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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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 ...
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 ...
Television and the Embodied Viewer: Affect and Meaning in the Digital Age
1st Edition
By Marsha F. Cassidy
August 29, 2022
Television and the Embodied Viewer appraises the medium’s capacity to evoke sensations and bodily feelings in the viewer. Presenting a fresh approach to television studies, the book examines the sensate force of onscreen bodies and illustrates how TV’s multisensory appeal builds viewer empathy and ...
A European Television Fiction Renaissance: Premium Production Models and Transnational Circulation
1st Edition
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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...
Children, Youth, and American Television
1st Edition
Edited
By Adrian Schober, Debbie Olson
August 14, 2020
This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the changing ideas about children and childhood in the United States. Each chapter connects relevant events, attitudes, or anxieties in American culture to an analysis of children or childhood in select American television ...
Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes: A Narrative Ecosystem Framework
1st Edition
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By Paola Brembilla, Ilaria A. De Pascalis
August 14, 2020
Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes provides a new framework—the metaphor of the narrative ecosystem—for the analysis of serial television narratives. Contributors use this metaphor to address the ever-expanding and evolving structure of narratives far beyond their usual spatial and ...
Politics and Politicians in Contemporary US Television: Washington as Fiction
1st Edition
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By Betty Kaklamanidou, Margaret Tally
June 30, 2020
Bringing together well-established scholars of media, political science, sociology, and film to investigate the representation of Washington politics on U.S. television from the mid-2000s to the present, this volume offers stimulating perspectives on the status of representations of contemporary US...
Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box
1st Edition
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By Ruth McElroy
December 12, 2019
Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the medium’s most popular genres and places it within its historical and industrial context. The television crime drama has proved itself capable of numerous generic reinventions and continues to enjoy some of the highest viewing figures. ...