"This book re-evaluates the way we examine today's digital media environment By looking at how popular culture uses different digital technologies, Digital Fandom bolsters contemporary media theory by introducing new methods of analysis Using the exemplars of alternate reality g…
Hollywood chemistry: when science met entertainment
Focusing on twelve innovative television dramas that changed the medium and the culture at large (including The Sopranos, Oz, The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad) Sepinwall weave…
Focusing on twelve innovative television dramas that changed the medium and the culture at large (including The Sopranos, Oz, The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad) Sepinwall weave…
Focusing on twelve innovative television dramas that changed the medium and the culture at large (including The Sopranos, Oz, The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad) Sepinwall weave…
This cutting-edge collection of articles provides the first organised reflection on the language of films and television series across British, American and Italian cultures. The volume suggests new directions for research and applications, and offers a variety of methodologies …
Samuel A. Chambers exposes and explores the cultural politics of television by treating television shows---including Six Feet Under, Buffy, Desperate Housewives, The L Word, and Big Love---as serious, important texts and by reading them in detail through the lens of queer theory.
"The Queer Politics of Television" is a radical book, which brings together the fields of political theory and television studies. In one of the first books to do so, Samuel A. Chambers exposes and explores the cultural politics of television by treating television shows - inclu…
Television aesthetics and style
Although Film Studies has successfully (re)turned attention to matters of style and interpretation, its sibling discipline has left the territory uncharted - until now. The question of how television operates on a stylistic level has been critically underexplored, despite being …
Television aesthetics and style
This significant new work redresses a vital gap in TV studies by engaging with the stylistic dynamics of TV; exploring the aesthetic properties and values of both the medium and particular types of output (specific programmes); and raising important questions about the way we ju…