Books in the Investigating Cult TV series

Fresh investigation of Buffy's feminism.

Torchwood started its life on television as a spin-off from Doctor Who, bringing Captain Jack to join new colleagues in a television series that quickly established itself as fresh and watchable television.

From the twilight of Tom Baker's years to the newest Doctor, Matt Smith, Miles Booy explores the shifting meaning of Doctor Who across the years - from the Third Doctor's suggestion that we should read the Bible, via costumed fans on television, up to the 2010 general election in Britain.

From viral webisodes depicting vampires announcing themselves on TV to the steamy title sequence and the show's uninhibited use of language, sex and gore, "True Blood" has quickly gained status as cult TV with bite. This title explores the hidden depths of "True Blood's" vampire bars, small town communities and haunted bayous.

Covers popular TV genres of sci fi and horror, and their cult series.

How does music enrich and define cult television series? The book analyses theme tunes and scoring on television to reveal how composers construct a series' identity using musical idioms and instruments.

Technologically-enhanced human bodies can be the stuff of dreams, but also of nightmares.

"Farscape" seasons are one of the top-billing Sci Fi dvds. This work is an analysis of the show. It uncovers "Farscape's" layers and those of the living spaceship Moya. It explores it's language and characters, its creation of family and home, of masculinity and femininity, and the transformation of an all-American boy.

Covers the television science fiction show "Battlestar Galactica" from beginning to end, including the show's principal themes from the depiction of sexuality in an era of artificial people and downloaded memories to what it means to be a member of a military organization when the stakes are not victory or defeat but survival.

Cult TV is a very exciting area of contemporary television. This book redefines our understanding of cult TV, with fresh approaches to and case studies on: Cult TV aesthetics, History of cult TV, Cult TV & new media, The 'sub-cultural celebrity', how to write cult TV, Cult TV & the broadcast industry, Music, Innovation, Cult channels, and more.