Routledge Advances in Television Studies

Edited by Adrian Schober, Debbie Olson

This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the changing ideas about children and childhood in the United States. Each chapter connects relevant events, attitudes, or anxieties in American culture to an analysis of children or childhood in select American television…

Hardback – 2018-06-26
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Routledge Advances in Television Studies

Edited by Paola Brembilla, Ilaria A. De Pascalis

Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes provides a new framework—the metaphor of the narrative ecosystem—for the analysis of serial television narratives. Contributors use this metaphor to address the ever-expanding and evolving structure of narratives far beyond their usual spatial and…

Hardback – 2018-06-01
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Routledge Advances in Television Studies

Edited by Kimberly Jackson, Linda Belau

Characterized as it is by its interest in and engagement with the supernatural, psycho-social formations, the gothic, and issues of identity and subjectivity, horror has long functioned as an allegorical device for interrogations into the seamier side of cultural foundations. This collection,…

Hardback – 2017-11-17
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Routledge Advances in Television Studies

By Margrethe Bruun Vaage

The antihero prevails in recent American drama television series. Characters such as mobster kingpin Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), meth cook and gangster-in-the-making Walter White (Breaking Bad) and serial killer Dexter Morgan (Dexter) are not morally good, so how do these television series make us…

Paperback – 2017-10-12
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Routledge Advances in Television Studies

By Morgan Genevieve Blue

Since the early 2000s, Disney Channel has been dominated by original live-action programming popular among tween girls. The shows’ successes rely not only on their popularity among girl audiences, but also on the development of star personae by girl performers, such as Raven-Symoné, Miley Cyrus,…

Hardback – 2017-03-10
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Routledge Advances in Television Studies

By Shannon Wells-Lassagne

As American television continues to garner considerable esteem, rivalling the seventh art in its "cinematic" aesthetics and the complexity of its narratives, one aspect of its development has been relatively unexamined. While film has long acknowledged its tendency to adapt, an ability that…

Hardback – 2017-02-07
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Routledge Advances in Television Studies

Edited by Ruth McElroy

Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the medium’s most popular genres and places it within its historical and industrial context. The television crime drama has proved itself capable of numerous generic reinventions and continues to enjoy some of the highest viewing figures.…

Hardback – 2016-10-25
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Routledge Advances in Television Studies

Edited by Betty Kaklamanidou, Margaret Tally

Bringing together well-established scholars of media, political science, sociology, and film to investigate the representation of Washington politics on U.S. television from the mid-2000s to the present, this volume offers stimulating perspectives on the status of representations of contemporary US…

Hardback – 2016-10-18
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Routledge Advances in Television Studies

By Ted Nannicelli

Contemporary television has been marked by such exceptional programming that it is now common to hear claims that TV has finally become an art. In Appreciating the Art of Television, Nannicelli contends that televisual art is not a recent development, but has in fact existed for a long time. Yet…

Hardback – 2016-10-10
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Routledge Advances in Television Studies

By Elizabeth Nathanson

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…

Paperback – 2016-08-19
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Routledge Advances in Television Studies

Edited by Anna Froula, Stacy Takacs

Anna Froula is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English at East Carolina University, USA Stacy Takacs is Associate Professor and Director of American Studies at Oklahoma State University, USA…

Hardback – 2016-03-21
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Routledge Advances in Television Studies

By Ethan Thompson

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…

Paperback – 2013-02-14
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Routledge Advances in Television Studies