TV & society books

Drawing from 20 interviews with credited episode writers, key show-runners, and Black gay men, The Generic Closet...  Read More >>

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This book examines television drama in the age of streaming—a time when television has been reshaped for national...  Read More >>

This book shows how the horror genre has adapted itself to the transformation of contemporary American politics...  Read More >>

Australian Television is a comprehensive study of television in Australia, covering the cultural and institutional...  Read More >>

A comprehensive introduction to the television industry in Australia.  Read More >>

This book offers an introductory guide to sports tv, its history in the United States, the genre’s defining characteristics,...  Read More >>

From early examples such as Star Trek and Sapphire and Steel to more contemporary shows including Life on Mars and...  Read More >>

This book offers an introductory guide to sports tv, its history in the United States, the genre’s defining characteristics,...  Read More >>

Television and film have always been connected, but recent years have seen them overlapping, collaborating, and...  Read More >>

Television and film have always been connected, but recent years have seen them overlapping, collaborating, and...  Read More >>

Being Mara Brock Akil examines the body of work of the showrunner who produced Girlfriends, The Game, Being Mary...  Read More >>

This book draws on a multi-method study of film and television narratives of global criminal networks to explore...  Read More >>

This book proposes that the theory and practice of transmedia storytelling must be re-considered from a social impact...  Read More >>

Difficult Women on Television Drama analyses select case studies from international TV dramas to examine the unresolved...  Read More >>

'All men must die': or 'Valar Morghulis', as the traditional Essos greeting is rendered into High Valyrian. And...  Read More >>

Looking for a New England covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners  Read More >>

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Examines the changing representations of evil on screen in the context of the commonness, normalization, aestheticization,...  Read More >>

Examines the changing representations of evil on screen in the context of the commonness, normalization, aestheticization,...  Read More >>

This intellectually vibrant volume is the first collection to...  Read More >>

This book examines the process of transnationalization of Latin American television industries.  Read More >>

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This book is a research conducted on the pan-Arab TV station al-Mayadeen. It investigates a growing political trend...  Read More >>

The increased use of digital politics by citizens, groups, and governments over the last 25 years carried the promise...  Read More >>