Tvtherapy: The Television Guide to Life
From the co-author of the Cinematherapy series comes a television guide that understands that TV is more than entertainment--it's remote control therapy.
TV Creators: Conversations with America's Top Producers of Television Drama by Longworth, James L., Jr., ISBN 0815628749
ER, Law & Order, and The Sopranos are just a few of the dramas that launched a new era of television at the turn of the millennium. TV Creators gives scholars and fans alike an exclusive, firsthand account of the lives, philosophy, and contribution of some of the best writers and producers of the last fifteen years.
In one of the few books of its kind, James L. Longworth, Jr. reveals the drama behind the dramas, with producers sharing often never-before published stories and observations: The Sopranos producer originally envisioned Robert Di Niro and Ann Bancroft as the lead characters in the now highly successful series about mob life. NYPD Blue's co-creator was once offered the presidency of CBS by William Paley, but he turned down the job. The Emmy-winning producer of Homicide and Oz owes his discovery to Gwyneth Paltrow and her mom, Blythe Danner. The successful creator of Providence also created Touched by an Angel, but was fired over a pilot that never aired. The Oscar-winning producer...
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Woody Allen: A Life in Film
In an unprecedented television program, Woody Allen spoke to the camera for the first time about the entire range of his work, in an interview with Richard Schickel. But the presentation contained only a small fraction of the interview. This book reprints the complete conversation between the two men.
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The Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949-1989 by Joshua Feinstein, ISBN 0807853852
Were movies in the East Bloc propaganda or carefully veiled dissent? In the first major study in English of East German film, Joshua Feinstein argues that the answer to this question is decidedly complex.
Drawing on newly opened archives as well as interviews with East German directors, actors, and state officials, Feinstein traces how the cinematic depiction of East Germany changed in response to national political developments and transnational cultural trends such as the spread of television and rock 'n' roll. Celluloid images fed a larger sense of East German identity, an identity that persists today, more than a decade after German reunification. But even as they attempted to satisfy calls for "authentic" images of the German Democratic Republic that would legitimize socialist rule, filmmakers challenged the regime's self-understanding. Beginning in the late 1960s, East German films dwelled increasingly on everyday life itself, no longer seeing it merely as a stage in the development...
The Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949-1989 by Joshua Feinstein, ISBN 0807853852
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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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No Bad Dogs: Training Dogs by Barbara Woodhouse, ISBN 0671541854
Barbara Woodhouse, "the lady with the dogs," is already familiar to millions of Americans through the publication of her best-selling book, "No Bad Dogs," her frequent appearances on such national television shows as "60 Minutes," "The Tonight Show," "Donahue," "Merv Griffin," "Good Morning America," and the syndication of her enormously popular television series, "Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way."
There are no bad dogs, Barbara Woodhouse believes -- only inexperienced owners. She ought to know: in thirty years she has personally trained 17,000 dogs and their owners in her weekend courses, teaching perfect obedience to basic commands in only six and a half hours.
In this irresistible book, Barbara Woodhouse passes on to the reader the simple, effective techniques as well as the infectious, positive attitude that have enabled her to make the most unruly or nervous dog happily obedient -- sometimes within a few minutes, as astonished television audiences can attest.
"No Bad Dogs"...
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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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Cisco Kid: Collection 3, The
Here's adventure! Here's romance! O. Henry's "famous Robin Hood of the Old West" is back! "The Cisco Kid" stars Duncan Renaldo as Cisco and Leo Carrillo as his faithful sidekick and comic foil, Pancho. One of the first television programs to be filmed in color, this classic Western ran from 1950-1956. Set in 1890's New Mexico, Cisco and Pancho fight corruption and seek justice for the victims of bandits, con men and cattle rustlers. With a combination of humor and compassion for their fellow man, Cisco and Pancho have become legendary to television viewers everywhere. Episode highlights for "The Cisco Kid Collection 3" include: Cisco and Pancho go undercover to prevent a rowdy gang of thugs from taking over Buffalo Flats; Cisco discovers a treasure buried during the Civil War when a former wealthy banker regains his memory; and Pancho poses as a woman's uncle to help Cisco prove that the man was murdered.
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