Rovin, Jeff.

The Great Television Series

Cranbury, N.J. A. S. Barnes, c1977. Hardcover. 175pp. illus. 29 cm. Very good condition/good.

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Boeknummer: 23468

Catalogus: Performing Arts & Media

Trefwoorden: Television Popular Culture

Christopher D. Salyers

Face Food

Mark Batty Publisher, 2008. Linnen band. Pp: 71. Dating back several hundred years, the Japanese bento box is as integral a part of the country's culinary identity as sushi. Today, a contemporary version of the bento box exists, inspired by the rampant popularity of movies, television shows and manga. These charaben, made by parents (mostly mothers) eager to bring attention to their children's lunch boxes, comprise food crafted into visually creative, appealing and recognizable forms, and are as much about planning and preparation as nutrition. What better way to make children eat than to turn their midday meals into cartoon characters and video games? With Face Food: The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes, writer and designer Christopher D Salyers documents the very real phenomenon of how rice, seaweed, mushrooms, tofu, hot dogs, fish cakes and just about any other edible delight you can imagine are shaped into the likes of Pikachu, Daraemon and Cinderella, bringing health, heart and imagination to the bento box, not to mention a bit of one-upmanship. A brief how-to guide, ingredient lists and interviews with charabenenthusiasts illuminate the many dynamic reasons behind this wholly Japanese pursuit. As Salyers writes: "There is something marvelous and enchanting incharaben, a something we should all look to find within ourselves - a convalescence of youth. For all of you who have ever eaten or prepared a slap-dash PB&J sandwich, or have been victim of school cafeterias, I offer up these pages as proof that when you show this much dedication to what you or your child eats, the end result will be nothing short of astounding." If you have never seen or tasted charaben, Face Food will open a whole new world to you, proving once again how the visual can say so much about a culture and its practices. ISBN: 9780979048661. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 1664231

Catalogus: Koken

Trefwoorden: 9780979048661

Carl Sandburg

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of this important two volume biography of the early life of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth American president. The first printing of the first trade edition of this influential biographical study of Abraham Lincoln, from American poet, biographer and journalist Carl Sandburg. These works detail Lincoln's life between his birth and his inauguration as president.Sandburg's Lincoln scholarship had an enormous impact on the popular view of Lincoln. His biographies were adapted into a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, 'Abe Lincoln in Illinois', 1938, and a six-part dramatization for television, Sandburg's Lincoln, 1974.Each volume features a number of vignette and full plate illustrations.This work was acquired from the sale of American novelist Paul Gallico's library. Gallico was a prolific writer, but is perhaps now best remembered for his 1969 novel 'The Poseidon Adventure', adapted into the successful 1972 motion picture.With the contemporary owner's inscription of 'Claudia Wright-Maule' to the front free endpaper of each volume. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail. Front hinge to volume I tender, and may detach from text block without careful handling. Former owner's inscriptions to front free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting to first few leaves of volume II, most concentrated to frontispiece. Pages otherwise clean and bright. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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Boeknummer: 791F43

Catalogus: History & Culture

Trefwoorden: Lincoln President USA paul gellico President Not Stated

SERVET, BAREND [=IJF BLOKKER],

Eén per pagina. [Eerste druk; First edition].

Amsterdam, Thomas Rap, 1975. sm.8°, blank wraps, dustjacket. 31pp. table of contents, colophon at very end. Typography by G. Rozet, type-set in Perpletua. Insciberd copy by author on french title, limited edition of 150 copies only. Collection of dutch language satyrical/parodical poems by IJf B lokker or Barend Servet, a character in a dutch anarcho-political parody, a dutch TV sit-com presented by Wim T. Schippers in the 1970s., causing much uproar with dutch conservative establishment, even triggering discussions in dutch parliament. A true and hard-to-find relic of the past. Very fine copy. Very rare.

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Boeknummer: 43949

Trefwoorden: literature poetry dutch anarchism sitcom parody satyre history television dutch history culture heritage barendservet

SETIANDI, AGUS,

Lima Sekawan: Penculikan Bintang Televisi petuatangan baru Lima Sekawancliptaan Enid Blyton dicertakan oleh Claude Voiller. [Original edition].

Jakarta, Gramedia, 1983. Small 8°. Original coloured limp wrappers. Balloon text covertitle in bold plack typw with a coloured illustration at tai. 231pp. Many monochrome full-page balloon-text comics after drawings by drawn by Jean Sidobre, table of contents. Indonesian language edition, translated after the french edition of Enid Blyton's youth novel The famous Five go on Television, appearing as a comic on Indonesian Television. Comics are higly appreciated by the Indonesian population in general. Pocket-edition (as orig. publ.). Very fine copy. Scarce.

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Boeknummer: 54216

Trefwoorden: comics television juvenile youth enid blyton sastra literature indonesia southeastasia culture heritage story

SHACHAR, Hila.

Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature: Wuthering Heights and Company.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Hardcover. Condition vg. No dust jacket. 228pp. ISBN9780230294042.

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Boeknummer: 73405

Trefwoorden: literature literary criticism movie film television adaptation culture

Shaheen, Jack G.

The TV Arab

Bowling Green [OH], Bowling Green State Univ. 1984. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, 146 pp, PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. Some light cover soil. VG.
¶ Study of stereotyping of Arabs in American popular culture & mass media.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS019540I

Trefwoorden: American Mass Media, Arabs, Stereotype, Stereotypes, Stereotyping, Racism, Discrimination, United States, Television, Popular Culture

SHARP, Harold S. & Marjorie Z.

Index to Characters in the Performing Arts. Part I: Non-Musical Plays. Part II: Operas, and Musical Productions A - L. Part II: Operas, and Musical Productions M - Z, and Symbols. Part III: Ballets A - Z and Symbols. Part IV: Radio and Television.

The Scarecrow Press, 1966-73. 1st US edition. Hardcover. 5 vols. Condition vg. No dj's. An amazing & comprehensive reference work covering all major areas of the performing arts. Rare. 765pp; 1253pp; 320pp; 697pp.

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Boeknummer: 48927

Trefwoorden: literature literary culture musicals musical opera ballet play drama radio television broadcast performing arts character reference music

Shattuc, Jane M.

The Talking Cure : TV Talk Shows and Women

New York, Routledge, 1997. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, viii,242 pp. PAPERBACK.. ISBN: 0415910889. Minor rubbing. VG.
¶ The Talking Cure examines four nationally syndicated television talk shows--Donahue, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Geraldo and Sally Jessy Raphael-- which are primarily devoted to feminine culture and issues. Serving as one of the few public forums where working-class women and those with different sexual orientations have a voice, these talk shows represent American TV at its most radical. Shattuc examines the tension between talk's feminist politics and the television industry, who, in their need to appeal to women, trades on sensation, stereotypes and fears in order to engender product consumption. However, this genre is not a one-way form of social interaction. The female audience complies and resists in a complex give-and-take, and it is this relationship which The Talking Cure aims to understand and reveal" - publisher's description.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS019034I

Trefwoorden: 0415910889 Popular Culture, American Television, Talk Shows, Sociology, Women, United States, Mass Communications, ,

Lee Siegel

Against the Machine: Being Human in the Era of the Electronic Mob

Profile Books Ltd 2008 Paper Back, 192pp. Of course the Internet is not one thing or another; if anything, its boosters claim, the Web is everything at once. It’s become not only our primary medium for communication and information but also the place we go to shop, to play, to debate, to find love. Lee Siegel argues that our ever-deepening immersion in life online doesn’t just reshape the ordinary rhythms of our days; it also reshapes our minds and culture, in ways with which we haven’t yet reckoned. The web and its cultural correlatives and by-products—such as the dominance of reality television and the rise of the â€oebourgeois bohemianâ€�—have turned privacy into performance, play into commerce, and confused â€oeself-expressionâ€� with art. And even as technology gurus ply their trade using the language of freedom and democracy, we cede more and more control of our freedom and individuality to the needs of the machine—that confluence of business and technology whose boundaries now stretch to encompass almost all human activity. Siegel’s argument isn’t a Luddite intervention against the Internet itself but rather a bracing appeal for us to contend with how it is transforming us all. Dazzlingly erudite, full of startlingly original insights, and buoyed by sharp wit, Against the Machine will force you to see our culture—for better and worse—in an entirely new way. (ISBN: 9781846686979). Good.

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Boeknummer: 1478332

Catalogus: General

Trefwoorden: Non-Fiction9781846686979 9781846686979

SMITH, TOBY

Little Gray Men Roswell and the Rise of a Popular Culture

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0826321216. Only slight wear ; Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. A bright, solid book.; 8.19 X 5.75 X 0.79 inches; 199 pages; More than half of all Americans believe UFOs and aliens exist. How did extraterrestrials come to be so real for so many? Toby Smith tracks down our fascination with extraterrestrials, showing how Roswell became the fiber out of which all flying saucer and alien stories were woven in science fiction films and television programs, especially in the late 1940s and the 1950s. It all began outside Roswell on a July night in 1947. A nearby military base's official announcement of the recovery of a crashed flying saucer went out to radio stations and newspapers nationwide--including The New York Times. The military's quick retraction came too late. The government had already said extraterrestrials existed.Today visitors are taken to the crash site in a vehicle with license plates reading Believe. And believe people do. But why? Statements of belief in extraterrestrials from such diverse and noteworthy people as General Douglas MacArthur, Carl Jung, and Elvis Presley firmly fixed the place of aliens in modern American culture.Smith not only examines movies and the media to understand the prominence of aliens in our contemporary culture, he also shows how New Mexico and Wright Field in Ohio, where the bodies of the aliens were reportedly taken, remain particularly fertile spawning grounds for UFO stories. Once extraterrestrial visitors landed (or didn't land) in Roswell, the notion we're not alone in the universe quickly became part of American popular culture.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Boeknummer: 16708

Catalogus: Pseudosience

Trefwoorden: 0826321216 UFO Roswell NM pseudoscience Aliens, Space, Exploration

Smith, Jacob

The Thrill Makers - Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance

University of California Press. Paperback. Pp: 280. Well before Evel Knievel or Hollywood stuntmen, reality television or the X Games, North America had a long tradition of stunt performance, of men (and some women) who sought media attention and popular fame with public feats of daring. Many of these feats-jumping off bridges, climbing steeples and buildings, swimming incredible distances, or doing tricks with wild animals-had their basis in the manual trades or in older entertainments like the circus. In The Thrill Makers, Jacob Smith shows how turn-of-the-century bridge jumpers, human flies, lion tamers, and stunt pilots first drew crowds to their spectacular displays of death-defying action before becoming a crucial, yet often invisible, component of Hollywood film stardom. Smith explains how these working-class stunt performers helped shape definitions of American manhood, and pioneered a form of modern media celebrity that now occupies an increasingly prominent place in our contemporary popular culture. ISBN: 9780520270893. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 3491976

Catalogus: Film & Theater

Trefwoorden: 9780520270893

Spigel, Lynn & Curtin, Michael; editors

The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict

New York / London, Routledge, 1997. orig.boards. 24x16cm, (ii),361 pp. textual photo illustrations. ISBN: 0415911214. Small label to rear cover. Light smudge to front cover. VG.
¶ Contents: J. Sconce "The 'Outer Limits' of Oblivion"; L. Spigel "White Flight"; J. D'acci "Nobody's Woman? 'Honey West' and the New Sexuality"; M.Luckett "Girl Watchers: Patty Duke and Teen TV"; H. Jenkins "Dennis the Menace, 'the All American Handfull' "; M. Alvey "The Independents: Rethinking the Television Studio System"; W. Boddy "Senator Dodd Goes to Hollywood: Investigating Video Violence"; J. Turow "James Dean in a Surgical Gown"; A. Bodroghkozy "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and the Youth Rebellion"; T. Streeter "Blues Skies and Strange Bedfellows: the Discourse of Cable Television"; M. Curtin "Dynasty in Drag: Imagining Global TV"; V.E. Johnson "Citizen Welk: Bubbles, Blue Hair, and Middle America", H. Newcombe "From Old Frontier to New Frontier"; S. Classen " Southern Discomforts: the Racial Struggle over Popular TV"; R.E. Pearson " White Network/ Red Power: ABC's 'Custer' Series"; H. Gray "Remembering Civil Rights: Television, Memory, and the 1960s".

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Boeknummer: BOOKS000017I

Trefwoorden: 0415911214 Mass Communications, American Television, Social History, Broadcasting, Communication, Industry Industrial, Sociology, United States, Popular Culture

Norman Spinrad

Bug Jack Barron

Berkley Books 1992 Paperback, 324pp. Bugged? Then bug Jack Barron. With over a hundred million viewers, Jack Barron is a media star of highest celebrity-think Jerry Springer crossed with Ted Koppel-and his call-in talk show is the perfect platform for reform. But every man has his price, and when a cryogenics millionaire makes Jack an offer he can't refuse-immortality-anything can happen. Bug Jack Barron, Norman Spinrad's fourth novel, was first published in 1969, and is commonly acknowledged to be the book that established Spinrad's brilliant style and made his name. Its exploration of the timeless and universally relevant theme of big business corrupting democratic process stands out now as an unforgettable and bitingly satirical work of imagination that remains as relevant as ever to today's television and media obsessed culture. (ISBN: 0425093212). Fair.

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Boeknummer: 1171862

Catalogus: General

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STACEY, ROBERT, BARBARA VOLKMANN UND ROSE-FRANCE RADDATZ:

Okanada : Ausstellungen U. Veranst. D. Akad. D. Künste, Berlin, U.D. Canadian Department of External Affairs in Zsarb. Mit Canada Council Vom 5. Dezember 1982 - 30. Januar 1983. Akademie-Katalog 136.

Berlin, Akad. D. Arts 3883319244. (ISBN: 3883319244). 1982, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 477pp. Foreword Werner Düttmann, Geoffrey James - Jacques Brault, A Letter to Unknown Friends - George Woodcock, the Cultures of Canada - Dennis Reid, National Aspects: the Development of Domestic Structures for the Promotion of Painting in Canada - Laurier Lacroix, Joseph Legaré - Dennis Reid, Paul Kane - Dennis Reid, Lucius O'Brien - Laurier Lacroix, Ozias Leduc - John O'Brian, James Wilson Morrice: His relationship to the avant-garde in France - Robert Stacey, Tom Thomson: "Deeper into the forest "- Russell Keziere, Emily Carr: New World Culture and Old World Contradictions - Christopher Varley, Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald: A Modernist in Isolation - Sandra Paikowsky, Goodridge Roberts - Fernande Saint-Martin, Paul -Emile Borduas: Automatism of the Surrational - David Burnett, Jack Bush - Northern Polarities: Architecture in Canada since 1950 - Harold Kaiman, Influencing and Adaptation: Architecture in Canada before 1950 - George Baird, George Kapelos NÖRD Polar Polarities: Architecture in Canada since 1950 - Pierre Théberge, Introduction to Contemporary Canadian Fine Arts - Pierre Théberge, Betty Goodwin - Pierre Théberge, Max Dean - Max Dean, Telephone Project and Radio Project with a Report from JÖRN Merkert - Pierre Théberge, John Massey - Bruce Ferguson, Television means, Video is - Renee Baert, video in Canada: an overview of the production - Andrée Duchaine, Review of the development of the video medium in Quebec - Clive Robertson "INTERVENTION" - Peggy Gale, on Performance and Media Art - Jean Tourangeau, Performance Art in Quebec - Essays: Bruce Eider, Image: Presentation and Subject the photographic image in Canadian experimental film: Michael Snow and Jack Chambers - Pierre Véronneau , Full-length documentaries and feature films in Quebec. A Short Overview - Peter Harcourt, on the Development of the Feature Film in English-speaking Canada - Piers Handling, Theses on Canadian Documentary Film - Louise Beaudet, Historical Outline on the Development of Animated Film in Canada - Elaine Keillor, Classical Music in Canada: from Inception "New France" until the centenary of the Confederation - Maryvonne Kendergi, Contemporary Music in Canada: Groups and Societies - Max Wyman, Dance in Canada - Michael Vais, Quebec Theater: an Audible Voice in America - Robert Enright, Folklore and Cultural Aspiration: the Development of English-Canadian Theater from 1965 - 1982 - Laurent Mailhot, the French-Canadian Literature: A Living Organism - WH New, After the Wild: Notes on Recent Anglo-Canadian Literature - John Warkentin, About Canada: A Geographic Afterword. Text entirely in German.

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Boeknummer: 124920

Catalogus: Art and Architecture

Trefwoorden: Art, Art, Canadian Art, Canadiana 3883319244