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TV and Cars offers a compelling lens on television in a mobile media era. Cars are vehicles for television, a fixture of the shows and ads that drive TV. In this original approach to contemporary television, Paul Grainge looks beyond questions of speed, spoilers and cylinders to explore the small screen intimacy of cars - the way people interact, sing and dwell in the habitat of automobiles. Considering the industrial, cultural and aesthetic relation between TV and cars, Grainge examines how comedy entertainment such as sitcoms, talk shows, web series and vlogs have been drawn to the practice of 'passengering'. Getting under the bonnet of popular 'drive-and-talk' series like The Trip, Carpool Karaoke, Peter Kay's Car Share and Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, this engaging interdisciplinary excursion finds new ways to look at both television and the social life of cars.

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"In this compelling new book, Paul Grainge uses his closely-focused topic to map out an exciting range of fresh directions and connected paths. He expresses the importance of his diverse central case studies through their relationship to wider cultural and industrial contexts, in turn providing a captivating and authoritative account of the contemporary television landscape. The result is an engaging, intricate and lively work that will be essential reading in television studies for years to come. --Dr. James Walters, University of Birmingham This small book engages with big ideas in an exciting realm only recently being discovered by researchers, and it does so with writerly style and broad scholarly learning. --James Miller ""The Journal of Transport History"""

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Paul Grainge, Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of Nottingham.

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