The Handbook: The Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to the Production of Doctor Who
On their first publication, the Doctor Who handbooks were hailed for their behind-the-scenes exploration of the BBC's cult science fiction show Doctor Who. Now collected in a revised and updated edition, this book is the definitive guide to the background and production of a television classic. Every Doctor's era is examined, key decisions are documented, and the people involved in these decisions interviewed or quoted to create one of the most revealing behind-the-scenes books on the trials and tribulations of arguably the greatest cult show ever to grace television.
Soapsuds
Having escaped to Hollywood after catching her boyfriend in bed with her best friend, London stage actress Kate McPhee is offered a gig on the popular daytime television series "Live for Tomorrow." But the real drama is off the set, where the soap is indeed slippery. Unabridged.
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Secular Steeples: Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination by Ostwalt, Conrad, Jr., ISBN 1563383616
In Secular Steeples, Conrad Ostwalt challenges long-held assumptions about the relationship between religion and culture and about the impact of secularization. This book tries to move away from the idea that religion will diminish as secularization continues. Instead, Ostwalt guides us along a busy two-way street, where religions and secular views interact and enrich each other.
Ostwalt contends that secularization has not and will not destroy religion, despite the promise of the Enlightenment to free society from religions confines. He points out that secularization does shift the authority to express religious ideals from traditional places to other cultural forms such as the government, entertainment, or media. He challenges the often repeated assumption that Europe is more secularized than America; secularization is a reality in both to the same degree, but proceeds in distinctly different ways.
Religious institutions, he says, use secular and popular cultural forms like television,...
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Crime is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America by Franklin E. Zimring, ISBN 0195131053
In Crime is Not the Problem, Franklin Zimring and Gordon Hawkins revolutionize the way we think about crime and violence -- by forcing us to distinguish between crime and violence. The authors reveal that compared to other industrialized nations, in most categories of nonviolent crime, American crime rates are comparable -- even lower, in some cases. Only when it comes to lethal violence does the United States outpace other Western nations, with homicide rates many, many times greater. London and New York City have hearty the same number of robberies and burglaries each year, but robbers and burglars kill fifty-four victims in New York for every victim death in London.
Why are the risks so much greater that victims will be killed or maimed in the United States? And what can be done to bring the death rate from American violence down to tolerable levers? The authors show how the impact of television and movie violence on rates of homicide is wildly overrated, but emphasize the paramount...
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Book and Sword by Louis Cha, ISBN 0195907272
Louis Cha's martial arts epics have sold millions of copies worldwide. Many of them have appeared on best-sellers' lists in Chinese markets and have been adapted into television series and films. The Book and Sword, Louis Cha's first novel, is about an underworld plot to overthrow the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1736-1795). It revives a legend about the great Manchu Emperor, which claims that he was in fact not a Manchu but a Han Chinese as a result of a "baby swap." The novel is panoramic in scope and includes the fantastical elements for which Cha is well-known: secret societies, kungfu masters, a lost desert city guarded by wolf packs, and the mysterious Fragrant Princess.
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Philosophy and the Interpretation of Pop Culture
Comprised of thirteen articles by well-known authors, this book makes the case to philosophers that popular culture is worthy of their attention. Issues of concern include the distinction between high culture and popular culture, the aesthetic and moral value of popular culture, allusion and identification in popular culture, and special problems posed by the interpretation of popular culture. Popular art forms considered include: movies, television shows, comic books, children's stories, photographs, and rock songs.
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Henry Bumstead and the World of Hollywood Art Direction by Andrew Horton, ISBN 0292705190
"Dear Bummy, You take the BS out of filmmaking!"--Clint Eastwood's comment on Henry Bumstead's receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998 from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Art Directors"Making a movie with Bummy was always a pleasure because it was like going to work with a good friend who also had a fine, artistic eye, who shared your vision, and who knew infinitely more about the practical nuts-and-bolts business of putting a story on camera than you did. . . . Everything he designed served the movie. He knew how to visually bring it to life."--Robert MulliganFrom a hotel in Marrakech in The Man Who Knew Too Much, to small-town Alabama in To Kill a Mockingbird, to Mission Control in Space Cowboys, creating a fictional, yet wholly believable world in which to film a movie has been the passion and life's work of Henry Bumstead, one of Hollywood's most celebrated production designers. In a career that has spanned nearly seventy years, Bumstead has worked on more than...
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Careers in Real Estate by Mark Rowh, ISBN 0658000543
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