Television Books

New and Published Books

1. Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia

   Shocking Chic

   Edited by Helena Goscilo, Vlad Strukov

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality. The book demonstrates how the process of ‘celebrification’ in...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Transnational Television History

   A Comparative Approach

   Edited by Andreas Fickers, Catherine Johnson

   Although television has developed into a major agent of the transnational and global flow of information and entertainment, television historiography and scholarship largely remains a national endeavour, partly due to the fact that television has been understood as a tool for the creation of...

   Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge
3. Audiovisual Regulation under Pressure

   Comparative Cases from North America and Europe

   By Thomas Gibbons, Peter Humphreys

   In the face of globalization and new media technologies, can policy makers and regulators withstand deregulatory pressures on the ‘cultural policy toolkit’ for television? This comparative study provides an interdisciplinary investigation of trends in audiovisual regulation, with the focus on...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
4. Global Television Formats

   Understanding Television Across Borders

   Edited by Tasha Oren, Sharon Shahaf

   For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
5. Raymond Williams on Television (Routledge Revivals)

   Selected Writings

   By Raymond Williams

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First Published in 1989, this work is based around a monthly TV column which Raymond Williams wrote for The Listener between 1968 and 1972. Those were the years of the Prague Spring, of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, of fighting in Cambodia and Northern Ireland, of hope for McGovern in the United...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
6. New Documentary

   A Critical Introduction

   New Documentary: A Critical Introduction provides a comprehensive account of the last two decades of documentary filmmaking in Britain, the US and Europe. Stella Bruzzi's engaging textbook discusses key genres, filmmakers, and issues for the study of non-fiction film and television, including:* key...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
7. Branding Television

   By Catherine Johnson

   Series: Comedia

   Branding Television examines why and how the UK and US television industries have turned towards branding as a strategy in response to the rise of satellite, cable and digital television, and new media, such as the internet and mobile phone. This is the first book to offer a sustained critical...

   Published October 19th 2011 by Routledge
8. Legitimating Television

   Media Convergence and Cultural Status

   By Michael Z Newman, Elana Levine

   Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a...

   Published September 7th 2011 by Routledge
9. Media, Culture and Society in Malaysia

   Edited by Yeoh Seng Guan

   Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

   This book presents a comprehensive, full-length analysis of the uses of media and communication technologies by different social actors in Malaysia. Unlike other studies of the media in Malaysia which concentrate on "political economy" or "freedom of the media" approaches, this book focuses on the...

   Published August 31st 2011 by Routledge
10. Watching Sport

    Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion

    By Stephen Mumford

    Series: Ethics and Sport

    Do we watch sport for pure dumb entertainment? While some people might do so, Stephen Mumford argues that it can be watched in other ways. Sport can be both a subject of high aesthetic values and a valid source for our moral education. The philosophy of sport has tended to focus on participation,...

    Published August 29th 2011 by Routledge