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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. -- .

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From the stage of the Grand Ole Opry to concert halls around the world, and on television'sHee HawandPrime Time Country, Cousin Minnie Pearl entertained fans and friends with her stories about Grinder's Switch and her jokes.

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Discusses the depiction of various issues facing the church of their times in programs such as "The Flying Nun (1967-1970)", "The Father Dowling Mysteries (1989-1990)", and "7th Heaven (1996-2007)". This title addresses the role of women in the church, clerics reconsidering their call, the sexuality of clerics, and the ecumenical movement.

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Chronicles the phenomenon of a television programme that has commanded first place in the ratings since its premier in 1984. This book provides detailed examination of the show's production, audience profiles, and international reviews and reactions to it.

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Now that television shows can live forever as DVD sets, the stories they can tell have changed; television episodes are now crafted as chapters in a season-long novel instead of free-standing stories. This book examines how this significant shift in storytelling occurred.

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Explores the wide range of ethical issues raised by reality TV and then questions whether the genre is ultimately good or harmful for society.

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Explores the wide range of ethical issues raised by reality TV and then questions whether the genre is ultimately good or harmful for society.

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This collection grounds contemporary anxieties about race and class, domesticity and American exceptionalism in its nineteenth-century setting through a close reading of the Deadwood series.

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This collection grounds contemporary anxieties about race and class, domesticity and American exceptionalism in its nineteenth-century setting through a close reading of the Deadwood series.

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From angels to demons, "The Mythology of Supernatural" explores the religious roots and the ancient folklore of the otherworldly entities that brothers Sam and Dean Winchester face on the hit television show "Supernatural"--and that have inhabited the shadows of human imagination across countless cultures and centuries.

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An unauthorized book that reveals all the mistakes and inconsistencies in each episode of the most successful syndicated TV series of all time--Star Trek: The Next Generation. Includes trivia questions, fun facts, great lines, quizzes, brief plot synopses, and other features.

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If television programming is normally considered a wasteland, then "The Sopranos" may be thought of as a jungle: richly coloured, teeming with life, dark with mystery. This work helps us understand exactly why we can't get enough of Tony Soprano and that colourful mafia family that we hate to love and often love to hate.

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This book provides an up-to-date account of how reality TV has developed, why it has become the most popular genre on television today, and how the explosion in reality TV signals new developments in American media culture.

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The essential one-stop guide to making your studio production shine!

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This book offers the only examination of the television writing of David Milch and David Simon as significant contributions to American culture, literature, and social realism.

David Milch and David Simon are two of the most prolific and successful television drama writers in the last 30 years.

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A collection of essays on a show that has taken the art of television drama to different heights.

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The book is a study of theatre's educational role in the 20th and the first years of the 21st centuries. It examines the variety of ways the theatre's educational potential has been harnessed and theorised by the claims made for its value and the tension between theatre as education and theatre as 'art'. -- .

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A classic both of science fiction and television drama, and an adventure in the tradition of Lewis Carroll, Conan Doyle and HG Wells, this TV series was created for children. Its strength has been its writers and their ideas. This history of the show looks into its social and cultural impact - an ideal read for committed and casual fans alike.

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This fascinating book takes the reader on a rich and varied study of one of the greatest television programmes of all time: Doctor Who. Combining essays from academics in Screen Studies with practitioners who have contributed to the ongoing narrative of Doctor Who, this collection is the first to study the Doctors adventures in all their forms.

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Takes the reader on a study of one of the greatest television programmes of all time: "Doctor Who." This title explores the Doctor's adventures in various manifestations: on television, audio, in print and beyond.

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This book explores science fiction television in the 1970s and 80s, analysing the changes under neoliberalism and the rise of Thatcherism.