Media Studies

Contradictory to its core, the sitcom—an ostensibly conservative, tranquilizing genre—has a long track record in the United States of tackling controversial subjects with a fearlessness not often fou …

What does it mean that we can be reached on our mobile phones wherever we are and at all times? What are the cultural consequences if we are informed about ‘everything and anything important’ via tel …

Few trends have had as much impact on television as formats have in recent years. Long confined to the fringes of the TV industry, they have risen to prominence since the late 1990s. Today, they are …

The widespread uptake of digital platforms – from You Tube and Instagram to Twitch and Tik Tok – is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways. Longstanding media …

Once the rarified stuff of scientists and statisticians, data are now at the heart of our global digital economy, transforming everything from how we perceive the value of a professional athlete to t …

An exciting new strand in The Television Series, the ‘Moments in Television’ collections celebrate the power and artistry of television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television schol …

Beyond representation explores whether the last thirty years witnessed signs of ‘progress’ or ’progressiveness’ in the representation of ‘marginalised’ or subaltern identity categories within televis …

Created by Marvel Comics Legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, The Black Panther is considered the first Black superhero in American mainstream comics. Through a textual analysis, this book&#xa0 …

This book presents an analysis of Lieutenant Columbo’s investigative method of rhetorical inquiry as seen in the television police procedural Columbo (1968-2003).  With a bar …

Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambiti …