Television

For decades, amidst the bright lights, studio-audience laughs, and absurdly large apartment sets, the real-life story of American LGBTQ liberation...

All zombies are created equal. All zombie stories are not. From its humble beginnings as an indie comic book, The Walking Dead has become a pop cu...

Introduction by Will Leitch, founding editor of Deadspin Talk to any of the millions of devoted Friday Night Lights fans and they'll tell you: it'...

This anthology offers eighteen captivating pieces for stage, screen and radio. Each extract explores a distinct dimension of the writers imaginatio...

Crime pays well. Business pays better. Season 5 looms for this gritty gangster epic that's taken the world by storm. The Peaky Blinders, known for ...

Welcome to the ultimate Real Housewives reunion! Not All Diamonds and Rose is the definitive oral history of the hit television franchise, from it...

For years, Dick Cavett played host to the nations most famous personalities on his late night talk show. In this humorous and evocative book, we ge...

For the first time ever, the two people who knew Andy Kaufman best open up about the most enigmatic artist of our generation. Comedian and Taxi st...

Is Sue is the true driving force behind Glee? Who is the real alpha male in New Directions? Why do we really keep coming back to Glee week after we...

Dexter Morgan: Police forensic analyst. Family man. Serial killer. And the star of Showtime's most-watched series, Dexter. Aimed at Dexter devotee...

Though Joss Whedon's television show Dollhouse ended in January 2010 after its second season, its small but devoted cult following is still reeling...

Television existed for a long time before it became commonplace in American homes. Even as cars, jazz, film, and radio heralded the modern age, tel...

In Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America's preoccupation with body weight, proces...

Although nearly every other television form or genre has undergone a massive critical and popular reassessment or resurgence in the past twenty yea...

Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Jack Horner and Jack the Giant Killer are all famous tales and rhymes featuring the same hero, a character who often...

Through American history, often in times of crisis, there have been periodic outbreaks of obsession with the paranormal. Between 2004 and 2019, ove...

No recent television creator has generated more critical, scholarly, and popular discussion or acquired as devoted a cult following as Joss Whedon ...

This collection analyzes twenty-first-century American television programs that employ temporal and narrative experimentation. These shows play wit...

Tune in to receive unheard-of access, as Brian Levant and Fred Fox Jr. chronicle life on set and examine the evolution of a television show that ma...

Alan Ball: Conversations features interviews that span Alan Ball's entire career and include detailed observations and insights into his Academy Aw...

Jim OHeir, who played Jerry (or Garry or Larry) on Parks and Recreation and co-hosts the hit podcast Parks and Recollection, brings fans a heartfel...

This collection covers various aspects of the TV series/serials, 'dizi' or soap opera, and comprises chapters on their role in memory and identity ...

Despite Hollywoods recent efforts to appeal to more racially diverse audiences, mainstream movies routinely present a limited view of nonwhites gen...

InMobilizing Music in Wartime British Film,author Heather Wiebe traces a preoccupation with art music and total war that animated British films of ...

Calling all Ghosts fans! This is the ultimate celebratory gift book for all of you in desperate need of another Ghosts fix, complete with in-depth ...

For the past several years, critics have been describing the present era as both the end of television and one of peak TV, referring to the unprece...

Now in its seventh edition, The Art of Voice Acting covers all aspects of the craft and business of performing voiceover. Starting with the basics ...

Dieser Band befasst sich mit den neusten Serien des Star Trek-Franchise, die seit Erscheinen von Star Trek: Discovery (2017) entstanden sind. Im Mi...

Sex Work in Popular Culture delves into provocative movies, TV shows, and documentaries about sex work produced in the last fifteen years a period...