In the history of American TV only four sitcoms have been true hits - All in the Family, The Beverley Hillbillies, Laverne and Shirley and The Cosby Show. This book seeks to account for the appeal of these sitcoms, detailing the factors that go into the construction of mass audiences.
The Dean Martin Show, with its big-name stars-such as Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, and John Wayne-glitzy production number, and often risque skits, for nine years owned Thursday nights at ten o'clock on television. But nothing about the show was as big a draw as its inimitable host, the breezy, roguishly handsome Dean Martin. Now ......
ISBN-13: 9780878331703
(Hardback)
Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT Imprint: TAYLOR TRADE PUBLISHING
Steve Allen created the "Tonight" show, America's longest running entertainment show and most successful late-night TV show. This book presents the history of the first "Tonight" show, complete with photos from the show and insights from over 30 entertainment legends who knew and worked with Steve Allen.
''Michele Hilmes has produced an excellent introduction to a most important subject. This is an invaluable work for both scholars and students that places film, radio, and television within the context of the national culture experience.''--- American Historical Review''Hilmes is one of the few historians of broadcasting to move beyond a political ......
This third annual report of the National Tel evison Violence Study presents comparative year-to-year data on the nature and extent of violence on television accross programme genres and channel types. '
Representation, Memory, Time and Space in the Age of the Camera
Offering an overview of modern visual culture, this book explores the relationship between technology, society and identity which underpins contemporary "media culture". The author examines: the history of visual culture from Lumiere to virtual reality by way of photography, cinema and television; the social and political transformations over the ......
Jam-packed with hundreds of anecdotes and quotes from in-depth interviews with over forty television writers, this is the first comprehensive history of writing for American television. These writers tell, often in wonderfully funny tales, of their experiences working with, and often fighting with, the networks, the censors, the sponsors, the ......
When Lou Grant premiered in the fall of 1977, it quickly became a symbol of television drama at its best. During its five years on the air, Lou Grant earned critical acclaim as an entertaining yet thoughtful drama about important social and political issues, a rarity for episodic television in the late 1970s. Douglass K. Daniel reveals how the ......
Winner of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology and the Media "Thought-provoking."--New Orleans Times-Picayune. "Comprehensive, well-researched."--Ottawa Citizen. "A massive five-year ...study of the effects of television on American society. It's a study worth more than a 45-second spot on the ......
