Investigates the changing representations of jazz women in American culture.
"From live productions of the 1950s like Requiem for a Heavyweight to big budget mini-series like Band of Brothers, long-form television programs have been helmed by some of the most creative and accomplished names in directing. Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors brings a…
"The story of how the most powerful medium of mass communication in human history became a propaganda tool for one side of the political spectrum: the left side"--
This anthology offers contemporary perspectives on dance in the context of the popular screen. It analyzes the role played by the dancing body in popular culture and its multi-layered meanings in film, television, music videos, video games, commercials, and Internet sites such a…
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen sets the agenda for the study of dance in popular moving images--films, television shows, commercials, music videos, and YouTube--and offers new ways to understand the multi-layered meanings of the dancing body by engaging with…
This anthology offers contemporary perspectives on dance in the context of the popular screen. It analyzes the role played by the dancing body in popular culture and its multi-layered meanings in film, television, music videos, video games, commercials, and Internet sites such a…
Samuel A. Chambers exposes and explores the cultural politics of television by treating television shows---including Six Feet Under, Buffy, Desperate Housewives, The L Word, and Big Love---as serious, important texts and by reading them in detail through the lens of queer theory.
"The Queer Politics of Television" is a radical book, which brings together the fields of political theory and television studies. In one of the first books to do so, Samuel A. Chambers exposes and explores the cultural politics of television by treating television shows - inclu…
