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Drawing from theories of the political economy of communication,
this book offers readers a comprehensive data-rich assessment of
contemporary sports television and its evolution. Providing an
in-depth look at the ownership and regulation of sports television
in the United States, William M. Kunz analyzes a range of
platforms, networks, and sports, with particular focus on the way
ownership has become concentrated in five conglomerates: AT&T,
CBS, Comcast, Disney and Fox. The end result of years of media
consolidation is that broadcast networks are now married to cable
and streaming services under a single conglomerate, which has
implications for the cost of contracts and the negotiation of
distribution deals. Examining multiple platforms, networks and
sports in an all-inclusive manner, this volume documents the
evolution and current state of affairs of sports television. With
historic and current data on rights fees for sports television
leagues and events as well as carriage fees and subscription levels
for sports-related cable and satellite services, this comparative
study offers critical information for students and scholars
conducting research on sports television.
This concise and accessible critical introduction examines the
world of popular fairy-tale television, tracing how fairy tales and
their social and cultural implications manifest within series,
television events, anthologies, and episodes, and as freestanding
motifs. Providing a model of televisual analysis, Rudy and
Greenhill emphasize that fairy-tale longevity in general, and
particularly on TV, results from malleability-morphing from
extremely complex narratives to the simple quotation of a name
(like Cinderella) or phrase (like "happily ever after")-as well as
its perennial value as a form that is good to think with. The
global reach and popularity of fairy tales is reflected in the
book's selection of diverse examples from genres such as political,
lifestyle, reality, and science fiction TV. With a select
mediagraphy, discussion questions, and detailed bibliography for
further study, this book is an ideal guide for students and
scholars of television studies, popular culture, and media studies,
as well as dedicated fairy-tale fans.
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'Well now, prove it, Sheila. As John would say, "Put your money
where your mouth is." Be a depressed widow boring the arse off
everyone, or get on with life. Your choice.' In The Two of Us
Sheila relived her life with John Thaw - years packed with love and
family, delight and despair. And then she looked ahead. What next?
Gardening, grannying and grumbling, while they all had their
pleasures, weren't going to fill the aching void that John had
left. 'Live adventurously', a Quaker advice, was hovering around
her brain. Putting her and John's much loved house in France on the
market she embarked on a series of journeys. She tried holidaying
alone, contending with invisibility and budget flights. She tried
travelling in a group, but the questions she wanted to ask were
never the ones the guide wanted to answer. She tried relaxing -
harder than you might think. Finally, heading out of her comfort
zone, she found her travels, and the things she discovered, led her
back to her past; to consider her generation - the last to
experience the Second World War - and the kind of person it made
her. Just Me is a book about moving on, but it is also about
looking back, and looking anew. Sheila, whether facing down
burglars and Easyjet staff or making friends with waiters and taxi
drivers, whether unearthing secrets in Budapest, getting arrested
in Thailand, exulting in the art of Venice or searching for a
decent cup of coffee in Dorset, is never less than stimulating
company. Honest - because if you can't say what you think at
seventy-three, when can you? - insightful and wonderfully down to
earth, she is a woman seizing the future with wit, gusto and
curiosity, on her own.
It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little
about the Middle Ages. But the truth is not so simple.
Non-specialists in fact learn a great deal from the myriad
medievalisms - post-medieval imaginings of the medieval world -
that pervade our everyday culture. These, like Lord of the Rings or
Game of Thrones, offer compelling, if not necessarily accurate,
visions of the medieval world. And more, they have an impact on the
popular imagination, particularly since there are new medievalisms
constantly being developed, synthesised and remade. But what does
the public really know? How do the conflicting medievalisms they
consume contribute to their knowledge? And why is this important?
In this book, the first evidence-based exploration of the wider
public's understanding of the Middle Ages, Paul B. Sturtevant
adapts sociological methods to answer these important questions.
Based on extensive focus groups, the book details the ways - both
formal and informal - that people learn about the medieval past and
the many other ways that this informs, and even distorts, our
present. In the process, Sturtevant also sheds light, in more
general terms, onto the ways non-specialists learn about the past,
and why understanding this is so important. The Middle Ages in
Popular Imagination will be of interest to anyone working on
medieval studies, medievalism, memory studies, medieval film
studies, informal learning or public history.
This is the first study of the early formative years of one of
Wales's most important cultural organisations - Sianel Pedwar Cymru
(S4C). The volume chronicles the decisions and activities of the
channel during its trial period between 1981-5. Through a detailed
study of minutes, correspondence and interviews with individuals
who were key to the channel's development during its early years,
it chronicles the many challenges, successes and failures which
faced the S4C Authority and its staff as they aimed to create a
Welsh-language television service that would meet the desires and
needs of the audience in Wales. S4C is no ordinary channel, and no
other period in its history portrays this more effectively than the
trial period given to it at the beginning of the 1980s.
Drawing from theories of the political economy of communication,
this book offers readers a comprehensive data-rich assessment of
contemporary sports television and its evolution. Providing an
in-depth look at the ownership and regulation of sports television
in the United States, William M. Kunz analyzes a range of
platforms, networks, and sports, with particular focus on the way
ownership has become concentrated in five conglomerates: AT&T,
CBS, Comcast, Disney and Fox. The end result of years of media
consolidation is that broadcast networks are now married to cable
and streaming services under a single conglomerate, which has
implications for the cost of contracts and the negotiation of
distribution deals. Examining multiple platforms, networks and
sports in an all-inclusive manner, this volume documents the
evolution and current state of affairs of sports television. With
historic and current data on rights fees for sports television
leagues and events as well as carriage fees and subscription levels
for sports-related cable and satellite services, this comparative
study offers critical information for students and scholars
conducting research on sports television.
In this authoritative volume, writer and historian Scott Tracy
Griffin traces the development of the history-making Tarzan
franchise, from the motion-picture industry's early silent and
serials, through the high point of the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer era
featuring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan, to modern
worldwide hits like Grey stoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the
Apes and Walt Disney Studios' animated Tarzan.
Professor Brian Cox is among the best-known physicists in the
world. As presenter of hit television series Human Universe,
Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe, his
affable charm and infectious enthusiasm have brought science to a
whole new audience. Born in Lancashire in 1968, Cox was a bright
but not brilliant pupil at school. He flourished at university,
however, gaining a first-class honours degree and an MPhil in
Physics from Manchester University before being awarded his PhD in
particle physics in 1998. Alongside his studies, he played
keyboards in the band D:Ream, who topped the charts in 1994 with
'Things Can Only Get Better', which was famously used by the Labour
Party for its 1997 election campaign. Although an award-winning
celebrity TV presenter, Brian Cox remains devoted to scientific
research. He is a Royal Society University Research Fellow, an
advanced fellow at the University of Manchester, and also works on
the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in
Switzerland. In 2010 he was awarded the OBE for his services to
science. Featuring exclusive interviews and in-depth research, this
book delves into the fascinating universe of the man who
single-handedly made physics cool.
Harry H. Corbett rose from the slums of Manchester to become one of
the best-known television stars of the 20th century. Having left
home as a 17-year-old Royal Marine during the Second World War, he
fought in the North Atlantic and the jungles of the Pacific and
witnessed first-hand the devastation wrought by the Hiroshima bomb.
On his return home he wandered into the local theatre company and
landed a starring role - The Front Legs of the Cow. Soon becoming a
leading light in Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop and a
widely-respected classical stage actor, his life was changed
forever by the television comedy Steptoe and Son. Overnight he
became a household name as the series drew unparalleled viewing
figures of over 28 million, with fans ranging from the working
classes to the Royal Family. Naturally shy and a committed
socialist, fame and fortune didn't sit easily on his shoulders, and
for the next twenty years, until his untimely death at the age of
only 57, he had to learn how to be ''Arold'. Written by his
daughter, Susannah Corbett, an actor herself, this is the first
biography of Harry H. Corbett, the man who was once described as
being 'the English Marlon Brando'.
Derek's journey to Albert Square has proved to be an eventful one.
A bone fide East Ender, born within the sound of Bow Bells, Derek
grew up during the Blitz in a tight-knit, working-class family. In
this candid memoir he describes those tough early days, his stint
in the police, life on the wrong side of the law and how he turned
his dream of being an actor into a reality. But not before trying
his hand as a professional gambler and acting as a runner for the
notorious East End gangster Charlie Kray, brother of twins Ronnie
and Reggie. Determined to be an actor, Derek began his hugely
successful stage and screen career firstly as a stuntman; before
landing memorable TV roles in series such as Law and Order, Minder,
King and Castle, The Governor and doomed soap Eldorado. In this
frank and revealing tale, Derek pulls no punches as he admits past
mistakes and describes his remarkable transformation into one of
our best loved actors. Meet the man behind the character as he
shares with readers his heartbreak over two marriage break ups and
his devotion to his twin boys. An East End Life is a truly
remarkable story spanning nearly seven decades, packed with tears
and laughter that will endear you to this popular star.
David Fincher: Mind Games is the definitive critical and visual
survey of the Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated works of
director David Fincher. From feature films Alien 3, Se7en, The
Game, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button, The Social Network, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Gone
Girl, and Mank through his MTV clips for Madonna and the Rolling
Stones and the Netflix series House of Cards and Mindhunter, each
chapter weaves production history with original critical analysis,
as well as with behind the scenes photography, still-frames, and
original illustrations from Little White Lies' international team
of artists and graphic designers. Mind Games also features
interviews with Fincher's frequent collaborators, including Jeff
Cronenweth, Angus Wall, Laray Mayfield, Holt McCallany, Howard
Shore and Erik Messerschmidt. Grouping Fincher's work around themes
of procedure, imprisonment, paranoia, prestige and relationship
dynamics, Mind Games is styled as an investigation into a filmmaker
obsessed with investigation, and the design will shift to echo case
files within a larger psychological profile.
Contemporary television has been marked by such exceptional
programming that it is now common to hear claims that TV has
finally become an art. In Appreciating the Art of Television,
Nannicelli contends that televisual art is not a recent
development, but has in fact existed for a long time. Yet despite
the flourishing of two relevant academic subfields-the philosophy
of film and television aesthetics-there is little scholarship on
television, in general, as an art form. This book aims to provide
scholars active in television aesthetics with a critical overview
of the relevant philosophical literature, while also giving
philosophers of film a particular account of the art of television
that will hopefully spur further interest and debate. It offers the
first sustained theoretical examination of what is involved in
appreciating television as an art and how this bears on the
practical business of television scholars, critics, students, and
fans-namely the comprehension, interpretation, and evaluation of
specific televisual artworks.
Since the early 2000s, Disney Channel has been dominated by
original live-action programming popular among tween girls. The
shows' successes rely not only on their popularity among girl
audiences, but also on the development of star personae by girl
performers, such as Raven-Symone, Miley Cyrus, and Selena Gomez. In
addition, these programs and their performers have spawned
lucrative media and merchandising franchises for the Walt Disney
Company. This book includes analyses of this Disney Channel
programming, as well as Disney corporate reports and executive
statements, together with Disney Channel stars' performances,
promotional appearances, media production, philanthropic efforts,
and entrepreneurism. Analyzing these texts, performances,
activities, and personae, it considers the ways in which they
reproduce celebrity, visibility, and feminine performativity as
central to successful twenty-first century girlhood.
Popular film and television hold valuable potential for learning
about sex and sexuality beyond the information-based model of sex
education currently in schools. This book argues that the
representation of complicated-or "messy"-relationships in these
popular cultural forms makes them potent as affective pedagogical
moments. It endeavours to develop new sexual literacies by
contemplating how pedagogical moments, that is, fleeting moments
which disrupt expectations or create discomfort, might enrich the
available discourses of sexuality and gender, especially those
available to adolescents. In Part One, Clarke critiques the
heteronormative discourses of sex education that produce youth in
particularly gendered ways, noting that "rationality" is often
expected to govern experiences that are embodied and arguably
inherently incoherent. Part Two explores public intimacy,
contemplating the often overlapping and confused boundaries between
public and private.
This critical anthology sets out to explore the boom that horror
cinema and TV productions have experienced in Spain in the past two
decades. It uses a range of critical and theoretical perspectives
to examine a broad variety of films and filmmakers, such as works
by Alejandro Amenabar, Alex de la Iglesia, Pedro Almodovar,
Guillermo del Toro, Juan Antonio Bayona, and Jaume Balaguero and
Paco Plaza. The volume revolves around a set of fundamental
questions: What are the causes for this new Spanish horror-mania?
What cultural anxieties and desires, ideological motives and
practical interests may be behind such boom? Is there anything
specifically "Spanish" about the Spanish horror film and TV
productions, any distinctive traits different from Hollywood and
other European models that may be associated to the particular
political, social, economic or cultural circumstances of
contemporary Spain?
This collection explores how film and television depict the complex
and diverse milieu of the eighteenth century as a literary,
historical, and cultural space. Topics range from adaptations of
Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (The
Martian) to historical fiction on the subjects of slavery (Belle),
piracy (Crossbones and Black Sails), monarchy (The Madness of King
George and The Libertine), print culture (Blackadder and National
Treasure), and the role of women (Marie Antoinette, The Duchess,
and Outlander). This interdisciplinary collection draws from film
theory and literary theory to discuss how film and television
allows for critical re-visioning as well as revising of the
cultural concepts in literary and extra-literary writing about the
historical period.
Dine like the lords and ladies and bring the high society meals and
treats home with these 100 delicious recipes inspired by Netflix's
most-watched series of all time-Bridgerton. Blue satin ball gowns,
chocolates and high tea, five course meals with family, scandal,
and romance. Welcome to the dashing world of Bridgerton. Grosvenor
Square is buzzing with ladies and lords dressed to the nines,
promenading in the park, and sharing lemonade at the evening's
ball. And while you might not be able to score the jewels and
frocks of the Bridgertons and the Featheringtons, you can still eat
like them with The Unofficial Bridgerton Cookbook. From dazzling
canapes, savory meat pies, sparkling wine, gooseberry pie,
delicious finger sandwiches, and more, you'll be eating like a
Bridgerton in no time. Nevermind what Lady Whistledown says, it's
time to eat! These 100 recipes inspired by the delectable foods
from Regency England will have you dining Duke and Duchess style
with recipes like: -Daphne's Lemonade -The Duke's Gooseberry Pie
-Penelope's Cucumber Sandwiches -Queen Charlotte's Cakes -And many
more! Now you can feast like high society and devour these
delectable recipes perfect for any social event.
This book offers a new, interdisciplinary model for understanding
audience engagement as a type of behaviour, a form of response and
a cost to audiences that, combined, offer value to the screen
industries. Audience 'engagement' has become the key priority of
the screen industries. Understanding Engagement in Transmedia
Culture explicitly asks what audiences and screen practitioners
mean when they say content is 'engaging' and uses audience focus
groups and practitioner interviews to offer a model for
understanding the relationship between the screen industry, the
content it produces and its audiences. In particular, the model
addresses engagement within transmedia culture. As digital screen
technologies proliferate, audiences move seamlessly across and
between different devices, content formats and distribution
platforms, blurring the boundaries between film, television and
videogames. This book offers a way of understanding audience
engagement that is not restricted to a single media but instead
accounts for and adapts to the various ways in which screen content
is experienced. Offering a unique approach by presenting
practitioner and audience perspectives, it is perfect for students
and scholars working in film and television studies, as well as
media industries and audience studies.
Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area
of 'the South' of the Americas. In so doing, we structure the book
around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and move
between various national traditions of the gothic (Mexico,
Argentina, Brazil, etc) alongside regional manifestations of the
Gothic (the US south and the Caribbean) as well as transnational
movements of the Gothic within the Americas. The reflections on
national traditions of the Gothic in this volume add to the
critical body of literature on specific languages or particular
nations, such as Scottish Gothic, American Gothic, Canadian Gothic,
German Gothic, Kiwi Gothic, etc. This is significant because, while
the Southern Gothic in the US has been thoroughly explored, there
is a gap in the critical literature about the Gothic in the larger
context of region of 'the South' in the Americas. This volume does
not pretend to be a comprehensive examination of tropical Gothic in
the Americas; rather, it pinpoints a variety of locations where
this form of the Gothic emerges. In so doing, the transnational
interventions of the Gothic in this book read the flows of Gothic
forms across borders and geographical regions to tease out the
complexities of Gothic cultural production within cultural and
linguistic translations. Tropical Gothic includes, but is by no
means limited to, a reflection on a region where European colonial
powers fought intensively against indigenous populations and
against each other for control of land and resources. In other
cases, the vast populations of African slaves were transported,
endowing these regions with a cultural inheritance that all the
nations involved are still trying to comprehend. The volume
reflects on how these histories influence the Gothic in this
region.
- A concise and engaging textbook for students offering an original
perspective on a concept that is a site of much industry and
scholarly debate. - Combining work on both political media and
entertainment, with an emphasis on social media, this is ideal for
a range of undergraduate courses, particularly those exploring
media audiences, media industries, social media and society and
political engagement. - Each chapter includes a brief introduction,
a conclusion with key points, sub headings, and a broad range of
international case studies that show how the points of the chapter
can work in practice for media engagement analysis.
The brilliantly funny Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Alan Carr
tells his life story in his own words, from growing up in a
football-mad family in Northampton to his rise as one of Britain's
best-loved comedians. 'Puberty had been unkind. Whereas it had come
in the night and left the other boys with chiselled, stubbly chins
and deep masculine voices, I'd been left with a huge pair of
knockers and the voice of a pensioner.' Alan Carr Alan Carr grew up
in one of the most boring towns in England - Northampton. A place
known for making shoes. It was also known for its football club,
Northampton Town FC. Alan's dad as manager of the club was a local
hero. A dream come true for most lads, but not Alan. Alan wore
glasses and had man boobs at 14. He did not like P.E. In his very
first book, Alan tells his life story, ('oh and what a life') with
his unique twist of natural, observational humour - 'I'm not saying
I'm a fantasist but there have been times when things that I've
seen on television when I was younger have tended to seep into my
subconscious and blended into my own life. I remember telling my
Mum about the time I stopped that woman from having a diamond
encrusted necklace stolen and she'd say 'No Alan, that was Poirot.'
With his tongue-in-cheek, end of pier humour that made him famous,
Alan describes an ordinary life in bursts of technicolour. His
journey from awkward schoolboy hiding his man-boobs on the pitch,
drinking tea with the dinner ladies and working in a call centre,
to becoming one of our best-loved comedians likened to the great
Frankie Howerd, make his book a guaranteed tickler with a
laugh-out-loud gag on every page.
A fully illustrated and authorized episode guide celebrating the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the hit-television show Friends,
including a look behind-the-scenes of cult-favorite episodes,
exclusive photos from Warner Bros., brand new interviews with show
creators Marta Kauffman, David Crane, and set designer John
Shaffner, and more. The beloved show Friends introduced the world
to six young New Yorkers living together, falling in love, breaking
up (cue Ross's "We were on a break!"), and getting into hilarious
shenanigans, which became an instant classic formula that inspired
dozens of "hangout sitcoms" long after the show's reign. But no
sitcom has ever come close to the series that started it all,
spawning iconic looks like "the Rachel" and timeless catchphrases
like "How you doin'?" while creating a cultural sensation that
catapulted the cast members to instant mega-stardom. Throughout the
show's ten- season run, viewers watched Monica, Rachel, Phoebe,
Ross, Chandler, and Joey navigate their twenties and thirties with
unwavering friendship, determination, and, of course, plenty of
sarcasm. Friends Forever takes fans back to the set where it all
began with exclusive photos of the sitcom that won four Primetime
Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series, eleven People's
Choice Awards, and a Golden Globe for Jennifer Aniston for Best
Lead Actress in a Television Series. This fully illustrated episode
guide will treat readers to nostalgic flashbacks of the top one
hundred episodes and sneak peeks of how popularly referenced lines
from the show came to be. Friends Forever also boasts new
interviews with show creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman on how
the show got its start and set designer John Shaffner who reveals
his inspirations behind the iconic looks behind Monica's and
Rachel's apartment and Central Perk. It's no wonder why the Friends
cast was chosen by TV Guide readers as the Best Comedy cast of all
time, while countless other publications such as Vanity Fair named
the show one of the best sitcoms of all time. Fun, hilarious
interactives include: Joey's fake resume vs real one Countdown to
the funniest Thanksgiving foods Trivia game Q&A from "The One
with the Embryos" (Seriously, what is Chandler Bing's job?) Follow
Ross's infidelity trail from "The One with the Morning After" Who's
that celebrity? A comprehensive guide to some of the most famous
celebrity guest stars from all ten seasons
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