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Seeing Things: Television in the Age of Uncertainty
John Ellis, Seeing Things: Television in the Age of Uncertainty. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2000. ISBN 1 86064 489 9 (paper). 193 pp. UK£12.95 (Review copy supplied by I.B.Tauris) Uploaded 1 November 2000 Television producer and academic John Ellis writes about television at the beginning of the new millenium. Ellis covers a lot of ground in eleven chapters, and all …
Read MoreFamily Fictions: Representations of the Family in 1980s Hollywood Cinema
Sarah Harwood, Family Fictions: Representations of the Family in 1980s Hollywood Cinema. London: Macmillan Press, 1997. ISBN 0-333-64844-7. 265 pp. A$39.95 (paper) (Review copy supplied by Macmillan Education Australia) Uploaded 12 November 1999 Sarah Harwood’s book considers the representations of family in popular Hollywood films. Her analysis is self-limited to those films that were most successful at the UK box …
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