Television

Julia Childs TV show, The French Chef, was extraordinarily popular during its broadcast from 1963 until 1973. Child became a cultural icon in the 1...

Ostensibly the villain, but also a model of female power, poise, and intelligence, the femme fatale embodies Hollywoods contradictory attitudes tow...

A history of prestige television through the rise of the black-market melodrama.   In Second Lives, Michael Szalay defines a new television genre t...

Since the 1990s, the knowledge, culture, and entertainment industries have found themselves experimenting, not altogether voluntarily, with communi...

Often disguised in public discourse by terms like gay, homoerotic, homosocial, or queer, bisexuality is strangely absent from queer studies and vir...

Friday Night Fighter relives a lost moment in American postwar history, when boxing ruled as one of the nation's most widely televised sports. Duri...

From gardener's apprentice to favourite TV presenter - how did it all begin?When Alan left school at fifteen little was expected of him. But in th...

Iconic images from fiery scenes of catharsis in Gone With the Wind and Rebecca to The Third Man's decadent cinematography have proven inseparable f...

Throughout the long running BBC series Doctor Who, the Doctor has rarely been alone, traveling with both female and male companions. The companion ...

Viewers spend years laughing, crying, celebrating, and mourning with their favorite TV characters, but when those characters are promiscuous women,...

This is the first book that examines how ethnic spectacle in the form of Asian and Latin American bodies played a significant role in the cultural ...

This is the first book that examines how ethnic spectacle in the form of Asian and Latin American bodies played a significant role in the cultural ...

Monsters of the Upside Down, beware!Travis Langley (author of the acclaimed Batman and Psychology) returns with a group of expert contributors to e...

Inspired by the real life post-divorce experiences of television comedy writer Danny Simon, The Odd Couple has touched multiple generations of f...

In Sesame Street: A Transnational History, author Helle Strandgaard Jensen tells the story of how the American television show became a global bran...

Fantasy is often condemned as escapist, unsophisticated and superficial. This collection of new essays puts such easy dismissals to the test by ...

Examining Power Rangers, the long-running but frequently-maligned intellectual property, by treating it seriously and on its own terms, Ranger Rebo...

Este innovador y fundamental libro de texto acerca de la comunicacin humana ayuda a los estudiantes a mejorar sus competencias comunicativas y a co...

In November 1939, NBC's fledgling television station W2XBS broadcast the first known holiday special, The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Despite i...

Media philosophy can only be found and revealed in media themselves. The essays collected in this volume thus approach television as a medium both ...

The tough and touching tale of a real Yorkshire family farm.In the 60 years that Yorkshire farmer Roger Nicholson has lived at Cannon Hall Farm nea...