The Age Of Melodramatic Miniseries

Author : Scott Humphries
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476691622
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Melodramatic Miniseries written by Scott Humphries and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glamour, power, champagne breakfasts in satin sheets--welcome to television's most dazzling and overlooked genre: women-centric melodrama miniseries of the 1980s and 1990s. Decades before Real Housewives, rags-to-riches fantasies depicting strong women overcoming tragedy to take charge of their destinies were a big hit with TV audiences. Reflecting the "greed is good" ethos of the day and encoded with feminist messaging, these glitzy, often camp stories depicted statuesque superwomen facing off with square-jawed men in boardrooms and bedrooms. This book explores the shows that epitomized the prime-time soap era and gave us such memorable scenes as Stefanie Powers trading lovers with her twin sister, Joan Collins fighting Nazis in haute couture and Phoebe Cates demanding, "Which one of you bitches is my mother?"

Author : Scott Humphries
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476649820
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Melodramatic Miniseries written by Scott Humphries and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glamour, power, champagne breakfasts in satin sheets--welcome to television's most dazzling and overlooked genre: women-centric melodrama miniseries of the 1980s and 1990s. Decades before Real Housewives, rags-to-riches fantasies depicting strong women overcoming tragedy to take charge of their destinies were a big hit with TV audiences. Reflecting the "greed is good" ethos of the day and encoded with feminist messaging, these glitzy, often camp stories depicted statuesque superwomen facing off with square-jawed men in boardrooms and bedrooms. This book explores the shows that epitomized the prime-time soap era and gave us such memorable scenes as Stefanie Powers trading lovers with her twin sister, Joan Collins fighting Nazis in haute couture and Phoebe Cates demanding, "Which one of you bitches is my mother?"

Author : Horace Newcomb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135194726
Total Pages : 2730 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Television written by Horace Newcomb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 2730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website.

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Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Johnson written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deborah Spungen
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307807436
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And I Don't Want to Live This Life written by Deborah Spungen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Honest and moving . . . Her painful tale is engrossing.”—Washington Post Book World For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy, who was stabbed to death at the Chelsea Hotel, it was both a relief and a tragedy. Here is the incredible story of an infant who never stopped screaming, a toddler who attacked people, a teenager addicted to drugs, violence, and easy sex, a daughter completely out of control—who almost destroyed her parents’ marriage and the happiness of the rest of her family.

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Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East-West Film Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496833147
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slave Revolt on Screen written by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games author Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall analyzes how films and video games from around the world have depicted slave revolt, focusing on the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). This event, the first successful revolution by enslaved people in modern history, sent shock waves throughout the Atlantic World. Regardless of its historical significance however, this revolution has become less well-known—and appears less often on screen—than most other revolutions; its story, involving enslaved Africans liberating themselves through violence, does not match the suffering-slaves-waiting-for-a-white-hero genre that pervades Hollywood treatments of Black history. Despite Hollywood’s near-silence on this event, some films on the Revolution do exist—from directors in Haiti, the US, France, and elsewhere. Slave Revolt on Screen offers the first-ever comprehensive analysis of Haitian Revolution cinema, including completed films and planned projects that were never made. In addition to studying cinema, this book also breaks ground in examining video games, a pop-culture form long neglected by historians. Sepinwall scrutinizes video game depictions of Haitian slave revolt that appear in games like the Assassin’s Creed series that have reached millions more players than comparable films. In analyzing films and games on the revolution, Slave Revolt on Screen calls attention to the ways that economic legacies of slavery and colonialism warp pop-culture portrayals of the past and leave audiences with distorted understandings.

Author : Mick Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780345406439
Total Pages : 1604 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Video Movie Guide 1997 written by Mick Martin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rates more than 17,000 movies on video. Cross-indexed by director and star. More than 800 new entries.

Author : Jackie Collins
Publisher : Chances Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0985745959
Total Pages : 215 pages
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Download or read book The World Is Full of Married Men written by Jackie Collins and published by Chances Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1968, The World is Full of Married Men was branded as “shocking,” especially coming from a female author but despite being banned in several countries for its scandalous content became a #1 bestseller in just two weeks! Always ahead of her time, in her racy debut, Jackie Collins flips on its head the hypocritical double standard of it being okay for men to sleep around but not for women. Successful London ad executive David Cooper is still sexy at forty. Plus, he’s got money and power, and therefore, any woman he wants for as long as he wants. His marriage to his nagging wife, Linda, has never gotten in the way of that. When gorgeous starlet Claudia Parker enters the picture, he becomes so smitten that he’s ready to divorce Linda to marry Claudia. But Claudia has no intentions of being shackled by a ring on her finger. When the relationship falls apart, he vies to get his wife back. Except Linda’s already moved on, swept up in a racy romance with Hollywood producer Jay Grossman. Despite David’s pleas, there’s no way she’s giving up her glamorous new lifestyle for the likes of him. David soon becomes a broken shell of a man, facing his fifties alone. As his once-meteoric career success takes a catastrophic dive, he finds comfort in the bottle and in the arms of his dowdy secretary, Harriet, while Linda’s life only gets better. Will there be a redemption for David? Or will karma get the last laugh in this sizzling, fast-paced, and thoroughly entertaining page-turner--the novel that launched Collins into her role as the Queen of flashy fiction. hr Read both of The World is Full series, as well as all the New York Times bestselling books by Jackie Collins! 1. The World is Full of Married Men 2. The World is Full of Divorced Women The Stud Series 1. The Stud 2. The Bitch The Lucky Santangelo series 1. Chances 2. Lucky 3. Lady Boss 4. Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge 5. Dangerous Kiss 6. Drop Dead Beautiful 7. Poor Little Bitch Girl 8. Goddess of Vengeance 9. Confessions of a Wild Child - Lucky: The Early Years 10. The Santangelos 11. A Santangelo Story

Author : Michael Korda
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781501127465
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queenie written by Michael Korda and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of Charmed Lives brings readers into the seductive and beguiling story of how being wrongfully accused of a crime led to a life of stardom in London for Dawn Avalon. Facing accusations for a crime she did not commit, Dawn Avalon abandons the life she knows and returns to her homeland in London to escape the charges. Against her expectations, she ends up leaving her entire identity behind as she becomes a star of the stage and the screen known as “Queenie.” Using her beauty to attract and marry the Hollywood producer that changes her life as he leads her into stardom, Dawn realizes too late that the price you must pay for success and fame is higher than she ever expected.