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Broads, Sisters, Exes
Publication Date: March 2025
Through elegant prose deeply rooted in an intersectional feminist perspective, Stephens expands the aesthetic and narrative grammars of contemporary television.
Will & Grace
Publication Date: September 2023
In negotiating protocols of network television and the desires of audiences both gay and straight, this trailblazing series remains simultaneously haunted by and liberated from longstanding queer stereotypes.
Recollecting Collecting
Publication Date: April 2023
Recollecting Collecting interrogates and illustrates the meaning and practical nature of film and media collections while considering the vast array of personal and professional motivations behind their assemblage.
Mad Men
Publication Date: April 2023
Throughout its seven seasons, the series struck a delicate balance of being both complex and cerebral while entertaining and accessible, a balance that Edgerton skillfully carries over to this book.
Parks and Recreation
Publication Date: March 2023
Throughout its run, Parks and Recreation engaged with political debates simmering in American culture, offering a humorous ripped-from-the-headlines take on issues such as same-sex marriage, distrust of politicians, government shutdowns, and corporate bailouts Through compelling analysis, Holladay untangles representations of women and BIPOC in the series as they engage with...
Starring Tom Cruise
Publication Date: March 2021
Students, scholars, and readers of film, media, and celebrity studies will enjoy this deep dive into a complex Hollywood figure.
Cinderella Across Cultures
Publication Date: June 2016
Readers interested in the visual arts, in translation studies, or in popular culture, as well as a wider audience wishing to discover the tale anew will delight in this collection.
Batman
Publication Date: March 2014
Batman fans, from popular culture enthusiasts to television history scholars, will enjoy this volume.
The West Wing
Publication Date: September 2012
Fans of the series as well as students and teachers of television history will enjoy this detailed volume.
Deadwood
Publication Date: March 2012
Fans of the show and scholars of television history will enjoy Hark’s analysis of Deadwood.
Detroitland
Publication Date: September 2011
Told in Bak’s conversational and eminently readable style, the historical essays in Detroitland will prove hard to put down for anyone interested in Detroit’s history or those looking for an informative and entertaining read.
If We Must Die
Publication Date: June 2011
African Amerian studies scholars and those interested in race in contemporary American culture will appreciate this thought-provoking volume.
Keepin' It Hushed
Publication Date: February 2011
Rhetoricians and readers interested in African American life and culture will appreciate the cogent analysis in Nunley’s volume.
Miami Vice
Publication Date: September 2010
Fans of the show and scholars of television history and American popular culture will appreciate this illuminating look at Miami Vice.
I Love Lucy
Publication Date: April 2010
For scholars of American television history as well as the series’ many fans, I Love Lucy will be an enjoyable and informative read.
The Honeymooners
Publication Date: October 2009
Scholars of film and television studies, fans of The Honeymooners, and readers interested in 1950s American culture and television history will enjoy Sterritt’s analysis of The Honeymooners.
Doctor Who
Publication Date: April 2009
Film and television studies scholars, fans of the show, and general readers interested in popular cultural studies will enjoy this enlightening volume.
Tracking King Kong
Publication Date: April 2009
Scholars of film and television studies as well as general readers interested in film and popular culture will appreciate this significant volume.
Angel
Publication Date: March 2009
Fans of Angel and students and scholars of film and television studies will enjoy this thought-provoking analysis of the series.
"Gettin' Our Groove On"
Publication Date: September 2005
Itself infused with the hip hop idiom and an engaging style free of academic jargon, Gettin’ Our Groove On presents a thorough and provocative contribution to cultural and rhetorical studies.
Fabricating Pleasure
Publication Date: September 2005
From art and music to fashion and travel, Wurst places these popular forms of entertainment and pleasurable diversion in their social and historical contexts and shows how they have remarkable bearing on present-day debates on cultural literacy.
Dialogic Moments
Publication Date: September 2004
In another sense, however, it seeks to offer a more general statement about the culturally constructed nature of the quest for authenticity as a project of modernity by focusing on conceptions of communication and language as its quintessential loci."—From the Introduction by Tamar Katriel
Disney TV
Publication Date: March 2004
This book will attract a wide array of readers—scholars of television, media, and film studies, popular culture students, and all those touched by the magic of Disney.
Leaving Springfield
Publication Date: December 2003
Leaving Springfield will be of importance to both scholars of media and fans of the show interested in the function of satire in popular culture in general and television in particular.
Im Kwon-Taek
Publication Date: December 2001
Im Kwon-Taek will interest students and scholars of film studies, Korean studies, religious studies, postcolonial studies, and Asian studies.
Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity
Publication Date: January 1999
Building on research in the field, their contributions clearly show that cultural memory has become the creative invention of the past in service of both the present and an imagined future.
Imitations of Life
Publication Date: January 1991
Imitations of Life thus provides a variety of perspectives-chronological, theoretical, and international-on the genre while investigating its cultural, social, and political significance.
