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Christmas on television
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Christmas on television

Author: Diane Werts
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.
Series: The Praeger television collection
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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