This book aims to provide scholars active in television aesthetics with a critical overview of the relevant philosophical literature, while also giving philosophers of film a particular account of the art of television that will hopefully spur further interest and debate...
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 progra..
This book examines the authorship processes, narrative characteristics, industrial practices and stylistic tendencies of complex serial drama. Dunleavy investigates the strategies that underpin the innovations and distinct features of today’s "premium" TV shows, giving students and scholars a nuance..
Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the medium’s most popular genres and places it within its historical and industrial context. It traces the changing cultural and narrative approaches the genre takes to the mediation of crime and policing. Contributors analyze popular serie..
Drawing on interviews with many key writers, producers and commissioners, Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry explores the creative processes that lead to successful programme-making. With detailed discussion of the processes by which series such as People Just Do Nothing and After ..
In the two decades bracketing the turn of the millennium, large-scale weather disasters have been inevitably constructed as media events. As such, they challenge the meaning of concepts such as identity and citizenship for both locally affected populations and widespread spectator communities. This ..
From Networks to Netflix provides an authoritative answer to that navigational need, helping students, instructors, and scholars understand these industrial changes through the lens of the channel...