Television

Looking at contemporary film and television, this book explores how popular genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance. Previous studi...

Trevor Griffiths has been a critical force in British television writing for over three decades. His successes have included the series Bill Brand ...

This interdisciplinary anthology explores the complex relationships in an artist’s life between fact and fiction, presentation and existence, and c...

This book covers both the artistry and craftsmanship of cinematography and visual storytelling. Few art forms are as tied to their tools and techno...

Entertaining television challenges the idea that the BBC in the 1950s was elitist and ‘staid’, upholding Reithian values in a paternalistic, even p...

Experience the creation of Denis Villeneuve's Dune like never before with this startling collection of production photography by Chiabella James. ...

Our century has seen the proliferation of reality shows devoted to ghost hunts, documentaries on hauntings, and horror films presented as found foo...

In a time of global infotainment, the crisis of modern journalism, the omnipresence of celebrity culture and reality TV, and the colonization of pu...

Featuring illustrations by Jillian BartholdThe first coming-of-age series for millennial consumption, Dawson’s Creek created one of the most iconic...

Alternate history is a genre of fiction that, although connected to science fiction, has its own rich history and lineage. With its roots in the wr...

The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s left a profound impact on Irish culture, as recent ground-breaking historical and literary research has reveale...

Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical, following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The oppor...

Despite the hypervisibility of a constellation of female pop stars, the music business is structured around gender inequality. As a result, women i...