Tv & samhälle

Fear is one of the most primal emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? Delving into the darkest corners of horror literature, films, and plays, Darryl Jones explores its monsters and its psychologi...

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Unik memoarbok, Public Service i 50 år Det är 50 år sedan Staffan Lindeborg debuterade 18 år gammal i Sveriges Radio. Samma år - 1969 - startade Lars-Gunnar Björklund succén Tipsextra i TV. Tio år senare lockade Björklund smålänningen till televis...

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This book is about teletext: a "broadcast service using several otherwise unused scanning lines (vertical blanking intervals) between frames of TV pictures to transmit information from a central data base to receiving television sets". T...

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emo...

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The antihero prevails in recent American drama television series. Characters such as mobster kingpin Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), meth cook and gangster-in-the-making Walter White (Breaking Bad) and serial killer Dexter Morgan (Dexter) are not mor...

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In this edited volume, contributors explore an essential element of the influential television series Twin Peaks: the role of music and sound. From its debut in 1990 to its return to television in 2017, Twin Peaks has amassed a cult following, and...

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The hotly anticipated book from one of the all-time pop-culture greats (New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams. Intense and compelling SUNDAY TIMES 'A gripp...

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From prime-time television shows and graphic novels to the development of computer game expansion packs, the recent explosion of popular serials has provoked renewed interest in the history and economics of serialization, as well as the impact of ...

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This volume aims to deepen our understanding of the dynamic intersections of war and media in the rapidly transforming media ecology and the reordered geopolitical context. Since Russias fullscale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a new set of...

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As seen on TV - DEXTER: NEW BLOOD - major new drama'A macabre tour-de-force' NEW YORK TIMESDexter Morgan isn't exactly the kind of man you'd bring home to your mum. At heart, he's the perfect gentleman: he has a shy girlfriend, and seems to lead a...

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Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book uses a series of case studies to show how popular media are important to us, as a source of pleasure and entertainment, but also in communicating about the world with others. Social media plat...

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Written with media students in mind, this accessible book provides both students and researchers with a new perspective on how to research engagement, not as a metric but as a marker of power relations. This book navigates the reader through a tig...

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  Att höra klockorna ringa in helgen på lördagskvällen är en tradition som berör oss i själen. Kanske är det den kraftiga klockklangen som på sitt ålderdomliga, analoga sätt får oss att förstå budskapet som generationer lyssnat till i långa t...

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Do you think the world of the Eurovision Song Contest, with its crazy props, even crazier dancers and crazier still songs has nothing to do with serious European politics? Think again. The contest has been a mirror for cultural, social and politic...

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'A cracking read' Lorraine Kelly Riveting Sunday Telegraph Behind every great interview is a great booker Sam McAlister is one of the unsung heroes of television news Piers Morgan Sam McAlister is the woman who clinched the 2019 intervie...

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Welcome to the Whoniverse. First stop: everywhere. Six decades may only be a handful of heartbeats to a Time Lord, but for Doctor Who it's the adventure of several lifetimes. Evolving over 60 years, the world's longest-running sci-fi TV ...

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Trots att sjukvård, miljö och utbildning låg högt på väljarnas dagordning inför valrörelsen 2022 riktades mediernas uppmärksamhet mot andra frågor. Istället fick brott och straff, ekonomi samt energifrågorna allra mest uppmärksamhet och fick tills...

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Television Studies provides an overview of the origins, central ideas, and intellectual traditions of this exciting field. What have been the primary areas of inquiry in television studies? Why and how did these areas develop? How have scholars st...

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THE BOOK THAT BROUGHT DOWN RUPERT MURDOCH - AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empi...

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Architectural solutions & designs to optimize the spaces in your home without spending a fortune.Architect Laura Jane Clark, from the BBC and Netflix smash-hit series Your Home Made Perfect, has spent over 15 years designing, remodelling, and buil...

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First published in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck shocked readers by revealing how capitalist ideology operates in our most beloved cartoons. Having survived bonfires, impounding and being dumped into the ocean by the Chilean army, this controversi...

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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SHOCKING NEW BOOK SHAKING US POLITICS: FIRE AND FURY, INSIDE THE TRUMP WHITEHOUSE A riveting, barnstorming, thrilling ride through the loud, lively and all-embracing world of the modern media conglomerates its key deals, dea...

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Victoria Stilwell provides her successful programme for perfect dog training.Do they ignore every word you say? Have they started coming in at all hours? Are they wrecking your home? No, it's not the nation's teenagers - it's our pets. Nearly five...

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The cult SkySports Soccer Saturday anchorman delivers a Sunday Times bestseller a volley of entertaining and informative anecdotes about life in front of the videprinter. Jeff Stelling is a legend amongst football fans. To the millions unable to g...

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A text-only version of the bestselling book.TV Cream Toys celebrates the presents that we hoped, wished and prayed would turn up in the Christmas stockings of yesteryear. From Big Trak to Buckaroo!, Mastermind to Merlin, Sorry! to Strawberry Short...

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The true story of a bumbling and undistinguished television producer who inadvertently changed the landscape of cookery programmes forever to give rise to the world of the 'celebrity chef'.As the producer behind the phenomenally successful Keith F...

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The definitive history of a golden age in British show-business, Sunshine On Putty is based on hundreds of interviews with the leading comedians of the era, as well as managers, agents, producers, directors, executives and TV personalities.In the ...

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Award-winning investigative food journalist, Joanne Blythman turns her attention to the current hot topic - the state of British food.What is it about the British and food? We just don't get it, do we? Britain is notorious worldwide for its bad fo...

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'"e;How did a short bald, man with a speech impediment have such an impact?"e; How indeed? Like his life, "e;Inside Story"e; is a pacy romp. Honest and heartfelt, it should be required reading.' ObserverOn 28 January 2004, four yea...

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The exciting tie-in to the major new series on Radio 4, written and presented by one of the UK's leading commentators on social and political life - Jim Naughtie.The perfect read for anyone who wants to gauge the depth and spread of creativity and...

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