Media Studies

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 …

Many fans and insiders alike have never heard of Bill Hume, Bailin’ Wire Bill, Abe Martin, AWOL Wally, the Texas History Movies, or the Weatherbird at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. And many insiders d …

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 …

A revised and expanded new edition of Lucy Sante’s classic history of the real-photo postcard, with 130 images and a new afterword. In rural America at the beginning of the twentieth century, the wor …

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 …

Billy Batson discovers a secret in a forgotten subway tunnel. There the young man meets a wizard who offers a precious gift: a magic word that will transform the newsboy into a hero. When Billy says, …