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  • In the Limelight and Under the Microscope

    Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity

    Edited by Professor Diane Negra, Dr. Su Holmes ...
    This timely collection explores the politics of female celebrity across a range of contemporary and historical media contexts. Amidst concerns about the apparent 'decline' in the currency of modern fame ('famous for being famous'), as well as debates about the shifting parameters of public/private visibility, it is female celebrities who are positioned as the most active discursive terrain.This ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Celebrity Audiences

    Edited by Martin Barker, Su Holmes, Sarah Ralph ...
    The study of audience relations with star / celebrity culture has often been marginalised in Star/Celebrity Studies. This book brings together new research which explores a range of audience encounters with celebrities, moving across social media, royal weddings, national identity to questions of age, gender and class. In doing so, the essays illuminate the complex and negotiated nature of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • British TV and Film Culture in the 1950s

    Coming to a TV Near You

    by Su Holmes ...
    This book focuses on the emerging historical relations between British television and film culture in the 1950s. Drawing upon archival research, it does this by exploring the development of the early cinema programme on television - principally Current Release (BBC, 1952-3), Picture Parade (BBC, 1956) and Film Fanfare (ABC, 1956-7) - and argues that it was these texts which played the central role ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Entertaining television

    The BBC and popular television culture in the 1950s

    by Su Holmes ...
    Entertaining television challenges the idea that the BBC in the 1950s was elitist and ‘staid’, upholding Reithian values in a paternalistic, even patronising way. By focusing on a number of (often controversial) programme case studies – such as the soap opera, the quiz/ game show, the ‘problem’ show and programmes dealing with celebrity culture - Su Holmes demonstrates how BBC television ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Trans-Reality Television

    The Transgression of Reality, Genre, Politics, and Audience

    by Fernando Andacht, Frank Boddin, Anastasia Deligiaouri, Gunn Sara Enli, Mikko Hautakangas, Matthew Hibberd, Su Holmes, Brian McNair, Jan Pinseler, Mirkica Popovic, Winnie Salamon0, Jan Teurlings1, Tanja Thomas2, Sofie Van Bauwel3 ...
    Trans-Reality Television: The Transgression of Reality, Genre, Politics, and Audience offers an overview of contributions which engage with the phenomenon of reality television as a tool to reflect on societal and mediated transformations and transgressions. While some contributors delve deep into the theoretical issues, others approach the topic at hand through empirical studies of specific ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Framing Celebrity

    New directions in celebrity culture

    Edited by Su Holmes, Sean Redmond ...
    Celebrity culture has a pervasive presence in our everyday lives – perhaps more so than ever before. It shapes not simply the production and consumption of media content but also the social values through which we experience the world. This collection analyses this phenomenon, bringing together essays which explore celebrity across a range of media, cultural and political contexts.The authors ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    Essays on Representation and Truth

    Edited by David S. Escoffery ...
    American viewers are attracted to what they see as the non-scripted, unpredictable freshness of reality television. But although the episodes may not be scripted, the shows are constructed within a deliberately designed framework, reflecting societal values. The political, economic and personal issues of reality TV are in many ways simply an exaggerated version of everyday life, allowing us to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Television Studies: The Key Concepts

    by Ben Calvert, Neil Casey, Bernadette Casey, Liam French, Justin Lewis ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Television Studies: The Key Concepts is the definitive reference guide to an area of rapidly expanding academic interest. Among those aspects of television studies covered in this comprehensive and up-to-date guide are:theoretical perspectives which have shaped the study of television - Marxism; semiology; feminismconcepts which have shaped the study of television - narrative; representation; ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Comedy Studies Reader

    Edited by Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz ...
    From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Understanding Celebrity

    by Graeme Turner ...
    "An outstanding achievement... Graeme Turner writes with power and persuasion, and brilliantly explores what it is about celebrity today that should concern us all"- Sean Redmond, Deakin University"A key touchstone for celebrity studies. Turner thoughtfully illuminates the variety of production and consumption practices through which celebrity circulates today, whilst remaining sensitive to the ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movement

    by Paul Clements ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature, focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions represented by the author and his work, exploring Bukowski’s visceral writing of the cultural ordinary and everyday self-narrative. The study considers ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Pedagogy of Queer TV

    by Ava Laure Parsemain ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines queer characters in popular American television, demonstrating how entertainment can educate audiences about LGBT identities and social issues like homophobia and transphobia. Through case studies of musical soap operas (Glee and Empire), reality shows (RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Prancing Elites Project and I Am Cait) and “quality” dramas (Looking, Transparent and Sense8), it ... Read more

    $80.09 USD