By James Shanahan

ISBN-10: 0511010907

ISBN-13: 9780511010903

ISBN-10: 0521582962

ISBN-13: 9780521582964

How does tv impression humans? ''Cultivation'' study examines the connection among how a lot tv humans watch and what they suspect: avid audience' ideals are very various from these of occasional audience. James Shanahan and Michael Morgan, major students during this box, discover the diversities in audience' ideals on matters reminiscent of violence, intercourse roles and political attitudes. Their compelling account, the 1st book-length research of this significant and arguable quarter, may be of curiosity to scholars and students in verbal exchange, sociology, political technology and psychology.

By Dianne Burnett

ISBN-10: 1401941001

ISBN-13: 9781401941000

Prepare to snicker. prepare to cry. prepare for a whirlwind of an event. Settle in for a robust, poignant tale of internal energy and courage-and get a desirable, behind-the-scenes examine the making of Survivor, the world's hottest truth show.
Spinning their mutual love of unique experience into gold, Dianne Burnett and her former husband, television manufacturer Mark Burnett, co-created Eco-Challenge, an expedition-length racing occasion televised on Discovery Channel that catapulted them into the sector of truth television and set the degree for Survivor-a modern day Robinson Crusoe with a million-dollar prize.  yet Dianne and Mark's fairytale marriage didn't live on their Hollywood good fortune . . . she came across herself left in the back of, her contributions unrecognized.  She misplaced her accomplice in existence and started to lose her identity.  In that have, she came upon a chance to grow.

A interesting, fast moving, heart-warming "page-turner," The highway to Reality takes readers on a roller-coaster ride-complete with a zesty romance, in addition to the ups and downs of going to your dreams-while it imparts the teachings realized as Dianne discovers what rather issues in existence is anything past fortune and fame. 

By Marian Bredin

ISBN-10: 1554583616

ISBN-13: 9781554583614

Canadian tv: textual content and Context explores the construction and movement of leisure tv in Canada from the interdisciplinary point of view of tv stories. each one bankruptcy connects arguments approximately specific texts of Canadian tv to serious research of the broader cultural, social, and fiscal contexts within which they're created. The ebook surveys the industrial and technological imperatives of the Canadian tv undefined, the moving function of the CBC as Canada’s public broadcaster, the dynamics of Canada’s multicultural and multiracial audiences, and the functionality of television’s “star system.” Foreword via The Globe and Mail’s tv critic, John Doyle.

By Stan Beeler, Lisa Dickson

ISBN-10: 1845111834

ISBN-13: 9781845111830

Stargate SG-1 premiered in 1997 and over the process 8 seasons, the express has built its personal particular mythological superstructure. It has blossomed right into a sequence pushed via fierce fan loyalty, with full of life net chat groups, the proliferation of "textual poaching" in fan fiction and paintings, and well known annual conventions. This booklet is a full of life serious get together of either Stargate and its by-product, Atlantis. Its characters, subject matters, representations of sexuality and "otherness" are mentioned, besides its interplay with fan fiction, its destinations in Canada, its ideological framing of an American point-of-view, and tensions among its humanistic morality and military/political pursuits within the shows' plots. there's additionally evaluate of the at the moment fledgling Stargate: Atlantis. Written for either fanatics and students, the booklet additionally contains an episode advisor to the 1st 8 seasons of Stargate SG-1.

By Erik Barnouw

ISBN-10: 0195023110

ISBN-13: 9780195023114

The tv sponsor has turn into semi-mythical. he's distant and unseen, yet omnipresent. Dramas, soccer video games, and press meetings pause for a "word" from him. He "makes attainable" live shows and public affairs pronounces. His "underwriting promises" brings the viewer tune gala's and vintage motion pictures. Interviews with vacationing statesmen are interrupted for him, to proceed "in a moment." Sponsorship is easy to American tv. Even noncommercial tv seems to be to it for survival. an unlimited has grown up round the wishes and desires of sponsors. Television's application formulation, enterprise practices, and scores have all advanced in how you can fulfill sponsor specifications. certainly, he has develop into a potentate of our time. The Sponsor is split into 3 elements. In "Rise," Barnouw sketches the upward push of the sponsor, in either radio and tv, to his current country of eminence. In "Domain," the sponsor's pervasive effect on tv programming is tested, with an emphasis on community tv, the fundamental enviornment of the undefined. And in "Prospect," Barnouw assesses what such dominance has intended for American society, mores, and associations- and what it could possibly suggest for our destiny. it is a gripping quantity approximately energy, the way it not just impacts programming itself, yet the way it defines for the commonplace individual what's reliable, nice, and fascinating.

By William Johnston

Max is again. In neglected IT through THAT MUCH!. Max and ninety nine face stampeding elephants, quicksand, a cannibal tribe, steaming jungles, and worst of the entire wily Whitestone, a magician-illusionist grew to become KAOS agent.

Agent 86 needs to locate Dr. Livingstrom, who's someplace in darkest Africa, sooner than KAOS steals his mystery formulation, Brassica Oleracia—212°, to exploit opposed to the loose World.

Can Max get to Dr. Livingstrom sooner than the Forces of Evil?

Can he catch his ambitious foe, Whitestone?

Or does he pass over HIM via THAT a lot?

By Lewis Turco

ISBN-10: 0898799473

ISBN-13: 9780898799477

For greater than 10 years, this profitable sequence has helped writers enhance their paintings -- one aspect at a time. that includes caliber guideline from award-winning authors, every one e-book specializes in a key part of fiction writing, making it effortless for writers to discover the explicit tips they are searching for.

By David Perlmutter

ISBN-10: 0786476508

ISBN-13: 9780786476503

ISBN-10: 1476614881

ISBN-13: 9781476614885

Animation has been a part of tv because the begin of the medium however it has not often obtained impartial reputation from media students. extra frequently, it's been ridiculed for supposedly bad technical caliber, accused of trafficking in violence aimed toward teenagers, and ignored for indulging in vulgar habit. those accusations are frequently made categorically, out of prejudice or lack of knowledge, with little try to comprehend the significance of every application by itself phrases. This booklet takes a major examine the entire style of tv animation, from the early issues and practices in the course of the evolution of the artwork to the current day. interpreting the productions of person studios and manufacturers, the writer establishes a way of figuring out their paintings in new methods, even as discussing the ways that the style has usually been unfairly marginalized via critics, and the way, particularly in recent times, manufacturers have either challenged and embraced this "marginality" as an essential component in their paintings. through taking heavily whatever frequently considered frivolous, the ebook presents a framework for knowing the chronic presence of tv animation within the American media--and how strangely influential it's been

By David Hogarth

ISBN-10: 0292712596

ISBN-13: 9780292712591

ISBN-10: 029271260X

ISBN-13: 9780292712607

ISBN-10: 0292796137

ISBN-13: 9780292796133

Tv and globalization have remodeled the normal documentary nearly past acceptance, changing what was a movie style dedicated to public carrier and schooling right into a renowned televisual commodity with productions starting from severe public affairs programming to television "reality" indicates and "docusoaps." "Realer Than Reel" bargains a cutting-edge evaluation of foreign documentary programming that investigates the probabilities documentary deals for neighborhood and public illustration in a world age, in addition to what truly constitutes documentary in a time of accelerating digitalization and manipulation of visible media. David Hogarth makes a speciality of public affairs, nature, and truth exhibits from all over the world, drawing upon info, manufacturer interviews, analyses of chosen documentary courses, and firsthand observations of industry websites. He appears at how documentary has turn into a trans-national product via exports, co-ventures, and pageant contacts; how neighborhood and local "place" is represented in worldwide documentary, specially through manufacturers corresponding to Discovery Networks overseas and the nationwide Geographic Channel; how documentary addresses the desires of its audience as electorate via public carrier broadcasting; and the way documentary is difficult permitted conventions of factuality, feel, and flavor. The concluding bankruptcy considers the way forward for either documentary as a style and tv as an international real medium, asking no matter if television will proceed to "document" the realm in any significant experience of the time period.

By Bernadette Casey, Neil Casey, Ben Calvert, Liam French, Justin Lewis

ISBN-10: 041537149X

ISBN-13: 9780415371490

Television stories: the foremost Concepts is the definitive reference consultant to a space of speedily increasing educational curiosity. between these points of tv reviews coated during this accomplished and updated advisor are:
* theoretical views that have formed the examine of tv - Marxism; semiology; feminism
* thoughts that have formed the research of tv - narrative; illustration; bias
* tv genres - cleaning soap opera; information; technological know-how fiction
* equipment used for realizing tv - content material research; viewers research
* appropriate social, financial and political phenomena - possession; social coverage.