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  • Crime Watchingby Deborah Jermyn

    I.B.Tauris 2006; US$ 94.00

    In recent years, reality TV formats have proliferated on television. One of the most significant and controversial strands within this has been the growth of 'real crime TV'. Encapsulating everything from crime appeal shows to reconstruction programmes and actuality footage shows, real crime TV now plays a major role in our television schedules,... more...

  • Third Wave Feminism and Televisionby Merri Lisa Johnson

    I.B.Tauris 2007; US$ 85.00

    The sexual politics of television culture is the territory covered by this ground-breaking book - the first to demonstrate the ways in which third wave feminist television studies approaches and illuminates mainstream TV. Leading voices in third wave feminism focus on innovative US television shows, including "The Sopranos", "Oz",... more...

  • Reading the Sopranosby David Lavery

    I.B.Tauris 2006; US$ 23.00

    Bada bing! What drama. "The most important work of American popular culture in fifty years" is how the "New York Times" describes "The Sopranos". Critically-acclaimed, award-winning, and the most watched show on HBO, the mobster drama swirls around the middle-aged Mafioso, Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini). Having to negotiate... more...

  • Arab Media and Political Renewalby Naomi Sakr

    I.B.Tauris 2009; US$ 32.00

    People are on the move across the Arab world, organizing politically in new ways. The Arab media have also undergone a transformation and are still in a state of flux. It is therefore crucial to be able to discuss political initiatives in the region in the light of media developments. This authoritative book answers key questions about the connections... more...

  • Beyond Dixon of Dock Greenby Susan Sydney-Smith

    I.B.Tauris 2002; US$ 69.95

    In 1955 a brand new television series, "Dixon of Dock Green", came to Britain's screens, whose eponymous hero had featured in "The Blue Lamp" (1950). Although it has traditionally been assumed that the uniform police series begins with the Ealing film, this book, based on original archive research, challenges this assumption,... more...

  • Quality TVby Janet McCabe; Kim Akass

    I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 89.00

    In his seminal book "Television's Second Golden Age", Robert Thompson described quality TV as 'best defined by what it is not': 'it is not "regular" TV'. Audacious maybe, but his statement renewed debate on the meaning of this highly contentious term. Dealing primarily with the post-1996 era shaped by digital... more...

  • Reading Stargate SG-1by Stan Beeler; Lisa Dickson

    I.B.Tauris 2006; US$ 21.95

    In 1997, the series "Stargate SG-1" first aired on American cable television and over the course of nearly nine seasons has developed its own unique mythological superstructure. "Stargate SG-1" focuses on the dynamic relationships among the show's main characters, the four-person first-contact team: SG-1. Each week they are... more...

  • Reading Six Feet Underby Kim Akass; Janet McCabe

    I.B.Tauris 2005; US$ 23.00

    This book on the groundbreaking show examines such themes as the modern sacred and profane, pornography and the dead body, magic realism and the grotesque, American cultural politics, self-help culture, family relationships, homosexuality and re-thinking the closet, the church and gay politics, motherhood and teenage rebellion. Entertaining and enlightening... more...

  • Timeless Adventuresby Brian J. Robb

    Oldcastle Books 2010; US$ 14.57

    This critical history of Doctor Who covers the series 45 years, from the creation of the show to its triumph as Britain's #1 TV drama.Opening with an in-depth account of the creation of the series within the BBC of the early 1960s, each decade of the show is tackled through a unique political and pop cultural historical viewpoint, exploring the links... more...

  • Up Till Nowby William Shatner

    Pan Macmillan UK 2008; US$ 18.03

    William Shatner gets the joke about William Shatner. In fact, most of the time he's the one telling it. His self-effacing attitude, so perfectly parodied in the bombastic character he now plays on Boston Legal, Denny Crane, is one of the reasons for his huge popularity. While best known for his creation of Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek, William... more...