TV & Society

This book offers an insightful reappraisal of international broadcasting as discursive rather than soft power in service of democratic statecraft. ...

As LGBTQ claims acquire global relevance, how do sexual politics impact the study of International Relations? This book argues that LGBTQ perspecti...

The first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, the newest instalment in the long-running and influential Star Trek franchise, received media and ac...

In TV Snapshots, Lynn Spigel explores snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s. Like today...

In TV Snapshots, Lynn Spigel explores snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s. Like today...

This research-based textbook covers 15 chapters on food, film, shopping, medical, ghost, and suicide tourism, based on research conducted over 15 y...

Doctor Who is a BBC transmedia franchise that has lasted over sixty years. Its fanbase boasts a substantial following of gay men. This book asks wh...

Best-sellers are the books that sell well, are read by large numbers of people, and are widely talked about in the media and among readers. Yet the...

This collection explores the impact of Covid-19 on the production and consumption of television and film content in the English-speaking world. Off...

In January 2024, Succession won four Golden Globes - including Best Drama - from a record 13 nominations, cementing the truth in stone: no other sh...

An artful and contemplative tribute to the late actor famed for his role as Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills, 90210.Best known for playing loner rebel ...

Never before have we lived in a time in which sport and gay identity are more visible, discussed, debatedand even celebrated. However, in an era in...

Since the late 1970s, Australia has nurtured a creative and resilient childrens television production sector with a global reputation for excellenc...

This book uses the case study of public television in post-communist Latvia to explore the question of how audiences respond to TV offerings, and h...

The past twenty years have seen major changes in the ways that television formats and programming are developed and replicated internationally for ...

Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwane...

Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwane...

What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological cal...

In 1990, American television experienced a seismic shift when Twin Peaks premiered, eschewing formulaic plots and clear lines between heroes and vi...

This interdisciplinary volume introduces the field of Kardashian Studies through collections of essays based in sociology, media studies, cultural ...

The De Gruyter Handbook of Humor Studies consolidates the cumulative contributions in theory and research on humor from 57 international scholars r...

How mid-century television anthologies reflected and shaped US values and identities. From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, anthology dramas pres...

The antihero prevails in recent American drama television series. Characters such as mobster kingpin Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), meth cook and gan...

How the internet transformed television Before HBOs hit show Insecure, Issa Raes comedy about being a nerdy black woman debuted as a YouTube web s...

For nearly 100 years, Indian boarding schools in Canada and the US produced newspapers read by white settlers, government officials, and Indigenous...

At the end of the nineteenth century, print media dominated British popular culture, produced in greater variety and on a larger scale than ever be...

In the modern world of networked digital media, authors must navigate many challenges. Most pressingly, the illegal downloading and streaming of co...

In the modern world of networked digital media, authors must navigate many challenges. Most pressingly, the illegal downloading and streaming of co...

Digital Politics in Canada addresses a significant gap in the scholarly literature on both media in Canada and Canadian political science. Using a ...

Combining an exciting methodology alongside high-interest case studies, Television in Transition offers students of television a guide to a medium ...

Architectural solutions & designs to optimize the spaces in your home without spending a fortune.Architect Laura Jane Clark, from the BBC and N...

Talking about Journalism focuses on the relationship between journalism and the public and engages with this as a specific boundary-pushing relatio...

This book makes a case for the synergetic union between reality TV and the music industry. It delves into technological change in popular music, an...

All is not well in the beautiful county of Midsomer. On the eve of its first Villages In Bloom competition, a man lies dead, smelling of damson jam...