Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help
Rakuten Kobo
Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


The Basics eBook Series

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results
Skip side bar filters

  • Television Studies: The Basics

    by Toby Miller ...
    Series series The Basics
    Television Studies: The Basics is a lively introduction to the study of a powerful medium. It examines the major theories and debates surrounding production and reception over the years and considers both the role and future of television.Topics covered include:broadcasting history and technologyinstitutions and ownershipgenre and contentaudiencesComplete with global case studie... ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Wire

    The Untold History of Television

    by Kathleen Olmstead ...
    Series Book 1 - 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.David Simon’s The Wire, hands down, has been described by critics and fans alike as simply the best television show, ever. More than just your typical cop drama where the heroes and the villains are easy to define, The Wire took ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Games of Thrones A-Z: An Unofficial Guide to Accompany the Hit TV Series

    by Martin Howden ...
    Games of Thrones has quickly established itself as one of TV's most exciting shows - combining political intrigue and family dysfunction against an epic fantasy backdrop. HBO's lavish adaptation of George R.R. Martin's series of fantasy novels features a stellar cast, including Aidan Gillen, Peter Dinklage and Lena Headey, and chronicles the violent struggles between the kingdom's noble families ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Howie Mandel

    An Unauthorized Biography

    by Belmont and Belcourt Biographies ...
    This is the unlikely story of a multi-talented stand-up comedian, actor, game show host and voice artist who has left an indelible mark on the entertainment business. Howie Mandel began as a high school dropout turned carpet salesman who went on to own his own carpet sales business. After a fateful performance at a comedy club, Mandel's life veered in a completely different direction. For the last ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • The Pop Culture Holiday Sampler The Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Buffy, Firefly, The Avengers, and More

    by Valerie Estelle Frankel ...
    Sample chapters of the greatest fannish guides by Valerie Estelle Frankel: Every Canon Reference You May Have Missed in BBC's Sherlock, Series 1-3. Guides to all the pop culture in Doctor Who along with background on the characters and top fan questions. There's a similar, incredibly popular guide to Game of Thrones, detailing the host of characters and their myriad of devilish agendas . Another ... Read more

    Free

  • Here's One I Wrote Earlier

    Peter Purves: The Autobiography

    by Peter Purves ...
    Peter Purves is the actor, presenter and talented director who first shot to fame appearing with William Hartnell in 44 episodes of Doctor Who playing his companion Steven Taylor. His varied career is perhaps most well remembered for his 10 year stint as part of the Blue Peter "Dream Team" with Valerie Singleton and John Noakes. Most people have a specific memory of this golden age of british ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mastering the Game of Thrones

    Essays on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire

    Edited by Jes Battis, Susan Johnston ...
    George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series is a worldwide phenomenon, and the world of Westeros has seen multiple adaptations, from HBO's acclaimed television series to graphic novels, console games and orchestral soundtracks. This collection of new essays investigates what makes this world so popular, and why the novels and television series are being taught in university classrooms as ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000

    Essays on Film, Fandom, Technology and the Culture of Riffing

    Edited by Robert G. Weiner, Shelley E. Barba ...
    The award-winning television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988-1999) has been described as "the smartest, funniest show in America," and forever changed the way we watch movies. The series featured a human host and a pair of robotic puppets who, while being subjected to some of the worst films ever made, provided ongoing hilarious and insightful commentary in a style popularly known as ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • A History of Television's The Virginian, 1962-1971

    by Paul Green ...
    On September 19, 1962, The Virginian made its primetime broadcast premiere. The 1902 novel by Owen Wister had already seen four movie adaptations when Frank Price mentioned the story's series potential to NBC. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute western series. Immensely successful, it ran for nine seasons--television's third longest running western.This work ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Superheroines and the Epic Journey

    Mythic Themes in Comics, Film and Television

    by Valerie Estelle Frankel ...
    The heroine's journey echoes throughout ancient legend. Each young woman combats her dark side and emerges stronger. This quest is also a staple of American comic books. Wonder Woman with semi-divine powers gives us a new female-centered creation story. Batgirl, Batwoman and Black Widow discover their enemy is the dark mother or shadow twin, with the savagery they've rejected in themselves. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Film Stars' Television Projects

    Pilots and Series of 50+ Movie Greats, 1948-1985

    by Richard Irvin ...
    Bette Davis as a madam. Orson Welles hosting The Twilight Zone. Mae West voicing a cartoon character. Shirley Temple playing a social worker. While Hollywood stars like Lucille Ball, Loretta Young and Donna Reed successfully transitioned to television in its early days, many others tried and failed to become TV regulars. Drawing on contemporary interviews and other sources, this book profiles more ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Who Is Sherlock?

    Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations

    Edited by Lynnette Porter ...
    Nearly 130 years after the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to readers, the Great Detective's identity is being questioned, deconstructed, and reconstructed more than ever. Readers and audiences, not to mention scholars and critics, continue to analyze who Sherlock Holmes is or has become and why and how his identity has been formed in a specific way.The films Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: A ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD