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Routledge Advances in Television Studies


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This series presents cutting-edge developments and debates within the field of television studies. It covers a variety of topics, theories, and cases from around the world.

 

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Television Directors, Race, and Gender Written Out of the Story

Television Directors, Race, and Gender: Written Out of the Story

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Jonathan J. Cavallero
August 09, 2024

This book challenges the predominant framing of US television as a writer’s or producer’s medium by suggesting that television directors are a vital component of TV artistry. Looking beyond a perspective that favors the narrative and economic aspects of television but undervalues the medium’s ...

Television Sitcom and Cultural Crisis

Television Sitcom and Cultural Crisis

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Holly Willson Holladay, Chandler L. Classen
June 21, 2024

This volume demonstrates that television comedies are conduits through which we might resist normative ways of thinking about cultural crises.  By drawing on Gramscian notion of crisis and the understanding that crises are overlapping, interconnected, and mutually constitutive, the essays in this ...

Television’s Streaming Wars

Television’s Streaming Wars

1st Edition

Edited By Arienne Ferchaud, Jennifer M. Proffitt
November 03, 2023

This volume addresses contemporary debates and trends regarding the production and distribution, content, and audience engagement with the television streaming industry. The book interrogates the economics and structure of the industry, questions the types and diversity of content perpetuated on ...

Global Trafficking Networks on Film and Television Hollywood’s Cartel Wars

Global Trafficking Networks on Film and Television: Hollywood’s Cartel Wars

1st Edition

By César Albarrán-Torres
September 25, 2023

This book draws on a multi-method study of film and television narratives of global criminal networks to explore the links between audiovisual media, criminal networks and global audiences in the age of digital content distribution. Mapping out media representations of the ongoing war on drugs in ...

Quality Telefantasy How US Quality TV Brought Zombies, Dragons and Androids into the Mainstream

Quality Telefantasy: How US Quality TV Brought Zombies, Dragons and Androids into the Mainstream

1st Edition

By Andrew Lynch
September 25, 2023

This book explores the relatively new genre of ‘Quality Telefantasy’ and how it has broadened TV taste cultures by legitimating and mainstreaming fantastical content. It also shows how the rising popularity of this genre marks a distinct and significant development in what kinds of TV are ...

Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing Family Watch Together TV

Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing: Family Watch Together TV

1st Edition

By Djoymi Baker, Jessica Balanzategui, Diana Sandars
July 04, 2023

Focusing on Netflix’s child and family-orientated platform exclusive content, this book offers the first exploration of a controversial genre cycle of dark science fiction, horror, and fantasy television under Netflix’s "Family Watch Together TV" tag. Using a ground-breaking mix of methods ...

Post-heritage Perspectives on British Period Drama Television

Post-heritage Perspectives on British Period Drama Television

1st Edition

By Will Abbiss
June 09, 2023

Drawing upon the existing scholarship of period drama and emerging research into new media ecologies, instigated by television streaming services such as Netflix, this book establishes a critical framework for understanding the representation of nationhood and cultural identity in television drama....

Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television

Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television

1st Edition

Edited By Ted Nannicelli, Héctor J. Pérez
May 31, 2023

This book posits an interconnection between the ways in which contemporary television serials cue cognitive operations, solicit emotional responses, and elicit aesthetic appreciation. The chapters explore a number of questions including: How do the particularities of form and style in contemporary...

Difficult Women on Television Drama The Gender Politics Of Complex Women In Serial Narratives

Difficult Women on Television Drama: The Gender Politics Of Complex Women In Serial Narratives

1st Edition

By Isabel Pinedo
May 31, 2023

Difficult Women on Television Drama analyses select case studies from international TV dramas to examine the unresolved feminist issues they raise or address: equal labor force participation, the demand for sexual pleasure and freedom, opposition to sexual and domestic violence, and the need for ...

Speculative Television and the Doing and Undoing of Religion

Speculative Television and the Doing and Undoing of Religion

1st Edition

By Gregory Erickson
September 16, 2022

This book explores the concept that, as participation in traditional religion declines, the complex and fantastical worlds of speculative television have become the place where theological questions and issues are negotiated, understood, and formed. From bodies, robots, and souls to purgatories and...

A European Television Fiction Renaissance Premium Production Models and Transnational Circulation

A European Television Fiction Renaissance: Premium Production Models and Transnational Circulation

1st Edition

Edited By Luca Barra, Massimo Scaglioni
August 01, 2022

This book maps the landscape of contemporary European premium television fiction, offering a detailed overview of both the changes in the digital production and distribution and the emergence of specific national and transnational case histories. Combining a media-production approach with a ...

Creating Reality in Factual Television The Frankenbite and Other Fakes

Creating Reality in Factual Television: The Frankenbite and Other Fakes

1st Edition

By Manfred W. Becker
August 01, 2022

Creating Reality in Factual Television analyzes the uneasy interaction between economics, culture, and professional ethics in reality and documentary television storytelling. Through the "frankenbite," an editorial tool that extracts and re-orders the salient elements or single words of a statement...

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