Televisual Culture
About the Book Series
This book series publishes leading volumes that study the history of knowledge in its cultural context. It offers accounts that cut across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, while being sensitive to how institutional circumstances and different scales of time shape the making of knowledge.
Television before TV: New Media and Exhibition Culture in Europe and the USA, 1928-1939
1st Edition
By Anne-Katrin Weber
January 10, 2026
Television before TV rethinks the history of interwar television by exploring the medium’s numerous demonstrations organized at national fairs and international exhibitions in the late 1920s and 1930s. Building upon extensive archival research in Britain, Germany, and the United States, Anne-Katrin...
Visions of Electric Media: Television in the Victorian and Machine Ages
1st Edition
By Ivy Roberts
January 10, 2026
Visions of Electric Media is an historical examination into the early history of television, as it was understood during the Victorian and Machine ages. How did the television that we use today develop into a functional technology? What did Victorians expect it to become? How did the 'vision' of ...
Unpopular Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Luthe, Sascha Pohlmann
January 09, 2026
This volume introduces a new concept that boldly breaks through the traditional dichotomy of high and low culture while offering a fresh approach to both: unpopular culture. From the works of David Foster Wallace and Ernest Hemingway to fanfiction and The Simpsons, from natural disasters to 9/11 ...
Thinking Through Television
1st Edition
By Lorenz Engell
December 01, 2025
Media philosophy can only be found and revealed in media themselves. The essays collected in this volume thus approach television as a medium both of thought and of action in its own right. Through its specific forms and practices, television implements and reflects on aspects of time, such as ...
After the Break: Television Theory Today
1st Edition
Edited
By Marijke de Valck, Jan Teurlings
April 02, 2013
Television as we knew it is irrevocably changing. Some are gleefully announcing the death of television, others have been less sanguine but insist that television is radically changing underneath our eyes. Several excellent publications have dealt with television’s uncertain condition, but few have...