History & Criticism

One of CBS's most successful shows, The Big Bang Theory's mix of humor, nerdy protagonists, sexy female leads and quirky characters have brought the series international acclaim. Like Friends before it, The Big Bang Theory is touted as the show for the...

What comes to mind when you think about superheroes? Strength, bravery, and heroism are common answers. However, superheroes do not only have physical strength, but they also have mental strengths and skills. Superheroes tend to have intelligence and...

Since its inception in November 1963, the British science fiction television series Doctor Who has exerted an enormous impact on the world of science fiction (over 1,500 books have been written about the show). The series follows the adventures of a...

Beyond the Box gives students and couch potatoes alike a better understanding of what it means to watch television in an era of profound technological change. Charts the revolution in television viewing that is currently underway in living rooms across...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190071257Author Rashna Wadia RichardsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630450151Author Joel AllegrettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 508g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630450175Author Joel AllegrettiFormat HardbackImprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 662g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764199Author Ernest MathijsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 676g

For the first 70 years of television, broadcasters dictated the terms of the viewing experience, deciding not only when but how much of a program an audience could watch. Binge-watching destroyed that model by placing control of the experience in the...

First broadcast on HBO in 1998, Sex and the City quickly became a mainstream success. Following four women who navigate the promise and peril of social, political, and sexual relationships in New York, the series caused a stir in the popular media...

Television 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...

We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815637851Author David DiffrientFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University Press

In late-sixteenth-century London, the commercial theaters undertook a novel experiment, fueling a fashion for plays that trafficked in the contemporary urban scene. But beyond the stage's representing the everyday activities of the expanding metropolis,...

Our understanding of history is often mediated by popular culture, and television series set in the past have provided some of our most indelible images of previous times. Yet such historical television programs always reveal just as much about the era...

Instead of making a scapegoat of television as the cause of crime on the streets of the USA, stupidity in its schools, and spectacle rather than substance in its government, this challenge to conventional ideas about television sees inside the box an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474480031Author Paul GraingeFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 138g

A fascinating deep-dive into how shows from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The Equalizer have changed the way women are portrayed on television.The last three decades of television have been a formative and progressive time for female characters, as...

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The author of the acclaimed Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them) brings "her singular sensibility, her genius for language, her love of our deeply imperfect world" (Karen Karbo, author of In Praise of Difficult Women) to this insightful...

From mindfulness in schools to meditation apps, mental health is bursting out of the psychiatrist's chair and into our everyday conversations. As awareness of mental health increases, so does its predominance in popular culture, which makes for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978813823Author Jim CullenFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g

A comprehensive and compelling examination of one of cable television's most innovative and popular networks, The Essential HBO Reader looks at every aspect of HBO's development as a corporation, a creative voice, and a brand. The authors explore the...

Now if I just remembered where I put that original TV play device--the universal remote control . . .Television is a global industry, a medium of representation, an architectural component of space, and a nearly universal frame of reference for viewers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474479790Author David Martin-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

For decades after its invention, television was considered by many to be culturally deficient when compared to cinema, as analyses rooted in communication studies and the social sciences tended to focus primarily on television's negative impact on...

Critically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced, the HBO series The Wire (2002-2008) is a landmark event in television history, offering a raw and dramatically compelling vision of the teeming drug trade and the vitality of life in...

First 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...

Every artist has a dream project an enterprise that he or she has continuously taken up but never completed. Via archived notes and drafts, a retrospective reconstitution of such projects can serve as a key for better understanding the authors artistic...

Buffy 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...

Current affairs television in the UK, in more than half a century of programmes, has set out to tell us something we didn't know, treating its audience as citizens with the right to demand that 'something must be done'. Over their 36 year history, the...

Few trends have had as much impact on television as formats have in recent years. Long confined to the fringes of the TV industry, they have risen to prominence since the late 1990s. Today, they are a global business with hundreds of programmes adapted...

Mothers on American television takes an in-depth look at how motherhood is represented on some of the most popular television series produced this century. Adopting a feminist, Marxist, cultural studies and psychoanalytical approach, the book offers a...

Television Drama offers an account of British television drama from its origins in live studio drama in the prewar and immediate postwar years, through the Golden Age of the single play in the 1960s and 1970s, to its convergence with an emerging British...

In November 2007, Channel 4 will be twenty-five years old. Today, such TV events as the 'Big Brother/Jade Goody Affair' have put the channel itself at the centre of public debate. Yet during its foundation years on British screens, Channel 4 was seen as...

This "one-of-a-kind" (Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author) cultural history of the beloved nineties sitcom that launched Will Smith to superstardom-The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air-is perfect for fans of Seinfeldia and Best Wishes, Warmest...

This book explores the formative period of British television drama, concentrating on the years 1936-55. It examines the continuities and changes of early television drama, and the impact this had upon the subsequent 'golden age'. In particular, it...

It is called, with deceptive simplicity, The Village. It is the world of tomorrow, or today. A man known only as Number 6 enters its storybook-like confines. He will learn, over and over again, that inside it there is no freedom, and from it there is no...

When Northern Exposure first aired on television in 1990, viewers were introduced to the small fictional town of Cicely, Alaska, and its quirky yet endearing citizens. During its run, Northern Exposure received critical acclaim, winning two Peabody...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845839499Author Mark WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Telos Publishing LtdPublisher Telos Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...