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* #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD!<BR> <BR>A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. <BR><BR>Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.<BR> <BR>In I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!”), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.<BR> <BR>Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I’m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.

Explore the possibility that vampires exist through historical evidence and popular theories. High-interest subject matter paired with creepy photos and illustrations will captivate readers.

Niemand weiß mehr über Serienmörder als John Douglas. Er war der erste Profiler des FBI, galt jahrzehntelang als der gefürchtetste Killerjäger der Welt und ist Vorbild für den FBI-Agenten Holden Ford in der Netflix-Serie 'Mindhunter'. In seinem Buch, auf dem die Erfolgsserie basiert, erzählt Douglas nicht nur, wie er die Praxis des Profilings erfand, etablierte und perfektionierte, sondern auch von seinen Begegnungen mit den gefährlichsten Killern der USA, darunter Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Ed Kemper und Ed Gein, dem Thomas Harris als Buffalo Bill in 'Das Schweigen der Lämmer' ein literarisches Denkmal setzte.'Mindhunter' ist ein wahrer True-Crime-Klassiker mit der Sogkraft eines Krimis - nur dass hier jedes Detail wahr ist.

Cheers! - das offizielle Downton Abbey Cocktail-Buch mit original Setbildern und exklusiven RezeptenDownton Abbey ist ein Sinnbild für Stil und Etikette - und so werden hier nicht nur die Mahlzeiten zelebriert, auch Drinks jeglicher Couleur werden formvollendet eingenommen. Dieses Buch entführt in die glamouröse Welt der Crawleys und präsentiert über 80 Cocktails. Neben Klassikern wie Mint Julep, Sidecar oder French 75 werden auch auch exklusive Drinks aus der Serie wie Downton Heir, Turkish Attaché oder Maison Daisy präsentiert. Eingebettet in zahlreiche Bilder vom Set der Serie und vergnügliche Szenendialoge, die das Trink-Vergnügen auf Downton lebendig werden lassen, lässt sich mit diesen Rezepten ein Stück der Serie nach Hause holen!

Gender in Film and Video tracks changes in gender on screen by documenting trends of the internet age. It focuses on six instances of media in transition and the histories behind them. These include the rise of feminism on television, in sports events and in comedy-drama series; the growth of DIY production by underrepresented groups through crowdfunding and YouTube channels; and struggles between fans and producers over control of casting and storytelling. The breakdown of the categories (content, production, reception) that top-down production/distribution in TV and cinema tended to keep distinct will be a major focus of this volume. This jargon-free text is written for students and other scholars in sociology, media studies, and women's and gender studies.

This book is a comprehensive study of Nordic Noir television drama from the 1990's until today. The authors introduce the history of contemporary Nordic Noir from the perspective of place, production and location studies. The chapters include readings of well-known television crime dramas such as Beck, The Killing, Trapped and The Bridge as well as a range of other important Nordic Noir cases. The authors position the development of Nordic Noir in the global market for popular television drama and place the international attention towards Nordic crime dramas within regional development of drama production in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland. Consequently, Nordic Noir is read as both a transnational financial and creative phenomenon and as a local possibility for community building. Offering a comprehensible, scholarly and methodologically original approach to the popularity of Nordic television crime dramas, this volume is aimed at readers with an interest in crime drama as well as scholars and students of television drama.

This book brings the emergent interest in social class and inequality to the field of television studies. It reveals how the new visibility of class matters in serial television functions aesthetically and examines the cultural class politics articulated in these programmes. This ground-breaking volume argues that reality and quality TV's intricate politics of class entices viewers not only to grapple with previously invisible socio-economic realities but also to reconsider their class alignment. The stereotypical ways of framing class are now supplemented by those dedicated to exposing the economic and socio-psychological burdens of the (lower) middle class. The case studies in this book demonstrate how sophisticated narrative techniques coincide with equally complex ways of exposing class divisions in contemporary American life and how the examined shows disrupt the hegemonic order of class. The volume therefore also invites a rethinking of conventional models of social stratification.

Die Vorgeschichte zum Fantasy-Serien-Highlight 2016Der Elfen-Mensch-Mischling Shea Ohmsford lebt zufrieden in dem kleinen Ort Schattental - bis der mysteriöse Zauberer Allanon auftaucht, und dem jungen Mann das Vermächtnis seiner Familie offenbart. Shea ist der letzte Nachfahre des Elfenhelden Shannara, und nur er kann dessen mystisches Schwert führen. Und damit ist Shea der einzige, der den mächtigen Hexenmeister Brona aufhalten kann. Denn dieser fürchtet nur eine Waffe: das Schwert von Shannara.<BR> Die Shannara-Chroniken - Das Schwert der Elfen ist bereits in geteilter Form erschienen unter den Titeln: 'Das Schwert von Shannara', 'Der Sohn von Shannara' und 'Der Erbe von Shannara'.

Der Roman zum Fantasy-Serien-Highlight 2016Der Ellcrys, der heilige Baum der Elfen, stirbt. Mit ihm vergeht auch der Bann, der die Dämonen aus der Welt der Sterblichen fernhält, und die ersten dieser Bestien haben die magische Grenze bereits überwunden. Amberle Elessedil, die Tochter des Königs der Elfen, ist die einzige, die einen neuen Ellcrys pflanzen kann. Um das letzte Samenkorn des Ellcrys zum Leben zu erwecken, begibt sie sich auf gefährliche Reise zum Wildewald. Denn die Dämonen wissen von ihrer Aufgabe und sie werden alles tun, um sie aufzuhalten. Zum Glück steht ihr der junge Heiler Wil zur Seite - und mit ihm die Elfensteine von Shannara.<BR> Die Shannara-Chroniken - Elfensteine ist bereits in geteilter Form erschienen unter den Titeln: 'Die Elfensteine von Shannara', 'Der Druide von Shannara' und 'Die Dämonen von Shannara'.

It makes us jump. It makes us scream. It haunts our nightmares. So why do we watch horror? Why do we play it? What could possibly be appealing about a genre that tries to terrify us? Why would we subject ourselves to shriek-inducing shocks, or spend dozens of hours watching a television show about grotesque flesh-eating monsters? Monstrous Forms offers a theory of horror that works through the genre across a broad range of contemporary moving-image media: film, television, videogames, YouTube, gifs, streaming, virtual reality. This book analyzes our experience of and engagement with horror by focusing on its form, paying special attention to the common ground, the styles and forms that move between mediums. It looks at the ways that moving-image horror addresses its audiences, the ways that it elicits, or demands, responses from its viewers, players, browsers. Camera movement (or "camera" movement), jump scares, offscreen monsters-horror innovates and perfects styles that directly provoke and stimulate the bodies in front of the screen. Analyzing films including Paranormal Activity, It Follows, and Get Out, videogames including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Layers of Fear, and Until Dawn, and TV shows including The Walking Dead and American Horror Story, Monstrous Forms argues for understanding horror through its sensational address, and dissects the forms that make that address so effective.

A comprehensive biography of the life and accomplishments of the famous puppeteer and creator of the Muppets.