Television Culture

Noir - as a style, movement, or sensibility - has its roots in hardboiled detective fiction by writers like Chandler and Hammett, and films adapted from their novels were among the first called "film noir" by French cineastes. But film isn't the only medium with a taste for a dark story. Hundreds of noir dramas have been produced for television, featuring detectives and femmes fatales, gangsters, and dark deeds, continuing week after week, with a new disruption of the social order. In TV Noir, television historian Allen Glover presents the first complete study of the subject.

Reality TV's influence is seismic: twenty-five years ago, the concept didn't exist. Yet today, it is one of the most powerful cultural forces on earth; a multi-billion-dollar machine. Despite that, it is often derided as "trash"; a cultural McDonalds not worthy of examination. The truth is that reality TV offers a profound insight into who we are as human beings, questioning the very nature of what we deem to be entertaining. Writer, broadcaster and reality TV-obsessive Jacques Peretti goes behind the scenes of a world that has entranced and consumed him for two decades.

This audiobook explores how the award-winning NBC drama offered a space for vibrant conversation about US politics, identity, and culture.

For most of us, fond memories of the Christmas season are inseparable from television's holiday presentations. The world loves everything from iconic cartoons like How the Grinch Stole Christmas and A Charlie Brown Christmas to the groundbreaking Julia sitcom segment, "I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas," Christmas in Rockefeller Center, and the 1992 television-remake of Christmas in Connecticut directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Christmas TV Memories: Nostalgic Holiday Favorites of the Small Screen embraces it all, offering a tinsel-decked traipse down memory lane.

What happens when a 35-year-old average American woman spends one year following every piece of Oprah Winfrey's advice on how to "live your best life"? Robyn Okrant devoted 2008 to adhering to all of Oprah's suggestions and guidance delivered via her television show, her Web site, and her magazine. Living Oprah is a month-by-month account of that year.

Despite the high number of programs and their evident popularity, paranormal reality television has to date received little critical attention. Ghost Channels provides an overview of the paranormal reality television genre, its development, and its place in television history. Conducting in-depth analyses of over thirty paranormal television series, author Amy Lawrence suggests these programs reveal much about Americans' contemporary fears.

A Culturematic is a little machine for making culture. It’s an ingenuity engine. The Culturematic acts as a probe into the often-alien world of contemporary culture, to test the atmosphere, to see what life it can sustain, to see who responds and how. Culturematics start small but can scale up ferociously, bootstrapping themselves as they go. Because they are so inexpensive, we can afford to fire off a multitude of them simultaneously. This is evolutionary strategy, iterative innovation, and rapid prototyping all at once.

See him? That little tramp twitching a postage stamp of a mustache, politely lifting his bowler hat, and leaning on a bamboo cane with the confidence of a gentleman? A slapstick comedian, he blazed forth as the brightest movie star in the Hollywood heavens. Everyone knew Charlie - Charlie Chaplin.

Lights, camera, quiz time! This book is your ultimate backstage pass to the world of television and film. Packed with 400 challenging and entertaining questions across 10 exciting chapters, it will take you on a thrilling journey through decades of iconic TV shows and blockbuster films. From classic British soaps like EastEnders to modern Netflix hits, cult sitcoms, and unforgettable reality TV moments, this book has something for every fan.

With its bold depiction of four female friends navigating the pitfalls of Manhattan’s dating scene, Sex and the City, which aired on HBO from 1998 to 2004, was a unique television drama that evolved into a ubiquitous and widely debated cultural phenomenon. Deborah Jermyn’s Sex and the City investigates the program’s critical and popular success as well as its lasting cultural impact.

Journalist Rick Bowers has contributed to Time, The Washington Post, and USA Today, and his fascinating Spies of Mississippi—about the spy network that tried to take down the Civil Rights Movement—earned a starred review from Booklist. Here, Bowers examines how, in the late 1940s, The Adventures of Superman radio show struck a powerful blow to the Ku Klux Klan when Superman aired episodes pitting the hero against the Klan in an effort to teach young listeners to stand up to bigotry.

This book features dozens of real-life action hero techniques, including Good Guy Skills, Love Skills, Paranormal Skills, Fighting Skills, and Escape Skills. This dynamic little handbook is everything you need to keep up with the Indiana Joneses. Good luck - we're counting on you.

Want to know more about the life of Jennifer Lawrence? Listen to this audiobook to learn all about Jen's childhood, family, rise to stardom, likes and dislikes, romantic life, and more!

新型のAppleTVに触発された「くぼたつ」こと久保田達也氏が、これまでの知見をもとに、AppleTV的なものによってもたらされるであろう未来TVについて、いくつかの過去の事例を挙げながら、まだ実現していないけれどもこれから起こるであろうことも含めて語ります。第2話は、AppleTVはこんなことができるようになるだろうといことを語ります。まず挙げたのはニュース、自分がニュースを発信するためのツールになり得ると語ります。久保田達也氏は、そう遠くない時期にAppleTVでiOSアプリが動くようになると考えいて、これによる動画メディアの可能性、特に若い人達の積極的な発信力や創造力に期待を込めて語っています。(C)2011株式会社イッツ

新型のAppleTVに触発された「くぼたつ」こと久保田達也氏が、これまでの知見をもとに、AppleTV的なものによってもたらされるであろう未来TVについて、いくつかの過去の事例を挙げながら、まだ実現していないけれどもこれから起こるであろうことも含めて語ります。第3話は、メディアと広告について語ります。久保田達也氏は、AppleTVで視聴できる映像等のコンテンツに広告が組み込まれると予想しています。また自分が作った広告を発表する舞台としても、AppleTVに大きな期待を寄せています。さらにAppleTVを含むインターネットTV的なものが、教育自体を大きく変えると語ります。(C)2011株式会社イッツ

新型のAppleTVに触発された「くぼたつ」こと久保田達也氏が、これまでの知見をもとに、AppleTV的なものによってもたらされるであろう未来TVについて、いくつかの過去の事例を挙げながら、まだ実現していないけれどもこれから起こるであろうことも含めて語ります。第1話は、ネットワークTVとは何かについて語ります。インターネットが日本に登場した時、ここまでの普及をどれだけの人が予測したのでしょうか?若い方々はインターネットがすでに社会に浸透した社会で仕事をするのですから、このネットワークTVを使って新ビジネスに挑戦してみて頂ければと思います。(C)2011株式会社イッツ