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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Appreciating the Art of Television: A Philosophical Perspective
1st Edition
By Ted Nannicelli
December 10, 2019
Contemporary television has been marked by such exceptional programming that it is now common to hear claims that TV has finally become an art. In Appreciating the Art of Television, Nannicelli contends that televisual art is not a recent development, but has in fact existed for a long time. Yet ...
Girlhood on Disney Channel: Branding, Celebrity, and Femininity
1st Edition
By Morgan Genevieve Blue
December 10, 2019
Since the early 2000s, Disney Channel has been dominated by original live-action programming popular among tween girls. The shows’ successes rely not only on their popularity among girl audiences, but also on the development of star personae by girl performers, such as Raven-Symoné, Miley Cyrus, ...
Horror Television in the Age of Consumption: Binging on Fear
1st Edition
Edited
By Kimberly Jackson, Linda Belau
December 10, 2019
Characterized as it is by its interest in and engagement with the supernatural, psycho-social formations, the gothic, and issues of identity and subjectivity, horror has long functioned as an allegorical device for interrogations into the seamier side of cultural foundations. This collection, ...
Television and Serial Adaptation
1st Edition
By Shannon Wells-Lassagne
December 10, 2019
As American television continues to garner considerable esteem, rivalling the seventh art in its "cinematic" aesthetics and the complexity of its narratives, one aspect of its development has been relatively unexamined. While film has long acknowledged its tendency to adapt, an ability that ...
American Militarism on the Small Screen
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Froula, Stacy Takacs
June 28, 2018
Anna Froula is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English at East Carolina University, USA Stacy Takacs is Associate Professor and Director of American Studies at Oklahoma State University, USA...
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 ...