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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Diane Werts |
| ISBN: | 0275983315 9780275983314 |
| OCLC Number: | 61169662 |
| Description: | xii, 245 p., [13] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : welcome to a TV Christmas -- TV waits in the wings : Christmas in other media -- The first (TV) Noel : Christmas in early television -- White Christmas : vintage movies come to TV -- I'll be home for Christmas : family and the holidays -- (Not) home for the holidays : at work and away -- Chestnuts roasting on an open fire : Christmas traditions -- Here comes Santa Claus : Kris Kringle as real, imagined, multiple, perverse -- All I want for Christmas : presents and shopping -- An old-fashioned Christmas: yearning for simpler times -- O come all ye faithful : faith, charity, babies, and miracles -- Christmas with a conscience : time for social statements -- A Christmas carol : adapting a dickens of a plot -- Its a wonderful life : wishing they'd never been born -- Hark the herald angels sing : variety shows and holiday songs -- Run Rudolph run: Christmas cartoons and animation -- Twelve other kinds of Christmas TV -- We (dont) need a little Christmas: alternative holidays, from Hanukkah to Festivus -- That Christmas feeling: how to make a holiday show -- TV's Christmas essentials: choosing a top 10. |
| Series Title: | The Praeger television collection |
| Responsibility: | Diane Werts. |
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