Description |
xii, 245 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Series |
The Praeger television collection,
1549-2257
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Praeger television collection.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index. |
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 -- It's 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 -- 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. |
Subject |
Christmas television programs -- United States.
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Christmas television programs. |
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United States. |
ISBN |
0275983315 alkaline paper |
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