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Television Studies

This guide is an introduction to library and internet resources for Television Studies.
  • Introduction
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  • History of television
  • Censorship
  • TV criticism
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  • Writing for television
  • Television adaptations
    • Shakespeare on television
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  • Television broadcasting & networks
  • Global television
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  • Chinese television
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  • Television through the decades
    • 1950's Television & Earlier
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Examples on Television

Find more women on television in the online catalog. You can use the link or search for specific titles.

  • Television poster artAlly McBeal. Season one by David E. Kelley
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #9529
    When Boston lawyer, Ally McBeal, meets up with a former college friend who hires her at his prestigious law firm, things get complicated when she learns she'll be working with her first love and his wife. Ally slips into one fantasy after another to try and cope with her new life.
  • The closer. The complete first season by James Duff
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #5373
    A tough-as-nails detective is brought from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up the Priority Murder Squad, a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases.
  • Cover ArtCommander in chief by Rod Lurie
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #6713
    ISBN: 9780788872792
    Mackenzie Allen becomes the first woman American President after she ascends to the job following the death of President Teddy Bridges.
  • Drop dead diva. The complete first season by Josh Berman
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #10476
    "Drop dead Diva" tells the story of Deb, a shallow model who dies in a sudden accident. By a twist of fate and a bolt of divine intervention, her soul resurfaces in the body of Jane, a smart, plus-sized and recently deceased attorney. As she confronts the challenges of her adventurous new life, love and career, she must learn to reconcile her beauty queen ways with her brilliant new mind--finding surprises at every turn.
  • Title cardHere's Lucy. Season one by Lucille Ball Productions
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #9076
    Lucille Carter is a widowed mother of teenagers Kim and Craig. Lucy works for her brother-in-law Harry, played by Gale Gordon, who owns Carter's Unique Employment Agency, leading Lucy into endless predicaments and hilarious hijinks.
  • Honey West. Complete series by Four Star Television
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #8786
    After inheriting her spying business from her late father, private eye Honey West outwits criminals and solves crimes using her unique arsenal of martial arts and scientific gadgets.
  • Jane the virgin. The complete first season
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #19166
    Jane the Virgin is a loose adaptation of the Venezuelan telenovela Juana la Virgen created by Perla Farías. Jane Villanueva, a working, religious young Latina virgin woman, who becomes pregnant after being artificially inseminated by mistake.
  • Cover ArtLiving single. The complete first season by Yvette Lee Bowser
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #16239
    ISBN: 9781419816857
    This group of seemingly mismatched women have found the recipe for twenty-something happiness.
  • Cover artThe Mary Tyler Moore show. The complete first season by MTM Enterprises
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #1085
    Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis after a relationship goes bad. She finds work as an associate producer in a small television newsroom where the characters include Lou Grant, her gruff boss, Murray Slaughter the humorous writer, and Ted Baxter the Anchor Man who spends his time mispronouncing country names. Mary continues to hope for romance, but finds that her friends are more dependable.
  • My little Margie collection. No. 1 by Frank Fox
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #6681
    Twelve episodes of "My little Margie," 1950s television series about a father and daughter.
  • Title cardNine for IX. Complete collection by ESPN Films, ESPNW
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #18516
    From the award-winning producers of 30 for 30, this exceptional set celebrating the 40th anniversary of Title IX features nine documentary films about women in sports , directed by an extraordinarily diverse group of female filmmakers.
  • Saving Grace. Season one by TNT Originals, Inc. ; Fox Television Studios
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #8120
    Grace Hanadarko is a hard-living Oklahoma City detective whose life is careening out of control. Grace is given a second chance in the unlikely form of a gruff, tobacco-chewing angel named Earl. But turning her life around won't be easy. As dark secrets are revealed, Grace must come to grips with her explosive past and she's going to need her last-chance-angel more than ever.
  • Cover artThat girl. Season one by Bill Persky and Sam Denoff
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #4369
    ISBN: 9780738934419
    Ann Marie is a struggling actress living in New York City. In between trying to find acting and modeling jobs, she shares time with her boyfriend, Donald Hollinger, and tries to convince her dad, Lou Marie, that she can make it on her own.
  • Cover ArtThat show: with Joan Rivers, 1968 by Joan Rivers
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #18872
    18 episodes from Joan Rivers' half-hour daytime talk show, pairing experts on interesting subjects with unlikely celebrities for often hilarious results. ...
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