TV & Society

From explorations of video game series to Netflix shows to Facebook timelines, Subjective Experiences of Interactive Nostalgia helps readers unders...

In a unique, and at times highly polemical way, the author demonstrates how the media generally influences thinking and what kind of content they p...

The 1960s (a.k.a. the 60s) remains a terrain of contemporary politicswith the values of the period embraced or rejected, as well as differently int...

What takes place when we examine texts close-up? The art of close reading, once the closely guarded province of professional literary critics, now ...

Welcome to the Whoniverse. First stop: everywhere.Six decades may only be a handful of heartbeats to a Time Lord, but for Doctor Who it's the adven...

Dive into this fun and entertaining quiz book from the UKs biggest Black British pub quiz! Get your thinking cap...

For more than a decade, girl power has been a cultural barometer, reflecting girlhoods ever-changing meanings. How did girl power evolve from a sub...

This book explores a hybrid model of broadcasting and takes a close look at public TV broadcasting operating in a market-driven environment. While ...

A Functional Analysis of Political Television Advertisements examines theory and research on election advertisements. William Benoit employs the Fu...

From Happy Homemaker to Desperate Housewives: Motherhood and Popular Television is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to key debates conce...

A deliciously irreverent and humorous insiders account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television ...

Ancient Greece has inspired television producers and captivated viewing audiences in the United Kingdom for over half a century. By examining how a...

A collection of the world's most memorable, provocative, best-selling and groundbreaking posters from Johannes Gutenberg to Barack Obama. ...

You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later Nick Cave Later is a voyage of discovery for us as well a...

The rules of entertainment have changed. Last year, the vlogger PewDiePie made more money from his YouTube videos than high profile movie stars su...

What do we see when we watch reality television? In True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us, the sociologist and TV lover Danielle J. Lindemann ...

For the first 70 years of television, broadcasters dictated the terms of the viewing experience, deciding not only when but how much of a progra...

So the Vicar of Dibley, Father Ted and the Baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells walk into a pub More TV Vicar? gets under the dog-collar of some ...

Sociopaths are pervasive in contemporary television, from high-brow drama all the way down to cartoons - and of course the news as well. From the s...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could deliver' James Acaster'...

First aired in 1989, The Simpsons has become America's most beloved animated show. It changed the world of television, bringing to the screen a ...

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 ...

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...

Today, it is tempting to see the rise of HD television as ushering in a new era of spectacular television. Yet since its earliest days, the medium ...

In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the 'propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt' being poured into homes through...

THE NAUGHTY NINETIES: The Triumph of the American Libido examines the scandal-strafed age when our public and private lives began to blur due to th...

Look out! There''s a Snaffle about, and she''ll eat your screen as a snack! When the Snaffle arrives in the city, she just wants to ...

This book examines the translation of classical Hollywood into Disney's feature films from a Deleuzian perspective. Special Affects retells the eme...

In terms of visual impact, television has often been regarded as inferior to cinema. It has been characterised as sound-led and consumed by a distr...

From science channels and documentaries to fictional and children's programming, television brings a myriad of scientific discoveries and theories ...

Offers an important insight into the formative moments of transnational film culture in Australia Provides vibrant textual studies of under-evalua...

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

In 1997 the first episode of a new show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired. It's fair to say that following the critically panned and commercial...

International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study o...

TV antiquity explores representations of ancient Greece and Rome throughout television history. The first comprehensive overview of the swords and ...

Women remain woefully underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Negative stereotypes about women in these fields are...

Launched in 1977 by the Christian Broadcasting Service (originally associated with Pat Robertson), the ABC Family/Freeform network has gone thro...