Books in the Routledge Advances in Television Studies series

This book maps the landscape of contemporary European premium television fiction, offering a detailed overview of both the changes in the digital production and distribution and the emergence of specific national and transnational case histories.

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Northwestern University.

This volume seeks to identify what television, as a cultural medium, has added to the depictions of war and militarism in the US.

Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the mediumΓÇÖs most popular genres and places it within its historical and industrial context. The television crime drama has proved itself capable of numerous generic reinventions and continues to enjoy some of the highest viewing figures. Crime drama offers audiences stories of right and wrong, moral authority asserted and resisted, and professionals and criminals, doing so in ways that are often highly entertaining, innovative, and thought provoking. In examining the appeal of this highly dynamic genre, this volume explores how it responds not only to changing social debates on crime and policing, but also to processes of hybridization within the television industry itself. Contributors, many of whom are leading figures in UK television studies, analyse popular series such as Broadchurch, Between the Lines, FoyleΓÇÖs War, Poirot, Prime Suspect, Sherlock and Wallander. Essays examine the main characteristics of television crime drama production, including the nature of trans-Atlantic franchises and literary and transnational adaptations. Adopting a range of feminist, historical, aesthetic and industrial approaches, they offer incisive interrogations that provide readers with a rich understanding of the allure of crime drama to both viewers and commissioners.

Well-established scholars of media, political science, sociology, and film investigate the representation of Washington politics on U.S. television from the mid 2000s to the present. The book offers perspectives on representations of contemporary US politics, the role of government and the machinations often associated with politicians and governmental institutions.With close attention to issues of gender, race and class and offering studies from contemporary quality television, such as The West Wing, Veep, House of Cards, The Good Wife and Scandal, authors examine the ways in which televisual representations reveal changing attitudes towards Washington culture.

This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the changing ideas about children and childhood in the United States. Each chapter connects relevant events, attitudes, or anxieties in American culture to an analysis of children or childhood in select American television programs.

Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes provides a new framework¿the metaphor of the narrative ecosystem¿for the analysis of serial television narratives. Contributors use this metaphor to address the ever-expanding and evolving structure of narratives far beyond their usual spatial and temporal borders, in general and in reference to specific series.

This volume explores the reasons for horror television series' wide appeal, focusing on televisual aesthetics, technological novelties, the role of adaptation and seriality, questions of gender, identity and subjectivity, and the ways in which the shows' themes comment on the culture that consumes them.