The Birth and Growth of Chinese Drama
This is a book of the history of China's contemporary drama. It provides a panorama of the ups and downs of Chinese drama. It tells how this western art has been adapted to the Chinese context and what it has offered to the world of theatre. It illustrates who the outstanding playwrights are and what great drama they have produced. The book shows how Chinese traditional culture has been blended with this western art form. The book also demonstrates how deeply drama is involve in Chinese politics and daily life.
A New Genre for Television?
In A New Genre for Television?, filmmaker Justin Hardy argues the dramatised history documentaries broadcast by British public service channels in the 2000s constituted a distinct television genre. Offering a vital distinction between docudramas and drama documentaries, Hardy contributes to the field of television history through exclusive interviews with key figures from BBC and Channel 4 - many of whom have never been publicly interviewed before - and envisions a future model for the portrayal of national histories on screen.
Stranger Things: The Complete Scripts, Season 4
Go deeper into the groundbreaking Emmy-winning series with the complete, authorized scripts of Stranger Things: Season Four, including an exclusive introduction from the Duffer Brothers. MONSTER (guttural, very deep): Don't cry, Chrissy. It's time . . . for your suffering . . . to end . . .Chrissy lets out a blood-curdling scream as --The Monster places its mutated left hand over her face and -- INT. EDDIE'S TRAILER - NIGHTBack in the real world, Chrissy suddenly lifts up and slams into the ceiling. Eddie backs away in horror, watching helplessly as -- INT. CHRISSY'S HOUSE - KITCHEN - NIGHT (MINDSCAPE) CLOSE ON: The Monster's long fingers dig into Chrissy's skin and -- INT. EDDIE'S TRAILER - NIGHTWhoom! Chrissy flings upward -- slams into the ceiling -- as her body presses against the ceiling -- pinned -- her bones violently snap -- her eyes pour blood -- then suck inward -- and . . . The gang has split up. Eleven and the Byers family are in California, navigating a new life and dealing with Eleven's struggle to regain her powers. Hopper is in a snowy Russian prison. Max and Lucas have broken up, and Lucas has new friends on the basketball team. Dustin and Mike have joined the Hellfire Club at Hawkins High. And Vecna is making himself known in Hawkins. The Duffer Brothers' critically acclaimed series, Stranger Things, took the world by storm with its 80s nostalgia, dimension-hopping secrets, and charming cast of characters. Season Four brings more backstory for Eleven, Eddie's epic guitar solo, demobats, Vecna's curse, Russian prisoner escapes, and Max's favorite song, "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush, along with all the usual teenage angst, bullying, and unrequited love. Our favorite friends are fighting on all fronts but their greatest battle is yet to come. Collected here for the first time, the complete scripts of Stranger Things: Season Four include the scenes, dialogue, and character directions for all nine episodes as well as an exclusive introduction from the creators and showrunners, Matt and Ross Duffer, aka the Duffer Brothers. Season Four's scripts reveal a unique insight into how the Duffers built on the core good-vs-evil story that so captivated viewers and popular culture.
Stranger Things: The Complete Scripts, Season 3
Go deeper into the groundbreaking Emmy-winning series with the complete, authorized scripts of Stranger Things: Season Three, including an exclusive introduction from the Duffer Brothers. MAX: I don't understand. The Demodogs died when El closed the Gate. If the brain dies, the body dies --WILL: I know. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong --MIKE: But we can't take any chances. We have to assume the worst. The Mind Flayer is back.WILL: And if he is, he would want to attach himself to someone again. A new "me" --LUCAS: A new "Host." It's 1985 and love is in the air in Hawkins. Mike and Eleven are smooch-crazy, much to Hopper's disgust. Dustin is back from summer camp with a girlfriend he keeps in touch with by radio transmissions. The towns' moms are in love with shirtless lifeguard Billy; Nancy and Jonathan are a couple; and there's romantic tension brewing between Hopper and Joyce. Meanwhile, Steve is working with a cool new friend, Robin, at an ice cream parlor in the town's shiny new mall. Rats are mysteriously exploding around town. The Mind Flayer is possessing people, and the Russians are trying to open a new gate to the Upside Down. Collected here for the first time, the complete scripts of Stranger Things: Season Three include the scenes, dialogue, and character directions for all eight episodes as well as an exclusive introduction from the creators and showrunners, Matt and Ross Duffer. Season Three's scripts reveal a unique insight into how the Duffers continued to build the core good-vs-evil story that captivated viewers and popular culture while adding more depth with fun new characters and intensifying relationships.
J羹rgen B繹ttcher and Documentary Film
J羹rgen B繹ttcher and Documentary Film introduces the reader to this east-German filmmaker who, despite having made 40 films from the east side of the Berlin Wall, is practically unknown.
Audio Control Handbook
Audio Control Handbook (1989) employs a step-by-step approach to prepare students for audio work in the broadcast industry, covering real-life principles, tools and procedures to look at the effective use of standard audio equipment, from basic microphones and control boards to digital signal processors.
Fortinbras, Prince of Norway
Two Ghosts. Two Kingdoms. Two Many Kings. Madness, Method, Mayhem, Mischief, & Destiny. When the odds and the stage are set, what makes the difference?Could it be perhaps that destiny is in the journey and how we participate in it defines the destination?
The Craft
In recent years, teen witches have become highly visible figures. Fictional adolescent witches have headlined popular television shows like The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018-2021) and American Horror Story: Coven (2013-2014), while their real-life counterparts have become minor celebrities on Instagram and TikTok. As such, now is the ideal time to revisit Andrew Fleming's 1996 supernatural horror film The Craft. A cult favourite, especially amongst young women, The Craft is a story about teen witches that employs the conventions of occult horror to explore themes of power, friendship and responsibility.This entry in the Devil's Advocates series is a deep dive into the history, production and meaning of The Craft. Situating The Craft within the teen horror revival of the 1990s, Miranda Corcoran analyses the film within the context of nineties popular and political culture, while also discussing its treatment of issues such as race, gender, sexuality and class. Delving into the history of witchcraft beliefs and persecutions, this book also investigates how The Craft modifies the archetype of the witch and traces the film's influence on subsequent popular culture.
Western Broadcasting over the Iron Curtain
Western Broadcasting Over the Iron Curtain (1986) examines the development of broadcasting policy by Western democracies, levels of government control of policy, efforts by communist regimes to minimize the effects of western broadcasting, and Soviet and Eastern European audience opinions.
The Power of the Actor, Revised and Updated
In this completely updated edition of her bestselling book, renowned acting coach Ivana Chubbuck shares her cutting-edge technique that has launched some of the most successful and lauded acting careers in Hollywood Let the instructor who taught Halle Berry, Brad Pitt, Charlize Theron, Jim Carrey, Aubrey Plaza, Travis Fimmel, Gal Gadot, Beyonc矇 Knowles, Judith Light, Sylvester Stallone, Eva Mendes, Morris Chestnut, Shia LaBeouf, and Jake Gyllenhaal guide you to dynamic and effective results. With new stories from notable stars she's worked with since the first edition of The Power of the Actor and fresh exercises she's incorporated to upgrade her time-tested 12 step program, this revised edition, is a must-have for anyone looking to hone their craft. The Chubbuck Technique, takes the theories of acting masters such as Stanislavski, Strasberg, and Hagen to the next level by utilizing inner pain and emotions, not as an end in itself, but as a way to empower and fuel one's ability to overcome and win and therefore drive a unique and powerful performance. The Power of the Actor is filled with fascinating and inspiring behind-the-scenes accounts of how actors, writers, and directors have mastered their craft and accomplished success in such a difficult and competitive field.
Satellite Technology in Education
Satellite Technology in Education (1991) looks at the potential of satellite technology in education. It examines the uses of satellite technology in the teaching of geography and environmental studies, languages, science and information technology.
Daytime Television Programming
Daytime Television Programming (1991) provides a practical understanding of daytime television formats, viewer demographics, and programming strategy. It compares daytime genres to their evening counterparts, discusses the effects of demographics, analyses investment yields, and highlights audience expectations.
Television
Television: A Critical Review (1963) is written by Sir Gerald Beadle, once Director of the BBC, and possessing of a long and wide experience of broadcasting as it expanded and grew. He was there at the birth of television, and details this and the subsequent developments over many years into a global phenomenon.
A Guide to Commercial Radio Journalism
A Guide to Commercial Radio Journalism (1999) covers every aspect of the profession, from journalistic practice to media law, and gives looks at the techniques of editing and using equipment and on the basic skills of writing, reporting and producing. There is also a whole chapter dedicated to advice on court reporting.
Broadcast Data Systems
Broadcast Data Systems (1990) looks at the broadcasting technology of data transmission over TV and radio channels - commonly known as teletext and RDS. It describes the development of the technology, together with the various aspects of its coding and transmission.
Telecommunications
Telecommunications: A Systems Approach (1976) presents two extended case studies, of public telephone and television systems, describes techniques within practical telecommunications systems, and takes into account users' needs and their economic constraints.
Telecommunications in Developing Countries
Telecommunications in Developing Countries (1990) stresses the importance of modern, micro electronics-based telecommunications for developing economies in providing a basic communications infrastructure for economic and industrial development and the springboard for new information technology activities.
Winning the Global TV News Game
Winning the Global TV News Game (1995) examines the worldwide TV news revolution of the 1990s, dealing with live TV news as an industry-consumer relationship. It's a marketing approach - focusing on regional markets across the globe, looking at industry players and the hardware they had put in place.
Broadcast Transmission Engineering Practice
Broadcast Transmission Engineering Practice (1992) contains a wealth of technical knowledge and practical experience, as well as detailed guidance on how to initiate, supervise and bring transmission engineering projects to fruition.
Broadcasting and Society 1918-1939
Broadcasting and Society (1983) is a critical examination of the social changes brought about by radio broadcasting in the crucial and formative stages between 1918 and 1939 - whether broadcasting was successful in keeping people better informed, in introducing wider interests, and its influence on social behaviour.
Broadcasting in Canada
Broadcasting in Canada (1977) examines the unique challenges to broadcasting in the country: the size of the country, its small, dispersed population, and two official languages make radio and television coverage a difficult and costly enterprise.
Images of the Enemy
Images of the Enemy (1985) discusses and decodes British television news coverage of the superpower disarmament talks and east-west crises and examines the structures, organisations and political constraints that encouraged negative views of the USSR to flourish.
Global Television
Global Television (1993) looks at how satellites, fibre optics, compressed digital transmission, and interactive and high-definition television have converged with computer technology to revolutionise TV and film production, TV sets and even the smart home in which TV is viewed.
Broadcast Voice Performance
Broadcast Voice Performance (1989) incorporates the insights and experience of more than 100 successful practising voice performers to succinctly and realistically examine the techniques, equipment and criteria of announcing within the context of major types of radio and television productions and programming formats.
Materials for Learning
Materials for Learning (1981) examines the ability of books and broadcasts to change lives. It aims to supply guidelines for action and, where evidence is mixed or lacking, defining questions that still require answers.
Global Broadcasting Systems
Global Broadcasting Systems (1996) provides a comprehensive look at broadcasting throughout the world. It discusses how new technology and political, social and economic factors influence the global media, and shows how increasing privatization has changed patterns of control and access.
Television and the Political Image
Was the 1959 UK General Election the first television election? Could television be used to create a Party 'image'? Television and the Political Image (1961) provides answers to both these questions.
Broadcast Indecency
Broadcast Indecency (1997) treats broadcast indecency as more than a simple regulatory problem in American law. The author's approach cuts across legal, social and economic concerns, taking the view that media law and regulation cannot be seen within a vacuum that ignores cultural realities.
Broadcasting in Mexico
Broadcasting in Mexico (1979) traces the birth and growth of Mexico's broadcasting services against the background of its geographical, cultural, demographic, economic and political structure.
Media Use in the Information Age
Media Use in the Information Age (1989) analyses new technologies, their impact on mass communications, and their effects on the users of these new systems. It looks at technologies such as videotex, and their successes and failures around the world, and examines the early adoptions of technologies such as home computers.
Communications Systems
Communications Systems (1999) examines various communications systems using satellites, and includes much information on coding and modulation systems. It explores the rapid convergence between satellite and terrestrial services and provides a solid base of principles, including mathematics.
Global Telecommunications
Global Telecommunications (1992) clarifies the complex, politically-charged arena of international telecommunications, looking at the demands created by dynamic Western countries in the grips of deregulation and the needs of developing nations.
Audio Production Techniques for Video
Audio Production Techniques for Video (1987) looks at the mechanics and operation of audio tape and video tape recorders; audio and video synchronization-technology; studio and location audio production processes; video and audio post-production; troubleshooting time-code problems.
Teachers & Television
Teachers & Television (1987) examines the use of television in education. With television being the most powerful medium of mass communication, with tremendous potential as an educational tool, to what extent are teachers considering educational television as a component of the curriculum?
Colour Television
Colour Television (1968) examines the technologies involved, the differences in programme-making that colour required, the audience response, and the changes in advertising and network systems that colour broadcasting brought about.
Factual Television
Factual Television (1966) looks at the techniques and purpose of all facets of factual television - news and current affairs programmes; documentaries; the ethics of reporters and producers. It quotes at length from television writers, producers and television executives, to give very much an insider's view of the arena.
Broadcasting in Ireland
Broadcasting in Ireland (1978) outlines the historical and sociological background of Ireland to place the progress of its broadcasting service in the context of its post-independence development, it being bound up with the process of building the political, economic and social framework of the new State.
Broadcast Writing
Broadcast Writing (1991) looks at the tools necessary for writers to find and develop stories for radio and television. It addresses the challenges of documentary and dramatic writing for TV and radio, and provides examples for most of the different writing genres.
The Politics of Broadcasting
The Politics of Broadcasting (1985) examines the state of broadcasting at a time when new telecommunications and information technology revolutionised television and radio. The book describes and analyses the problems faced by politicians and broadcasters in responding to these changing technological and political environments.
The Lively Audience
The Lively Audience (1986) studies television from the children's own point of view. Contrary to most prevailing opinion, it contends that television has much to teach children, and gives us a different understanding of the child audience and the impact of their television viewing.
Writing Comedy for Television
Writing Comedy for Television (1983) is a practical, step-by-step manual about how and what to write. It contains many examples from the scripts of various sitcoms and sketch shows. It demonstrates how to construct a storyline for a series, how to lay out a sketch, who to pitch to, and how a television comedy is put together.
Reviewing the Situation
The British musical in its formative years has appeared in strikingly different guises: from the lasting hits of Oliver!, and Me and My Girl, to the successes of The Dancing Years, Bless the Bride and Expresso Bongo. This authoritative study traces what made these shows successes in the West End and how their qualities define a uniquely British interpretation of the genre. Cultural, sociological and political influences entwine with close reading of the dramatic and musical elements of this repertory to reveal a fascinating web of connections and contrasts between the times, the shows and the people who made them. Through detailed case studies, such as of The Boy Friend and Bitter Sweet, the rich individuality of each West End work is spotlighted, posing vital questions and intriguing answers as to what a British musical can be. Interdisciplinary in nature, this study brings together all the core materials to discover this period in the story of the British musical. Reviewing the Situationis insightful and lively, an invaluable resource for students and scholars of musical theatre and all those theatregoers drawn to the power of these classic British shows.
Television in the Making
Television in the Making (1956) looks at television in its infancy, with essays by the leaders of the medium at the time, people who were forging new paths as they imagined and actioned the possibilities of television.
