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Book SynopsisMaps out the dominant debates surrounding period drama through the twin frameworks of prestige and pleasure

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Book SynopsisCandice Bergen shares her marriage to a famous French director, the birth of her daughter, Murphy Brown, widowhood, and falling in love again.Trade Review"Candice Bergen shows how to do a memoir right. . . . The self-possessed, witty, and down-to-earth voice that made Bergen's first memoir a hit when it was published in 1984 has only been deepened by life's surprises. . . . As a fictional newswoman, Murphy Brown was iconically brassy. As a memoirist, Candice Bergen is flesh-and-blood classy." * The New York Times Book Review *“Bergen is . . . daring in her smart, self-mocking memoir A Fine Romance. . . . She’s awfully good company.” * The Wall Street Journal *“Bergen may not have had Murphy’s sharp elbows or unswerving career focus, but she reveals herself to be just as complicated and sophisticated as her television counterpart—and infinitely more introspective. . . . [A Fine Romance] succeeds in the way a good memoir should. It presents a human life in full—with great glories and heartaches and watercolored memories. Bergen tells her story with humor, confidence and candor. Perhaps she’s not so different from Murphy after all." * The Washington Post *“A Fine Romance is just that. Candice tells her own story with honesty and humor—a story of loves lost and found, of marriages, joys and heartaches. I am not sure Candice ever realized her own beauty or how well she writes. Well, she is, and she does.” -- Barbara Walters“Candice Bergen's memoir is moving with the wisdom that only age can bring. The woman you thought had everything has been through more than most of us could bear. Revelatory, anguished, and utterly inspirational.” -- Bette Midler, author of A View from a Broad"You'll fall for Bergen's A Fine Romance. . . . Her writing and storytelling are superb throughout. . . . With this memoir, we're all likely to be wishing Bergen herself—funny, insightful, self-deprecating, flawed (and not especially concerned about that), and slugging her way through her older years with bemused determination—was living next door.” * USA Today *“Candice’s book is candid, honest, interesting, and reading it, you love her more than ever.” -- Diane von Furstenberg, author of The Woman I Wanted to Be“Bergen is a talented and graceful writer—something she first demonstrated in Knock Wood, which chronicled her Hollywood youth and coming of age as the daughter of famed comedian and ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Her literary voice is enormously engaging, capable of infusing considerable wit and poignancy. . . . She has something real to say here, and one hopes that her journey will continue for many years to come—and that eventually she'll write about that too.” * Chicago Tribune *“Candy's memoir is intimate and surprisingly candid. We learn, we laugh, we marvel because her voice is as honest, funny, and rapier-smart as Murphy’s. Add in self-reflection and self-deprecation and you have one heck of a great read.” -- Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes correspondent“Candy gives us a glimpse into the fascinating world of fame and shares with us the ordinary in the extraordinary.” -- Carrie Fisher, author of Postcards from the Edge and Wishful Drinking"Three decades after writing her memoir Knock Wood, Candice Bergen has penned a follow-up, A Fine Romance . . . with candor, humor and poignancy." * LA Times *"A surprisingly frank and even bawdy mélange of celebrity fairy tale, marriage confessional and accounting of the mundane." * The New York Times *"Candice Bergen’s follow-up to her Knock Wood is among the more commendable celebrity memoirs you’ll encounter. . . . Along with writing skill . . . you’ll be impressed with [her] candor and wisdom." * The Buffalo News (Editor's Choice) *"A Fine Romance is full of heart. Even though Bergen is surrounded by celebrity friends at the turn of every page, it's evident she is about as down-to-earth as they come. There is an honesty in her writing that is both refreshing and encouraging.” * Associated Press *“Bergen has a way of making readers think they are friends who understand her life and know her dreams and frustrations. The book is forthcoming and refreshingly human.” * The Examiner *“Bergen’s rapier wit, warm personality and unflinching honesty make these stories of life and love all the more appealing.” * Bookpage *"With her trademark wit, Bergen leads readers through the highs and lows of her professional and personal life in this entertaining and poignant memoir chock-full of Hollywood cameos. . . . Never afraid to poke fun at herself or celebrity culture, Bergen is as fresh, funny, and biting as Murphy Brown was nearly 30 years ago." * Publishers Weekly *“A glamorously bittersweet showbiz memoir.” * Kirkus *“Honest, self-deprecating and well-written.” * St. Louis Post-Dispatch *

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Book SynopsisA poignant, intimate, funny, inspiring memoir—both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creativity, devotion, and craft—from Bryan Cranston, beloved and acclaimed star of one of history’s most successful TV shows, Breaking Bad.Bryan Cranston landed his first role at seven, when his father cast him in a United Way commercial. Acting was clearly the boy’s destiny, until one day his father disappeared. Destiny suddenly took a backseat to survival. Now, in his riveting memoir, Cranston maps his zigzag journey from abandoned son to beloved star by recalling the many odd parts he’s played in real life—paperboy, farmhand, security guard, dating consultant, murder suspect, dock loader, lover, husband, father. Cranston also chronicles his evolution on camera, from soap opera player trying to master the rules of show business to legendary character actor turning in classic performances as Seinfeld dentist Tim Whatley,

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Book SynopsisTHE X-FILES FAQ:ALL THAT'S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT GLOBAL CONSPIRACY ALIENS LAZARUS SPECIES

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Book SynopsisThe definitive, authorized story of legendary sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall who will soon be returning for a new original series on Amazon Prime Video. Meticulously researched and written with the full cooperation and participation of the troupe, The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy features exclusive interviews with Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson, as well as key players from their inner circle, including producer Lorne Michaels, the man in the towel Paul Bellini, and head writer Norm Hiscock. Marvel as the Kids share their intimate memories and behind-the-scenes stories of how they created their greatest sketches and most beloved characters, from the Chicken Lady and Buddy Cole to Cabbage Head and Sir Simon &Hecubus.The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy spans the entirety of the Kids' storied career, from their early club shows in Toronto and New York to their recent live reunioTrade ReviewKliph Nesteroff, author of The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy * Globe and Mail *Paul Myers usually writes biographies about rock stars, and he used that approach to create The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy, the story of possibly the greatest comedy troupe of all time, and Canada’s greatest world citizens. * Vulture *A terrific account of a truly unique sensation. * Kirkus Reviews *

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Book SynopsisMatthew Flisfeder introduces readers to key concepts in postmodern theory and demonstrates how it can be used for a critical interpretation and analysis of Blade Runner, arguably ''the greatest science fiction film''. By contextualizing the film within the culture of late 20th and early 21st-century capitalism, Flisfeder provides a valuable guide for both students and scholars interested in learning more about one of the most significant, influential, and controversial concepts in film and cultural studies of the past 40 years.The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of film theory with interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner offers a concise introduction to Postmodernism in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret Ridley Scott''s cult filmTrade ReviewThis book not only offers a thorough and lucid presentation of the multiple features of postmodernist theory today, it dramatizes them in a bravura reading of Blade Runner which sees the film’s seven different versions as so many historically distinct texts, each one constituting a modified reaction to a new and evolving socio-historical situation. Flisfeder expertly treads that narrowest of paths between description and evaluation, between theory and ideology. * Fredric Jameson, Knut Schmidt Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University, USA *Between the lines of the different versions or simulacra of Blade Runner, Flisfeder offers a succinct and compelling account of postmodernism and its theoretical underpinnings. This wonderful book is an object lesson in film analysis and critical thinking that finds within the text an explanation for society's inability to conceive of alternatives to its own dystopian and mediatised present. * Ciara aka Colin Cremin, Senior Lecturer, The University of Auckland, New Zealand *Matthew Flisfeder’s fast-paced and very readable book offers a knowledgeable and accessible introduction to postmodern theory. His analysis of Blade Runner not only helps unpack and illustrate his key concepts, but also gives fresh new perspectives on a modern film classic. Above all, this book foregrounds the continued relevance of postmodernism by emphasizing its usefulness as a critical and fundamentally political concept. * Dan Hassler-Forest, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Postmodernism and Postmodern Theory Chapter Two: Postmodernism and Blade Runner Conclusion: Postmodern Theory After The End Of History Further Reading

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Book Synopsis The geeks will inherit the earth.With well over two hundred episodes and a dozen seasons, The Big Bang Theory is one of America’s favorite television series, bringing a new class of character to mainstream television: the science nerd.In spite of its evident popularity and influence in shaping public attitudes to science and scientists, there are relatively few books that explore the show’s culture and social dimension. The Science of The Big Bang Theory looks behind the comedy scenes and scripts of this long-running and successful TV show to explore topics such as:The Bachelor Party Corrosion and ArchimedesThe Valentino Submergence: Fun with FlagsThe Dumpling Decoupling: Sheldon and Doctor Who The Mystery Date Observation: The Unlikely Dating Habits of EggheadsAnd More!This book is a light-hearted science companion to TV's The Big Bang Theory, providing you with just the kind of dissection of the science and culture you’d need to understand “math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries, that all started with the big bang! Hey!”

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Book Synopsis-- A sweeping, comprehensive epic, Hopeful Monsters tells the story of the love affair between Max, an English student of physics and biology, and Eleanor, a German Jewess and political radical. Together and apart, Max and Eleanor participate in the great political and intellectual movements which shape the twentieth century, taking them from Cambridge and Berlin to the Spanish Civil War, Russia, the Sahara, and finally to Los Alamos to witness the first nuclear test. -- Hopeful Monsters received Britain's prestigious Whitbread Award in 1990. -- Praising Mosley's ability to distill complex modes of thought, the New York Times called Hopeful Monsters a virtual encyclopedia of twentieth century thought, in fictional form. -- First U.S. edition by Dalkey Archive ('90), most recent paperback by Vintage ('93).Trade Review"[A] virtual encyclopedia of twentieth century thought, in fictional form." -- New York Times "Mosley's perfectly realized novel of ideas explores the social and scientific thought of the 20th century by tracing the peregrinations of a physicist and his lover." -- PW

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Book SynopsisSurrounded by cemeteries in the flatlands of New Jersey, the small town of Lud is sustained by the business of death. In fact, with no synagogue and no congregation, Rabbi Jerry Goldkorn has only one true responsibility: to preside over burial services for Jews who pass away in the surrounding cities. But after the Arctic misadventures that led him to Lud, he wouldn't want to live (or die) anywhere else.As the only living child in Lud, his daughter Connie has a different opinion of this grisly city, and she will do anything to get away from it--or at least liven it up a bit. Things get lively indeed when Connie testifies to meeting the Virgin Mary for a late-night romp through the local graveyards.Trade Review"[Elkin] defies death with a glistening tale that is laugh-out-loud hilarious as well as poignant." -- PW

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Book SynopsisThe three novellas collected in Van Gogh's Room at Arles demonstrate once again Stanley Elkin's mastery of the English language, with exuberant rants on almost every page, unexpected plot twists, and jokes that leave readers torn between laughter and tears. Her Sense of Timing relates a destructive day in the life of a wheelchair-bound professor who is abandoned by his wife at the worst possible time, leaving him to preside -- helplessly -- over a party for his students that careens out of control. The second story in this collection tells of an unsuspecting commoner catapulted into royalty when she catches the wandering eye of Prince Larry of Wales. And in the title story, a community college professor searches for his scholarly identity in a land of academic giants while staying in Van Gogh's famous room at Arles and avoiding run-ins with the Club of the Portraits of the Descendants of the People Painted by Vincent Van Gogh.Trade Review"All three novellas in Elkin's latest collection are occasionally funny, often painful and always beautifully written." -- PW "This well-balanced collection stands as a worthy companion to Elkin's first three-novella set, Search es and Seizures." -- Library Journal

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Book Synopsis-- Gerald Bruns's ground-breaking analysis compares two contrasting functions of language: the hermetic, where language is self-contained and self-referencing, and the Orphic, which originates from a belief in the mythical unity of word and being. Bruns lucidly depicts the distinctions and convergences between these two lines of thought by examining the works of Mallarme, Flaubert, Joyce, Beckett, and others.Trade Review"A knowledgeable and provocative analysis of the relationship between language and art." -- Choice "The readings of Mallarme, Flaubert, Joyce, and Beckett, are incisive... At all points demonstrating the appropriateness of Bruns's critical approach." -- Quarterly Journal of Speech "A well-written and properly critical introduction to a fascinating topic." -- Modern Language Review

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Book SynopsisA seeing-eye dog leads a blind man into a frozen river, a southern Baptist loses his memory and finds true love in Bel Air, an obese dot.com executive has "anorgasmic" latex sex with her CEO, and a homeless man in New York creates an intellectual universe based on Post-it notes stuck to the inside of his cardboard box shelter--Douglas Glover's stories are wildly inventive, deadpan comedies of our universal human catastrophe. They are sly, demanding and wise--stories about language, desire and love (in a very dark place). The humor veers from the wry and sardonic to the salacious, mordant and playful. And always there are moments of such stark emotional intimacy that the reader slides, almost without noticing, from laughter to lament.Trade Review"Sad, sexy, and significant." (starred review)--Kirkus Reviews

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Book SynopsisPublished posthumously in 1995, Mrs. Ted Bliss tells the story of an eighty-two-year-old widow starting life anew after the death of her husband. As Dorothy Bliss learns to cope with the mundane rituals of life in a Florida retirement community, she inadvertently becomes involved with a drug kingpin trying to use her as a front for his operations. Combining a comic plot with a deep concern for character, Elkin ends his career with a vivid portrait of a woman overcoming loss, a woman who is both recognizable and as unique as Elkin's other famous characters.

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Book SynopsisTaken from throughout Mills's career, the essays collected in this volume delve into the work of such influential writers as Wallace Stevens, Denise Levertov, Samuel Beckett, Galway Kinnell, Edith Sitwell, Theodore Roethke, Karl Shapiro, Richard Wilbur, Isabella Gardener, James Wright, David Ignatow, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, Philip Levine, and Stanley Kunitz. Mills examines how the personal element informs the works of these writers and enables them "to speak to us, without impediment, from the deep center of a personal engagement with existence."

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Book SynopsisMartereau is narrated by a tubercular young man driven by a compulsion to discover what lies behind faades, especially in relation to the adults around him. He's particularly interested in Martereau, his uncle's devoted friend and business associate. All in all, Martereau seems like a trustworthy, benign, self-sufficient man, but under the narrator's intense scrutiny--and Martereau's suspect behavior concerning a shady real-estate deal--his motives seem much more complex and seedy. In a subtle, skillful way, Nathalie Sarraute explores the difference between those who are wealthy and those who pretend to be so, and the manipulative way in which some people get ahead in the world.

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Book Synopsis"A bloody marvelous book." Harold PinterTrade Review"A bloody marvelous book."-Harold Pinter

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Book SynopsisThis book is filled with passion and love for the art of writing and is a celebration of reading. Through the prism of the great Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky, Douglas Glover provides a scrupulous reading of Cervantes's Don Quixote, opening this 400-year-old Spanish masterpiece to a new generation of readers, showing how Cervantes made his novel, and, finally, revealing how we as readers participate in his magic creation. Glover's brilliant accomplishment resides in his ability to seduce the reader with his own stunning prose and penetrating insight, while also creating the means for anyone to see into Cervantes's genius.Trade Reviewa wonderful tour of critical perspectives on Don Quixote' -Quill & Quire

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Book SynopsisJuan Goytisolo's radical revision of his masterpiece Juan the Landless is the starting-point for this new translation by renowned translator Peter Bush. The new text focuses on Goytisolo's surreal exploration and rejection of his own roots, Catholic Spain's repression of Muslims, Jews and gays, his ancestors' exploitation of Cuban slaves and his own forging of a language at once poetic, politic and ironic that celebrates the erotic act of writing and and the anarchic joy of being the ultimate outsider. In Juan the Landless the greatest living novelist from Spain defiantly re-invents tradition and the world as a man without a home, without a country, in praise of pariahs.Trade Reviewa blistering attack on authoritarianism and the cult of personality' - Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisInstead of making a scapegoat of television as the cause of crime on the streets of the USA, stupidity in its schools, and spectacle rather than substance in its government, this challenge to conventional ideas about television sees inside the box an echo chamber and a feedback loop; a medium neither wholly innocent of, nor entirely responsible for, the disorder it brings to people's homes. Taking on a diverse range of topics from children's shows to cable, from the cheap thrills of action adventures to the solemn boredom of pledge drives, the author argues for a whole new way of thinking about television.

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Book SynopsisAnchoring America covers 17 anchors in 17 smart profiles that show the evolution of the anchoring job and reveal the character of the men and women who sat at the desk.

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Book SynopsisIn this witty and candid perspective on American television, the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Howard Rosenberg traces a disturbing pattern: TV's relentless pursuit of the mundane in its seeming quest to dumb-down America. And, he writes, it may be succeeding. How else to interpret the onslaught of look-alike, deceptively titled "reality" shows that have transformed much of prime time into a cratered moonscape? The longer mediocrity endures, Mr. Rosenberg advises, the greater the chance we will become permanently desensitized to it—and seduced by it—making third-rate the standard. He finds occasional heroes but more often rogues. Many of his essays in Not So Prime Time relate to television news, which the author charges has failed dismally in its shrilly self-proclaimed role as a Bethlehem star of enlightenment, its influence continuing to widen in circles that value tabloid over truth. He finds it hard to say, in fact, whether there is more "reality" in Survivor or in a typical newscast on CNN, the Fox News Channel, or MSNBC. News and entertainment now mingle on TV as intimately as singles snorting up together at a cocktail party, becoming interchangeable, with newscasts cross-dressing as theater, and vice versa. Not So Prime Time records how this has happened—not overnight; the crud has been creeping forward for years. Oh the horror.Trade ReviewHe wants nothing less than for all of us to become TV critics. * Virginian-Pilot *…Rosenberg plumbs the depths of the sewer with grim levity, wryly chronicling the highlights of the mediocre…. He really shines… * Booklist *...Rosenberg…explores…the still too infrequent peaks of TVland in nimble and often provocative style. * Toronto Globe and Mail *Eloquent and witty, Rosenberg provides refreshingly sensible commentary on an increasingly maddening media circus. * San Francisco Bay Guardian *…We need his voice and one wishes there were many more like his. * Rainelle, Wv Post-Report *Marvelously written...more than a simple critique…. Rosenberg gives readers a reason to care about what will happen during the second half-century of television. * Foreword Reviews *The prose is often witty and the satiric hits are sharp… * CHOICE *...This collection [is] a welcome antidote for the medium’s [TV's] excesses. -- Daniel M. Kimmel, Author of The Fourth NetworkAnything Howard Rosenberg writes about television is superior to almost anything that’s on television. -- Linda Ellerbee, Journalist, Television ProducerNo mere television critic, Howard Rosenberg is the conscience that the medium seems so sadly to have misplaced. -- Larry GelbartThis collection of a decade’s worth of observation is crisp, smart, furious, and funny. -- Tyne DalyRead this and you’ll see why the Pulitzer jurors said Howard is the best. -- Bill MoyersRosenberg is the real thing. Newton Minow may have been the first to call TV a "vast wasteland," but no one has mapped its terrain more thoroughly and starkly than Rosenberg. * Kirkus *Rosenberg's collection of essays traces the key stepping-stones on the descent from news to infotainment… -- Brian Lowry * Variety *...Rosenberg loves television…. It's this love that...gives Not So Prime Time its pleasant and tangy bite. * The Washington Times *Table of ContentsPart 1 Preface xiii Part 2 I. NEWS ON A HIGH WIRE: CLOWNS WITHOUT SAFETY NETS Chapter 3 Team Coverage of Breaking News 9 Chapter 4 Poor Richard's Almanac of Horrors 12 Chapter 5 Obsession, Not Proportion, Drives Television News 16 Chapter 6 Her Nose Makes News 19 Chapter 7 Private Lives and Prying Public 23 Chapter 8 First Amendment, Shmendment 26 Chapter 9 When Ride-alongs Take the Public for a Ride 29 Chapter 10 Foreign News? It's All Alien to the Networks 32 Chapter 11 Let's Hear it (Again) for Old Glory 36 Chapter 12 A Lox Named Fox 39 Chapter 13 If You're Not for Yourself, Who Will Be For You? 43 Chapter 14 The Blurred Lines of Today's "Reality" 46 Chapter 15 Celebrating Ficition as Fact 49 Chapter 16 Paul Goes Home 53 Chapter 17 Propping Up the Berlin Wall 56 Chapter 18 Out of the Anchor Chair, Into the Fray 60 Chapter 19 The Russian Roulette of Live News Coverage 64 Chapter 20 To Air is Human, Especially When It's Live 68 Chapter 21 Live From Iraq, Ready or Not 71 Chapter 22 Publicity, They Name is Schwarzenegger 74 Chapter 23 The Day the World Shattered 77 Part 24 II. TRASH, YOU ROCK. . . SOMETIMES Chapter 25 Ratinng on Bill Was Her Duty 83 Chapter 26 Wanna Confess? Call Montel 86 Chapter 27 How Was Poor Jenny to Know He Was a Ticking Time Bomb? 90 Chapter 28 Communing With Nature by Destroying It 94 Chapter 29 Transgressing All the Way to the Bank 98 Chapter 30 The Art of Rebounding 101 Chapter 31 When Crummy Acting and Writing Equal Fun 105 Chapter 32 In "Ark," Noah Plays Friars Club 109 Chapter 33 A Tale of Two Miniseries 113 Chapter 34 The Face That Launched a Thousand Cliches 116 Part 35 III. THE POLS, PREZ, PROPS OF WAR, AND OTHER PHENOMENA: READY FOR THEIR CLOSE-UPS? Chapter 36 Infomercials Disguised as Conventions 127 Chapter 37 Judging Political Parties by Their Stagecraft 131 Chapter 38 And Now, For My Next Rehearsed Ad Lib. . . 135 Chapter 39 Do Great Moves Make Great Presidents? 138 Chapter 40 When His Presence is the Message 142 Chapter 41 Our President: Man or Mannequin? 145 Chapter 42 Bush's Image Fails to Fill the Screen 148 Chapter 43 When No News is Big News 151 Chapter 44 White Meat or Dark? 155 Chapter 45 D-Day and the resonance of War. . .Now and Then 158 Chapter 46 Looking to the Past to See the Present 162 Chapter 47 A New War, but the Same Old Tube 166 Chapter 48 War as a Sales Tool 170 Chapter 49 Seeking Symbolic Moments in the Tides of History 174 Chapter 50 Talking the Talk Before Taking the Walk 177 Chapter 51 Ultimate Reality 181 Chapter 52 Timothy MecVeigh: The Closed Circuit 185 Chapter 53 Let's Bring Camera's to Death's Door 188 Chapter 54 O.J. on Trial 191 Chapter 55 The Year of Simpson 194 Chapter 56 The Case for Cameras in Courtrooms 198 Chapter 57 Give bin Laden His (Televised) Day in Court 201 Chapter 58 One Picture Can Be Worth a Thousand Clips 205 Chapter 59 The Death of Challenger Recalled 209 Chapter 60 Columbia Freeze Frame 213 Chapter 61 High Noon in Television's High Court 216 Chapter 62 TV Keeps the Dreams—and Dross—Alive 220 Part 63 IV. BURYING THE HYPE: TRUE HEROES AND DEITIES UNMASKED Chapter 64 Big Man, Big Laughs, Big Legacy 227 Chapter 65 Excellence, from "Marty" to the Mafia 231 Chapter 66 I Confess! I Did Watch Perry Mason! 234 Chapter 67 A Toast for Kuralt and One for the Road 238 Chapter 68 Contemplating Cosell 242 Chapter 69 The Life of a National Hero Has Its Perils 246 Chapter 70 A "Masterpiece Theatre" of Pomp and Puff 250 Chapter 71 When the Coverage Is as Senseless as the Tragedy 253 Part 72 Index 257

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Book SynopsisWhat happens when television is part of your cultural DNA? Twelve writers talk about their influences, and they're more Magnum PI that Marcel Proust. This is cultural criticism from an enthusiast's point of view—taking sitcoms and dramedies and very special episodes seriously, not because they're art, but because they matter to us. Little Boxes is TV writing not as “Why I Loved Parker Lewis Can't Lose” but “What Is Up with Everyone in the 80s Having a Domestic: The Different Strokes/Gimme a Break/Mr. Belvedere/Charles in Charge Story.”From Edan Lepucki’s “My Monster”:What I remember: a dead girl wrapped in plastic, and another one half-alive and stumbling along train tracks, her body covered in cuts and bruises, her clothes torn. Letters tweezed from beneath fingernails. The dead girl blue-white like a vein. Her name is Laura Palmer. There’s also a lady cradling a log, and a beautiful woman who knots cherry stems with her tongue. Handsome Agent Cooper with his hair slicked back. The name Peggy Lipton lingering across the screen as the eerie theme song sluices through my veins.Trade Review“From Twin Peaks to Daria, Little Boxes is filled to the brim with sharp writing that is at once critical and utterly personal, penned by a diverse list of writers.” —Shakespeare & PunkTable of ContentsEssays by: Jennine Capo Crucet T Fleischmann Jenny Hendrix Alexandra Kleeman Maris Kreizman Jennifer 8 Lee Edan Lepucki Nina McConigley Justin Taylor Justin Torres Ryan Van Meter

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Book SynopsisPerforming artists enhance our world. Do you like learning more about performing arts - how much training singers need to develop beautiful voices, what skills are needed to direct a choir, or how puppets really work? This book features a variety of jobs in performing arts fields, such as ballet dancer, actress, dance choreographer, and puppeteer.

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