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 ...