Routledge Television Guidebooks
Food TV
1st Edition
By Tasha Oren
April 11, 2023
This book serves up an accessible, critical introduction to food television, providing readers with a solid foundation for understanding how culinary culture became pop culture via the medium of television. The book follows FoodTV’s journey from purely instructional resource to a wide variety of ...
Teen TV
1st Edition
By Stefania Marghitu
May 27, 2021
Teen TV explores the history of television’s relationship to teens as a desired, but elusive audience, and the ways in which television has embraced youth subcultures, tracing the shifts in American and global televisual and teen media. Organized chronologically to cover each generation since the ...
Sports TV
1st Edition
By Victoria E. Johnson
March 25, 2021
This book offers an introductory guide to sports TV, its history in the United States, the genre’s defining characteristics, and analysis of its critical significance for the business practices, formal properties, and social, cultural, and political meanings of the medium. Victoria E. Johnson ...
Fairy-Tale TV
1st Edition
By Jill Terry Rudy, Pauline Greenhill
July 03, 2020
This concise and accessible critical introduction examines the world of popular fairy-tale television, tracing how fairy tales and their social and cultural implications manifest within series, television events, anthologies, and episodes, and as freestanding motifs. Providing a model of televisual...
The Sitcom
1st Edition
By Jeremy G. Butler
October 24, 2019
In this new Routledge Television Guidebook, Jeremy G. Butler studies our love-hate relationship with the durable sitcom, analyzing the genre’s position as a major media artefact within American culture and providing a historical overview of its evolution in the USA. Everyone loves the sitcom genre;...
Reality TV
1st Edition
By Jon Kraszewski
March 14, 2017
From early first-wave programs such as Candid Camera, An American Family, and The Real World to the shows on our television screens and portable devices today, reality television consistently takes us to cities—such as New York, Los Angeles, and Boston—to imagine the place of urbanity in American ...
Political TV
1st Edition
By Chuck Tryon
February 17, 2016
This book serves as an accessible critical introduction to the broad category of American political television content. Encompassing political news and scripted entertainment, Political TV addresses a range of formats, including interview/news programs, political satire, fake news, drama, and ...
Lifestyle TV
1st Edition
By Laurie Ouellette
February 16, 2016
From HGTV and the Food Network to Keeping Up With the Kardashians, television is preoccupied with the pursuit and exhibition of lifestyle. Lifestyle TV analyzes a burgeoning array of lifestyle formats on network and cable channels, from how-to and advice programs to hybrid reality entertainment ...
Science Fiction TV
1st Edition
By J. P. Telotte
February 21, 2014
The first in the Routledge Television Guidebooks series, Science Fiction TV offers an introduction to the versatile and evolving genre of science fiction television, combining historical overview with textual readings to analyze its development and ever-increasing popularity. J. P. Telotte ...