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A Companion to Television by Janet Wasko 9781405198776
RRP: $59.28$53.03A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television's current incarnation, and predict... -
Miami Vice by James Lyons 9781405178112
RRP: $87.66$75.66Miami Vice captures the glitter and glamour embodied by Crockett and Tubbs and offers students an anatomy of a ground-breaking work in the police procedural genre. Explores Miami Vice 's combination of disparate influences (MTV, film noir, soap opera,... -
The Small Screen: How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age by Brian L. Ott 9781405161558
RRP: $43.80$38.67Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s. * Examines changes that took place in programming, such as the rapid adoption of... -
Television in Transition: The Life and Afterlife of the Narrative Action Hero by Shawn Shimpach 9781405185356
RRP: $42.51$37.59Combining an exciting methodology alongside high-interest case studies, Television in Transition offers students of television a guide to a medium that has weathered the challenges of first-run syndication, a multi-channel universe, netlets, major media... -
The Small Screen: How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age by Brian L. Ott 9781405161541
RRP: $105.72$91.94Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s. * Examines changes that took place in programming, such as the rapid adoption of... -
Television in the Multichannel Age: A Brief History of Cable Television by Megan Mullen 9781405149693
RRP: $109.59$95.24Television in the Multichannel Age is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to the history of multichannel television in all its forms - from cable to direct-to-home satellite and beyond. Chapter by chapter, the book traces the evolution of cable... -
Defining Visions: Television and the American Experience in the 20th Century by Mary Ann Watson 9781405170543
RRP: $121.20$105.61Defining Visions is a powerful narrative social history that examines television's rise as the great "certifying agent" in American life. This newly updated and fully revised edition extends its coverage to the end of the 20th century. It... -
Defining Visions: Television and the American Experience in the 20th Century by Mary Ann Watson 9781405170536
RRP: $43.80$38.67Defining Visions is a powerful narrative social history that examines television's rise as the great "certifying agent" in American life. This newly updated and fully revised edition extends its coverage to the end of the 20th century. It defines the... -
Television Truths: Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture by John Hartley 9781405169806
RRP: $109.59$95.76Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume, written by one of television's best known scholars, offers a new take... -
Better Living through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship by James Hay 9781405134415
RRP: $42.51$37.59Combining cutting-edge theories of culture and government with programming examples-including Todd TV, Survivor, and American Idol-Better Living through Reality TV moves beyond the established concerns of political economy and cultural studies to... -
Better Living through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship by James Hay 9781405134408
RRP: $109.59$95.24Combining cutting-edge theories of culture and government with programming examples-including Todd TV, Survivor, and American Idol-Better Living through Reality TV moves beyond the established concerns of political economy and cultural studies to... -
A History of Broadcasting in the United States by Douglas Gomery 9781405122825
RRP: $50.25$44.63This powerful history of broadcasting in the United States goes beyond traditional accounts to explore the field's important social, political, and cultural ramifications. It examines how broadcasting has been organized as a business throughout much of... -
A History of Broadcasting in the United States by Douglas Gomery 9781405122818
RRP: $121.20$105.61This powerful history of broadcasting in the United States goes beyond traditional accounts to explore the field's important social, political, and cultural ramifications. It examines how broadcasting has been organized as a business throughout much of... -
I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism by Patricia Pender 9781350257610
$28.39Buffy the Vampire Slayer gave contemporary TV viewers an exhilarating alternative to the tired cultural trope of a hapless, attractive blonde woman victimized by a murderous male villain. With its strong, capable heroine, witty dialogue, and a creator... -
Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture by Michael Kackman 9780816638291
RRP: $20.63$17.30In Citizen Spy, Michael Kackman investigates how media depictions of the slick, smart, and resolute spy have been embedded in the American imagination. Looking at secret agents on television and the relationships among networks, producers, government... -
Television and the Embodied Viewer: Affect and Meaning in the Digital Age by Marsha F. Cassidy 9781138240766
RRP: $174.15$151.29Television and the Embodied Viewer appraises the medium's capacity to evoke sensations and bodily feelings in the viewer. Presenting a fresh approach to television studies, the book examines the sensate force of onscreen bodies and illustrates how TV's... -
A Companion to Reality Television by Laurie Ouellette 9781119325192
RRP: $61.86$54.41International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and... -
Gladiators in Suits: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Representation in Scandal by Simone Puff 9780815636403
RRP: $43.80$27.46One of the most popular shows to come out of Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes's production company, is ABC's political drama Scandal (2012-18)-a series whose tremendous success and marketing savvy led LA Times critic Mary McNamara to hail it as ""the... -
Gladiators in Suits: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Representation in Scandal by Simone Puff 9780815636229
RRP: $89.01$55.01One of the most popular shows to come out of Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes's production company, is ABC's political drama Scandal (2012-18)-a series whose tremendous success and marketing savvy led LA Times critic Mary McNamara to hail it as ""the... -
Bright Signals: A History of Color Television by Susan Murray 9780822371212
RRP: $125.13$40.05First demonstrated in 1928, color television remained little more than a novelty for decades as the industry struggled with the considerable technical, regulatory, commercial, and cultural complications posed by the medium. Only fully adopted by all... -
TV Socialism by Aniko Imre 9780822360858
RRP: $125.13$100.13In TV Socialism, Aniko Imre provides an innovative history of television in socialist Europe during and after the Cold War. Rather than uniform propaganda programming, Imre finds rich evidence of hybrid aesthetic and economic practices, including... -
The Sopranos by Dana Polan 9780822343929
RRP: $118.68$95.21"In its original run on HBO, The Sopranos mattered, and it matters still," Dana Polan asserts early in this analysis of the hit show, in which he sets out to clarify the impact and importance of the series in both its cultural and... -
The TV Crime Drama by Sue Turnbull 9780748640881
RRP: $116.10$105.74This title maps the development of the crime drama on international television. The television crime drama has been a constant of the television landscape since it first migrated from film and radio onto the small screen in the 1950s. Since then, from... -
Social Issues in Television Fiction by Lesley Henderson 9780748625314
RRP: $116.10$105.74Why are some controversial issues covered in TV soaps and dramas and not others? How are decisions really made 'behind the scenes'? How do programme makers push boundaries without losing viewers? What do audiences take away from their viewing experience?... -
Popular Television in Authoritarian Europe by Peter Goddard 9780719082399
RRP: $109.65$77.62This lively and ground-breaking collection brings together work on forms of popular television within the authoritarian regimes of Europe after World War Two. Ten chapters based on new and original research examine approaches to programming and... -
Swashbucklers: The Costume Adventure Series by James Chapman 9780719088810
RRP: $109.65$77.62Swashbucklers is the first study of one of the most popular and enduring genres in television history - the costume adventure series. It maps the history of swashbuckling television from its origins in the 1950s to the present. It places the various... -
Radio, Television and Modern Life by Paddy Scannell 9780631198741
RRP: $145.71$129.23Written by one of the foremost and widely--respected writers in the field, this volume sheds new light on the forms and premises of the communicative experience. In doing so, it challenges the theoretical positions of marxist and "political economy... -
Theatre, Education and the Making of Meanings: Art or Instrument? by Anthony Jackson 9780719065422
RRP: $103.20$73.65This book is a study of theatre's educational role during the 20th and the first years of the 21st centuries. It examines the variety of ways the theatre's educational potential has been harnessed and theorised, the claims made for its value and the... -
Paving the Empire Road: BBC Television and Black Britons by Darrell M. Newton 9780719081675
RRP: $109.65$77.62Beginning in the 1930s and moving into the post millennium, this book provides a historical analysis of the policies and practices established by the BBC as it attempted to assist white Britons in adjusting to the presence of African-Caribbeans. Among... -
Television Mockumentary: Reflexivity, Satire and a Call to Play by Craig Hight 9780719073168
RRP: $103.20$73.13Mockumentary is now an established part of the spectrum of television styles, with both deep roots in television history and a key part of innovations in the sitcom genre since the 1990s. Tracing the development of mockumentary series within the broader... -
Entertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s by Su Holmes 9780719077913
RRP: $109.65$77.62Entertaining television challenges the idea that the BBC in the 1950s was elitist and 'staid', upholding Reithian values in a paternalistic, even patronising way. By focusing on a number of (often controversial) programme case studies - such as the soap... -
Joss Whedon by Matthew Pateman 9780719077814
RRP: $25.79$18.73This book assesses Joss Whedon's contribution to US television and popular culture. Examining everything from his earliest work to his most recent tweets and activist videos, it explores his complex and contradictory roles as both cult outsider and... -
Television in the Antenna Age: A Concise History by David Marc 9780631215448
RRP: $41.22$37.59"Television in the Antenna Age" is a brief, accessible, and engaging overview of the medium's history and development in the US. Integrating three major concerns - television as an industry, a technology, and an art - the book is a basic primer... -
Television in the Antenna Age: A Concise History by David Marc 9780631215431
RRP: $127.65$110.59"Television in the Antenna Age" is a brief, accessible, and engaging overview of the medium's history and development in the US. Integrating three major concerns - television as an industry, a technology, and an art - the book is a basic primer... -
German Television: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives by Larson Powell 9781785338373
RRP: $36.06$29.13Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambitious volume, the first in English on the subject,... -
German Television: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives by Larson Powell 9781785331121
RRP: $127.71$102.98Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambitious volume, the first in English on the subject,... -
Television's Moment: Sitcom Audiences and the Sixties Cultural Revolution by Christina von Hodenberg 9781782386995
RRP: $138.03$111.68Television was one of the forces shaping the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when a blockbuster TV series could reach up to a third of a country's population. This book explores television's impact on social change by comparing three sitcoms... -
Group Identities on French and British Television by Emily Vaughan Roberts 9781571817938
RRP: $127.71$102.98Advances in audiovisual technology, most notably the advent of the popular usage of digital technology in the last few years, have altered the face of popular television. Thanks to cable, satellite and now digital technology, television broadcasts can... -
Christoph Schlingensief's Realist Theater by Ilinca Todorut 9781032189987
RRP: $50.30$45.90This book is the first study of the prolific German filmmaker, performance artist, and TV host Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010) that identifies him as a practitioner of realism in the theater and lays out how theatrical realism can offer an aesthetic... -
Television Broadcasting in Contemporary France and Britain by Michael Scriven 9781571819468
RRP: $127.71$102.98The importance of contemporary television broadcasting for the shaping and development of national cultures and identities is increasingly evident. Television as the privileged medium for the dissemination of information and for mass entertainment has...