Routledge Advances in Television Studies
About the Book Series
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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Suzanne Richardson, Commissioning Editor for Media, Cultural and Communication Studies
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Female Authorship in Contemporary US Television: When Women Run the Show
1st Edition
By Theresa Trimmel
December 15, 2025
This book examines the growing visibility and cultural legitimation of female showrunners and their productions in US television, presenting the role of women in the contemporary media landscape and analysing the feminist sensibility governing female storytelling in the 2010s. Focusing on a period...
Women in Security Television
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Louise Laugier, Alexandre Madouely Diallo
December 15, 2025
This book explores the changing portrayal of leading female characters in 21st Century security TV – shows set behind the scenes of democratic regimes facing multifaceted threats, from jihadist terrorism to health risks. Offering an in-depth examination of several case studies, the authors speak ...
Cultural Specificity in Transnational Television Drama: Welsh and German High-End TV
1st Edition
By Elke Weissmann
August 08, 2025
Cultural Specificity in Transnational Television Drama examines two European television industries: those of Germany and Wales. This book analyses how near‑global shifts towards the fragmentation of audiences, the convergence of media and the transnationalisation of the television industries impact...
Television’s Streaming Wars
1st Edition
Edited
By Arienne Ferchaud, Jennifer M. Proffitt
April 14, 2025
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 ...
Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing: Family Watch Together TV
1st Edition
By Djoymi Baker, Jessica Balanzategui, Diana Sandars
November 28, 2024
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
1st Edition
By Will Abbiss
November 28, 2024
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....
The New Audience for Old TV: Considering the Resurgent Popularity of The Sopranos
1st Edition
By Alexander H. Beare
November 18, 2024
In 2020-21, the classic HBO show The Sopranos (1999-2007) saw a rapid increase in viewership and was proclaimed to be one of the “hottest shows of lockdown” by outlets like The Guardian and GQ. This resurgent popularity of The Sopranos raises important analytical questions for media scholars—how ...
Speculative Television and the Doing and Undoing of Religion
1st Edition
By Gregory Erickson
October 09, 2024
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...
Television Directors, Race, and Gender: Written Out of the Story
1st Edition
By Jonathan J. Cavallero
July 17, 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
1st Edition
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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 ...
Children, Youth, and International Television
1st Edition
Edited
By Debbie Olson, Adrian Schober
May 27, 2024
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 chapters connect ...
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 ...