Television

Any episode of a crime or mystery series involves some or all of the following: the perpetration of a crime; its investigation; the analytical proc...

In the past, the examination of myth has traditionally been the study of the Primitive or the Other. More recently, however, myth has been increasi...

Examining how we interpret Welshness today, this volume brings together fourteen essays covering a full range of representations of Welsh mythol...

John Frankenheimers career as a professional director began and ended in television. In the mid-1950s, he won acclaim working on live productions f...

Underpants + Winnebago + chemistry set = ?! Can you identify your favourite TV show from just three visual clues? Put all those hours spent watchin...

The book puts together for the first time valuable updated information that looks at childrens television from its early days up to the current dig...

A television genre best known for romantic storytelling, daytime soap operas have for decades spun tales of couples embroiled in passion, lust a...

From his first comic-book appearance in 1939 through his many incarnations on the big screen, the archetypal superhero known as The Batman has n...

The heroes, villains, and monsters portrayed in such popular science fiction television series as Heroes, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, D...

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report have attracted much interest in recent years from popular audiences as well as scholars i...

Through spaceships, aliens, ray guns and other familiar trappings, science fiction uses the future (and sometimes the past) to comment on current s...

Pushing Daisies was a unique network television show. This collection of 10 essays addresses the quirky, off-beat elements that made the show a ...

The first biography of journalist Robert Pierpoint, a contemporary of Edward R. Murrow, hired by him to cover the Korean War for CBS. He went on to...

One of the most original shows in the history of television, Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a beloved cult hit built on the back of another cult p...

This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the world's most famous vampire, with more than 700 citations of domestic and international Dracula films,...

This is the first biography of a Hollywood legend. Iowa-born Jock Mahoney was an elite athlete and U.S. Marines fighter pilot prior to falling into...

The 21st century is a good time to be Sherlock Holmes. He stars in the recent Guy Ritchie films, with Robert Downey, Jr., playing the great detecti...

American films, like America itself, have long been fascinated by the threat of outsiders posing as citizens to destroy the American way of life...

Originally broadcast on American television between 1952 and 1969, the 30 situation comedies in this work are seldom seen today and receive only...

The legends of King Arthur have not only endured for centuries, but also flourished in constant retellings and new stories built around the cent...

Mark Frost, cocreator of both the original Twin Peaks and The Return, is often lost in the shadow of cocreator David Lynch in the eyes of critics a...