Routledge Focus on Television Studies
Secret Identities and Double Lives on Tween TV
1st Edition
By Amy Richards Franzini
April 03, 2025
Secret Identities and Double Lives on Tween TV in introduces readers to the concepts of tweenhood and television (TV) tropes by providing historical and theoretical contexts and reviewing the history of TV targeted to tweens. Through a qualitative analysis of various live-action sitcoms, this book ...
Social Media Television and Distributional Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Gry C. Rustad
March 23, 2025
Social Media Television and Distributional Aesthetics explores this distinct fictional form that merges the genres, structures and affordances of television with those of social media and what it entails for contemporary television and media culture and for our experience of new and old media in ...
Adam West as a Signature Role TV Star
1st Edition
By Carl Sweeney
March 11, 2025
This book proposes the ‘signature role TV star’ as a new theoretical category of stardom by evaluating Adam West as a quintessential example of this type of figure. West was best known for playing the titular role in the 1960s television series Batman. After Batman was cancelled, West was unable to...
The Intersectional Athlete Body on Reality TV: MTV’s The Challenge
1st Edition
By Laura Langlade
February 24, 2025
The Intersectional Athlete Body on Reality TV examines the treatment of women, non-White and queer participants on MTV’s The Challenge, a physical competition lauded as ‘America’s fifth sport’, interrogating the treatment of the intersectional body within the reality TV landscape and the influence ...
TV Shows and Nonplace: Why The Sopranos, Breaking Bad and Co. Love the Periphery
1st Edition
By Alexander Gutzmer
December 19, 2024
This book scrutinizes the relationship between contemporary TV shows and space, focusing on the ways in which these shows use and narrate specific spatial structures, namely, spaces far away from traditional metropolises. Beginning with the observation that many shows are set in specific spatial ...
Digital Food TV: The Cultural Place of Food in a Digital Era
1st Edition
By Michelle Phillipov
October 09, 2024
This book explores the new theoretical and political questions raised by food TV’s digital transformation. Bringing together analyses of food media texts and platform infrastructures—from streaming and catch-up TV to YouTube and Facebook food videos—it shows how new textual conventions, ...