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  • The Age of Netflix

    Critical Essays on Streaming Media, Digital Delivery and Instant Access

    Edited by Cory Barker, Myc Wiatrowski ...
    In 2016, Netflix--with an already enormous footprint in the United States--expanded its online streaming video service to 130 new countries, adding more than 12 million subscribers in nine months and bringing its total to 87 million. The effectiveness of Netflix's content management lies in its ability to appeal to a vastly disparate global viewership without a unified cache of content. Instead, ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Mapping Smallville

    Critical Essays on the Series and Its Characters

    Edited by Cory Barker, Chris Ryan, Myc Wiatrowski ...
    One of the first full-length academic projects on the television series Smallville, this collection of new essays explains why the WB/CW series is important to understanding contemporary popular culture. The essays are presented in four sections covering broad categories: Clark Kent's metamorphosis to Superman and the influence of his parents and the home; the role of the series' noteworthy female ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Social TV

    Multi-Screen Content and Ephemeral Culture

    by Cory Barker ...
    Winner of the 2023 SCMS Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group Outstanding Book Award sponsored by the Center for Entertainment & Media IndustriesOn March 15, 2011, Donald Trump changed television forever. The Comedy Central Roast of Trump was the first major live broadcast to place a hashtag in the corner of the screen to encourage real-time reactions on Twitter, generating more than 25,000 ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Superhero Multiverse

    Readapting Comic Book Icons in Twenty-First-Century Film and Popular Media

    by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Cory Barker, Whitney Hardin, Carl Wilson, Joan Ormrod, James C. Taylor, Forrest Johnson, Matthew Thompson, Angelique Nairn, Carmel Cedro0, Blair Speakman1, Simon Bacon2, Anne Lee3, Sophia Staite4, Demi Schänzel5, Justin Matthews6, Michael Soares7, Julia E. Kiernan8 ...
    Series series Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations
    The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus on multimedia and transmedia transformations, The Superhero Multiverse pivots on two important points: firstly, it reflects on the core concerns of the superhero narrative—including the relationship ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Arrow and Superhero Television

    Essays on Themes and Characters of the Series

    Edited by Myc Wiatrowski, Cory Barker, James F. Iaccino ...
    This collection of new essays focuses on The CW network's hit television series Arrow--based on DC Comic's Green Arrow--and its spin-offs The Flash, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl. Comic book adaptations have been big business for film studios since Superman (1978) and in recent years have dominated at the box office--five of the 11 highest grossing films of 2016 were adapted from comics. ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

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    by Caitlyn Jenner ...
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    $15.99 USD

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  • The Life and Times of Call the Midwife

    The Official Companion to Season One and Two

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  • The Woman I Was Born to Be

    My Story

    by Susan Boyle ...
    In April 2009, a modest middle-aged woman from a village in Scotland was catapulted to global fame when the YouTube video of her audition for Britain’s Got Talent touched the hearts of millions all over the world. From singing karaoke in local pubs to a live performance with an eighty-piece orchestra in Japan’s legendary Budokan Arena and a record-breaking debut album, Susan Boyle has become an ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Walking Dead

    The Untold History of Television

    by Kathleen Olmstead ...
    Series Book 6 - The Untold History of Television
    The Untold History of Television provides an exciting glimpse behind the scenes of the groundbreaking series that have defined the landscape of popular culture.Based on the wildly popular comic by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead is a riveting drama about experiencing a zombie apocalypse—and living to tell the tale. It explores the survivors’s fate and questions who poses the greater threat: the ... Read more

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  • Sir David Jason - A Life of Laughter

    by Stafford Hildred, Stafford Hildred & Tim Ewbank ...
    David Jason is Britain's best-loved star. From his wonderful characterisation of Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses to Detective Jack Frost and Mr Micawber, he has captured the heart of a nation. This remarkable biography traces the life of Britain's favourite actor from his humble roots in north London through his days as an electrician to Sir David Jason, the icon we all know and love. Recruited ... Read more

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  • Real Housewives Tell It Like It Is

    by Bravo ...
    Bravo's The Real Housewives franchise has taken the country by storm with over 13 million fans and record-breaking new seasons. The Real Housewives Tell It Like It Is captures the best, most outlandish quotes from the ladies of the O.C., New York, Atlanta, New Jersey, D.C., Beverly Hills, and Miami in one deluxe volume so fans can refer to their unique brand of wisdom again and again. Organized by ... Read more

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  • Friday Night Lights

    The Untold History of Television

    by Kathleen Olmstead ...
    Series Book 3 - 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.Honest, compelling and full of heart, Friday Night Lights brought small-town Texas football into the lives of television viewers across North America. From book to movie to the small screen, Friday Night Lights struggled against ... Read more

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