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TV (The Book): Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time is a collection of essays written by television critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz. It was published in 2016. The main purpose of the book was to provide a canonical list of the top 100 greatest television programs in American history. [1]
[2] [3] [4] As of September 2021, The Take's Youtube channel has over 1.3 million subscribers and over 270 million video views. [5] The Take is known for its "All the Tropes" series, a collection of video essays dissecting character tropes including the "cool girl", the "smart girl", the child prodigy, the white savior and the Manic Pixie Dream ...
The Day Today (UK TV news parody by Chris Morris) Brass Eye (UK current affairs TV-show parody by Chris Morris) On the Hour (UK news radio parody by Chris Morris) TV Offal (UK TV critique show by Victor Lewis-Smith) This Hour Has 22 Minutes (Canadian TV show) South Park (Trey Parker and Matt Stone) The Chaser (Australian newspaper and TV shows)
The idea of the Harvard Classics was presented in speeches by then President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University. [1] Several years prior to 1909, Eliot gave a speech in which he remarked that a three-foot shelf would be sufficient to hold enough books to give a liberal education to anyone who would read them with devotion.
Henry James's stories and novels have been adapted to film, television, and music video over 150 times (some TV shows did upwards of a dozen stories) from 1933 to 2018. [112] The majority of these are in English, but with adaptations in French (13), Spanish (7), Italian (6), German (5), Portuguese (1), Yugoslavian (1), and Swedish (1). [ 112 ]
Jerry Fodor, The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology, 1983; John Searle, Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind, 1983; Stephen Stich, From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case Against Belief, 1983; Ruth Garrett Millikan, Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism, 1984
The origins of British TV sitcoms trace back to radio comedies of the 1940s and 1950s like Hancock's Half Hour, which aired on BBC Radio in 1954, British TV sitcoms were initially inspired by American comedy formats, but they quickly developed their own style that highlighted dry wit, social satire, and the nuances of British life. [2]
Gulliver's Travels, originally Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.