Book Reviews: Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics,Twitch upon a Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery,Cult British TV Comedy: From Reeves and Mortimer to Psychoville,the World at War,History on Television,Inside the Writers' Room: Conversations with American TV Writers,Deadwood,Torchwood Declassified: Investigating Mainstream Cult Television,Jimmy McGovern,Paul Abbott,Media en Mentaliteit

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