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  | | Joss Whedon Conversations (Television Conversations Series) by Cynthia Burkhead, David Lavery Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-924-4, ISBN: 1-60473-924-X "No recent television creator has generated more critical, scholarly, and popular discussion or acquired as devoted a cult following as Joss Whedon (b. 1964). No fewer than thirty books concerned with his work have now been published (a forthcoming volume even offers a book-length bibliography), and ten international conferences on his work have convened in the U.K., the United States, Australia, and Turkey. Fitting then that this first ..." |
 | | Reading Deadwood(1st Edition) A Western to Swear By (Reading Contemporary Television) by David Lavery, Professor David Lavery Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2006 by I.B. Tauris ISBN-13: 978-1-84511-221-9, ISBN: 1-84511-221-0 "Apart from its brilliance as television, it's amazing what "Deadwood" gets away with. This acclaimed series from HBO, which premiered in 2004, is set in the teeming outlaw camp of 'Deadwood'. It has been described by "Variety" as 'a vulgar, gritty, at times downright nasty take on the Old West brimming with all the dark genius that series creator and sceenwriter extraordinaire David Milch has at his fingertips'. All this and more. The i ..." |
 | | Lost's Buried Treasures, 3E(3rd Edition) The Unofficial Guide to Everything Lost Fans Need to Know by Lynnette R. Porter, David Lavery, Hillary Robson Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2010 by Sourcebooks ISBN-13: 978-1-4022-2281-8, ISBN: 1-4022-2281-5 "The Ultimate Unauthorized Resource to the Stories Behind Lost Lost is a complex and mysterious tale, one that draws on many sources for its themes and ideas—sources you must understand to become an advanced Lost expert. Lost's Buried Treasures is the ultimate unauthorized guide to the ideas that have influenced the show and its writers—and is completely updated through Season Five. Explore: Books and movies important to the show and ..." |
 | | Seinfeld, Master of Its Domain(1st Edition) Revisiting Television's Greatest Sitcom by David Lavery, Sara Lewis Dunne Paperback, 290 Pages, Published 2006 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-1803-6, ISBN: 0-8264-1803-1 "After a slow and inauspicious beginning, Seinfeld broke through to become one of the most commercially successful sitcoms in the history of television. It was named by TV Guide as "The Greatest Show of All Time," and has become an entrenched part of American popular culture - its language, jokes, characters, and situations part of the water cooler vocabulary of two, even three, generations. This fascinating book includes classic article ..." |
 | | This Thing of Ours(1st Edition) by David Lavery Paperback, 225 Pages, Published 2002 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-12781-3, ISBN: 0-231-12781-2 "In a first-season episode of The Sopranos, Tony Soprano is once again in conflict with his uncle Carrado "Junior" Soprano. Tony is in no mood for conciliation, but neither is Junior, who warns his nephew not to return unless he is armed: "Come heavy," he insists, "or not at all." As a work of popular culture, a ground-breaking television series, and a cultural phenomenon, The Sopranos always "comes heavy," not just with weaponry but w ..." |
 | | Full of Secrets(25th Edition) Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series) by David Lavery, Christy Desmet, Marc Dolan, Alice Kuzniar, Diane Stevenson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kathryn Kalinak, Professor Henry Jenkins, Diana Hume George, Professor Martha Nochimson, James M. Welsh, Jimmie L. Reeves, Professor Angela Hague, J. P. Telotte, Angela Hague, Henry Jenkins, Martha Nochimson, Professor David Lavery Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 1994 by Wayne State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-2506-3, ISBN: 0-8143-2506-8 "However, it isn't truly right for television, a medium that by nature deflates the dualism of the orthodox detective through its unorthodox normalization of shifts and slippage — and thus its normalization of the vicissitudes of the flesh.3 The popularity of Dale Cooper is a tacit admission that on a visceral level the television audience knows how wrong the traditional detective is in that medium. As we shall see, Dale Cooper made ..." |
 | | Saving the World A Guide to Heroes by Lynnette Porter, David Lavery, Hillary Robson Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2007 by Ecw Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55022-805-2, ISBN: 1-55022-805-6 "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World.” With that immediately memorable mantra, Heroes became the top-rated new series of fall 2006. Featuring such archetypal characters as one with a split personality, one who can fly, one who can see the future, one who can time travel and the evil villain out to steal all of the powers for himself the show touches our inner comic book fan, even if we’ve never cracked open a comic book.Saving the ..." |
 | | Joss Whedon, A Creative Portrait From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Marvel's The Avengers by David Lavery Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2013 by I.B.Tauris ISBN-13: 978-1-84885-030-9, ISBN: 1-84885-030-1 "The release of both his horror flick "The Cabin in the Woods" and the box-office sensation, "Marvel's The Avengers" saw the return to creative and critical success of Joss Whedon.After establishing himself as a premier cult creator, the man who gave us great television with "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel, " "Firefly," "Dollhouse" and web series "Dr Horrible's Sing-along Blog," as well as comic books including "Fray" and "Astonishing ..." |
 | | Unlocking the Meaning of Lost An Unauthorized Guide by Lynnette R. Porter, David Lavery Paperback, 293 Pages, Published 2006 by Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1-4022-0726-6, ISBN: 1-4022-0726-3 "From the moment the eye opened, we have been captivated by the mysterious world of Lost. Each week the survivors face challenges and questions that are eerie as they are haunting real. For the first time, Unlocking the Mysteries of Lost takes an in-depth look at the island and its castaways, exploring the secrets behind their search for answers and meaning.Going deep into the heart of Lost, this essential guide for the true fan explores ..." |
 | | This Thing of Ours Investigating the Sopranos by David Lavery Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2002 by Wallflower Press ISBN-13: 978-1-903364-44-4, ISBN: 1-903364-44-2 "Later, Tony, suffering from food poisoning, hallucinates that he is at a fish market where one of the iced fish addresses him in the voice of Pussy, who confesses that he's a rat. The realization is part of ... In Season Three, Tony is haunted by visions of fish, often in the form of the popular "Big Mouth Billy Bass" singing fish plaques so prevalent that season (2000-01). Because he has shared his ... Big Mouth's rendition of "Ta ..." |
 | | Dear Angela Remembering My So-Called Life: Remembering My SoCalled Life (Critical Studies in Television) by Michele Byers, David Lavery, Andrew Coomes, Kelli Maloy, Susan Murray, Jes Battis, Nicholas Birns, Jolie Braun, Chris Brooks, Barbara Bell, Bill Kte'pi, Caryn Murphy, David Diffrient, Deidre Dowling Price, Byers/Lavery, Lexington Books, Professor David Lavery Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Lexington Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1692-0, ISBN: 0-7391-1692-4 "Dear Angela includes fourteen critical essays that examine the brief-lived but landmark television series, My So-Called Life (1994-1995). Though certainly not the first young woman to be the center of a television series, Angela Chase and the show about her life were doing something new on television and influenced many of the shows about young people that followed. Michele Byers and David Lavery bring together enthusiastic and engaging ..." |
 | | Reading The Sopranos(1st Edition) Hit TV from HBO (Reading Contemporary Television) by David Lavery, I.B.Tauris Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2006 by I. B. Tauris ISBN-13: 978-1-84511-121-2, ISBN: 1-84511-121-4 "Bada bing! What drama. "The most important work of American popular culture in fifty years" is how the "New York Times" describes "The Sopranos". Critically-acclaimed, award-winning, and the most watched show on HBO, the mobster drama swirls around the middle-aged Mafioso, Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini). Having to negotiate two families, both at home and at work, is it any wonder he is suffering an epic midlife crisis involving Prozac ..." |
 | | Fighting the Forces(1st Edition) What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by David Lavery, Rhonda V. Wilcox, Katrina Busse, Lynne Edwards, Greg Erikson, Donald Keller, Elizabeth Krimmer, Tanya Kryzywinska, Justine Larbalestier, Farah Mendelsohn, Patricia Pender, Shilpa Raval, Anita Rose, Catherine Siemann, Amanda Zweerink, Sarah E. Skwire, Camille Bacon Smith, S. Renee Dechert, Diane Dekelb-Rittenhouse, Sarah N. Gatson, Elyce Rae Helford, Mary Alice Money, Karen Eileen Overby, Lahney Preston-Matto, J. P. Williams, Professor David Lavery, Wilcox/Lavery Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2002 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-1681-6, ISBN: 0-7425-1681-4 "For every television series, the original vision grows within a press of forces-both social and artistic expectations, conventions of the business, as well as conventions of the art. Bad television predictable, commercial, exploitative simply yields to the forces. Good television, like the character of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, fights them. Fighting the Forces explores the struggle to create meaning in an impressive example of popular c ..." |
 | | Reading Joss Whedon (Television and Popular Culture) by Rhonda V. Wilcox, Cynthea Masson, Tanya R. Cochran, David Lavery Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2014 by Syracuse University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-1038-0, ISBN: 0-8156-1038-6 "In an age when geek chic has come to define mainstream pop culture, few writers and producers inspire more admiration and response than Joss Whedon. From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Much Ado About Nothing, from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog to The Avengers, the works of Whedon have been the focus of increasing academic attention. This collection of articles represents some of the best work covering a wide a ..." |
 | | The Essential Sopranos Reader(1st Edition) (Essential Reader Contemporary Media and Culture) by David Lavery, Paul Levinson, Douglas L. Howard Hardcover, 404 Pages, Published 2011 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-3012-5, ISBN: 0-8131-3012-3 "The Sopranos is recognized as the most successful cable series in the history of television. The Washington Post has called the popular series, winner of twenty-one Emmys and five Golden Globes, "the television landmark that leaves other landmarks in the dust." In every aspect -- narrative structure, visual artistry, writing, intertextuality, ensemble acting, controversial themes, dark humor, and unflinching examinations of American lif ..." |
 | | Finding Battlestar Galactica(1st Edition) An Unauthorized Guide by Lynnette R. Porter, David Lavery, Hillary Robson Paperback, 306 Pages, Published 2008 by Sourcebooks Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-1-4022-1211-6, ISBN: 1-4022-1211-9 "When Battlestar Galactica reappeared in 2003-a revamp of the original series in which a "rag-tag fugitive fleet" of the last remnants of mankind flees pursuing aliens while simultaneously searching for Earth-it redefined what television science fiction should be about. Since then it has been critically claimed as one of the best shows on television while growing TV's strongest cult fandom of 2 million viewers. Now, as the series comes t ..." |
 | | TV Goes to Hell(Updated) An Unofficial Road Map of Supernatural by David Lavery, Stacey Abbott Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2011 by Ecw Press Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-1-77041-020-6, ISBN: 1-77041-020-1 "As a natural heir to the long-running television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural has risen to prominence with a strong cult following, and this collection of essays from contributors around the globe investigates the genre-bending series’ cultural footprint both in North America and abroad. The book explores topics such as folklore, religion, gender and sexuality, comedy, music, and much more, and offers a brief guide t ..." |
 | | Dear Angela Remembering My So-Called Life (Critical Studies in Television) by Michele Byers, David Lavery, Contributor-Andrew Coomes, Contributor-Kelli Maloy, Contributor-Susan Murray, Contributor-Jes Battis, Contributor-Nicholas Birns, Contributor-Jolie Braun, Contributor-Chris Brooks, Contributor-Barbara Bell, Contributor-Bill Kte'pi, Contributor-Caryn Murphy, Contributor-David Diffrient, Deidre Dowling Price, Byers/Lavery, Professor David Lavery Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Lexington Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1691-3, ISBN: 0-7391-1691-6 "Dear Angela includes fourteen critical essays that examine the brief-lived but landmark television series, My So-Called Life (1994-1995). Though certainly not the first young woman to be the center of a television series, Angela Chase and the show about her life were doing something new on television and influenced many of the shows about young people that followed. Michele Byers and David Lavery bring together enthusiastic and engaging ..." |
 | | Fighting the Forces(320th Edition) What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Rhonda V. Wilcox, David Lavery, Lynne Edwards, Katrina Busse, Camille Bacon Smith, S. Renee Dechert, Diane Dekelb-Rittenhouse, Greg Erikson, Sarah N. Gatson, Elyce Rae Helford, Donald Keller, Elizabeth Krimmer, Tanya Kryzywinska, Justine Larbalestier, Farah Mendelsohn, Mary Alice Money, Karen Eileen Overby, Patricia Pender, Lahney Preston-Matto, Shilpa Raval, Anita Rose, Catherine Siemann, Sarah E. Skwire, J. P. Williams, Amanda Zweerink, Wilcox/Lavery Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2002 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-1680-9, ISBN: 0-7425-1680-6 "For every television series, the original vision grows within a press of forces-both social and artistic expectations, conventions of the business, as well as conventions of the art. Bad television--predictable, commercial, exploitative--simply yields to the forces. Good television, like the character of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, fights them. Fighting the Forces explores the struggle to create meaning in an impressive example of popula ..." |
 | | Screwball Television(1st Edition) Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls (Television and Popular Culture) by David Scott Diffrient, David Lavery Hardcover, 380 Pages, Published 2010 by Syracuse University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-3239-9, ISBN: 0-8156-3239-8 "Bringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, "Screwball Television" offers a variety of international perspectives on Gilmore Girls (WB/CW, 2000-2007). Adored by fans and celebrated by critics for its sophisticated wordplay and compelling portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship, this contemporary American TV program finally gets its due as a cultural production unlike any other - one that is beholde ..." |
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