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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Integrating three major concerns - television as an industry, a technology, and an art - this book is a basic primer on the complex, and often overlooked story of television and its impact on American life. It also includes interview segments with industry insiders, pictures, and sidebars to illustrate important figures, trends, and events. Num Pages: 152 pages, 1. BIC Classification: HBT; JFD; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631215448
- ISBN
- 9780631215448
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.14
€ 45.14
Hardback. Integrating three major concerns - television as an industry, a technology, and an art - this book is a basic primer on the complex, and often overlooked story of television and its impact on American life. It also includes interview segments with industry insiders, pictures, and sidebars to illustrate important figures, trends, and events. Num Pages: 152 pages, 1. BIC Classification: HBT; JFD; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631215431
- ISBN
- 9780631215431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.24
€ 129.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFCA; KNTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813562698
- ISBN
- 9780813562698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.74
€ 42.99
€ 38.74
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813562704
- ISBN
- 9780813562704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.16
€ 161.16
Paperback. Television has become the primary source of historical information for tens of millions of Americans. This book poses the questions: Why has television become such a respected authority? and what falsehoods enter our collective memories as truths? Editor(s): Edgerton, Gary R.; Rollins, Peter C. Num Pages: 392 pages, 61 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; HB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 176 x 21. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Edition
- 2 Sub
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813190563
- ISBN
- 9780813190563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.42
€ 55.42
Hardcover. Investigating the leading drama genres of different television eras in both Britain and the US, this book traces the evolution of television drama from the 'high culture' aspirations and technical limitations of its early days to the intense commercial competition that informs the creation of television drama today. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230545519
- ISBN
- 9780230545519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349105
- ISBN
- 9780822349105
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415841221
- ISBN
- 9780415841221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.77€ 21.87
€ 55.77
€ 21.87
Hardcover. This book is the first to deal with the world composition of television ratings. It focuses on the peoplemeter, a 25 year old technology which succeeds in homogenizing very different populations and television practices. It provides a fascinating account of the production of figures on which the whole world of popular culture depends. Editor(s): Bourdon, Jerome; Meadel, Cecile. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT; JFCA; JFD; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345097
- ISBN
- 9781137345097
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Paperback. This book is the first to deal with the world composition of television ratings. It focuses on the peoplemeter, a 25 year old technology which succeeds in homogenizing very different populations and television practices. It provides a fascinating account of the production of figures on which the whole world of popular culture depends. Editor(s): Bourdon, J. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; HBTB; JFC; JFD; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349466337
- ISBN
- 9781349466337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Hardcover. This text examines the effects of the competition of satellite, cable and the Internet on the standards of terrestrial television and considers what can be done to maintain the standards and quality instigated and guaranteed by the establishing instruments at the time of their inception. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT; JFD; KNTD; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333716465
- ISBN
- 9780333716465
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.82
€ 127.82
Hardcover. Series: Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSP2; JNC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403976482
- ISBN
- 9781403976482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.70€ 47.59
€ 52.70
€ 47.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFDT; JFSP2; JNC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 169 x 226 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403978080
- ISBN
- 9781403978080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.70€ 46.79
€ 52.70
€ 46.79
Hardcover. Just how bad is television? Drawing on a range of theoretical sources including Husserl Lacan, Lefebvre, Sartre, Schutz and Adam Smith, this book takes a phenomenological approach to the small screen to offer an original sociological approach to television and its contribution to moral culture of late modern societies. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFDT; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230234819
- ISBN
- 9780230234819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Paperback. "Just how bad is television? Drawing on a range of theoretical sources including Husserl Lacan, Lefebvre, Sartre, Schutz and Adam Smith, this book takes a phenomenological approach to the small screen to offer an original sociological approach to television and its contribution to moral culture of late modern societies"-- Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HPQ; JFCX; JFD; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313624
- ISBN
- 9781349313624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Paperback. This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of life . It is an enquiry into the contemporary human situation as disclosed by television. Passionate and sweeping in scale, this new book from a leading media scholar is a major contribution to our understanding of the media today. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; HP; JFC; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662558
- ISBN
- 9780745662558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.08
€ 26.08
Television and Terror: Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discou...
Hoskins, Andrew, O'Loughlin, Ben
Paperback. The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity, fails to deliver critical and consistent expositions of our conflicting times. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFDT; JWL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 219 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229020
- ISBN
- 9780230229020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.92
€ 65.92
Television and Terror: Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discou...
Hoskins, Andrew, O'Loughlin, Ben
Hardcover. The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity, fails to deliver critical and consistent expositions of our conflicting times. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT; JFD; JPWS; JWK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230002319
- ISBN
- 9780230002319
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Paperback. Television and Society is a textbook designed to introduce students to the role of television in contemporary society. It explores the structure of the television text, the way in which that text is produced and the way it is consumed. The first section deals with the analysis of television programmes as texts. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745614366
- ISBN
- 9780745614366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.08
€ 26.08
Editor(s): Kaid, Professor Lynda Lee. Num Pages: 247 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; APT; JFD; JP; KNTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 187 x 19. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781560727538
- ISBN
- 9781560727538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 100.87€ 77.61
€ 100.87
€ 77.61
Hardback. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag, Singapore Singapore
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789811039867
- ISBN
- 9789811039867
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.61
€ 127.61
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822333937
- ISBN
- 9780822333937
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
Hardcover. This timely collection provides high-quality interdisciplinary essays which address lesbian and bisexual representation in popular television shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, E.R., Queer as Folk, Sex and the City, The L Word and The O.C. Editor(s): Beirne, Rebecca. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT; JFD; JFSK1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600805
- ISBN
- 9780230600805
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Paperback. With new and updated material. The first academic anthology to critically and explicitly address the representation of lesbian and bisexual women on a range of television series. This timely collection provides high-quality interdisciplinary essays which address lesbian and bisexual representation in popular television shows. Editor(s): Beirne, Rebecca. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFD; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Second Edition, Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340985
- ISBN
- 9780230340985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01