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Other children had imaginary friends; I had a fictional mother, a siren from the southern hemisphere.

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This guide provides biographical essays, complete with bibliographies, on 100 of the best-known and loved British actors and actresses. Not only are serious dramatic actors and actresses to be found here, but also the great comedy stars, including Benny Hill and John Inman.

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This collection interrogates how sound/image aesthetics can enhance our critical appreciation of television, with reference to a range of television programming, including episodic series and serial dramas, sitcoms, science fiction, animation, horror, thrillers and period dramas.

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Sports dominate the television landscape, and the demand for more is so great that pay and cable networks continue to find funding and success, even when devoted exclusively to a single sport. This title covers the changing relationship between live sports broadcasts and television dramas.

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For half a century, television spies have been trained professionals, reluctant heroes, housewives, businessmen, criminals, and comedians.

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This book deals with a wide range of 'high-end', expensive and high concept, TV dramas from the UK and the USA and analyses the compositional principles of texts (technologies, institutions, economics, cultrual trends). Drama examined include Oz, Buried Carnivale, Blackpool, The Sopranos, Shameless, and Shooting the Past. -- .

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This collection interrogates and overturns the typical hierarchies of substance over style, renegotiating their relationship through new perspectives and with reference to a range of television programming, including series and serial dramas, sitcoms, science-fiction, animation, horror, thrillers and period dramas.

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The definitive history of a golden age in British show-business, Sunshine On Putty is based on hundreds of interviews with the leading comedians of the era, as well as managers, agents, producers, directors, executives and TV personalities.

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A collection of ten interviews with directors of television programmes, each a specialist in a different field, providing a diversity that ranges from Hollywood to New York. Their insights help explain the degree to which the director's involvement is determined by the types of programme required.

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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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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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"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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Offers an approach to the study of television. This title views television's history and reception not only through important articles about the medium, but also through analyzing how Hollywood auteur cinema has commented on television over the decades, in films such as "Tootsie", "Network", "The Last Picture Show", and "A Face in the Crowd".

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Offers an approach to the study of television. This title views television's history and reception not only through important articles about the medium, but also through analyzing how Hollywood auteur cinema has commented on television over the decades, in films such as "Tootsie", "Network", "The Last Picture Show", and "A Face in the Crowd".

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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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This is the first detailed study of the rich vein of mockumentary television programmes, covering series such as The Larry Sanders Show, The Daily Show, and the British and American versions of The Office to discuss how producers have experimented with mockumentary as a distinctive approach to storytelling. -- .

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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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An entertaining and illuminating celebration of televisual history by cultural historian Phil Norman

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The first academic study of the science fiction television of Terry Nation, inventor of the Daleks, and author of 'Survivors' and 'Blake's 7' - places his work in the context of its production, and contains sustained analysis of key programmes, as well as new interview material. -- .

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This book explores how news and information about the conflict in Northern Ireland was disseminated through the most accessible, powerful and popular form of media: television. -- .