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.
To submit a proposal for this series, please contact:
Suzanne Richardson, Commissioning Editor for Media, Cultural and Communication Studies
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Quality Telefantasy: How US Quality TV Brought Zombies, Dragons and Androids into the Mainstream
1st Edition
By Andrew Lynch
September 25, 2023
This book explores the relatively new genre of ‘Quality Telefantasy’ and how it has broadened TV taste cultures by legitimating and mainstreaming fantastical content. It also shows how the rising popularity of this genre marks a distinct and significant development in what kinds of TV are ...
Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television
1st Edition
Edited
By Ted Nannicelli, Héctor J. Pérez
May 31, 2023
This book posits an interconnection between the ways in which contemporary television serials cue cognitive operations, solicit emotional responses, and elicit aesthetic appreciation. The chapters explore a number of questions including: How do the particularities of form and style in contemporary...
Difficult Women on Television Drama: The Gender Politics Of Complex Women In Serial Narratives
1st Edition
By Isabel Pinedo
May 31, 2023
Difficult Women on Television Drama analyses select case studies from international TV dramas to examine the unresolved feminist issues they raise or address: equal labor force participation, the demand for sexual pleasure and freedom, opposition to sexual and domestic violence, and the need for ...
A European Television Fiction Renaissance: Premium Production Models and Transnational Circulation
1st Edition
Edited
By Luca Barra, Massimo Scaglioni
August 01, 2022
This book maps the landscape of contemporary European premium television fiction, offering a detailed overview of both the changes in the digital production and distribution and the emergence of specific national and transnational case histories. Combining a media-production approach with a ...
Creating Reality in Factual Television: The Frankenbite and Other Fakes
1st Edition
By Manfred W. Becker
August 01, 2022
Creating Reality in Factual Television analyzes the uneasy interaction between economics, culture, and professional ethics in reality and documentary television storytelling. Through the "frankenbite," an editorial tool that extracts and re-orders the salient elements or single words of a statement...
The Antihero in American Television
1st Edition
By Margrethe Bruun Vaage
October 12, 2017
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...
Television and Postfeminist Housekeeping: No Time for Mother
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Nathanson
August 19, 2016
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...
Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture
1st Edition
By Ethan Thompson
February 14, 2013
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 ...