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How are ‚grey market‘ imports changing media industries? What is the role of piracy in developing new markets for movies and TV shows? How do jailbroken i Phones drive innovation? The Informal Media …

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 …

Swedish crime fiction became an international phenomenon in the first decade of the twenty-first century, starting first with novels but then percolating through Swedish-language television serials a …

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 …

One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics off …

In the age of social media, fake news and data-driven capitalism, the need for critical understanding is more urgent than ever. Half-baked ideas about ‘media literacy’ will lead us nowhere: we need a …

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 …

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 …

Humans have used technology to expand our limited vision for millennia, from the invention of the stone mirror 8, 000 years ago to the latest developments in facial recognition and augmented reality. …

Creator of television series such as Shameless, Clocking Off, State of Play, Reckless, Linda Green and Children’s Ward, Paul Abbott is a British ’showrunner‘ and writer whose name and reputation for …