Sports TV This book offers an introductory guide to sports TV its history in the United States the genre’s defining characteristics and analysis of its critical significance for the business practices formal properties and social cultural and political meanings of the medium. Victoria E. Johnson discusses a range of examples from textual analysis of programs such as Monday Night Football and Being Serena to examination of television rights details to sports TV’s technological innovations and engagement of critical political debates. Johnson examines sports TV from its introduction to the ESPN+ era. She proposes that sports as seen on TV in all of its iterations is the central cultural forum for working through questions of community ideals struggles over national and regional mythologies and questions of representative citizenship. This book is an ideal guide for students and scholars of television media and cultural studies as well as those with an interest in television genre sports TV history and contemporary sport and media culture. GBP 31.99 1
Quality Telefantasy How US Quality TV Brought Zombies Dragons and Androids into the Mainstream This book explores the relatively new genre of ‘Quality Telefantasy’ and how it has broadened TV taste cultures by legitimating and mainstreaming fantastical content. It also shows how the rising popularity of this genre marks a distinct and significant development in what kinds of TV are culturally dominant and critically regarded. By expanding and building on the definition of US Quality TV this book brings together a number of popular science fiction fantasy and horror TV series including Game of Thrones The Walking Dead and Westworld as case studies which demonstrate the emergence of the Quality Telefantasy genre. It looks at the role of technology including internet recap culture and subscription video on demand distribution in Quality Telefantasy’s swift emergence and analyses its success internationally by considering series created outside the US like Kingdom (South Korea Netflix) and Dark (Germany Netflix). The book argues that Quality Telefantasy series should be considered a part of the larger Quality TV super-genre and that the impact they are having on the global TV landscape warrants further investigation as it continues to evolve. This is a valuable text for students and scholars studying or undertaking research in the areas of television studies new media and pop-cultural studies. | Quality Telefantasy How US Quality TV Brought Zombies Dragons and Androids into the Mainstream GBP 38.99 1
Creating TV Formats From Inception to Pitch Creating TV Formats: From Inception to Pitch takes the reader through a step-by-step process of how to generate ideas develop story lines and characters and hook an audience whilst staying aware of the realities of the media landscape. Beginning with a discussion about what a TV format is each chapter then introduces a key aspect of the development process such as looking for ideas shaping the underlying story and thinking about participants. Practical exercises guide the reader through each stage of turning an initial idea or subject matter into a hook or insight; the importance of incorporating storytelling principles and techniques for designing and populating a story world. Examples from successful television formats such as First Dates and The Great British Bake Off are interwoven throughout the book alongside exclusive insights from the key industry professionals who brought them to the screen. From short-form digital content to longer unscripted series this is an essential guide to discovering and developing formats for any media or television production student or early career development professional. | Creating TV Formats From Inception to Pitch GBP 32.99 1
The Art and Craft of TV Directing Conversations with Episodic Television Directors The Art and Craft of TV Directing offers a broad and in-depth view of the craft of TV Directing in the form of detailed interviews with dozens of the industry’s most accomplished episodic television directors. Author Jim Hemphill provides students with essential information on the complexities of working in episodic TV highlighting the artistic technical and interpersonal skills required and exploring a variety of entry points and approaches to provide a comprehensive overview of how to begin and sustain a career as a television director. The book discusses how to merge one’s personal style with the established visual language of any given show while also adhering to tight budgets and schedules and navigating the complicated politics of working with showrunners networks and producers. The book also features interviews with a range of directors from feature directors who have moved into episodic TV (Kimberly Peirce Mark Pellington) to directors who have made the transition from other disciplines like acting (Andrew McCarthy Lea Thompson) hair and makeup (Stacey K. Black) and stunts (David M. Barrett). This book provides unprecedented access to the experiences and advice of contemporary working episodic television directors and is an ideal resource for students studying television directing early career professionals looking for advice and working directors looking to make the transition from feature directing to episodic TV directing. | The Art and Craft of TV Directing Conversations with Episodic Television Directors GBP 35.99 1
Critical Approaches to TV and Film Set Design The analysis of scenic design in film and television is often neglected with visual design elements relegated to part of the mise-en-scène in cinema or simply as wallpaper in television. Critical Approaches to TV and Film Set Design positions itself from the audience perspective to explore how we watch TV and film and how set design enhances and influences the viewing experience. By using semiotics history and narratology and adding concepts drawn from art architecture and theatre Geraint D’Arcy reworks the key concepts of set design. Looking at the impact of production design on how the viewer reads film and television these updated theories can be applied more flexibly and extensively in academic criticism. D’Arcy creates a new theoretical approach representing a significant expansion of the field and filling the remaining gaps. This book is ideal for anyone interested in understanding how we can read and interpret design in film and television and should be the primary point of reference for those studying TV and film set design. GBP 36.99 1
Indie TV Industry Aesthetics and Medium Specificity This edited collection is the first book to offer a wide-ranging examination of the interface between American independent film and a converged television landscape that consists of terrestrial broadcasters cable networks and streaming providers in which independent film and television intersect in complex multifaceted and creative ways. The book covers the long history of continuities and connections between the two sectors as seen in the activities of PBS HBO or Sundance. It considers the movement of filmmakers between indie film and TV such as Steven Soderbergh Rian Johnson the Duplass brothers Joe Swanberg Lynn Shelton and Gregg Araki; details the confluence of aesthetic and thematic elements seen in shows such as Girls Breaking Bad Master of None or Glow; points to a shared interest in regional sensibilities evident in shows like One Mississippi or Fargo; and makes the case for documentaries and web series as significant entities in this domain. Collectively the book builds a compelling picture of indie TV as a significant feature of US screen entertainment in the 21st Century. This interdisciplinary landmark volume will be a go-to reference for students and scholars of Television Studies Film Studies and Media Studies. | Indie TV Industry Aesthetics and Medium Specificity GBP 34.99 1
The Guide to Managing Postproduction for Film TV and Digital Distribution Managing the Process The updated third edition of this popular book offers a clear and detailed overview of the postproduction process showing readers how to manage each step in taking a film TV or media project from production to final delivery from scheduling and budgeting through editing sound visual effects and more. Accessibly written for producers post supervisors filmmakers and students and extensively updated to address current digital and file-based industry practices The Guide to Managing Postproduction for Film TV and Digital Distribution helps the reader to understand the new worlds of accessibility deliverables license requirements legal considerations and acquisitions involved in postproduction including the ins and outs of piracy management and archiving. This edition addresses the standards for theatrical and digital distribution network cable and pay TV as well as spotlights internet streaming and various delivery methods for specialty screenings projection large format (PLF) and formats including 3D virtual reality and augmented reality. | The Guide to Managing Postproduction for Film TV and Digital Distribution Managing the Process GBP 34.99 1
The Prop Building Guidebook For Theatre Film and TV Now in its third edition The Prop Building Guidebook: For Theatre Film and TV walks readers through techniques used in historical and contemporary prop making and demonstrates how to apply them to a variety of materials. Experienced prop maker Eric Hart covers the tools and techniques used by professional prop makers throughout the entertainment industry. He outlines a construction process that gives readers the foundational knowledge to choose the best materials and methods for each prop and the background information to know the advantages of these choices. This new edition includes updated information and techniques throughout including: Over a hundred new images and diagrams Updated terminology products and brands used internationally Expanded sections on 3D printing vacuum forming foam patterning and more A new chapter on prop design New information on international safety standards cleaning and sanitation More recipes and step-by-step instruction for various finishes Illustrated by hundreds of full-color photographs this is the most comprehensive guide to prop construction available for professional and student prop makers in theatre film and tv. For additional how-to videos instructional documents and supplemental information visit www. propbuildingguidebook. com. | The Prop Building Guidebook For Theatre Film and TV GBP 36.99 1
The TV Showrunner's Roadmap Creating Great Television in an On Demand World This all-new edition of the best-selling guide The TV Showrunner’s Roadmap provides readers with the tools for creating writing and managing your own hit streaming series. Combining his 30+ years as a working screenwriter and professor industry veteran Neil Landau expertly unpacks essential insights to the creation of a successful show and takes readers behind the scenes with exclusive and enlightening interviews with showrunners from some of TV’s most lauded series including Fargo Better Call Saul Watchmen Insecure Barry Money Heist Succession Ozark Schitt’s Creek Euphoria PEN15 and many more. From conception to final rewrite The TV Showrunner’s Roadmap is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to create a series that won’t run out of steam after the first few episodes. This groundbreaking guide features an eResource with additional interviews and bonus materials. So grab your laptop dig out that stalled spec script and buckle up. Welcome to the fast lane. | The TV Showrunner's Roadmap Creating Great Television in an On Demand World GBP 35.99 1
Food TV This book serves up an accessible critical introduction to food television providing readers with a solid foundation for understanding how culinary culture became pop culture via the medium of television. The book follows FoodTV’s journey from purely instructional resource to a wide variety of formats from celebrity chef and restaurant profiles to culinary travel and every manner of cooking competition from kids to cannabis. Tasha Oren traces the generic expansion of cooking on television as she argues for its development as a uniquely apt lens through which to observe and understand television’s own dramatic extension from network to cable to streaming platforms. She demonstrates how FoodTV became popular commercial television through its growth beyond instruction response to industrial and cultural change and a decisive turn away from an association with domesticity or femininity. The story of FoodTV offers a new understanding of how certain material stylistic and textual practices that make up television emerge as conventions and how such conventions both endure and evolve. This book is an ideal guide for students and scholars of media studies television studies food studies and cultural studies. | Food TV GBP 29.99 1
Reality TV From early first-wave programs such as Candid Camera An American Family and The Real World to the shows on our television screens and portable devices today reality television consistently takes us to cities—such as New York Los Angeles and Boston—to imagine the place of urbanity in American culture and society. Jon Kraszewski offers the first extended account of this phenomenon as he makes the politics of urban space the center of his history and theory of reality television. Kraszewski situates reality television in a larger economic transformation that started in the 1980s when America went from an industrial economy when cities were home to all classes to its post-industrial economy as cities became key points in a web of global financing expelling all economic classes except the elite and the poor. Reality television in the industrial era reworked social relationships based on class race and gender for liberatory purposes which resulted in an egalitarian ethos in the genre. However reality television of the post-industrial era attempts to convince viewers that cities still serve their interests even though most viewers find city life today economically untenable. Each chapter uses a key theoretical concept from spatial theory—such as power geometries diasporic nostalgia orientalism the imagination of social expulsions and the relationship between the country and the city—to illuminate the way reality television engages this larger transformation of urban space in America. | Reality TV GBP 28.99 1
Popularizing Japanese TV The Cultural Economic and Emotional Dimensions of Infotainment Discourse Over the past years the view has emerged that Japanese TV is dominated by an infotainment mode of discourse. The book extends this view detailing and interpreting the cultural economic and emotional dimensions of this communication phenomenon from an ethnographic perspective. It examines the complex ways in which infotainment works in an advanced capitalist society. As such this is more than a book about Japan; it is a work that fits within media ethnography and cultural studies and appeals to readers interested in the question of how television at the heart of the global media stream successfully turns into a persuasive intimate and powerful member of a televisual audience-family through carefully engineered televisual discourses linguistic/non-linguistic component audiovisual strategies and economic and cultural elements. Drawing on ethnographic observations in TV stations in two major cities Sendai and Tokyo the book reveals several essential components embedded within infotainment discourse. Thus this book not only provides a panoramic picture of a core phenomenon in Japanese broadcasting since the 2000s but also discusses how both cultural discourses and economic considerations influence contemporary television broadcasting. | Popularizing Japanese TV The Cultural Economic and Emotional Dimensions of Infotainment Discourse GBP 38.99 1
The Fake Food Cookbook Props You Can't Eat for Theatre Film and TV The Fake Food Cookbook: Props You Can’t Eat for Theatre Film and TV contains step by step instructions on how to create the most realistic prop food for a theatrical production. From appetizers such as oysters on a half shell and chicken wings entrees such as lobster and honey-glazed ham to desserts breakfasts and even beverages every meal is covered in this how-to guide. Full color images of each step and finished products illustrate each recipe along with suggestions for keeping the budget for each project low. Safety Data Sheets and links to informative videos are hosted on a companion website. | The Fake Food Cookbook Props You Can't Eat for Theatre Film and TV GBP 35.99 1
Write to TV Out of Your Head and onto the Screen In Write to TV (third edition) industry veteran Martie Cook offers practical advice on writing innovative television scripts that will allow you to finally get that big idea out of your head and onto the screen. With this book you’ll learn to craft smart original stories and scripts for a variety of television formats and genres including comedy drama pilots web series and subscription video on demand. This new edition has been updated with expanded coverage on writing for global audiences content creation for streaming services such as Netflix Amazon and Hulu as well as writing the web series podcasts and utilizing free platforms such as YouTube. It also features new chapters on writing for niche markets; breaking into the writers’ room; creating binge-worthy series and how to accompany pilot scripts with a series pitch document. Plus expanded information on creating complex and compelling characters including writing anti-heroes and strong female protagonists and much much more. Including information directly from studio and network executives agents and managers on what they’re looking for in new writers and how to avoid common pitfalls advice from successful creators and showrunners on creating original content that sells and tips from new writers on how to get into a writers room and stay there. This book contains information from more than 20 new interviews access to sample outlines script pages checklists and countless other invaluable resources and is the ideal book for anyone who wants to break into the TV writing industry. | Write to TV Out of Your Head and onto the Screen GBP 35.99 1
How to Work the Film & TV Markets A Guide for Content Creators How to Work the Film & TV Markets takes independent filmmakers television and digital content creators on a virtual tour of the entertainment industry’s trade shows — the circulatory system of the entire global media landscape. This book highlights the most significant annual events around the world details a dossier of all the players that frequent them and examines all the elements that drive the market value and profitability of entertainment properties. In-the-trenches insights from our modern real-world marketplace are contextualized into immediately implementable practical advice. Make the most of your finite investments of funds time and creative energy to optimize your odds for success within the mainstream business-to-business circuit but learn how to select apply and scale prudent proven principles to drive your own Do-It-Yourself/Direct-to-the-Consuming-Crowd fundraising distribution and promotional success. Heather Hale demystifies these markets making them less intimidating less confusing and less overwhelming. She shows you how to navigate these events making them far more accessible productive — and fun! This creative guide offers: An in-depth survey of the most significant film TV and digital content trade shows around the world; An overview of the co-production market circuit that offers financing and development support to independent producers; An outline of the market-like festivals and key awards shows; A breakdown of who’s who at all these events — and how to network with them; Hot Tips on how to prepare for execute and follow up on these prime opportunities; Low-budget key art samples and game plans; A social media speed tour with a wealth of audience engagement ideas. Visit the book’s space on www. HeatherHale. com for additional resources and up-to-date information on all these events. | How to Work the Film & TV Markets A Guide for Content Creators GBP 34.99 1
Disability Representation in Film TV and Print Media Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media as the primary way that most people learn about conditions. It contains 13 newly written chapters drawing on representations of disability in popular culture from film television and print media in both the Global North and the Global South including the United States Canada India and Kenya. Although disability is often framed using a limited range of stereotypical tropes such as victims supercrips or suffering patients this book shows how disability and neurodiversity are making their way into more mainstream media productions and publications with movies television shows and books featuring prominent and even lead characters with disabilities or neurodiversity. Disability Representation in Film TV and Print Media will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies cultural studies film studies gender studies and sociology more broadly. GBP 38.99 1
Consumerism on TV Popular Media from the 1950s to the Present Presenting case studies of well-known shows including Will and Grace Birds of a Feather Sex and the City and Absolutely Fabulous as well as 'reality' television this book examines the transformations that have occurred in consumer society since its appearance and the ways in which these have been constructed and represented in popular media imagery. With analyses of the ways in which consumerism has played out in society Consumerism on TV highlights specific aspects of the changing nature of consumerism by way of considerations of gender sexuality and class as well as less definable changes such as those to do with the celebration of ostentatious greed or the righteousness of the ’ethical’ shopper. With attention to the highly delineated consumer field in which ’shopping’ as an embedded practice of everyday life is caught between escapism and politics authors explore a variety of themes such as the extent to which consumerism has become embedded in forging identity the positing of consumerism as a form of activism the visibility of the gay male consumer and invisibility of the lesbian consumer and the (re)stratification of consumer types along class lines. An engaging invitation to consider whether the positioning of consumerism through on-screen depictions is indicative of a new type of non-philosophical politics of 'choice' - a form of marketised (a)political pragmatism - this book will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and cultural and media studies with interests in class consumption and gender. | Consumerism on TV Popular Media from the 1950s to the Present GBP 38.99 1
Art of the Cut Conversations with Film and TV Editors Art of the Cut provides an unprecedented look at the art and technique of contemporary film and television editing. It is a fascinating virtual roundtable discussion with more than 50 of the top editors from around the globe. Included in the discussion are the winners of more than a dozen Oscars for Best Editing and the nominees of more than forty plus numerous Emmy winners and nominees. Together they have over a thousand years of editing experience and have edited more than a thousand movies and TV shows. Hullfish carefully curated over a hundred hours of interviews organizing them into topics critical to editors everywhere generating an extended conversation among colleagues. The discussions provide a broad spectrum of opinions that illustrate both similarities and differences in techniques and artistic approaches. Topics include rhythm pacing structure storytelling and collaboration. Interviewees include Margaret Sixel (Mad Max: Fury Road) Tom Cross (Whiplash La La Land) Pietro Scalia (The Martian JFK) Stephen Mirrione (The Revenant) Ann Coates (Lawrence of Arabia Murder on the Orient Express) Joe Walker (12 Years a Slave Sicario) Kelley Dixon (Breaking Bad The Walking Dead) and many more. Art of the Cut also includes in-line definitions of editing terminology with a full glossary and five supplemental web chapters hosted online at www. routledge. com/cw/Hullfish. This book is a treasure trove of valuable tradecraft for aspiring editors and a prized resource for high-level working professionals. The book’s accessible language and great behind-the-scenes insight makes it a fascinating glimpse into the art of filmmaking for all fans of cinema. Please access the link below for the book's illustration files. Please note that an account with Box is not required to access these files: https://informausa. app. box. com/s/plwbtwndq4wab55a1p7xlcr7lypvz64c | Art of the Cut Conversations with Film and TV Editors GBP 38.99 1
Broadcast News in the Digital Age A Guide to Reporting Producing and Anchoring Online and on TV Written by two award-winning broadcast journalists this book offers a practical hands-on guide to the modern digital TV newsroom. Pulling from extensive industry experience the authors provide a comprehensive look at the key journalistic skills needed to excel in broadcast news today including storytelling writing story pitching video production interviewing and managing social media. The textbook is organized into five sections: building a foundation storytelling and writing producing live performance and ethics and career progression. The authors also provide step-by-step instructions on how to efficiently multitask while staying true to journalist ethics. Each chapter includes clear learning objectives review questions and practical assignments making it ideal for classroom use. QR codes integrated in the text allow students to easily see and hear examples of the stories they are learning to write. Broadcast News in the Digital Age is an engaging student-friendly guide for those seeking to become successful writers producers anchors and journalists in today’s newsrooms both on-air and online. | Broadcast News in the Digital Age A Guide to Reporting Producing and Anchoring Online and on TV GBP 34.99 1
Between Habit and Thought in New TV Serial Drama Serial Connections Between Habit and Thought in New TV Serial Drama: Serial Connections is a consideration of some of the key examples of serial television drama available via transnational streaming platforms in recent times. Through the individual works examined the book exemplifies the ways in which aesthetics technology and capitalism weave a complex social fabric around the production of the respective television series thus presenting this type of serial drama as a finely engineered cultural production. Taking Bernard Stiegler’s notion of an image warfare as its starting point the author critically investigates the strategies deployed by the shows’ producers to navigate this dynamic shaped by the new spirit of capitalism. With creativity intrinsic to the process on the one hand and a highly efficient drive for capturing and fixing attention driven by algorithm and economic logic on the other the author maps the processes at work in the production of high-value serial drama and considers how despite this tension they manage to present meaningful insights into the experience of being in this world: A world shaped by trauma a desire for justice and a search for systems of belief that can offer a way through the vicissitudes of contemporary life. Framed by a detailed analysis of the multiple processes that shape these works is a sustained analysis of the serials Mr Robot Billions The Leftovers Rectify and Westworld and the dynamics of despair and hope that ripple through them. As such it will appeal to readers of film and television studies cultural theory and those interested in furthering a critical aesthetics for our time. | Between Habit and Thought in New TV Serial Drama Serial Connections GBP 38.99 1
Media Production A Practical Guide to Radio TV and Film Fully revised and updated this second edition of Media Production provides a comprehensive introductory guide to radio television and fi lm production techniques. Using a step-by-step structure that takes students through the production process from conception to delivery this book explores initial brainstorming through to planning research recording and editing. Operational procedures are set out in detail taking into account the context in which students work and the type of equipment available to them. Clear instructional photographs are provided to illustrate key teaching points. Written by an experienced BBC producer and director this textbook is ideal for FE Media students as well as those just starting out in the industry. Updated online resources include templates notes and exercises to help students prepare for their own productions as well as a glossary of key terms and helpful weblinks. | Media Production A Practical Guide to Radio TV and Film GBP 39.99 1
Mask Making Techniques Creating 3-D Characters from 2-D Designs for Theatre Cosplay Film and TV Mask Making Techniques: Creating 3-D Characters from 2-D Designs for Theatre Cosplay Film and TV introduces and demonstrates a variety of mask making materials techniques and styles to bring extraordinary characters to life. A foundation reference for mask making and design the book features over 700 color photos and illustrations of different masks as well as diagrams of construction and finishing techniques. It provides a wealth of practical information about material options safety how to build large- and small-scale masks how to build armatures for appendages options for coverings and finishing techniques. Readers will learn how to use a wide range of materials including latex paper and fabric mché cold foam thermoplastics urethane ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) foam resin found objects and organic materials. The book also provides tips on topics such as how to create rigid polyfoam head forms and three different ways to create eyes as well as step-by-step instructions to construct 13 different masks. Mask Making Techniques is written for intermediate mask makers students of theatrical mask making costume crafts and prop making courses as well as prop builders costume designers and artists who create Halloween and cosplay costumes. | Mask Making Techniques Creating 3-D Characters from 2-D Designs for Theatre Cosplay Film and TV GBP 36.99 1
Writing the Comedy Pilot Script A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an Original TV Series Navigating through the challenging process of writing a comedy pilot this book will help screenwriters to create an original script for television. Practical and accessible the book presents a step-by-step guide focusing on the key elements of the process. Incorporating both the history of TV comedy as well as its current evolving state in this age of the dramedy and an ever-increasing variety of broadcast and streaming platforms the book will serve as a guide for the fledgling sitcom scribe. Author Manny Basanese breaks down the comedy pilot writing process from what may be perceived as an overwhelming time-consuming mission into a series of much more manageable smaller steps (from logline to outline to 1st 2nd and polished draft). Utilizing his experience in Hollywood’s sitcom trenches the author offers real-world advice on such topics as building the comedy pilot world creating memorable comic characters sound sitcom structure and the importance of crafting an emotional through line in a comedy pilot. Finally there is also practical career guidance for marketing this just-completed script and breaking into the industry with advice on various topics such as the value of networking as well as gaining representation in the competitive Hollywood jungle. It is ideal for students of screenwriting and aspiring comedy screenwriters. | Writing the Comedy Pilot Script A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an Original TV Series GBP 28.99 1
Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV The Art & Craft of Raising Your Voice on Screen Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV is a practical guide that provides you the screenwriter with a clear set of exercises tools and methods to raise your ability to hear and discern conversation at a more complex level in turn allowing you to create better more nuanced complex and compelling dialogue. The process of understanding dialogue writing begins with increasing writers’ awareness of what they hear. This book provides writers with an assortment of dialogue and language tools techniques and exercises and teaches them how to perceive and understand the function intent and thematic/psychological elements that dialogue can convey about character tone and story. Text subtext voice conflict exposition rhythm and style are among the many aspects covered. This book reminds us of the sheer joy of great dialogue and will change and enhance the way writers hear listen to and write dialogue and along the way aid the writers’ confidence in their own voice allowing them to become more proficient writers of dialogue. Written by veteran screenwriter playwright and screenwriting professor Loren-Paul Caplin Writing Compelling Dialogue is an invaluable writing tool for any aspiring screenwriter who wants to improve their ability to write dialogue for film and television as well as students professionals and educators. | Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV The Art & Craft of Raising Your Voice on Screen GBP 28.99 1
Why We Remake The Politics Economics and Emotions of Film and TV Remakes This examination of film and television remakes focuses explicitly on why – since the dawn of cinema – studios have remade films over and over again. Each chapter provides insight into the business of Hollywood the motivations of filmmakers and also the pleasures for audiences and offers a separate explanation for the whys of remaking. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach the author draws from existing literature close readings of films and a dataset of hundreds of film reviews to provide a taxonomy and deep-dive into six unique rationales for remaking premade titles:the better remake the economic remake the nostalgic remake the Americanized remake the creative remake the fashionable remake. This unique examination of the industrial activity of remaking will be of great interest to academics and students working in the areas of film and adaptation studies narrative media discourse transmedia storytelling American cinema and cultural studies. | Why We Remake The Politics Economics and Emotions of Film and TV Remakes GBP 38.99 1