The Encyclopedia Of Tv Game Shows

Author : David Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816030941
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows written by David Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with facts and tidbits about America's best-loved--though sometimes quickly forgotten--game shows, the book traces the origins of more than 450 shows, providing such information as each one's air date, creator, hosts, notable celebrity guests, and more. From network TV's infancy to the technological advances of today's cable-ready world, this encyclopedia covers it all. 150 photos.

Author : Maxene Fabe
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TV Game Shows written by Maxene Fabe and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1979 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the original radio quiz shows through the scandal-ridden fifties up to today's extravaganzas, TV Game Shows takes you behind the sets of this uniquely American phenomenon. Here are the 10 worst and the 40 best shows of all time, the contestants, the hosts and the celebrities, the prizes and the profits, the questions and the quizzes ... Includes a complete list of every game show ever aired."--Cover.

Author : Horace Newcomb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135194793
Total Pages : 2732 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( 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 2732 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.

Author : R.M. Reed
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146846521X
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Television, Cable, and Video written by R.M. Reed and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major reference work about the overlapping fields of television, cable and video. With both technical and popular appeal, this book covers the following areas: advertising, agencies, associations, companies, unions, broadcasting, cable-casting, engineering, events, general production and programming.

Author : Carol Publishing Group
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780821630945
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Tv Gameshows written by Carol Publishing Group and published by . This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : The Editors of New York Magazine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501166964
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of New York written by The Editors of New York Magazine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The must-have guide to pop culture, history, and world-changing ideas that started in New York City, from the magazine at the center of it all. Since its founding in 1624, New York City has been a place that creates things. What began as a trading post for beaver pelts soon transformed into a hub of technological, social, and cultural innovation—but beyond fostering literal inventions like the elevator (inside Cooper Union in 1853), Q-tips (by Polish immigrant Leo Gerstenzang in 1923), General Tso’s chicken (reimagined for American tastes in the 1970s by one of its Hunanese creators), the singles bar (1965 on the Upper East Side), and Scrabble (1931 in Jackson Heights), the city has given birth to or perfected idioms, forms, and ways of thinking that have changed the world, from Abstract Expressionism to Broadway, baseball to hip-hop, news blogs to neoconservatism to the concept of “downtown.” Those creations and more are all collected in The Encyclopedia of New York, an A-to-Z compendium of unexpected origin stories, hidden histories, and useful guides to the greatest city in the world, compiled by the editors of New York Magazine (a city invention itself, since 1968) and featuring contributions from Rebecca Traister, Jerry Saltz, Frank Rich, Jonathan Chait, Rhonda Garelick, Kathryn VanArendonk, Christopher Bonanos, and more. Here you will find something fascinating and uniquely New York on every page: a history of the city’s skyline, accompanied by a tour guide’s list of the best things about every observation deck; the development of positive thinking and punk music; appreciations of seltzer and alternate-side-of-the-street parking; the oddest object to be found at Ripley’s Believe It or Not!; musical theater next to muckracking and mugging; and the unbelievable revelation that English muffins were created on...West Twentieth Street. Whether you are a lifelong resident, a curious newcomer, or an armchair traveler, this is the guidebook you’ll need, straight from the people who know New York best.

Author : Steve Ryan
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781566252911
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate TV Game Show Book written by Steve Ryan and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate TV Game Show Book is a virtual cornucopia of fun, frivolity and fabulous facts from more than fifty years of games shows.

Author : Wesley Hyatt
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476608741
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emmy Award Winning Nighttime Television Shows, 1948-2004 written by Wesley Hyatt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early days of television, well before most households had a set, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has been handing out honors for the industry's best efforts. Now fans can read about their favorites--and perhaps rediscover some forgotten pleasures--in this reference to prime time and nighttime Emmy winners. Beginning with the heated charade contest known as Pantomime Quiz, which won Most Popular Program of 1948 in the first Emmy Awards ceremony (held in 1949), each of more than 100 winning shows gets star treatment with an entry that includes the year of award or awards, air times, hosts, guests, casts and a full discussion of the show's history and run. Many of the entries include original interviews with cast or crew members. With such rich information, each show's entry constitutes a chapter in the history of television through the story of the show and the people who made it happen. The best of variety, drama, game shows, comedies, adventures and many more categories are featured. An appendix offers interesting facts and figures and ranks shows according to such statistics as longest run, longest delay from debut to win, and most Emmys won.

Author : Morris B. Holbrook
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879726218
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daytime Television Game Shows and the Celebration of Merchandise written by Morris B. Holbrook and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insights into the nature of the consumer society and its ethos of consumption can often emerge from interpreting even the most lowly specimens of popular culture. In this spirit, a neglected genre that promises to shed light on the culture of consumption appears in the form of the daytime television game shows whose hegemonic message seems to convey and to justify a widespread obeisance to the mandate of materialism. These game shows often present a text that demands a readerly, monosemic, dominant interpretation as an unabashed celebration of merchandise. In particular, a close analysis of the longest running game show - The Price Is Right - suggests that all facets of this program combine to reinforce its central meaning as a ritualistic validation of consumption-oriented greed. An alternative resistant reading is explored but rejected - in part because it rests on an assumption that violates the empirical data and in part because it provides a more convincing analysis of a program like Supermarket Sweep. In short, the present study concludes that TV game shows in general, and The Price Is Right in particular, reflect and reinforce the obsession that many modern consumers feel with merchandise valued almost for its own sake, beyond any need or even capacity to use it, as a kind of disembodied target of misdirected desire.

Author : Rodney P. Carlisle
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412966701
Total Pages : 1033 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society written by Rodney P. Carlisle and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, January 2010 The Encyclopedia of Play: A Social History explores the concept of play in history and modern society in the United States and internationally. Its scope encompasses leisure and recreation activities of children as well as adults throughout the ages, from dice games in the Roman empire to video games today. As an academic social history, it includes the perspectives of several curricular disciplines, from sociology to child psychology, from lifestyle history to social epidemiology. This two-volume set will serve as a general, non-technical resource for students in education and human development, health and sports psychology, leisure and recreation studies and kinesiology, history, and other social sciences to understand the importance of play as it has developed globally throughout history and to appreciate the affects of play on child and adult development, particularly on health, creativity, and imagination.