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Pages: 280
Authors: Anna Gough-Yates
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-18 - Publisher: Routledge

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From re-runs of 'TV classics' like The Avengers or Starsky and Hutch, to soundtracks, club nights and film remakes such as Mission Impossible II, the action ser
Transnational Television History
Language: en
Pages: 238
Authors: Andreas Fickers
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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Although television has developed into a major agent of the transnational and global flow of information and entertainment, television historiography and schola
Masculinity and Popular Television
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Rebecca Feasey
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-06 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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This book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key debates concerning the representation of masculinities in a wide range of popular television
Chick Flicks
Language: en
Pages: 514
Authors: Suzanne Ferriss
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-03-03 - Publisher: Routledge

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From An Affair to Remember to Legally Blonde, "chick flicks" have long been both championed and vilified by women and men, scholars and popular audiences. Like
Dangerous Curves
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Jeffrey A. Brown
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-18 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture addresses the conflicted meanings associated with the figure of the action heroine as