Media and Communication Research

New and Key Titles 2013

Routledge Advances in Television Studies

  1. Television and Postfeminist Housekeeping

    No Time for Mother

    By Elizabeth Nathanson

    Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies

    In this book, Nathanson examines how contemporary American television and associated digital media depict women’s everyday lives as homemakers, career women, and mothers. Her focus on American popular culture from the 1990s through the present reveals two extremes: narratives about women who cannot...

    Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture

    By Ethan Thompson

    Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies

    In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current...

    Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge