Author: Su Holmes
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: genres, show, quiz
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-03-09
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0748627537
ISBN-13: 9780748627530

Despite its enduring popularity with both broadcasters and audiences, the quiz show is marginalized in studies of popular television. Su Holmes takes a fresh approach to quiz shows while also revisiting, updating, and expanding existing quiz show scholarship. Discussing Double Your Money, The $64,000 Dollar Question, Twenty-One, The Price is Right, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and The Weakest Link, Holmes addresses the relationship between quiz shows and the television genre; the early broadcast history of the quiz show; questions of institutional regulation; quiz show aesthetics; the

Author: Brett Mills
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: genres, sitcom
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-09-30
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0748637524
ISBN-13: 9780748637522

The Sitcom explores the production, viewership, and script of this popular genre, drawing on a range of examples and case studies in order to map its characteristics, social significance, and guilty pleasures. Brett Mills takes a global approach, examining international examples as well as British and American broadcasts, isolating the relationships between sitcom, nation, and identity.

Author: Don Scheese
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: context, genres, writing, nature
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-10-04
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0415938899
ISBN-13: 9780415938891

Author: David Starkey
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s
Keywords: brief, genres, four, writing, creative
Number of Pages: 339
Published: 2008-12-17
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0312468660
ISBN-13: 9780312468668

How can students with widely varied levels of literary experience learn to write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama — over the course of only one semester? In Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief, David Starkey offers some solutions to the challenges of teaching the introductory creative writing course: (1) concise, accessible instruction in literary basics; (2) short models of literature to analyze, admire and emulate; (3) inventive and imaginative assignments that inspire and motivate.

Author: Keith Negus
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: cultures, corporate, genres, music
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-08-03
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 041517399X
ISBN-13: 9780415173995

How do major labels manage different genres, artists and staff? How do takeovers affect the treatment of artists? Why and how did EMI Records attempt to change their corporate culture?Music Genres and Corporate Cultures reveals how the creation, circulation and consumption of popular music are shaped by record companies and corporate business styles. Negus examines the tension between rap’s public image as the "spontaneous music of the streets" and the practicalities of the market, and asks why country labels and radio stations promote top-selling acts like Garth Brooks over hard-to-clas

Author: Cyril Birch
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: genres, literary, chinese, studies
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 1975-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0520020375
ISBN-13: 9780520020375

Author: Annette Shandler Levitt
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: surrealism, genders, genres
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0312120508
ISBN-13: 9780312120504

Surrealism is the only movement in the arts which was more than a new way of looking at and interpreting the world: it was a philosophical stance, a creative rebellion against society. This fresh look at the varied dimensions of the Surrealist movement places it centrally within Modernism. This is the rare book to consider virtually all of Surrealism’s genres. In addition to members of the original group, Annette Shandler Levitt appraises its most memorable outsiders, notably some distinctive women artists and writers. She shows us also that the impact of Surrealism continues to be felt