TV & Society

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...

Television series enjoy an unbroken - popular as well as scholarly - attention. It is surprising, however, that in works on seriality in media an...

Talk radio is broadcast discourse expressing under ideal circumstances the mediums full potential as a vox Populi megaphone. Talk radio creates a...

Based on a 20-month ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approac...

Based on a 20-month ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approac...

In late 1995, the drama Heaven Above (Cangtian zaishang) debuted on Chinese TV. Featuring a villainous high-ranking government official, it was the...

In the thirty years since viewers first visited Nelson Mandela House, Only Fools and Horses has won countless awards and is still Britain's most-wa...

A rich history of underwater filmmaking and how it has profoundly influenced the aesthetics of movies and public perception of the oceansIn The Und...

Sexual Identities and the Media encourages students to examine media as a site of negotiation for how people make sense of their own and others sex...

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...

This essay collection focuses on the gendered dimensions of reality television in both the United States and Great Britain. Through close readings ...

Reality TV is popular entertainment. And yet a common way to start a conversation about it is I wouldnt want anyone to know this but Why do people ...

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

An international team of experts explores how streaming services are disrupting traditional storytelling. The rise of streaming has dramatically tr...

To help students think critically about international relations and politics, Stephen Benedict Dyson examines the fictional but deeply political re...

The history of cable television in America is far older than networks like MTV, ESPN, and HBO, which are so familiar to us today. Tracing the origi...

Originating as a radio series in 1933, the Lone Ranger is a cross-media star who has appeared in comic strips, comic books, adult and juvenile nove...

Finalist, 2020 Latino Book Awards, Best Academic Themed Book The surprising effects of American TV on global viewers As a dominant cultural expor...

The first book to consider the rapid rise of makeover shows from the perspectives of their viewers Watch this show, buy this product, you can be a ...

In TV Socialism, Anikó Imre provides an innovative history of television in socialist Europe during and after the Cold War. Rather than uniform pro...

'A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could deliver' James Acaster'If you read only one book b...

How cable television upended American political life in the pursuit of profits and influenceAs television began to overtake the political landscape...

Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and televisions...

THE BOOK THAT BROUGHT DOWN RUPERT MURDOCHMeet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the m...

Explores the role of performance in US presidential politics Combines theoretical argument and original interviews with leaders in U.S. presidenti...

American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysi...

Representing a detailed analysis of footballers' wives and their role in contemporary British culture, this books explores how the generic and ster...

'Like a superheated kernel of corn, the world has gone Pop... Drag has become mainstream. Being gay became cool. From being the criminal outsider, ...

In this new Routledge Television Guidebook, Jeremy G. Butler studies our love-hate relationship with the durable sitcom, analyzing the genres posit...

Creating TV Formats: From Inception to Pitch takes the reader through a step-by-step process of how to generate ideas, develop story lines and char...

Spanning a decade of key research, this collection brings together a selection of essays and chapters from leading media scholar Graeme Turner for ...

This volume aims to deepen our understanding of the dynamic intersections of war and media in the rapidly transforming media ecology and the reorde...

This volume aims to deepen our understanding of the dynamic intersections of war and media in the rapidly transforming media ecology and the reorde...

Chris Comerford explores cinematic digital television as an artistic classification and an academic object of study, and illuminates the slippage i...