Television

HBO's Carnivale was a critically-acclaimed, elaborate period narrative set in Depression era America that set the stage for the current explosion of cinematic storytelling on television.

Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes.

Immigration Cinema in the New Europe examines a variety of films from the early 1990s that depict and address the lives and identities of both first generation immigrants and children of the diaspora in Europe.

Though science fiction certainly existed prior to the surge of television in the 1950s, the genre quickly established roots in the new medium and flourished in subsequent decades.

In the years following 9/11, American TV developed a preoccupation with apocalypse.

A complete celebration of Britain's favourite architectural show.

Charting the intersection of aesthetic representation and the material conditions of urban space, The City Since 9/11 posits that the contemporary metropolis provides a significant context for reassessing theoretical concerns related to narrative, identity, home, and personal precarity.

From The Prisoner in the 1960s to the more recent Heroes and Lost, a group of television series with strong elements of fantasy have achieved cult status.

Internationally renowned actress Ingrid Bergman was of Swedish and German descent, though she was known by the majority as Swedish.

In Refiguring Spain, Marsha Kinder has gathered a collection of new essays that explore the central role played by film, television, newspapers, and art museums in redefining Spain's national/cultural identity and its position in the world economy during the post-Franco era.

Last year The Voice UK changed Leanne Mitchell's life forever.

You're nicked is the first comprehensive study of television police series in the UK.

America is fascinated by violence--where it comes from in ourselves, how it spreads through society, what effect it has on younger generations, and how it looks, in all its chilling and sanguine detail.

Before the unprecedented televised presidential debates of 1960, most Americans were able to relate to their leaders in little more than an historical context.

Since the debut of the iPhone in 2007, the mobile phone has become a quick, convenient, and immensely popular gateway for accessing and consuming news.

Writing the Romantic Comedy is so much fun to read it could pop a champagne cork.

'I felt like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and all the other fairy-tale princesses, and Pat was my Prince Charming.

The long-running popular TV series Doctor Who is, Piers Britton argues, a 'uniquely design intensive text': its time-and-space-travel premise requires that designers be tirelessly imaginative in devising new worlds and entities and recreating past civilizations.

Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller.

The official TV tie-in to accompany the ITV drama scripted by Andrew DaviesThe World of Sanditon delves behind the scenes of Sanditon, giving you the inside scoop on Jane Austen's unfinished masterpiece, adapted for television by Andrew Davies.

The popular definition characterizes celebrity as a product of manufacture rather than merit.

Since the late 1970s, Australia has nurtured a creative and resilient children's television production sector with a global reputation for excellence.

Demonstrates how Maverick, "e;The Legend of the West,"e; fractured, altered, or undermined nearly every Western code and myth.

Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes.

Science has always been part of Doctor Who.

'Doctor Who' has always thrived on multiplicty, unpredictability and transformation, it's worlds and characters kaleidoscopic and shifting, and 'Doctor Who"s complexity has grown.

Supernatural premiered on September 14, 2005, on what was then called the WB Network.

From automatons to zombies, many elements of fantasy and science fiction have been cross-pollinated with the Western movie genre.

Did you know that detective Adrian Mont (Monk) is afraid of milk?

Faced with what many were calling a dying medium, US network television producers became much more aggressive in seeking out alternative business and artistic models in the beginning of this century.

Many parents, politicians, and activists agree that there's too much violence and not enough education on children's television.

The 21st-century has witnessed rapid advances in artificial intelligence, giving rise to a society at once hopeful but also mistrustful of the possibilities that this technology offers.

This guided tour of the American situation comedy is given by one of the most prolific directors of the genre.

The Duffer Brothers' award-winning Stranger Things exploded onto the pop culture scene in 2016.

The contradictions and complexities of the cyborg therefore hold particular appeal to programme makers of dramatic TV narratives.

Few contemporary television shows have been subjected to the critical scrutiny that has been brought to bear on David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks since its debut in 1990.

This volume gathers the work of the Brussels Discourse Theory Group, a group of critical media and communication scholars that deploy discourse theory as a theoretical backbone and an analytical research perspective.

After more than four decades on the air, A Question of Sport is firmly established as the final word in sports trivia.

In this exciting interdisciplinary collection, scholars, activists, and media producers explore the emergence of Indigenous media: forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and created by Indigenous peoples around the globe.

The 2018 Netflix series Altered Carbon is a vital contribution to the cyberpunk renaissance, among such titles as Snowpiercer or Blade Runner 2049.

Gender and the contemporary audio-visual landscape of MexicoThis book focusses on gender and the audio-visual landscape of Mexico since 2010, examining popular culture as expressed in the still distinct but rapidly converging media forms of cinema, television, and streaming platforms.

Bestseller in the UK, Sunday Times, November 2019.

Brings together an introduction to academic study of audiences as 'readers' of films and an investigation into how the film industry perceives audiences as part of its industrial practices.

'The TV series of the decade stars a bunch of rescue dogs' Caitlin Moran'Channel 4 series The Dog House has captured hearts across the nation.

The past twenty years have seen major changes in the ways that television formats and programming are developed and replicated internationally for different markets - with locally focused repackagings of hit reality shows leading the way.

Throughout its history, British television has found a place, if only in its margins, for programmes that consciously worked to expand the boundaries of television aesthetics.

In 2001, yet another adaptation of the Superman comic book came to television.