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Call No: 49[32](73) AME
Author: McNally, Karen
Edition: 2022
Place: Detroit, Michigan
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: April 2022
PhysDes: 336 pages ; 24 cm
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media
Subject: TELEVISION. USA; TRUMP, DONALD; APPRENTICE, THE [TV] (US, 2004); CHERNOBYL [TV] (US/UK, 2019); POLITICS AND TV. USA; GOOD WIFE, THE [TV] (US, 2009); BLACKLISTING. USA; PLOT AGAINST AMERICA (US, 2020); SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE [TV] (US, 1975-); STAR TREK [ GENERAL]; AMERICAN HORROR STORY [TV] (US, 2011)
Summary: In American Television during a Television Presidency, Karen McNally and contributors critically examine the various ways in which television became transfixed by the Trump presidency and the broader political, social, and cultural climate. This book is the first to fully address the relationship between TV and a presidency consistently conducted with television in mind. The sixteen chapters cover everything from the political theater of televised impeachment hearings to the potent narratives of fictional drama and the stinging critiques of comedy, as they consider the wide-ranging ways in which television engages with the shifting political culture that emerged during this period. Approaching television both historically and in the contemporary moment, the contributors - an international group of scholars from a variety of academic disciplines- illuminate the indelible links that exist between television, American politics, and the nation’s broader culture. As it interrogates a presidency played out through the lens of the TV camera and reviews a medium immersing itself in a compelling and inescapable subject, American Television during a Television Presidency sets out to explore what defines the television of the Trump era as a distinctive time in TV history. From inequalities to resistance, and from fandom to historical memory, this book opens up new territory in which to critically analyze television’s complex relationship with Donald Trump, his presidency, and the political culture of this unsettled and simultaneously groundbreaking era. Undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of film and television studies, comedy studies, and cultural studies will value this strong collection. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780814349359
Donation: Senses of Cinema

PhysDes: Article
Subject: TELEVISION. USA; DRUGS AND TELEVISION; YOUNG PEOPLE AND TV
Summary: Nancy Reagan will be on an episode of Diff'rent Strokes to raise awareness to teen drug use.

Call No: 205.1 MAY
Author: May, Harvey
Source: AT
Place: Sydney; Brisbane, Queensland
Publisher: Australian Film Commission; Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre; Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 72 pages : 30cm.
Series: Screen Industry, Culture and Policy Research Series
Subject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; PROGRAMME POLICY; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA; TELEVISION. UK; TELEVISION. NEW ZEALAND; TELEVISION. USA; ETHNIC GROUPS ON TV. AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ON TV
Summary: 'Examines the cultural diversity policies and practices and their impact on television programming in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia, with a focus on drama. The study looks at the relationship between multicultural history and policy, and the developments made in the representation of a culturally diverse population on each nation's television screens' - taken from executive summary
Notes: Includes appendix of acronyms
ISBN: 0958015244
Contents: Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Executive summary -- Key findings -- 1. Charting the waters -- 2. The United States: affirmative action, 'quotas' abd diversity rights -- 3. The United Kingdom: policy remits for diversity and an 'everyday' multiculturalism -- 4. New Zealand: Biculturalism and targeted subsidies -- 5. Australia: the shift to cultural diversity -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix -- About the Screen Industry, Culture and Policy Research series

Call No: 611 CIN
Author: Burckner, Clara
CorpAuthor: Centre culturel allemand--Goethe-Institut
Place: Paris
Publisher: L'Institut
PubDate: 1983?]
PhysDes: 76 p. ; 30 cm
Subject: TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA; DISTRIBUTION; PRODUCTION; TELEVISION. USA; CHANNEL FOUR
Notes: "Colloque ... organisGe par le Goethe-Institut ... [et al.]"--P. 4
LON: 85153367; 4887259

Call No: 734-01 MAR
Author: Martin, Brett
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Penguin Books
PubDate: [2013]
PhysDes: 303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject: CRIME DRAMAS; TELEVISION. USA; CABLE TV. USA; HBO; BREAKING BAD [TV] (US, 2008-2013); DEADWOOD [TV] (US, 2004); SHIELD, THE [TV] (US, 2002-); SOPRANOS, THE [TV] (US, 1999-); WIRE, THE [TV] (US, David Simon, 2002)
Summary: "In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the landscape of television began an unprecedented transformation. While the networks continued to chase the lowest common denominator, a wave of new shows on cable channels dramatically stretched television's narrative inventiveness, emotional resonance, and artistic ambition. Combining deep reportage with cultural analysis and historical context, Brett Martin recounts the rise and inner workings of a genre that represents not only a new golden age for TV, but also a cultural watershed." - taken from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295) and index.
ISBN: 9780143125693
Contents: Prologue -- Part One: Previously On -- One. In This Maligned Medium -- Two. Which Films? -- Three. A Great Notion -- Four. Should We Do This? Can We Do This? -- Part Two: The Beast in He -- Five. Difficult Men -- Six. The Arguer -- Seven. The Magic Hubig's -- Eight. Being The Boss -- Nine. A Big Piece Of Equipment -- Ten. Have A Take. Try Not To Suck -- Part Three: The Inheritors -- Eleven. Shooting The Dog -- Twelve. See You At The Emmys -- Thirteen. The Happiest Room In Hollywood. -- Epilogue

Call No: 761(73) BLU
Author: Bluem, A. William
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Hastings House
PubDate: [1965]
PhysDes: 311 p. illus., ports. 24 cm
Subject: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES. USA; JOURNALISM IN THE CINEMA; PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; RADIO AND THE CINEMA; TELEVISION JOURNALISM; TELEVISION; TELEVISION. USA; TRUTH IN FILMS; WAR AND TV
Summary: "The documentary movement in American television is explored critically in this knowledgeable, and often controversial, book. Analyzed here are forms and functions of the television documentary; its heritage in other media (print, still photography, motion pictures, radio, living theatre); its major achievements; the people who have shaped it; the problems and the possibilities of its use in a free society." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Bibliography: p. 297-301
ISBN: 0803815271
LON: 646183 8085578
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Call No: 461-2 ARN
Author: Arnold, Sarah
Edition: 2021
Place: London
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
PubDate: 2021
PhysDes: xx, 288 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm
Series: Library of Gender and Polar Culture
Subject: TELEVISION. UK; TELEVISION. USA; WOMEN AND TV; WOMEN TV WORKERS; COOKERY PROGRAMMES
ISBN: 9781780769769

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; TELEVISION. USA
Author: -
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: TELEVISION. USA; FX NETWORKS
Summary: Discussion about the 'high-quality' tv phenomenon and predictions that the amount of these types of shows are close to peaking

Call No: 79HON STE
Author: Sterritt, David
Source: US
Place: Detroit
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: c2009
PhysDes: vii, 107 p. : ill. ; 18 cm
Series: TV milestones; Contemporary approaches to film and television series. TV milestones
Subject: TELEVISION; TELEVISION. USA; SOCIETY AND TV; SOCIETY AND TV. USA; HONEYMOONERS, THE [TV] (US, Frank Satenstein, 1955-1956)
Summary: "The Honeymooners chronicles the lives of New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden and his wife, Alice, as they search for domestic happiness inside a confining Brooklyn apartment. As a stand-alone television program, it ran for just thirty-nine weeks from 1955 to 1956, but its characters appeared in long-running sketches on Cavalcade of Stars and The Jackie Gleason Show and the program has lived on for generations in reruns and home video releases. David Sterritt investigates The Honeymooners as an enduring and valuable index of societal norms and televisual tastes in the 1950s - a project made all the more intriguing by the diverse ways in which The Honeymooners both reaffirms and diverges from the typical broadcast idioms of its day."-- LIBRARIES AUSTRALIA
Notes: Contemporary approaches to film and television series.; TV milestones
ISBN: 9780814333969
Donation: This book donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013
Contents: -- Introduction: "better living through TV" -- 1: "Principle of the thing": The honeymooners and postwar America -- 2: "Opportunity knocks, but": social and cultural issues -- 3: "Unconventional behavior": psychological perspectives -- 4: "You're in the picture": Honeymooners aesthetics -- Conclusion: "please leave the premises" -- notes -- bibliography -- videography -- index --

Call No: 202 BAU
Author: Baughman, James L
Source: US
Place: Baltimore MD
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: xvii, 257 p. ; 24 cm
Series: The American Moment
Subject: BROADCASTING. US; USA; MEDIA; TELEVISION AND MEDIA SERVICES; TELEVISION. USA
Summary: "In the late 1940s, the film, radio, and television media enjoyed roughly the same measure of popularity in America. By the late 1960s, television's rivals had in effect become secondary services, and Hollywood and radio began to target "sub-groups"-especially teenagers-to win back a segment of the mass market. The proliferation of VCRs and cable television in the 1980s presented even more challenges to media producers and the first serious threats to network television. This changing landscape of America's major mass media is the subject of The Republic of Mass Culture. James L. Baughman argues that the advent of television had the greatest impact on its established rivals-not, as many have argued, on society itself. Many of TVs competitors-most notably, publishers of newspapers and periodicals-failed to recognize the longterm threats of television. But by capturing the largest share of the mass audience, television gradually forced its competitors to settle for smaller audiences. In the process, television producers indirectly influenced what their rivals produced-including rock music for young radio listeners in the 1950s, and more sexually explicit films, which Hollywood began offering in the late 1960s. The capacity of individual industries to adapt, argues Baughman, not only determined their success or failure but also shaped the content of their products. The Republic of Mass Culture presents a lively analysis of the shifting objectives and challenges of the media industries, and offers a corrective to some of the casual generalizations frequently made about their effects on Americans."-BOOK BLURB
Notes: includes bibliographical references; includes index
ISBN: 0801842778

Call No: 410(94) MUR
Author: Murray, John P.
Source: AT
Place: North Ryde, NSW
Publisher: School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University
PubDate: 1976
PhysDes: 8 pages ; 26 cm
Series: Television and socialisation research reports; TVS-1976/C; The mass media and social behaviour project
Subject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCES. AUSTRALIA; PROGRAMME CHOICE; PROGRAMME CONTENT. AUSTRALIA; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA; VIOLENCE ON TV; TELEVISION. USA; CRIME ON TV; POLICE ON TV

Call No: 70 BRO
Author: Brown, Les
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Harvest
PubDate: 1971
PhysDes: viii, 374 p. ; 22 cm
Subject: TELEVISION. USA; INDUSTRY, TV. USA; BROADCASTING. US; RATINGS. USA
Summary: The author gives an account of a year in the American TV business. He analyzes the differences between ABC, CBS and NBC; the executive-suite intrigues; the role fear plays in programing; the bitter conflict between the networks and their affiliate stations; and the largely transient titans who control the most powerful communications medium ever known. He also explains the numbers rating game, the complex strategies used to plan a TV season, the often intimidating function of the FCC, and the curious nature of "public" television. [ Taken from the back of the book]
ISBN: 0156884402
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 412.511(73) MIL
Author: Milgram, Stanley; Shotland, R. Lance
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Academic Press, Inc.
PubDate: 1973
PhysDes: xii, 183 pages: illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH. USA; AUDIENCES. USA; BROADCASTING. US; SOCIAL PROBLEMS ON TV; SOCIETY AND TV. USA; SOCIOLOGY AND TV; TELEVISION. USA
Summary: "For a period of several years we have been engaged in a program of research on a troubling social question: does the depiction of antisocial behavior on television stimulate imitation in the larger community? To carry out this research, a television program was specifically written for the purpose of this study and aired on network television. To assess the effects of the program, our research as carried out in New York, St Louis, Detroit, and Chicago [...] We present here the results of our investigation." - PREFACE
Notes: Includes index and bibliographic references -- previously owned by the Department of the Media Library
ISBN: 0124963501

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: TELEVISION. USA

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; TELEVISION. USA
Author: Dale, David
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: TELEVISION. USA
Summary: Snippet on the number of new US shows priming to start in 2016. Dale is skeptical on whether the shows will be any good, but is hopeful for THE GOOD WIFE spinoff starring Christine Baranski and GREAT NEWS whose Executive Producer is Tina Fey

Call No: 734 TUR
Author: Turnbull, Sue
Source: UK
Place: [Edinburgh]
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: c2014
PhysDes: vii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series: TV genres
Subject: ADAPTATIONS. DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; CRIME DRAMAS; CRIME DRAMAS. AUSTRALIA; CRIME ON TV; CRITICISM, TV.; DETECTIVES ON TV; POLICE ON TV; PROGRAMME GENRES; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF TV; RATINGS. USA; TELEVISION; TELEVISION. UK; TELEVISION. USA; WOMEN ON TV; CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION [TV] (US/CA, 2000-); DRAGNET [TV] (US, 1951-59, 1967-70); HILL STREET BLUES [TV] (US, 1980-87); LAW AND ORDER [TV] (US, 1990-); POLICE STORY: COP KILLER [TV] (US, Larry Shaw, 1988); SOPRANOS, THE [TV] (US, 1999-)
Summary: "What are the characteristic features of the crime drama as a television genre? What is the relationship between crime in the real world and the representation of crime on television? What are the merits of TV crime drama as a genre? The TV Crime Drama offers a genealogical account of the television crime drama, from its origins in popular culture of the 19th and 20th century to its most recent manifestations, as a genre enjoying transnational circulation and popularity. Exploring the key features of this genre in terms of format and style, it pays particular attention to the role of the investigators, the police, the private investigators and the specialists in forensic science and psychology, as well as the debates which have circulated about the role and representation of women. Covering classic series such as The Sweeney and Dragnet as well as contemporary crime dramas including The Wire, The Killing and Luther, this book is an essential read for students and scholars in television studies." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index
ISBN: 9780748640874

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; TELEVISION. USA
Author: Flint, Joe; Gryta, Thomas
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: TELEVISION. USA
Summary: Popular US television stations accussed Verizon Cimmunications of violating contracts in its bid to offer cheaper packages of pay TV. Summarises the current standing of pay TV in America.

Call No: 70"198" (73) CAS
Author: Castleman, Harry ; Podrazik, Walter J.
Source: US
Place: US
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company
PubDate: 1982
PhysDes: 314 p. : ill. ; 29 cm
Subject: TELEVISION. USA; INDUSTRY, TV. USA
Summary: " To be understood, American television must be viewed as the embodiment of contradiction-a miracle of spectacular technical achievement imprisoned by the demands of its mundane day-to-day operations. So called "high-class" programming almost always competes with mass appeal presentations because, with 365 days a year to fill, programmers cannot possibly stock each moment of each day with uplifting culture, In spite of all its limitations, this mundane miracle still produces great moments of popular culture and, to varying degrees, special moments of brilliance that rekindle the awe felt by the first TV owners. Yet, in the game of American television, the bottom line has always been high ratings and, to this day, it still is."-INTRODUCTION
Notes: includes index
ISBN: 007010268