Robert Clyde Allen

Vaudeville and Film (Dissertations on film 1980)

A critical history of American burlesque traces its social, demographic, and cultural changes

Burlesque and American Culture

Horrible Prettiness

Douglas Gomery

Film History: Theory and Practice

Focusing on the soap opera, this book discusses both the cultural specificity of television soap operas and their reception in other cultures. It considers the soap as a media text, the history of the serial narrative as a form, and the role of the soap in developing feminist media criticism.

Soap Operas Around the World

To be Continued--

Annette Hill

Professor of Ophthalmology and Pharmacology and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology Robert C Allen, M D

The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the expanding field of television studies, providing an overview of the discipline and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation. The Reader charts the ways in which television and television studies are being redefined by new and 'alternative' ways of producing, broadcasting and watching TV, such as cable, satellite and digital broadcasting, home video, internet broadcasting, and interactive TV, as well as exploring the recent boom in genres such as reality TV and docusoaps. It brings together articles from leading international scholars to provide perspectives on television programmes and practices from around the world, acknowledging both television's status as a global medium and the many and varied local contexts of its production and reception. Articles are grouped in seven themed sections, each with an introduction by the editors: Institutions of Television Spaces of Television Modes of Television Making Television Social Representation on Television Watching Television Transforming Television

The Television Studies Reader

A discussion of a truly international range of television programs, this title covers alternative modes of television such as digital and satellite.

Robert Clyde Allen

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