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The Persistence of Television examines more than 60 years of television to identify the elements that have entertained a......more

Published in time for the 45th anniversary of the initial airing of Roots, this historical analysis integrates culture c......more

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The actors who played Topanga, Shawn, and Eric on Boy Meets World expand on their hit podcast, Pod Meets World, in a nos......more

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Television in the 1950s was home to a stunning lineup of heroic personae. They were policemen, private eyes, Old West la......more

Go inside the writers’ room and onto the set of the honorary queen of comfort shows--with exclusive interviews from the ......more

In the bestselling traditions of Seinfeldia and Top of the Rock comes a fascinating and unauthorized deep dive into the ......more

How does serial drama earn, keep, and reward our attention for so long--over episodes, seasons, months, and years? While......more

Entertainment was never just entertainment... It was instruction. From the sleek hallways of Constance Billard to the ra......more

A look inside the TV show that watches you back In a house designed for manipulation, paranoia, and power plays, sixteen......more

Since the 1950s, television flooded the American soundscape with not just pictures but sounds, a constant aural stream i......more

Since the 1950s, television flooded the American soundscape with not just pictures but sounds, a constant aural stream i......more

Television Is Where You Find It is a revelatory journey into the overlooked world of feature filmmakers who brought thei......more

To watch television is to watch bodies in motion: walking, dancing, cooking, fighting, running, playing, travelling, and......more

Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics: Rebooting Middlebrow Culture deals with the network TV reboots of Hawaii Five......more

Hermes Press continues its long association with the original Gothic suspense television series "Dark Shadows" with the ......more

An Atria Book. Atria Books has a great book for every reader....more

The Total Black Experience is the first book to chronicle the history and social significance of Positively Black, one o......more

The Total Black Experience is the first book to chronicle the history and social significance of Positively Black, one o......more

From the creator of the highly popular Kardashian Kolloquium comes a new media manifesto for the TikTok age, blending th......more

New York City’s downtown scene of the 1970s and 1980s is synonymous with underground film, video, and performance art. M......more

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A pictorial look at Jonathan Frid on the set of Dark Shadows as well as photographs of his stage career from his persona......more

Irony and Sincerity in Contemporary Television: Playing Nice in Aesthetics and Politics argues that the 21st-century pol......more

The emerging field of historical game studies focuses on the representations of the past in digital games. One aspect, h......more

This book analyzes, for the first time, innovative Mexican television drama of the current decade. It provides an accoun......more

On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London’s Fr......more

An exploration of how nonlinear storytelling opens a post-Newtonian reality and changes both the hero’s journey and how ......more

An exploration of how nonlinear storytelling opens a post-Newtonian reality and changes both the hero’s journey and how ......more

Black and Blue TV explores the ways television productions have responded to the Black Lives Matter movement. Television......more

Across Time and Space is a journey through all televised Doctor Who episodes. It began as a blog. Doctor Who fan Tony Cr......more

This book offers a vivid account of how Italian cinema circulated and was received in the United States from Neorealism ......more

This book offers an account of how the global popularity of the Nordic Noir wave of television crime drama such as The K......more

A nostalgic and personal journey through the golden age of British variety club entertainment, by one of its last surviv......more

Dominicans are the fastest growing Latino/a group in the United States and have long been ignored by scholars and popula......more

This book offers a compelling look at how television censorship in China works not just as top-down control, but as inte......more

In the league table of the funniest universities in the world, Cambridge wears the crown. Home of Britain’s oldest stude......more

A nostalgic look back at fifty years of children’s television from the beloved -- Polka Dot Door, Mr. Dressup, Today’s S......more

The first-ever retrospective of the hit 1970s and ’80s television show, featuring exclusive interviews with its creators......more

When teenagers emerged as a unique television audience in the early nineties, the way stories were told on screen change......more

In this book, Alison Wielgus analyzes post-network female detective television through the lenses of genre, industry, an......more

The cultural fascination with ruins is nothing new. Architects, poets and commentators like Rose Macaulay (1953), Christ......more

This Routledge Television Guidebook on Television Music provides a comprehensive overview of the engagement between musi......more

This Routledge Television Guidebook on Television Music provides a comprehensive overview of the engagement between musi......more

TV and Caricature explores how the traditional art form of caricature is adapted for the medium of television. The book ......more

TV and Caricature explores how the traditional art form of caricature is adapted for the medium of television. The book ......more

Isabelle Hesse identifies an important relational turn in British and German literature, TV drama, and film published an......more

Ever since HBO-BBC’s Rome burst onto screens in 2005, Rome has appeared on television screens in a variety of dramatic p......more

Back in print: the playful and personal memoir of Meredith Willson’s creative tribulations and triumphs before The Music......more

This book explores the twenty-first century upsurge in Gothic screen media emanating from the Basque region of Northern ......more

This book draws on four decades of vids, produced on videotape and digitally, to argue that the vid form’s creation and ......more

Media philosophy can only be found and revealed in media themselves. The essays collected in this volume thus approach t......more

Through the lens of transmedia studies, Understanding The Simpsons traces the franchise’s trajectory, exploring how one ......more

A look inside the TV show that watches you back In a house designed for manipulation, paranoia, and power plays, sixteen......more

Claudette Colbert’s mixture of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity quickly made her one of the film industry’s mos......more

"Filled with hilarious stories and sweet observations, Welcome to Pawnee is a book for any Parks and Rec fan. It’s funny......more

A solid investigation of the facts. I learned a lot about an interesting subject. The book is a reference for anyone who......more

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This book examines how contemporary TV series reflect and address social issues, power dynamics, and ideological perspec......more

Horrifying Children examines weird and eerie children’s television and literature via critical analysis, memoir and auto......more

Blast off to the Space Age, when the future was always bright! Futuristic is a full-color hardcover about a time of limi......more

This book offers a historical and comparative overview of public interventions in European film industries--from Scandin......more

This book gives Laugier’s response as a philosopher-viewer to selected TV shows from the last 20 years, and their relati......more

Local Television: Histories, Communities, and Aesthetics offers critical analyses of an expansive range of practices, po......more

Step behind the scenes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in this unofficial and unauthorized companion for SVU superf......more

Embark on a voyage through a chronological history of anime that explores both the marquee cinematic touchstones and end......more

Christmas has long been portrayed as a time of joy, reflection and resolution, balancing sentiment with spectacle. Capit......more

The anthology brings together various approaches and contexts to Twin Peaks, addressing the show’s unique production and......more

The first book to explore the hold of the TV series on ordinary life from a philosophical and ethical perspective....more

This affectionate adaptation of a telenovela offered much-needed representation of Latinx lives on US television. Jane t......more