An Analytical Guide to Television's Battlestar Galactica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Analytical Guide to Television's Battlestar Galactica write by John Kenneth Muir. This book was released on 2015-09-15. An Analytical Guide to Television's Battlestar Galactica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the space drama Battlestar Galactica debuted on ABC in 1978, it was expected to be the most popular new program of the year. Instead, it was attacked as a Star Wars rip-off and canceled after a mere 17 stories. The author acknowledges the show was full of dramatic cliches and scientific inaccuracies, but despite these shortcomings, Battlestar Galactica was a dramatically resonant series full of unique and individual characters, such as Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) and ace warrior Captain Apollo (Richard Hatch). The author contends that Battlestar Galactica was a memorable attempt to make science fiction accessible to mainstream television audiences. The brilliant work of artist John Dykstra brought a new world of special effects to network television. Battlestar Galactica also skillfully exploited legends and names from both the Bible and ancient mythology, which added a layer of depth and maturity to the weekly drama.
An Analytical Guide to Television's One Step Beyond, 1959-1961
An Analytical Guide to Television's One Step Beyond, 1959-1961 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Analytical Guide to Television's One Step Beyond, 1959-1961 write by John Kenneth Muir. This book was released on 2010-06-21. An Analytical Guide to Television's One Step Beyond, 1959-1961 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond made its television debut in 1959, nine months before Rod Serling's classic The Twilight Zone, and paved the way for a generation of television programs devoted to paranormal topics such as the occult, ESP, and ghost stories. One Step Beyond was also where some of Hollywood's most famous leading men, including Warren Beatty, William Shatner, and Charles Bronson, got their starts in television. This complete reference work to the 96 half-hour episodes that ran for three seasons on ABC also offers a detailed history, extensive commentary and summaries of the critical reception of One Step Beyond as well as coverage of the sequel series produced in 1978 entitled The Next Step Beyond. Complete credits for both series are provided.
Beautiful TV
Beautiful TV - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beautiful TV write by Greg M. Smith. This book was released on 2009-03-06. Beautiful TV available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Living in Technical Legality
Living in Technical Legality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living in Technical Legality write by Kieran Tranter. This book was released on 2018-07-02. Living in Technical Legality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First comparative study to address the rediscovery of baroque aesthetic in modernism.
Television Program Master Index
Television Program Master Index - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Television Program Master Index write by Charles V. Dintrone. This book was released on 2014-01-23. Television Program Master Index available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work indexes books, dissertations and journal articles that mention television shows. Memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, and some popular works meant for fans are also indexed. The major focus is on service to researchers in the history of television. Listings are keyed to an annotated bibliography. Appendices include a list of websites; an index of groups or classes of people on television; and a list of programs by genre. Changes from the second edition include more than 300 new shows, airing on a wider variety of networks; 2000-plus references (more than double the second edition); and a large increase in scholarly articles. The book provides access to materials on almost 2300 shows, including groundbreaking ones like All in the Family (almost 200 entries); cult favorites like Buffy: The Vampire Slayer (200-plus entries); and a classic franchise, Star Trek (more than 400 entries for all the shows). The shows covered range from the late 1940s to 2010 (The Walking Dead). References range from 1956 to 2013.
