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  • The News Interviewby Steven Clayman; John Heritage; Paul Drew

    Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 46.00

    This much-needed work examines the place of the news interview in Anglo-American society as well as its historical development. Through analyses of well-known interviews, the book explores the relationship between journalists and public figures, and reveals the tensions beneath the surface of the nightly news. more...

  • Prime-Time Familiesby Ella Taylor

    University of California Press 1989; US$ 12.95

    Prime-Time Families provides a wide-ranging new look at television entertainment in the past four decades. Working within the interdisciplinary framework of cultural studies, Ella Taylor analyzes television as a constellation of social practices. Part popular culture analysis, part sociology, and part American history, Prime-Time Families is a rich and insightful work the sheds light on the way television shapes our lives. more...

  • The War for Late Nightby Bill Carter

    Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 9.99

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Late Shift delivers a boisterous, two-timing, high-stakes drama about the business of comedy" ( The Associated Press ). No one is more uniquely suited to document television's latest late- night travesty than veteran media reporter and bestselling author, Bill Carter. NBC's CEO, Jeff Zucker, had it all worked out when he moved Jay Leno from behind the desk at The Tonight Show , and handed the reins over to Conan O'Brien. But as everyone knows, his decision was a spectacular failure. Ratings plummeted, affiliates were enraged-and when Zucker tried to put everything back the way it was, that plan backfired as well. In candid detail, Carter charts the vortex that sucked in-not just Leno... more...

  • Uses of Televisionby John Hartley

    Routledge 1998; US$ 38.95

    John Hartley's new book defends the place of television in our lives, suggesting that it reunites government, education and media to create a new kind of cultural teaching which communicates across social and geographical boundaries. more...

  • Television Cultureby John Fiske

    Routledge 1987; US$ 37.95

    A comprehensive introduction to television studies. Fiske analyses both the economic and cultural aspects of television and investigates it in terms of both theory and text based criticism. more...

  • Television Dramaby John Tulloch

    Routledge 1990; US$ 33.95

    Views television drama from a cultural studies perspective, examining the active agency of both viewers and media practitioners. Tulloch looks at genres such as soap opera, science fiction, sitcoms and police series. more...

  • Because I Tell a Joke or Twoby Stephen Wagg

    Routledge 1998; US$ 45.95

    Because I Tell a Joke or Two explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social differences of class, region, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationhood. more...

  • Television And Everyday Lifeby Roger Silverstone

    Routledge 1994; US$ 37.95

    Silverstone presents a radical new approach to the medium, one that both challenges received wisdoms and offers a compellingly original view of the place of television in everyday life. more...

  • Tele-ologyby John Hartley

    Routledge 1992; US$ 37.95

    A collection of Hartley's writings on television which includes his views on TV as a global and local force and TV as a corporate and domestic, political and artistic object of study. more...

  • Television Producersby Jeremy Tunstall

    Routledge 1993; US$ 140.00

    A comprehensive survey of the entire spectrum of television broadcasting, conveying an understanding of the particular atmosphere of seven different programming areas including news, sport, documentaries and game shows. more...