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David Scott Diffrient is Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. His articles have been published in Cinema Journal, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, Journal of Film and Video, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and other journals. He is the author of Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema and the co-author of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema.David Lavery was the author of more than one hundred published essays, chapters, and reviews, he was author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of several published books, including Late for the Sky: The Mentality of the Space Age, Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to “Twin Peaks”, “Deny All Knowledge”: Reading “The X-Files”, Fighting the Forces: What”s at Stake in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, Teleparody: Predicting/Preventing the TV Discourse of Tomorrow, Reading “The Sopranos”: Hit TV from HBO, “Lost””s Buried Treasures, and Finding “Battlestar Galactica”.




5 Ebooks by David Diffrient

David Diffrient & David Lavery: Screwball Television
Bringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, Screwball Television offers a variety of international perspectives on Gilmore Girls. Adored by fans and celebrated by c …
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€32.99
Douglas L. Howard & David Bianculli: Television Finales
Today more than ever, series finales have become cultural touchstones that feed watercooler fodder and Twitter storms among a committed community of viewers. While the final episodes of The Fugitive …
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€44.99
David Scott Diffrient: Omnibus Films
Omnibus films bring together the contributions of two or more filmmakers. Does this make them inherently contradictory texts? How do they challenge critical categories in cinema studies? What are …
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€35.97
Amanda Konkle & Charles Burnetts: Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
With an off-putting title and a decidedly retrograde premise, the CW dramedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a surprising choice for critical analysis. But, loyal viewers quickly came to appreciate the show’s …
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€38.99
David Diffrient: Comic Drunks, Crazy Cults, and Lovable Monsters
Contradictory to its core, the sitcom—an ostensibly conservative, tranquilizing genre—has a long track record in the United States of tackling controversial subjects with a fearlessness not often …
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€48.99