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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • Teacher TV

    Seventy Years of Teachers on Television, Second Edition

    Series Book 320 - Counterpoints
    Teacher TV: Seventy Years of Teachers on Television, Second Edition examines some of the most influential teacher characters presented on television from the earliest sitcoms to contemporary dramas and comedies. Both topical and chronological, the book follows a general course across decades and focuses on dominant themes and representations. Although each chapter presents an overview of the all ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • Screen Lessons

    What We Have Learned from Teachers on Television and in the Movies

    Series Book 486 - Counterpoints
    This unprecedented volume includes 30 essays by teachers and students about the teacher characters who have inspired them. Drawing on film and television texts, the authors explore screen lessons from a variety of perspectives. Arranged in topical categories, the contributors examine the "good" teacher; the "bad" teacher; gender, sexuality, and teaching; race and ethnicity in the classroom; and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Hollywood Curriculum

    Teachers in the Movies – Third Revised Edition

    Series Book 495 - Counterpoints
    The third edition of this book analyzes over 165 films distributed throughout the United States over the last 80 years to construct a theory of curriculum in the movies that is grounded in cultural studies and critical pedagogy. The portrayal of teachers in popular motion pictures is based on individual efforts rather than collective action and relies on codes established by stock characters and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

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  • Friday Night Lights

    The Untold History of Television

    Series series 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

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Platinum Age of Television

    From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific

    Television today is better than ever. From The Sopranos to Breaking Bad, Sex and the City to Girls, and Modern Family to Louie, never has so much quality programming dominated our screens. Exploring how we got here, acclaimed TV critic David Bianculli traces the evolution of the classic TV genres, among them the sitcom, the crime show, the miniseries, the soap opera, the Western, the animated ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle

    Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula

    Many critics and fans refer to the 1990s as the decade that horror forgot, with few notable entries in the genre. Yet horror went mainstream in the '90s by speaking to the anxieties of American youth during one of the country's most prosperous eras.No longer were films made on low budgets and dependent on devotees for success. Horror found its way onto magazine covers, fashion ads and CD ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Life Moves Pretty Fast

    The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them from Movies Anymore)

    From Vogue contributor and Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman, a personalized guide to eighties movies that describes why they changed movie-making forever—featuring exclusive interviews with the producers, directors, writers and stars of the best cult classics.For Hadley Freeman, movies of the 1980s have simply got it all. Comedy in Three Men and a Baby, Hannah and Her Sisters, Ghostbusters, and ... Read more

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  • Stuntwomen

    The Untold Hollywood Story

    Series series Screen Classics
    "Gives voice to the women who have risked their lives for a few (perilous) moments on the big screen. A fascinating look at a risky profession." — The Washington PostThey've traded punches in knockdown brawls, crashed biplanes through barns, and raced to the rescue in fast cars. They add suspense and drama to the story, portraying the swimmer stalked by the menacing shark, the heroine dangling ... Read more

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  • The Essential HBO Reader

    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

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  • Stealing the Show

    How Women Are Revolutionizing Television

    by Joy Press ...
    From a leading cultural journalist, the definitive cultural history of female showrunners—including exclusive interviews with such influential figures as Shonda Rhimes, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Mindy Kaling, Amy Schumer, and many more. “An urgent and entertaining history of the transformative powers of women in TV” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).In recent years, women have radically transformed ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • APB: Artists against Police Brutality

    An incredibly unique comic book benefit project featuring comic shorts, pin-ups, short essays, and flash fiction, the proceeds of which will be going to the Innocence ProjectWe’ve all seen the pictures: a six-year-old Ruby Bridges being escorted by U.S. marshals on her first day at an all-white, New Orleans school in 1960; a police dog attacking a demonstrator in Birmingham; fire hoses turned on ... Read more

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