books about: primetime     books:       Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement Since 1970 (Feminist Cultural ...2 reviews Bonnie, J. Dow University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996 Great for the classroom If you're teaching a class on the image of women in television, Bonnie J. Dow's text is perfect for undergraduate students. It is very thorough in it's texts at examining Mary Tyler Moore, Murphy Brown, etc. It's a timeline of the women's movement through media images and analyzes them in terms of the context of the how society depicted the decades rather than in terms of the feminist movement.             Primetime Pregnancy: The Proven Program for Staying in Shape Before and After Your Baby Is Born1 review Kathy Kaehler, Cynthia Tivers Contemporary Books, 1997 This book really shines with it's postnatal exercise program The book includes exercises for the entire 9 months of pregnancy plus a 5-month postnatal exercise plan. The exercises in this book are easily done at home with minimal equipment (some exercises require light hand weights.) There are plenty of photos (though not every exercise has a photo) and good explanations on how to do each exercise. I found the exercises challenging, but not too ...             Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television10 reviews Donald Bogle Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 Outstanding Television History Lesson for All Interested Although I initially intended on simply reviewing Bogle's masterwork, I feel that along with a personal reflection on the book, it is necessary to contradict statements made by an earlier reviewer. Yes, the book is "exhaustive" but never is it boring. Every profile of African-American actors on the tube is carefully detailed and extensively covered, with little asides that make for intriguing ...             Dallas: The Complete Story of the World's Favorite Prime-time Soap10 reviews Barbara A. Curran Cumberland House Publishing, 2005 A Truly Complete Resource for Die-Hard Dallas Fans Barbara A. Curran did a phenomenal job putting together Dallas: The Complete Story of the World's Favorite Prime-Time Soap. For starters, this book is THICK and packed with information. It is a timeline of Dallas, beginning with concept development by producers, selection of cast and development of the characters, and selection of filming locations. What I found exciting about the ...             Advanced ASIC Chip Synthesis Using Synopsys® Design Compiler® Physical Compiler® and PrimeTime®2 reviews Himanshu Bhatnagar Springer, 2001 hands on guide This book is geared towards the synopsys synthesis tools (as evident in the title). It gives brief explanations about vhdl and verilog coding style (which can be found in many other books). The actual useful part was that the book explored the commonly used synthesis commands in synopsys, and also had explanations on the steps to follow to succesfully synthesize rtl. These ideas can also be ...             Prime-Time Mad Libs Roger Price, Leonard Stern Price Stern Sloan, 2002 Everyone loves Mad Libs and everyone loves watching TV-so what could be better than bringing the two together in one hilarious book? Prime-Time Mad Libs tackles every sort of TV show-from soap operas to game shows. It's the perfect book for your favorite couch potato.             Classic Sitcoms: A Celebration of the Best in Prime-Time Comedy5 reviews Vince Waldron Silman-James Press, 1998 A serious examination of some funny shows. Rather than another nostalgia-derived look at fondly remembered but essentially lame sitcoms, this book reflects critics' picks of the very best examples of the genre, then examines them with the seriousness and insight they deserve. The author is an expert on the subject--he also wrote the definitive work on the Dick Van Dyke Show--and he treats each of the ten shows, from I Love Lucy to ...             The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism1 review Trevor Parry-Giles, Shawn J. Parry-Giles University of Illinois Press, 2006 There should be more books like this... The West Wing (TWW)is my favourite television series so I was delighted that this academic book had been written about it. For me (a newcomer to Political/Social/Culture theory) the book served as a nice introduction to these, as an interesting look at the role of/perception of the president in the US and as a pleasant reminder of some of the many excellent episode s of TWW. The one thing ...             The Primetime Presidency of Ronald Reagan: The Era of the Television Presidency Robert E. Denton Jr. Praeger Publishers, 1988 Beginning in the 1970s, the public has turned to the media for information and guidance in selecting their presidents. Television has become the primary means of getting to know the issues and candidates. This monograph examines the mediazation of the U.S. presidency, as exemplified by President Reagan's role as "the great communicator." Specifically, Denton analyzes the use of television as an instrument of image-making and governing, the role ...             PrimeTime Women: How to Win the Hearts, Minds, and Business of Boomer Big Spenders6 reviews Marti Barletta Kaplan Business, 2007 The nature and extent of a "prime marketing opportunity" Those who have already read Marti Barletta's Marketing to Women will welcome this sequel in which she develops in much greater depth her core concepts with regard to the purchasing power of what continues to be "the world's largest market segment." Of special interest to many readers is The GenderTrends(tm) Marketing Model that reveals in her first book why and how women reach different brand ...             Watching What We Watch: Prime-Time Television Through the Lens of Faith3 reviews Walter T. Davis, Gary Dreibelbis Geneva Press, 2001 Loaded with discussion/conversation material "Watching What We Watch" is very readable, thought-provoking, and topical. The authors have put together a model for how to watch television, offering an insights that are sure to prompt discussion. From "The Simpsons" to "ER", from "Moesha" to "Will and Grace," the book gave me pause, asking questions about where God fit into my viewing habits. I passed this book along to our Discussion Group ...             Aaron Spelling: A Prime-Time Life3 reviews Aaron Spelling, Jefferson Graham St. Martin's Press, 2002 Entertaining, insightful, and innovative! Hi, I found Mr. Spelling's book entertaining, insightful and innovative because he candidly talks about his humble beginnings growing up in a poor neighborhood in Dallas, being taunted and teased mercilessly, and then discusses how hard he worked to get where he is today! As Candy Spelling, Mr. Spelling's wife and mother of Tori and Randy Spelling, argues in his book, they worked hard and ...             Prime-time Apparitions2 reviews R. Zamora Linmark Hanging Loose Press, 2005 multifaceted, revealing poems of contemporary life Linmark's poems are lively, often comical depictions of the eclectic elements and multiple possible directions of contemporary life. With the Philippines, Hawaii, and San Francisco in his background, he effortlessly, sometimes profligately, conjures up the diverse parts of circumstances. While these are paradoxical or overwhelming for many, with Linmark, they are bound by his energy and ...             Prime-Time Families: Television Culture in Post-War America Ella Taylor University of California Press, 1991             Prime-Time Society: An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture, Updated Edition Conrad Phillip Kottak Left Coast Press, 2008 A landmark comparative study (U.S. and Brazil) of television's social and cultural effects on human behavior. The Updated Edition brings forward the author?s research on this topic since the original volume was published in 1990 with an extensive new Introduction.             From Daytime to Primetime: The History of American Television Programs1 review James Roman Greenwood Press, 2005 very informative This is a good book to really go deep in the US history of television. Sometimes it is hard to keep track with all that different tails of development, but at the end of the day you're informed and knowing about the subject. Nicely written with lots of sources, names and examples.             Science Fiction Television Series: Episode Guides, Histories, And Casts And Credits for 62 Prime-time Shows, ...5 reviews Mark Phillips and Frank Garcia McFarland & Company, 2006 If you're a fan, save up and get this It's past time that someone put some thought and effort into a book of this nature. We've had "Science Fiction TV" guides before, and they've uniformly been written by authors whose axes could be heard grinding away throughout as they slagged shows they disliked and drooled over shows they (often unaccountably) were fans of. Mark Phillips and Frank Garcia have done a good job of research and ...              search for books advanced, american, americans, analysis, anthropological, apparitions, business, celebration, compiler, complete, families, favorite, feminism, histories, movement, nationalism, physical, political, post-war, pregnancy, presidency, prime-time, primetime, programs, spelling, spenders, synopsys, synthesis, television, watching books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Gazellenspuren leave a comment home  impressum - about us