Comparative literature

No advertisers to please, no censors to placate, no commercial interruptions every eleven minutes, demanding cliffhangers to draw viewers back after the commercial breaks: HBO has re-written the rules of television; and the result has been nothing short of a cultural ground shift.

Secret Identities and Double Lives on Tween TV in introduces readers to the concepts of tweenhood and television (TV) tropes by providing historical and theoretical contexts and reviewing the history of TV targeted to tweens.

This book proposes that the theory and practice of transmedia storytelling must be re-considered from a social impact and community development perspective, and that time has come for a rigorous critique of the limited ways in which it has been commonly represented.

Post-Colonial English Drama is the first critical survey of contemporary Commonwealth drama.

This book offers new readings and interpretations of the non-normative narratives of 'freak show' performers in the Victorian period as they have been reimagined by contemporary fictions, museum exhibitions and other aspects of the heritage experience.

The recording of Indigenous voices is one of the most well-known methods of colonial ethnography.

Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet.

Drawing from the wealth of academic literature about the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) written over the last two decades, this book consolidates and recognizes the ESC's relevance in academia by analysing its contribution to different fields of study.

From HGTV and the Food Network to Keeping Up With the Kardashians, television is preoccupied with the pursuit and exhibition of lifestyle.

Mediating Sexual Citizenship considers how the neoliberal imperatives of adaptation, improvement and transformation that inform the shifting artistic and industrial landscape of television are increasingly indexed to performed disruptions in the norms of sexuality and gender.

This book presents an examination of the television series Nurse Jackie, making connections between the representational processes and the audience consumption of the series.

In 1992, Neil Postman presciently coined the term 'technopoly' to refer to 'the surrender of culture to technology'.

This book offers a systematic study of media education in Latin America.

Despite the prominence of "e;awkwardness"e; as cultural buzzword and descriptor of a sub-genre of contemporary film and television comedy, it has yet to be adequately theorized in academic film and media studies.

Lorna Jowett delves into the distinctive stories and characters, including the Doctors themselves, their female and male companions, Captain Jack Harkness, Missy, Sarah Jane and her young comrades.

This intriguing book re-evaluates a narrative of cultural decline that developed in the wake of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

This book tells the story of diverse online creators - women, ethnic and racial minorities, queer folk and those from hardscrabble backgrounds - producing low budget, high cultural impact web-series which have disrupted longstanding white male domination of the film and TV industries.

What happened when Sesame Street and Big Brother were adapted for African audiences?

With growth in access to high-speed broadband and 4G, and increased ownership of smartphones, tablets and internet-connected television sets, the internet has simultaneously begun to compete with and transform television.

Television Studies provides an overview of the origins, central ideas, and intellectual traditions of this exciting field.

This book offers the first extensive investigation of Italian crime fiction in the period between 1861, the year of Italy's unification, and 1941, when the famous Mondadori series 'I libri gialli', which had published crime novels since 1929, was suppressed by the fascist regime.

*Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2019**Shortlisted for the Isaac Deutscher Prize 2019*Why Marxism?

Longlisted for the Kraszna-Krauz Foundation's Moving Image Book Award 2024In Black Boys: The Aesthetics of British Urban Film, Nwonka offers the first dedicated analysis of Black British urban cinematic and televisual representation as a textual encounter with Blackness, masculinity and urban identity where the generic construction of images and narratives of Black urbanity is informed by the (un)knowable allure of Black urban Otherness.

In this new Routledge Television Guidebook, Jeremy G.

Slut Narratives in Popular Culture explores representations of slut shaming and the term "e;slut"e; in U.

This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the public consumption of changing ideas about children, childhood, and national identity, via a critical examination of programs that prominently feature children and youth in international television.

The focus of this book is on the media representations of the use of the Internet in seeking intimate connections-be it a committed relationship, a hook-up, or a community in which to dabble in fringe sexual practices.

Yuri Tynianov was a key figure of Russian Formalism, an intellectual movement in early 20th century Russia that also included Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson.

How English has become a language of the people in Indiaone that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today.

How do translators manage relations with parties in a position of authority and power?

In the two decades bracketing the turn of the millennium, large-scale weather disasters have been inevitably constructed as media events.

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Crime and Punishment: A Reader's Guide focuses on narrative strategy, psychology, and ideology.

An essential chronological framework for students of Portuguese literature.

At the beginning of the 21st century, it hardly goes uncontested anymore that media organisations play an important role in democracy.

In this pioneering new book, authors Klastrup and Tosca explore the many ways that transmedial worlds are present in people's everyday life, proposing a new theory of (trans)media use for the digital age.

Since its introduction in the early 1960s, Spanish-language television in the United States has grown in step with the Hispanic population.

Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association's International and Intercultural Communication Division and the 2017 Sue DeWine Book Award from the NCA Applied Communication DivisionUsing oral history, ethnography, and close readings of media, Sarah C.

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.

With contributions from 35 leading media scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the main methodologies of critical media studies.

This collection scrutinizes the representation, dynamics, transformation and/or adaptation of various heroes and heroines in different folkloric traditions and narratives in the context of Asia.

Social media has irrevocably changed how people consume the news.

Reframing the Past traces what historians have written about film and television from 1898 until the early 2000s.

This study is a theoretical reconsideration of the concept of the "e;tragic"e; combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts.

This book explores the empirical and theoretical significance of understanding television as a dynamic technology, a creative industry, and a vibrant cultural form that is "e;at large"e; in South Asia.

This collection seeks to explore what authenticity means in the context of adaptation, whether there is such a thing as an authentic adaptation, and what authenticity can offer for adaptation.