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  • Screwball Television

    Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls

    Edited by David Diffrient, David Lavery ...
    Series series Television and Popular Culture
    Bringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, Screwball Television offers a variety of international perspectives on Gilmore Girls. Adored by fans and celebrated by critics for its sophisticated wordplay and compelling portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship, this contemporary American TV program finally gets its due as a cultural production unlike any other, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saving The World

    by Lynnette Porter,David Lavery,and Hillary Robson ...
    "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World.rdquo; With that immediately memorable mantra, Heroes became the top-rated new series of fall 2006. Featuring such archetypal characters as one with a split personality, one who can fly, one who can see the future, one who can time travel - and the evil villain out to steal all of the powers for himself - the show touches our inner comic book fan, even if we ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reading Joss Whedon

    Edited by Tanya Cochran, Cynthea Masson, David Lavery, Rhonda V. Wilcox ...
    Series series Television and Popular Culture
    In an age when geek chic has come to define mainstream pop culture, few writers and producers inspire more admiration and response than Joss Whedon. From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Much Ado About Nothing, from Dr. Horrible’s Sing–Along Blog to The Avengers, the works of Whedon have been the focus of increasing academic attention. This collection of articles represents some of the best work ... Read more

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  • Fighting the Forces

    What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    by Rhonda V. Wilcox, David Lavery, Camille Bacon Smith, Katrina Busse, S Renee Dechert, Diane DeKelb-Rittenhouse, Lynne Edwards, Greg Erikson, Sarah N. Gatson0, Elyce Rae Helford1, Donald Keller2, Elizabeth Krimmer3, Tanya Kryzywinska4, Justine Larbalestier5, Farah Mendelsohn6, Mary Alice Money7, Karen Eileen Overby8, Patricia Pender9, Lahney Preston-Matto0, Shilpa Raval1, Anita Rose2, Catherine Siemann3, Sarah E. Skwire4, J P. Williams5, Amanda Zweerink6 ...
    For every television series, the original vision grows within a press of forces-both social and artistic expectations, conventions of the business, as well as conventions of the art. Bad television-predictable, commercial, exploitative-simply yields to the forces. Good television, like the character of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, fights them. Fighting the Forces explores the struggle to create ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Lost's Buried Treasures

    The Unofficial Guide to Everything Lost Fans Need to Know

    by David Lavery, Lynnette Porter ...
    The Ultimate Unauthorized Resource to the Stories Behind LostLost is a complex and mysterious tale, one that draws on many sources for its themes and ideas—sources you must understand to become an advanced Lost expert. Lost*'s Buried Treasures* is the ultimate unauthorized guide to the ideas that have influenced the show and its writers—and is completely updated through Season Five.Explore:Bo... ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Essential Cult TV Reader

    Edited by David Lavery ...
    Series series Essential Readers in Contemporary Media and Culture
    The Essential Cult TV Reader is a collection of insightful essays that examine television shows that amass engaged, active fan bases by employing an imaginative approach to programming. Once defined by limited viewership, cult TV has developed its own identity, with some shows gaining large, mainstream audiences. By exploring the defining characteristics of cult TV, The Essential Cult TV Reader ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Essential Sopranos Reader

    Edited by David Lavery, Douglas L. Howard, Paul Levinson ...
    Series series Essential Readers in Contemporary Media and Culture
    The Sopranos is recognized as the most successful cable series in the history of television. The Washington Post has called the popular series, winner of twenty-one Emmys and five Golden Globes, "the television landmark that leaves other landmarks in the dust." In every aspect—narrative structure, visual artistry, writing, intertextuality, ensemble acting, controversial themes, dark humor, and ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Joss Whedon, A Creative Portrait

    From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Marvel's The Avengers

    by David Lavery ...
    Spring 2012 saw the return to creative and critical success of Joss Whedon, with the release of both his horror flick The Cabin in the Woods and the box-office sensation, Marvel's The Avengers. After establishing himself as a premier cult creator, the man who gave us great television with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse and web series Dr Horrible's Sing-along Blog, as well as ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Joss Whedon

    Conversations

    Edited by David Lavery, Cynthia Burkhead ...
    Series series Television Conversations Series
    No recent television creator has generated more critical, scholarly, and popular discussion or acquired as devoted a cult following as Joss Whedon (b. 1964). No fewer than thirty books concerned with his work have now been published, and ten international conferences on his work have convened in the U.K., the United States, Australia, and Turkey. Fitting then that this first volume in University ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Joss Whedon

    Conversations

    by Cynthia Burkhead ...
    Series series Television Conversations Series
    No recent television creator has generated more critical, scholarly, and popular discussion or acquired as devoted a cult following as Joss Whedon (b. 1964). No fewer than thirty books concerned with his work have now been published (a forthcoming volume even offers a book-length bibliography), and ten international conferences on his work have convened in the U.K., the United States, Australia, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • TV (The Book)

    Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time

    by Alan Sepinwall, Matt Zoller Seitz ...
    Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible?For twenty years-since they shared a TV column at Tony Soprano's hometown newspaper-critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz have been debating these questions and many more, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Revolution Was Televised

    How The Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Lost, and Other Groundbreaking Dramas Changed TV Forever

    by Alan Sepinwall ...
    A phenomenal account, newly updated, of how twelve innovative television dramas transformed the medium and the culture at large, featuring Sepinwall’s take on the finales of Mad Men and Breaking Bad.In The Revolution Was Televised, celebrated TV critic Alan Sepinwall chronicles the remarkable transformation of the small screen over the past fifteen years. Focusing on twelve innovative television ... Read more

    $13.99 USD