Arts / Mass Media / Television / Direction & Production

So You Wannabe on Reality TV

by Jack Benza – Allworth (September 01, 2005)

There are more than two hundred reality TV shows planned for this year alone. Millions of people have applied to be on these shows; only a handful have been chosen to compete and win big money. One of those...

Technical Theater for Nontechnical People

by Drew Campbell – Allworth (January 13, 2012)

Completely updated to reflect state-of-the-art standards in today's fast-changing theater technology, Technical Theater for Nontechnical People helps actors, dancers, playwrights, and directors to understand...

BoJack Horseman: The Art Before the Horse

by Chris McDonnell, Raphael Bob-Waksberg & Lisa Hanawalt – Abrams (September 03, 2018)

Netflix's BoJack Horseman has quickly become one of the most critically acclaimed animated comedy series in recent memory. Set in an off-kilter, cynically spun rendering of modern-day Hollywood, the show follows...

Orphan Black

by Andrea Goulet & Robert A. Rushing – Intellect (December 19, 2018)

Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics presents a groundbreaking exploration of the hit television series Orphan Black, and the questions it raises for performance and technology, gender and reproduction,...

Wheels Rolling at Eight

by Arthur Anderson – Grosvenor House Publishing (August 10, 2018)

Up the creek without a paddle (almost) in Papua New Guinea; a sheep's nose and silver horns in Kabardino-Balkarskaya; dancing with horses on the Hungarian plains; chasing whales in Newfoundland; snooker with...

Shooting Women

by Harriet Margolis, Alexis Krasilovsky & Julia Stein – Intellect Books (October 01, 2015)

Shooting Women takes readers around the world to explore the lives of camerawomen working in features, TV news, and documentaries. From first world pioneers like African American camerawoman Jessie Maple...

Shooting Women

by Harriet Margolis, Alexis Krasilovsky & Julia Stein – Intellect Books (October 01, 2015)

Shooting Women takes readers around the world to explore the lives of camerawomen working in features, TV news, and documentaries. From first world pioneers like African American camerawoman Jessie Maple...

The Walking Dead Live!: Essays on the Television Show

by Philip L. Simpson & Marcus Mallard – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (July 05, 2016)

Centering on media studies, this collection of essays examines both the show The Walking Dead and its source material, the graphic novels by Robert Kirkman. These essays look at the show from a variety of perspectives—from...

Building the Successful Theater Company

by Lisa Mulcahy – Allworth (September 20, 2016)

What makes a theater company successful? Lisa Mulcahy poses the question to leaders from nineteen of the country's most diverse and vital theater companies from the recent past and present, and offers answers...

Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series

by Michael Goodrum & Philip Smith – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (February 02, 2015)

A short lived series created by Joss Whedon, Firefly nonetheless developed such a loyal following that Whedon was compelled to write and direct a big screen sequel in 2005. The show continues to generate a life...

Those Guys Have All the Fun

by James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales – Little, Brown and Company (May 23, 2011)

In the exclusive behind the scenes look, sports fans can unlock the fascinating history of the channel that changed the way people watch and interact with their favorite teams.

It began, in 1979, as a mad idea...