Author Topic: New book coming in 2006 (Read 4975 times)

Bob Zager · « **on:** December 03, 2005, 11:30:05 AM »

Here is a link to a new book, tentatively scheduled for release next July:

http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61294

Passepartout · « **Reply #1 on:** December 03, 2005, 10:58:28 PM »

That looks like a good book to buy.
Explaining the differences between a quiz, a dating, and an audience show.
Thanks for the heads-up!

tvwxman · « **Reply #2 on:** December 04, 2005, 06:26:18 AM »

[quote name=\'Passepartout\' date=\'Dec 3 2005, 10:58 PM\']Explaining the differences between a quiz, a dating, and an audience show.

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Because the rest of us have NO idea how to distinguish the three from each other.

Yutz.

DrBear · « **Reply #3 on:** December 04, 2005, 09:00:00 AM »

OK, now that we've got the kindergarten recess stuff out of the way...

It looks like a reasonably serious study of the genre and could be interesting.

So how many "serious books" do all y'all know of about the genre? (As opposed to fan-oriented "how you get on a game show" types. quiz books from Jeopardy!, etc.)

I can think of a few -
"Prime Times and Misdemeanors" about the 50s quiz scandals.
Gil Fates' "What's My Line?"
Maxene Fabe's "TV Game Shows"
Of course, the three "Encyclopedias"

ChrisLambert! · « **Reply #4 on:** December 04, 2005, 11:25:45 AM »

our moderator has done the hard work for us.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #5 on:** December 04, 2005, 12:19:55 PM »

[quote name=\'ChrisLambert!\' date=\'Dec 4 2005, 12:25 PM\']our moderator has done the hard work for us.[/quote]
Always happy to help, though there have been a couple (such as Fred & Steve's latest) that I haven't gotten around to adding.

The book Bob found is a scholarly, sociological look at the genre, which should make it less appealing to, let's face it, most of this group. The only other general book of this type would be Quiz Craze, which is one boring read.