TV & Society

This book offers a detailed analysis of the Islamic Republic of Irans approach towards human rights in the media. It looks at the state-owned and s...

In the age of complex Tv, of social networking and massive consumption of transmedia narratives, a myriad short-lived phenomena surround films and ...

Anna Froula is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English at East Carolina University, USAStacy Takacs is Associate Professor...

This book explores the emergence of lifestyle in the US, first as a term that has become an organizing principle for the self and for the structure...

Focusing on Netflixs child and family-orientated platform exclusive content, this book offers the first exploration of a controversial genre cycle ...

This monograph explores and investigates key issues facing Middle Eastern societies, including religion and sectarianism, history and collective me...

This book illustrates a distinctive lineage of critical interventions in moving image culture and in the public sphere through the trajectories of ...

This book is a cultural history of post-Wall urban, social, political, and cultural transformations in Berlin. Branding Berlin: From Division to th...

In nineteenth-century Toronto, people took to the streets to express their jubilation on special occasions, such as the 1860 visit of the Prince of...

In nineteenth-century Toronto, people took to the streets to express their jubilation on special occasions, such as the 1860 visit of the Prince of...

In Latin America, the production of telenovelas and TV series about the region's recent and traumatic past has grown considerably in the last 20 y...

Useful to both professional persuaders and students of media effects, this book presents theories and empirical research on methods of social influ...

The Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives considers the concept of the multiverse beyond the immediacy of being merel...

During the 1980s, U.S. television experienced a reinvigoration of the family sitcom genre. In TV Family Values, Alice Leppert focuses on the impact...

What happened when Sesame Street and Big Brother were adapted for African audiences? Or when video games Final Fantasy and Assassins Creed were loc...

Against a backdrop of increased online distribution of media, this book provides an in-depth analysis of how the platformisation of television is b...

Against a backdrop of increased online distribution of media, this book provides an in-depth analysis of how the platformisation of television is b...

How Popular Culture Destroys Our Political Imagination: Capitalism and Its Alternatives in Film and Television explores the representations of capi...

How Popular Culture Destroys Our Political Imagination: Capitalism and Its Alternatives in Film and Television explores the representations of capi...

It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little about the Middle Ages. But the truth is not so simple. Non-specialists in fact ...

This fascinating work provides an up-to-date examination of shifts in the nature and impact of TV and video watching that have largely been driven ...

This fascinating work provides an up-to-date examination of shifts in the nature and impact of TV and video watching that have largely been driven ...

This book explores the empirical and theoretical significance of understanding television as a dynamic technology, a creative industry, and a vibra...

This book explores the empirical and theoretical significance of understanding television as a dynamic technology, a creative industry, and a vibra...

Although television has developed into a major agent of the transnational and global flow of information and entertainment, television historiograp...

This work looks at the gendered nature of the US video gaming industry. Although there were attempts to incorporate women into development roles an...

Sport occupies a central position in Irish social and cultural life, yet has been relatively marginal within the academy. Significant research has ...

This book is a well-researched compendium that gives insight into critical issues as well as emerging perspectives in broadcasting and promises to ...

This all-new edition of the best-selling guide The TV Showrunners Roadmap provides readers with the tools for creating, writing, and managing your ...

And Finally is the injection of cheer we all need in these rather depressing times. This heart-warming book takes a look at the very b...

Although not considered a formal area of study, scholarship on the uses, content, and effects of entertaining media has been central to communicati...