.

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Grounded in film studies, philosophical inquiry, and the emerging field of scholarship that combines the two disciplines, this title discusses Terrence Malick's films as individual objects, as a corpus, within contemporary film studies, and within a wider cultural discussion.