TVparty!

TVparty!
Author: Billy Ingram
Publisher: Bonus Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2002
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781566251846

Why watch TV when you can read about it? Featuring more than 600 previously unpublished photos, TVparty! offers fascinating, untold stories from TV's golden age.

Lost Laughs of '50s and '60s Television

Lost Laughs of '50s and '60s Television
Author: David C. Tucker
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2010-04-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786455829

Originally broadcast on American television between 1952 and 1969, the 30 situation comedies in this work are seldom seen today and receive only brief and often incomplete and inaccurate mentions in most reference sources. Yet these sitcoms (including Angel, The Governor and J.J., It's a Great Life, I'm Dickens ... He's Fenster and Wendy and Me), and the stories of the talented people who made them, are an integral part of television history. With a complete list of production credits and rare publicity stills, this volume, based on multiple screenings of episodes, corrects other sources and expand our knowledge of television history.

TV Guide

TV Guide
Author: Stephen F. Hofer
Publisher: Bangzoom Publishers
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2006
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780977292714

This book looks at the origins and growth of television through the pages of TV Guide and covers the complete run of this American icon from the first guides in 1953 to the last issue in guide format on October 9, 2005. It includes full color reproductions of every cover ever printed, and is both a collector's guide with pricing included, and a retrospective view of the medium.

TV Creators

TV Creators
Author: James L. Longworth, Jr.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2000-11-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780815628743

ER, Law & Order, and The Sopranos are just a few of the dramas that launched a new era of television at the tum of the millennium. TV Creators gives scholars and fans alike an exclusive, firsthand account of the lives, philosophies, and contributions of the writers and producers responsible for these and other outstanding prime time programs. James Longworth affords twelve outstanding creators of television drama an open, uncensored forum in which they discuss everything from their work ethic to the political and social issues affecting the television industry.

Raised Eyebrows

Raised Eyebrows
Author: Steve Stoliar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781593936525

"A real page-turner that is by turns startling, shocking and as engrossing as a good novel. What a splendid book it is." -- Dick Cavett "It's one of the best books about a show-business icon I've ever read...It makes Groucho live so much more than the conventional bios." -- Woody Allen "Raised Eyebrows is an intimate account of one of our national treasures - Groucho Marx. It's written by a young man who was fortunate enough to live with and work for Groucho, and if he doesn't know what he's talking about, who would? It has a unique insider's point of view and is a fascinating study of a man who was one of the kings of comedy." -- Jack Lemmon "In this delightful report, Mr. Stoliar brings the real Groucho alive with wit, tears and all." -- Steve Allen

Mr. CSI

Mr. CSI
Author: Anthony E. Zuiker
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2011-11-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 006209811X

The creator of CSIdelves into the mysteries of his father’s tragic death and his own unlikelyrise in Hollywood using the very techniques he has honed by working on his hitshows, CSI, CSI: Miami,and CSI: New York.Deeply felt and insightful, Anthony Zuiker’s searingmemoir of dreams and losses, successes and heartbreaks, is not only abehind-the-scenes look at television’s most-watched drama, but an essentialguide for aspiring script writers and filmmakers, featuring practical tips andinspiring lessons to help tomorrow’s writers succeed today. Fans of crimedramas, anyone who dreams of unraveling the mysteries of their own story, andeveryone who dreams of making it big will find themselves immediately drawn inby the one-of-a-kind story of the man who made it: Mr. CSI.

Sesame Street Stays Up Late

Sesame Street Stays Up Late
Author: Lou Berger
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1995
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780679867432

The Sesame Street Muppets watch a holiday television program showing how children around the world celebrate the New Year.

I Say, I Say ... Son!

I Say, I Say ... Son!
Author: Robert McKimson (Jr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781595800695

"The first survey dedicated to the work of the McKimson brothers, this book offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the upper echelon of 20th-century animation and examines the creative process behind the making of numerous popular characters and classic programs. Featuring original artwork from the golden age of animation, this book includes a wealth of material from many professional archives--screen captures, original drawings, reproductions of animation cels, illustrations from comic books, lobby cards, and other ephemera from the author's collection--while surveying the careers of three groundbreaking animators whose credits include Looney Tunes, the Pink Panther, and Mr. Magoo. Beginning in the 1920s and then tracing the brothers' work together at Warner Brothers Cartoons in the following decades, this history details Robert McKimson's creation of such beloved characters as Foghorn Leghorn, the Tasmanian Devil, and Speedy Gonzales; Tom McKimson's work at Warner Brothers, Dell Comics, and Golden Books; and Chuck McKimson's long career working in comic books and then later at Pacific Title, creating animated film titles and commercials, including his award-winning work on Music Man, Cleopatra, and The Sound of Music"--

Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001

Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001
Author: Joan Hawkins
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN: 9781783204229

Downtown Film and TV Culture, 1975-2001 brings together essays by filmmakers, exhibitors, cultural critics, and scholars from multiple generations of the New York Downtown scene to illuminate individual films and filmmakers and explore the creation of a Downtown Canon, the impact of AIDS on younger filmmakers, community access cable television broadcasts, and the impact of the historic downtown scene on contemporary experimental culture. The book includes J. Hoberman's essay "No Wavelength: The Parapunk Underground," as well as historical essays by Tony Conrad and Lynne Tillman, interviews with filmmakers Bette Gordon and Beth B., and essays by Ivan Kral and Nick Zedd.

A Fine Example of Art

A Fine Example of Art
Author: John Lurie
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781576873779

A wildly insightful look at the hilarious and haunting paintings of one of downtown New York's most renowned painters. John Lurie alternatively exposes or addresses the larger, enduring myths of culture through sketches of seemingly lost childhood reveries and cryptic symbolism.