Cult British TV comedy : from Reeves and Mortimer to Psychoville / by Hunt, Leon, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…From alternative to cult : mapping post-alternative comedy -- Britain's top light entertainer and singer : Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer and the cultification of light entertainment -- 'Careful now' : Graham Linehan : a case study in post-alternative sitcom -- Patchy in places : developments in post-alternative sketch comedy -- Community and intimacy : from laugh track to commentary track -- The 'Zooniverse' and other (furnished) comic worlds -- Are you sitting uncomfortably? …”
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Television and screen writing : from concept to contract / by Blum, Richard A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- How to create marketable premises for motion pictures and TV (including successful loglines for pitch sales) -- How to develop a marketable story -- How to write the story -- Dramatic elements and act structure -- How to develop credible and castable characters -- How to write realistic dialogue -- Spec screenplay format -- How to write effective scenes in screenplays -- Script revisions -- Television sitcom format -- How to write professional scenes in sitcoms -- Animation, interactive and new media, and nonfiction entertainment -- Television drama format -- How to write professional scenes in TV drama -- Soap, talk show, and variety -- How to create new television series -- How to sell your motion picture screenplay -- How to sell your television script -- National and state funding sources -- Where to go next.…”
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Cult British TV comedy : from Reeves and Mortimer to Psychoville / by Hunt, Leon, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…From alternative to cult : mapping post-alternative comedy -- Britain's top light entertainer and singer : Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer and the cultification of light entertainment -- 'Careful now' : Graham Linehan -- a case study in post-alternative sitcom -- Patchy in places : developments in post-alternative sketch comedy -- Community and intimacy : from laugh track to commentary track -- The 'Zooniverse' and other (furnished) comic worlds -- Are you sitting uncomfortably? …”
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Derivative media : how Wall Street devours culture / by DeWaard, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…. -- Derivative media and the tools of financialization -- The financialization of music -- The financialization of Hollywood -- Derivative music and speculative hip hop -- Derivative television and securitized sitcoms -- Derivative film and brandscape blockbusters -- Conclusion.…”
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Welcome to the dreamhouse : popular media and postwar suburbs / by Spigel, Lynn

Table of Contents: “…The suburban home companion: television and the neighborhood ideal in postwar America -- Portable TV: studies in domestic space travel -- From domestic space to outer space: the 1960s fantastic family sitcom -- Outer space and inner cities: African American responses to NASA -- Seducing the innocent: childhood and television in postwar America -- Innocence abroad: the geopolitics of childhood in postwar kid strips -- High culture in low places: televisiion and modern art, 1950-1970 -- Barbies without Ken: femininity, feminism, and the art-culture system -- From the Dark Ages to the golden age: women's memories and television reruns -- Yesterday's future, tomorrow's home.…”

Beyond a joke : the limits of humour /

Table of Contents: “…Comic racism and violence / Michael Billig -- Race and ethnicity in popular humour / Dennis Howitt and Kwame Owusu-Bempah -- Humour and the conduct of politics / John Morreall -- Parody and decorum: permission to mock / Jerry Palmer -- Breaking the mould: conversations with Omid Djalili and Shazia Mirza / Sharon Lockyer and Michael Pickering -- Merry hell: humour competence and social incompetence / Ken Willis -- Privacy, embarrassment, and social power: British sitcom / Frances Gray -- Comedies of sexual morality and female singlehood / Deborah Chambers -- The ambiguities of comic impersonation / Michael Pickering and Sharon Lockyer.…”

François Ozon / by Schilt, Thibaut

Table of Contents: “…Paternal monsters : Sitcom, Les amants criminels, and 8 femmes -- Mourning sickness : Sous le sable, Swimming pool, and Le temps qui reste -- Foreign affairs : Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes, 5x2, and Ricky -- An interview with François Ozon.…”
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Flicker : your brain on movies / by Zacks, Jeffrey M.

Table of Contents: “…Your brain wasn't built for movies -- The movie in your head -- Tearjerkers and sitcoms -- How movies make memories -- The dark side -- The tricks that make movies work. …”
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The golden years of broadcasting : a celebration of the first 50 years of radio and TV on NBC / by Campbell, Robert, 1922-

Table of Contents: “…: Sports -- "Good night, David": News and special events -- Ten-ton pencils: Documentaries -- "It's Howdy Doody time": Children's shows -- Tune in tomorrow: Soap operas and quiz shows -- Fact, fiction, or pure fantasy: Dramatic specials -- Two on the aisle: world premieres -- Sitcom: Weekly comedy -- Your show of shows: Variety and entertainment -- "Heeeeeere's Johnny!"…”

Close encounters : film, feminism, and science fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Greenberg -- Ideal hadaly / Raymond Bellour -- Metropolis : mother-city--"Mittler"--Hitler / Roger Dadoun -- Metropolis, scene 103 / Enno Patalas -- Star Trek rerun, reread, rewritten : fan writing as textual poaching / Henry Jenkins -- From domestic space to outer space : the 1960s fantastic family sitcom / Lynn Spigel -- Friend's deather / Peter Wollen.…”

Seinfeldia : how a show about nothing changed everything / by Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin

It's the Norval Morriseau, Jackson Beardy, Carl Ray, Eddie Cobiness, Daphne Odjig, Joe Sanchez and Alex Janvier Show /

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Cinema and television in Singapore : resistance in one dimension / by Tan, Kenneth Paul

Table of Contents: “…One-dimensional Singapore -- The culture industry in renaissance-city Singapore -- Singapore idol : consuming nation and democracy -- Under one ideological roof : TV sitcoms and drama series -- Imagining the Chinese community through the films of Jack Neo -- The tragedy of the heartlands in the films of Eric Khoo -- The films of Royston Tan : local notoriety, international acclaim.…”
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Writing the comedy pilot script : a step-by-step guide to creating an original TV series / by Basanese, Manny

Table of Contents: “…-- Rise of the dramedy -- The animated comedy pilot -- The" tween" comedy pilot -- Choose your platform : network, cable or streaming -- Comic characters : finding the funny -- Finding your pilot story -- Sitcom structure : it's no joke! -- Crafting your pilot logline -- Pilot outline : blueprint for success -- Your plot device toolbox -- Your cold open : grab us! …”
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The good place / by Giannini, Erin, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Puppet Masters and Playthings: The Good Place as Sitcom Meta-Commentary -- 2. "Up to 104% Perfect": Narrative and Visual Style -- 3. …”
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Flicker : your brain on movies / by Zacks, Jeffrey M.

Table of Contents: “…Your brain wasn't built for movies ; The movie in your head ; Tearjerkers and sitcoms ; How movies make memories ; The dark side -- Intermission -- Part II. …”

Japan on American TV : screaming samurai form anime clubs in the land of the lost / by Freedman, Alisa

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Viewing Japan on American TV -- Kamikaze Pilots Become Judo Jacks on Television Cartoons -- Screaming Samurai Live from New York City -- Sesame Street's Big Bird Goes to Bubble-Era Japan -- American Children Teach Japan in Animated Sitcoms -- University Anime Clubds Broadcast "Loving Versions of Racism" -- Foreign Tidying Gurus Fix Local Families -- Afterword: As Parioded on TV.…”

B-sides, undercurrents and overtones : peripheries to popular in music, 1960 to the present / by Plasketes, George

Table of Contents: “…Neil Young : the battle of the brands -- Music and movie mutuality : Ry Cooder, the involved bystander -- World music missionaries : cross cultural convergences -- The vital visual voice of the videotape editor : seamlessly sculpting Graceland : the African concert -- Rock around the cop : Bochco's Broadway blue print as television musical muse and martyr -- Must sing TV : pop rock sitcom cameo obscuras -- Umbilical musical chords : lineage, legacy and mom and pop pedigree -- Die another day : Warren Zevon's desperado 'Deteriorata'.…”