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  • Days of Heaven

    by Gary R. Edgerton ...
    Series series Reel West Series
    A comprehensive account of the making and legacy of Terrence Malick’s elegiac 1978 Western, Days of Heaven, starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, and Sam Shepard.Director Terrence Malick’s 1978 Western, Days of Heaven,stands out for its dreamlike cinematography and sparse, haunting plot. Malick’s writing and direction animate the usual Western tropes with a uniquely personal style and sensibility. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Mad Men

    by Gary R. Edgerton ...
    Series series TV Milestones
    A captivating and analytical compendium to the hit show - and its creation, story, and impact on contemporary media and popular culture.This one-stop primer offers a succinct analysis of one of the most skillfully produced, artistically innovative, and culturally resonant scripted series in modern television. It opens by explaining how Mad Men (AMC, 2007–2015) functions as a representative example ... Read more

    $34.92 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Film Exhibition and an Analysis of the Motion Picture Industry's Market Structure 1963-1980

    by Gary Edgerton ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    This study looks at how the movie industry organisation functioned between the late ‘40s and 1983 when it was originally published. It describes the changing role of domestic exhibition through this time and analyses the wider film industry to provide a model of the exhibition structure in relation to production, distribution and outside factors. It addresses the growing issues of the cable and ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • The Columbia History of American Television

    by Gary Edgerton ...
    Series series Columbia Histories of Modern American Life
    Television is a form of media without equal. It has revolutionized the way we learn about and communicate with the world and has reinvented the way we experience ourselves and others. More than just cheap entertainment, TV is an undeniable component of our culture and contains many clues to who we are, what we value, and where we might be headed in the future.Media historian Gary R. Edgerton ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Essential HBO Reader

    by Gary R. Edgerton, Jeffrey P. Jones ...
    Series series Essential Readers in Contemporary Media and Culture
    Essays on the history of HBO, a company designed to please audiences instead of advertisers, and the impact of its distinctive programming: "Recommended." — ChoiceThe founding of Home Box Office in the early 1970s—when it debuted by telecasting a Paul Newman movie and an NHL game to 365 households in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania—was a harbinger of the innovations that would transform television as ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Television Histories

    Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age

    Edited by Gary R. Edgerton, Peter C. Rollins ...
    From Ken Burns's documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from A&E's Biography series to CNN, television has become the primary source for historical information for tens of millions of Americans today. Why has television become such a respected authority? What falsehoods enter our collective memory as truths? How is one to know what is real and what is imagined—or ignored—by producers, ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Westerns

    The Essential 'Journal of Popular Film and Television' Collection

    Edited by Gary R. Edgerton ...
    For nearly two centuries, Americans have embraced the Western like no other artistic genre. Creators and consumers alike have utilized this story form in literature, painting, film, radio and television to explore questions of national identity and purpose. Westerns: The Essential Collection comprises the Journal of Popular Film and Television’s rich and longstanding legacy of scholarship on ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Mad Men

    Dream Come True TV

    Edited by Gary R. Edgerton ...
    Series series Reading Contemporary Television
    Don and Betty Draper live in a picture-perfect world. He is a hard-living advertising executive - a 'mad man' - on the fast track. She's a Bryn Mawr graduate and former fashion model, now a suburban princess, mother of three children. If they've everything, why are they so unhappy? Why is their dream come true not enough? This book explores, analyses, celebrates the world of "Mad Men" in all its ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Television Finales

    From Howdy Doody to Girls

    by Sam Ford, Karen Hellekson, Ensley F. Guffey, David Diffrient, Martha P. Nochimson, Barbara Villez, K. Dale Koontz, Elizabeth L. Rambo, Erika Johnson-Lewis, Mitchell E. Shapiro, Keith Brand, Jeff Thompson, Lori Bindig, Sue Turnbull, Renee Middlemost, Mark Dawidziak, David Hinckley, Stephen Spignesi, Alice Leppert, Shelley Cobb, Hannah Hamad, Stacey Abbott, Katheryn Wright, Eric Gould, Ron Wilson, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick, Douglas Snauffer, Clinton Bryant, Michael Donovan, Jeffrey Bussolini, Stephanie Graves, Teresa Forde, Dean DeFino, Trisha Dunleavy, Nikki Stafford, Dana A. Heller, Stan Beeler, Cynthia Burkhead, Joanne Morreale, Asokan Nirmalarajah, J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Bill Yousman, Deborah Jermyn, Lincoln Geraghty, Michele Byers, Zeke Jarvis, Kim Akass, Amanda Potter, Gary R. Edgerton, Lynne Hibberd, Robert Thompson, Jason P. Vest, Amy M. Damico, Bill Brioux, Lynnette Porter, Adam Ochonicky, Joseph S. Walker, Gary Gravely, Brett Mills, Paul Wright, Lorna Jewett ...
    Series series Television and Popular Culture
    Today more than ever, series finales have become cultural touchstones that feed watercooler fodder and Twitter storms among a committed community of viewers. While the final episodes of The Fugitive and M*A*S*H continue to rank among the highest rated broadcasts, more recent shows draw legions of binge-watching fans. Given the importance of finales to viewers and critics alike, Howard and ... Read more

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  • Fifty Key American Films

    Edited by John White, Sabine Haenni ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Fifty Key American Films explores and contextualises some of the most important films ever made in the United States. With case studies from the early years of cinema to the present day, this comprehensive Key Guide provides accessible analyses from a range of theoretical perspectives.This chronologically ordered volume includes coverage of:Citizen KaneCasablancaPsycho</e... ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Mad Men

    The Untold History of Television

    by Kathleen Olmstead ...
    Series Book 2 - The Untold History of Television
    The Untold History of Television provides a captivating glimpse behind the scenes of the groundbreaking series that have both defined and changed the pop culture landscape.Beloved by fans and critics alike, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner’s intense, clever series about the world of 1960s advertising, followed an intriguing path from script to screen. Flat-out rejected by HBO, the show found a home at AMC ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Western

    by David Carter ...
    From the very beginnings of American cinema the Western has been a central genre, as the hazardous lives of the settlers, their conflict with Native Americans, the lawless frontier towns, outlaws, and cattle rustlers all found their way into the new medium of film. This book provides a basic work of reference for all the major directors and noteworthy films of the genre. It discusses how folk ... Read more

    $19.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus