Books in the Console-ing Passions series

Provides much needed, empirically grounded studies of the connections between new media technologies, the globalization of sexual cultures, and the rise of queer Asia.

Amy Holdsworth recounts her life with television to trace how the medium shapes everyday activities, our relationships with others, and our sense of time.

Focuses on diverse theoretical sources and an unprecedented range of electronic and print media in order to analyse important aspects and key debates that have emerged around this phenomenon. Rejecting elitist dismissal of sensationalist media, this book traces the cultural currents and counter currents running through their forms and products.

What do the images transmitted by that screen tell us about power, authority, gender stereotypes, and ideology in the United States? This book addresses this question by illuminating how television both reflects and influences American culture and identity. It is suitable for those interested in women's studies and American studies.

What's good for kids and what's merely exploitive? Are shows that attempt to level the socio-economic playing field by educating children effective? This title considers the production and consumption of media aimed at children. It reveals that children are active, engaged participants in the media culture surrounding them.

A critical reassessment of television and television studies in the age of new media.

Provides much needed, empirically grounded studies of the connections between new media technologies, the globalization of sexual cultures, and the rise of queer Asia.

Explores the full range of popular music from show tunes to Latin in a wide variety of television programs, and shows how the standards of presentation and performance developed

Taking into account technologies, industries, economies, aesthetics, and various production, user, and audience practices, this collection of essays rethinks television and the future of television studies in the digital era.

Taking into account technologies, industries, economies, aesthetics, and various production, user, and audience practices, this collection of essays rethinks television and the future of television studies in the digital era.

An investigation of the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angelesbased film and video production workers.

Sarah Banet-Weiser explores how the cable network Nickelodeon combines an appeal to kids formidable purchasing power with assertions of their political and cultural power.

A cultural history of sexual content in television shows and TV advertising during the 1970s.

Argues that satellites are not a transparent form of distribution of information, but rather that they produce specific media practices and modes of production.

Examines the role of television in public space at different points in the history of the medium. The author explores the significance of this pervasive phenomenon, tracing the forms of conflict, commerce, and community that television generates outside the home.

Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune - or even willfully blind - to the landmark upheavals rocking western and American society during the 1960s. This book challenges the assumption that TV programming failed to consider or engage with the decade's youth-led societal changes.

What do the images transmitted by that screen tell us about power, authority, gender stereotypes, and ideology in the United States? This book addresses this question by illuminating how television both reflects and influences American culture and identity. It is suitable for those interested in women's studies and American studies.

Many parents, politicians, and activists agree that there's too much violence and not enough education on children's television. This book examines the history of adults' attempts to safeguard children from the violence, sexism, racism, and commercialism on television since the 1950s.

Features essays on race, ethnicity, and television.

Argues that whether depicting transformations of bodies, trucks, finances, relationships, kids, or homes, makeovers depict a self achievable only in the transition from the 'Before-body' to the 'After-body' filled with confidence, coded with celebrity, and imbued with a renewed faith in the powers of meritocracy.

Brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary "postfeminist" mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from female action films to the "girling" of aging women in productions such as the movie Something's Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger.

A critical examination of racial discrimination in television broadcasting during the civil rights era

Looks at a range of commercial objects and phenomenon, from television and toys to comic books and magazines. The author looks at the often unspoken assumptions about class, nation, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation that underscored both media images (like those of 1960s space missions) and social policies of the mass-produced suburb.

Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun analyze the complex social and cultural significance of lifestyle television programming in China, India, Taiwan, and Singapore, showing how it adds insight into late Asian modernity, media cultures, and broad shifts in the nature of private life, identity, citizenship, and social engagement.

A look at how blackness is represented in entertainment programming in Puerto Rico.

Examines American culture's persistent association of new electronic media - from the invention of the telegraph to the introduction of television and computers - with paranormal or spiritual phenomena.