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The Year in Television, 2009
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 39.95This reference work is a chronicle of all the first run entertainment programs broadcast from January 1 to December 31, 2009. Included are series, TV movies, aired pilots, specials, miniseries and Internet series. Alphabetically arranged entries provide casts, storylines, production credits, networks, broadcast dates, and excerpts from newspaper reviews.... more...
All Balls and Glitter
Michael O' Mara Books 2011; US$ 9.99Features the author's life story, beginning with the tale of his escape from his small-town home in Ballarat, Australia, aged just fifteen, to embark on a career as a song-and-dance man. This title also reveals the intimate secrets of his straight marriage and gay relationships, as well as the treachery and heartbreak that accompanied them. more...
Living with Star Trek
I.B.Tauris 2007; US$ 23.00There is a wealth of literature on 'Star Trek', and this book is a welcome and original contribution to it. The book not only sets 'Star Trek' in dialogue with ideas and stories of utopia, community, self-improvement, that are central to American culture and history, but goes further to examine the complex ways in which these are taken up and used... more...
Angry Buzz, The
I.B.Tauris 2006; US$ 53.00Current affairs television in the UK, in more than half a century of programmes, has set out to tell us something we didn't know, treating its audience as citizens with the right to demand that 'something must be done'. Over their 36 year history, This Week and its replacement TVEye helped to mark out that democratic project. This is the story of This... more...
Dexter
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 16.00Based upon the successful Jeff Lindsay novel 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter', Showtime's and FX's 'Dexter' continues to raise the bar on television drama, as it chronicles the grisly exploits of a police blood spatter expert who moonlights as a serial killer (or vice versa). Unlike other serial killers, however, Dexter only kills the bad guys, a distinction... more...
Crime Watching
I.B.Tauris 2006; US$ 28.00In 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, filling... more...
Third Wave Feminism and Television
I.B.Tauris 2007; US$ 27.00The 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, Six Feet Under, The... more...
Reading the Sopranos
I.B.Tauris 2006; US$ 23.00The Sopranos' has been described by the 'New York Times' as the most important work of American popular culture in fifty years. It is also the most talked about series in the history of television. Reading 'The Sopranos', the fullest and finest book on David Chase's series, is published to coincide with the run of its sixth and penultimate season.... more...
Nationalist Myths and Modern Media
I.B.Tauris 2005; US$ 44.00Does patriotic pride inevitably develop into nationalistic aggression? Is this exacerbated by the global outreach of the media? And what is the relationship between mainstream politics and increasingly vocal anti-immigrant and far-right groups? This book tackles these thorny questions, from Europe, the US and post-Soviet Russia, to probe the overlaps... more...
Quality TV
I.B.Tauris 2007; US$ 26.00In 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 technologies and defined by consumer choice... more...









