First published in 1990, this title presents a rich account of how television intersects with family life in American and other world cultures. From a..
From early first-wave programs such as Candid Camera, An American Family, and The Real World to the shows on our television screens and portable devic..
The first in the Routledge Television Guidebooks series, Science Fiction TV offers an introduction to the versatile and evolving genre of science fict..
Television Brandcasting examines U. S. television’s utility as a medium for branded storytelling. It investigates the current and historical role that..
Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes provides a new framework—the metaphor of the narrative ecosystem—for the analysis of serial televisio..
Cheers explores how the increase of Black women in media ownership and creative executive roles in the last 30 years affected the fundamental cultural..
This book presents an examination of the television series Nurse Jackie, making connections between the representational processes and the audience co..
Understanding Broadcast Journalism presents an insightful exploration of broadcast journalism today; its characteristics, motivations, methods and par..
This book fills a significant gap in the critical conversation on race in media by extending interrogations of racial colorblindness in American telev..
The antihero prevails in recent American drama television series. Characters such as mobster kingpin Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), meth cook and gangst..