TV & Society

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...