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The definitive history of punk, told by one of punk's most knowledgeable experts.

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Prime time soaps are often revered long after their runs on television have ended, as Dallas, Twin Peaks, and Beverly Hills 90210 readily demonstrate. Prime Time Soaps covers all the major shows, and also investigates all the ways that soaps have contributed to the development of more general television trends.

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Intended for those interested in the history of television, this book focuses on programming: the shows, their producers, the genres, the trends, and the influences. Beginning with an examination of radio's influence on early television, it covers almost all major developments - technological, aesthetic, and cultural - in the medium.

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Documentary filmmaker Fadiman chronicles her more than 30 years of experience searching out practical approaches to get her productions funded, finished, and seen, balancing inspiration and commitment with financing, shooting, editing, and promotion.

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Programme Notes is a collection of commissioned essays, case studies and interviews reflecting the exciting and complex relationships between 'mainstream' stages and 'experimental' theatre practices.

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Focuses on the development of television within the cultural context that surrounds it. Drawing on quiz shows, comedy hours, the Kennedy assassination, and more, this book reveals television's impact on characteristics of American life. It considers the future of the medium in the light of the proliferation of programming options.

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By tracing the production history, contemporary audience response, and lasting cultural influence of each picture, Phillips offers a unique new approach to thinking about the popular attraction to horror films, and the ways in which they reflect both cultural and individual fears.

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By tracing the production history, contemporary audience response, and lasting cultural influence of each picture, Phillips offers a unique new approach to thinking about the popular attraction to horror films, and the ways in which they reflect both cultural and individual fears.

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A study of one scene in one movie: the shower scene from "Psycho". It shows how it may be the most significant and influential scene of all and substantiates this claim by providing chapters on the evolution of the scene in Hitchcock's career, with particular focus on his methods for creating suspense and terror in the audience.

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The book explores the full catalogue of the films produced by the Empire Marketing Board, General Post Office and Crown Film Units between 1930 and 1952. It identifies themes which both reflect the sponsors demands and the anxieties of the time as well as providing the foundations for the post-war Public Information Film.

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True Life detailed story of the life of one of Hip-Hops favorite artist, Big PUN

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Focusing on Sinatra's presence in the recording studio, this discography catalogues Frank Sinatra's commercial records, V-Discs, and soundtrack film recordings.

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Containing short stories, this title presents a romantic amalgam of elements drawn from fairy-tale and folklore, the fantastic and the society tale, serving didactic, satirical and whimsical purposes.