Television

The West Wing, first broadcast in 1999, is thought by many to have been one of the most significant dramas shown on network television. Despite ...

The BBC America series Orphan Black (2013-2017) won acclaim for its compelling writing, resonant themes and innovative special effects. And for ...

This is the story of the Mad Men fan phenomenon: how the show and its fans distinguished themselves in a market where its hard to make an impressio...

Soap operas have captured loyal, often lifelong viewers since the first daytime serial debuted in 1949. In this collection of 29 new and five class...

Detective McNulty applies bite marks to a deceased man's body with a set of dentures in The Wire, illustrating how officialdom deals in falseho...

This collection of essays examines the structures of power and the ways in which power is exercised and felt in the fantasy world of Game of Thr...

Fans and the billion-dollar franchises in which they participate have together become powerful agents within popular culture. These franchises h...

NBC's Grimm is an understudied series full of compelling characters, including Monroe, the charmingly knowledgeable vegetarian who looks like a ...

The image of the nurse is ubiquitous, both in life and in popular media. One of the earliest instances of nursing and media intersecting is the ...

For the major broadcast networks, the heyday of made-for-TV movies was 20th Century programming like The ABC Movie of the Week and NBC Sunday Ni...

What comes to mind when you think about superheroes? Strength, bravery, and heroism are common answers. However, superheroes do not only have ph...

In recent years, there has been a rise in diverse racial representation on television. In particular, Black characters have become more actualized ...

This collection examines the peculiarly modern phenomenon of voyeurism as it is experienced through the digital screen. Violence, voyeurism, and...

After Charmed ended in 2006, witches were relegated to sidekicks of televisual vampires or children's programs. But during the mid-2010s they be...

A staple of television since the early years of the BBC, British crime drama first crossed the Atlantic on public broadcasting stations and spec...

Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Shuri, and Black Widow. These four characters portray very different versions of women: the superheroine, the abuse vic...

  In past decades portrayals of mental illness on television were limited to psychotic criminals or comical sidekicks. As public awareness of ment...

Created around the world and available only on the web, Internet television series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that ofte...

Samantha Stephens in Bewitched. Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek. Wonder Woman, Xena, Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and many more. Te...

For half a century the Manson Family has captured the public imagination--the lurid, inexplicable violence in a glamorous Hollywood setting, the...

Get the kettle on, the biscuits out and settle in for a belting read.Let Paddy McGuinness take you back, far, far away from celebrity land, to a tw...

In this collection of 22 interviews (with Ralph Bellamy, Angela Cartwright, Barbara Eden, Kathy Garver, Gale Gordon, Don Grady, Linda Kaye Henni...