Christmas on television
By: by Diane Werts.
Series: Praeger television collection
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Christmas television programs -- United States.
Description: "Diane Werts's book is the first to cover the entire history of the depiction of Christmas on television, and includes a discussion of programs that celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and the winter solstice. An introductory overview helps readers to understand the basis on which television's success with the holidays is based, and chronological chapters go on to consider the many different ways in which the season has been celebrated in variety shows, sitcoms, specials, and dramas of the past six decades."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : welcome to a TV Christmas; title: TV waits in the wings : Christmas in other media; title: The first (TV) Noel : Christmas in early television; title: White Christmas : vintage movies come to TV; title: I'll be home for Christmas : family and the holidays; title: (Not) home for the holidays : at work and away; title: Chestnuts roasting on an open fire : Christmas traditions; title: Here comes Santa Claus : Kris Kringle as real, imagined, multiple, perverse; title: All I want for Christmas : presents and shopping; title: An old-fashioned Christmas: yearning for simpler times; title: O come all ye faithful : faith, charity, babies, and miracles; title: Christmas with a conscience : time for social statements; title: A Christmas carol : adapting a dickens of a plot; title: Its a wonderful life : wishing they'd never been born; title: Hark the herald angels sing : variety shows and holiday songs; title: Run Rudolph run: Christmas cartoons and animation; title: Twelve other kinds of Christmas TV; title: We (dont) need a little Christmas: alternative holidays, from Hanukkah to Festivus; title: That Christmas feeling: how to make a holiday show; title: TV's Christmas essentials: choosing a top 10.