A definitive companion exploring the original 1978-1979 Battlestar Galactica, its episodes, mythology, and cultural impa......more
In April of 2021, a small theatre in Philadelphia took a big risk: The Wilma premiered a new play called Fat Ham by a th......more
The cultural fascination with ruins is nothing new. Architects, poets and commentators like Rose Macaulay (1953), Christ......more
"Since the early days of film noir, hundreds of television programs--including pilots, series and anthology episodes--ha......more
This Routledge Television Guidebook on Television Music provides a comprehensive overview of the engagement between musi......more
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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
Since broadcast television first emerged as a serious alternative to the cinema, more people have seen films on TV than ......more
What is television’s capacity to elicit empathy? This book, Television and Empathy, brings together responses from a ran......more
Explores the show’s relaunches, critical episodes, behind-the-scenes challenges, and extended media legacy. Unbelievably......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
This book challenges the predominant framing of US television as a writer’s or producer’s medium by suggesting that tele......more
This volume demonstrates that television comedies are conduits through which we might resist normative ways of thinking ......more
Profound transformations in the ways media products are produced, distributed and consumed caused by digital technologie......more
The multimodal study on the experience of suspense and fear in horror films is part of a collaborative project funded by......more
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Through a comprehensive analysis of popular contemporary science fiction television series, this book underscores the ge......more
Go deeper into the groundbreaking Emmy-winning series with the complete, authorized scripts of Stranger Things: Season T......more
Go deeper into the groundbreaking Emmy-winning series with the complete, authorized scripts of Stranger Things: Season F......more
This book explores the changing portrayal of leading female characters in 21st-century security TV shows set behind the ......more
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Since it first hit our screens in 2013, Peaky Blinders has become a global phenomenon; Tommy Shelby is a force to be rec......more
This book explores the twenty-first century upsurge in Gothic screen media emanating from the Basque region of Northern ......more
The ultimate guide to writing a great screenplay and building a screenwriting career, from the creators of the hit podca......more
The Wit and Wisdom of Ted Lasso has many amusing quotes from the show, including many classic one-liners from Ted and th......more
Thanks to Paris, Emily’s life is about to bloom. In this book, you will find the best quotes from the first three series......more
This book offers a bold alternative to conventional screenwriting guides, empowering neurodiverse writers - and anyone s......more
This book offers a bold alternative to conventional screenwriting guides, empowering neurodiverse writers - and anyone s......more
What goes into the ideological sustenance of an illiberal capitalist democracy? Turning to the lived everyday of media p......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
The prison relies upon gruesome stories circulated as commercial media to legitimize its institutional reproduction. Thi......more
This is the first book-length study to use queer theory to understand Doctor Who. It will be of interest to students and......more
In the 21st century horror television has spread across the digital TV landscape, garnering mainstream appeal. Located w......more
A Dramatic Revinvention sheds new light on how Germans rebuilt their moral and intellectual world after the Nazi catastr......more
This book draws on four decades of vids, produced on videotape and digitally, to argue that the vid form’s creation and ......more
Explores the show’s stage plays, episodes, interviews, censorship, remakes, and historical impact. The first book to cov......more
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All generations are shaped by narratives and artifacts, but Gen Z was born into in a golden age of media. This book pair......more
Crisis and decline in the working class were frequent themes in American popular culture during the 1970s. In contrast, ......more
Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts speaks to how a transnational array of recent screen entertainments participate, th......more
This updated third edition guides you through the intricacies of budgeting and scheduling your film and video projects, ......more
This updated third edition guides you through the intricacies of budgeting and scheduling your film and video projects, ......more
This book examines Downton Abbey’s dramatic narrative and visual aesthetics to interrogate centrality of power and privi......more
Written in an accessible style, this book explores the complex future of television, across its different industries, pr......more
Written in an accessible style, this book explores the complex future of television, across its different industries, pr......more
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the first time, director Rob Reiner and cocreators Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and ......more
A look inside the TV show that watches you back In a house designed for manipulation, paranoia, and power plays, sixteen......more
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This book traces the intertextual genealogy behind Netflix’s new series Ripley, directed by Steve Zaillian, and offers a......more
This book examines the recurring phenomenon in film and television where two strikingly similar productions are released......more
Think you know Stars Hollow like the back of your coffee cup? Welcome to the unofficial, ultimate Gilmore Girls trivia b......more
This open-access volume is the first English-language study of the vibrant contemporary landscape of Italian youth-orien......more
A fun and engaging overview of the popular television series Community as the show fulfills its own prophecy of concludi......more
Claudette Colbert’s mixture of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity quickly made her one of the film industry’s mos......more
All generations are shaped by narratives and artifacts, but Gen Z was born into in a golden age of media. This book pair......more
This book delves into the vibrant and dynamic cultural landscape of Latin America, exploring the creative frictions that......more
This book provides a framework with which to critically hear multimedia. In the digital age, where streaming and social ......more
A solid investigation of the facts. I learned a lot about an interesting subject. The book is a reference for anyone who......more
A perfect gift for Downton Abbey fans, this official film companion gives an unprecedented look at the art and making of......more
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This book examines the extent to which the practices of television’s past are shaping its online future. Challenging ind......more
Marypause is part reflection, part painful, part comical memoir exploring my whole physical life as a woman and young gi......more
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Sioux’s harrowing reality TV ordeal cuts deep, and her subsequent self-assurance is e......more
This book examines how contemporary TV series reflect and address social issues, power dynamics, and ideological perspec......more
"Score a front-row seat for the thrilling story of the icons and i conoclasts that revolutionized professional wrestling......more
Roll out the red carpet: Dundee is ready for its close-up! You may not find it on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but Scotla......more
This book explores the intricate challenges screenwriters face when balancing fact and fiction in biopics. As biopics ha......more
Horrifying Children examines weird and eerie children’s television and literature via critical analysis, memoir and auto......more
Marypause is part reflection, part painful, part comical memoir exploring my whole physical life as a woman and young gi......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
What happened to the 1960s ideas of machine art, cybernetic art, algorithmic revolution , and the hopes for a democratiz......more
By examining intersections of the sacred and the secular in the autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979), his televi......more
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This book critically examines the cultural, religious, and linguistic contestations within Kannywood, the Hausa-language......more
This book offers a historical and comparative overview of public interventions in European film industries--from Scandin......more
In a world of increasingly sophisticated AI, the relationship between creator and creation has shifted. Robot lovers coe......more
"A wildly entertaining book by one of the most obsessed and informed fans on the planet of TV icon Johnny Carson, settin......more
Peter Sellers first pratfalled onto the silver screen as the bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau in 1963’s The Pink Pant......more
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This book gives Laugier’s response as a philosopher-viewer to selected TV shows from the last 20 years, and their relati......more
This book offers a step-by-step exploration of a producer’s responsibilities within the context of creating a TV series ......more
This book offers a step-by-step exploration of a producer’s responsibilities within the context of creating a TV series ......more
Local Television: Histories, Communities, and Aesthetics offers critical analyses of an expansive range of practices, po......more
Local TV offers critical analyses of an expansive range of practices, policies, and debates in local television historie......more
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This book coins the term dis/honesty to define the moments in which dishonesty is invoked by disability, and vice versa.......more
This book coins the term dis/honesty to define the moments in which dishonesty is invoked by disability, and vice versa.......more
Embark on a voyage through a chronological history of anime that explores both the marquee cinematic touchstones and end......more
Step behind the scenes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in this unofficial and unauthorized companion for SVU superf......more
Christmas has long been portrayed as a time of joy, reflection and resolution, balancing sentiment with spectacle. Capit......more
Dust off your dancing shoes, Strictly is back! Featuring exclusive interviews with the celebs, judges, presenters and pr......more