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Book Beautiful TV

    Book Details:
  • Author : Greg M. Smith
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2009-03-06
  • ISBN : 0292777841
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Beautiful TV written by Greg M. Smith and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During its five-year run from 1997 to 2002, the popular TV show Ally McBeal engaged viewers in debates over what it means to be a woman or a man in the modern workplace; how romance factors into the therapeutic understanding of relationships; what value eccentricity has and how much oddity society should tolerate; and what utility fantasy has in the pragmatic world. In addition to these social concerns, however, Ally McBeal stood out for being well-constructed, narratively complex, and stylistically rich—in short, beautiful TV. Starting from the premise that much of television today is "drop-dead gorgeous" and that TV should be studied for its formal qualities as well as its social impact, Greg M. Smith analyzes Ally McBeal in terms of its aesthetic principles and narrative construction. He explores how Ally's innovative use of music, special effects, fantasy sequences, voiceovers, and flashbacks structures a distinctive fictional universe, while it also opens up new possibilities for televisual expression. Smith also discusses the complex narrative strategies that Ally's creator David E. Kelley used to develop a long-running storyline and shows how these serial narrative practices can help us understand a wide range of prime-time TV serials. By taking seriously the art and argument of Ally McBeal, Beautiful TV conclusively demonstrates that aesthetic and narrative analysis is an indispensable key for unlocking the richness of contemporary television.

Book It s Been Beautiful

Download or read book It s Been Beautiful written by Gayle Wald and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soul! was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri Baraka and Stokely Carmichael enjoyed a sympathetic forum for their radical politics. Broadcast on public television between 1968 and 1973, Soul!, helmed by pioneering producer and frequent host Ellis Haizlip, connected an array of black performers and public figures with a black viewing audience. In It's Been Beautiful, Gayle Wald tells the story of Soul!, casting this influential but overlooked program as a bold and innovative use of television to represent and critically explore black identity, culture, and feeling during a transitional period in the black freedom struggle.

Book Beautiful World  Where Are You

Download or read book Beautiful World Where Are You written by Sally Rooney and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

Book The Secret Gratitude Book

Download or read book The Secret Gratitude Book written by Rhonda Byrne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-12-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author and producer of The Secret offers inspiring quotes and affirmations to encourage personal journaling and reflection on gratitude and abundance, equipping individuals with a powerful tool to transform their lives and experience more joy. 500,000 first printing. $250,000 ad/promo.

Book TV Creators

    Book Details:
  • Author : James L. Longworth, Jr.
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 2002-05-01
  • ISBN : 9780815629535
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book TV Creators written by James L. Longworth, Jr. and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sequel provides yet another dozen of today's most acclaimed writers and producers an open, uncensored forum in which they discuss everything from their work ethic to the political, social, and economic issues affecting the television industry. The West Wing, C.S.I., and Judging Amy 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, philosophies, and contributions of some of the best television scribes of the past two decades. TV Creators: Volume Two includes revelations such as Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing) admitting that he is not a natural storyteller, and Martha Williamson (Touched by an Angel) announcing that "There is nothing more gender blind than an executive producer who desperately needs a good writer." Glenn Gordon Caron (Moonlighting, Now & Again) confesses, "I always think that disaster is an inch away," while Paul Haggis (Family Law) reveals, "I always like to do something that I think I can fail at." Also interviewed are: Aaron Spelling (Charmed, Beverly Hills 90210); Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer); Roy Huggins (The Fugitive); Clifton Campbell (Profiler); Barbara Hall (Judging Amy); Anthony Zuiker (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation); John McNamara (The Fugitive); and Don Bellisario (JAG, Magnum P.I.).

Book The Economics of Professional Road Cycling

Download or read book The Economics of Professional Road Cycling written by Daam Van Reeth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, a growing body of academic literature on the economics of road cycling has been amassed. This book is the first volume to bring together a majority of the academic research and knowledge on the economics and management of professional road cycling. Each chapter treats a particular economic aspect of the sport, from organizational structure to marketing, labor, game theory, and competitive balance. By discussing the existing research and complementing it with the newest concepts, ideas and data on professional road cycling, this book sets an agenda for further academic research while providing insights for all stakeholders in cycling: governments, cycling's governing bodies, team managers, race organizers, sponsors, media. Furthermore, the unique characteristics of the sport of cycling explored within this text inform broader management and industrial organization research, as they extend analyses of team labor, broadcast revenue generation, and sponsorship financing models. This book is equally of interest to academic researchers, students studying sports economics, and policy makers, such as race organizers, team managers, and sponsors.

Book House Beautiful

Download or read book House Beautiful written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California  Court of Appeal  2nd Appellate District   Records and Briefs

Download or read book California Court of Appeal 2nd Appellate District Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Received document entitled: EXHIBITS FILED IN OPPOSITION TO PETITION FOR WRIT

Book CSI

    CSI

    Book Details:
  • Author : Derek Kompare
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2010-10-11
  • ISBN : 1405186097
  • Pages : 163 pages

Download or read book CSI written by Derek Kompare and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are certain films and shows that resonate with audiences everywhere—they generate discussion and debate about everything from gender, class, citizenship and race, to consumerism and social identity. This new ‘teachable canon’ of film and television introduces students to alternative classics that range from silent film to CSI. Since its debut in September 2000, CSI’s fusion of cinematic spectacle, forensic pathology and character drama has regularly drawn in tens of millions of viewers around the world This original new study investigates CSI’s cultural importance, both for the media industry and for the criminal justice system itself, exploring its formal and narrative style, and its impact on media culture CSI provides a model for studying how genre, narrative, industry concerns, and the broad 'public life' of a television series contribute to our understanding of the nature and function of contemporary popular television

Book Boating

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Boating written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Grammar By Diagram   Second Edition

Download or read book Grammar By Diagram Second Edition written by Cindy L. Vitto and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2006-07-10 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammar by Diagram, second edition is a book designed for anyone who wishes to improve grammatical understanding and skill. Using traditional sentence diagraming as a visual tool, the book explains how to expand simple sentences into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences, and how to employ verbals (infinitives, gerunds, and participles) and other structures for additional variety. The text addresses the most frequent usage errors by explaining how to distinguish between adjectives and adverbs; how to avoid problems of pronoun case, agreement, and consistency; how to ensure that verbs will agree with their subjects and will be appropriate in terms of tense, aspect, voice, and mood; and how to phrase sentences to avoid errors in parallelism or placement of modifiers. Six appendices incorporate further exercises, a summary of key basics from the text, and supplemental material not included in the body of the text but useful for quick reference. This new edition includes additional exercises and has been revised and updated throughout.

Book hardware retailer january 1964

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Book Big Picture  Small Screen

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Hill
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9781860200052
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Big Picture Small Screen written by John Hill and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work features contributions from academics and media professionals who ask: what is the history of involvement between film and television in the US, Europe, Britain and Ireland; what are the sources of television finance for film; and what are the consequences for the type of film made?

Book Monkey Genius and His Bikini Assassin Squad and the 349 Other Best TV Shows of All Time

Download or read book Monkey Genius and His Bikini Assassin Squad and the 349 Other Best TV Shows of All Time written by Greg Houston and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satire. A collection of 350 fictional TV shows described in a hyperbolic, sexist, insensitive and often offensive style similar to the way the television industry itself might promote them.

Book Jack Lord

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sylvia D. Lynch
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2018-03-22
  • ISBN : 147666627X
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Jack Lord written by Sylvia D. Lynch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before his rise to superstardom portraying Detective Steve McGarrett on the long-running police drama Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord was already a dedicated and versatile actor on Broadway, in film and on television. His range of roles included a Virginia gentleman planter in Colonial Williamsburg (The Story of a Patriot), CIA agent Felix Leiter in the first James Bond movie (Dr. No) and the title character in the cult classic rodeo TV series Stoney Burke. Lord's career culminated in twelve seasons on Hawaii Five-O, where his creative control of the series left an indelible mark on every aspect of its production. This book, the first to draw on Lord's massive personal archive, gives a behind-the-scenes look into the life and work of a TV legend.

Book The Soul Search

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kat Knecht
  • Publisher : Balboa Press
  • Release : 2016-10-27
  • ISBN : 1504366409
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book The Soul Search written by Kat Knecht and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of self help books and transformational training programs have been created to help you find fulfillment, live a better life and become prosperous. The unique promise of the Soulsearch is to integrate the common threads of New Thought philosophies and Ancient Wisdom traditions so that you can apply those spiritual principles to your everyday life. the Soulsearch is full of stories that reveal both the journey and the results that come from using a practical tool guided by a spiritual philosophy. There is a step by step process you can follow as well as a simple concept that, once learned, will change your life forever. The stories are funny, inspirational, dramatic and rich with learning. They are the real life experiences of humans doing their best in a world that offers both challenges and opportunities to give and receive love in its many forms.