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Reading Contemporary Television

The Reading Contemporary Television series aims to offer a varied, intellectually groundbreaking and often polemical response to what is happening in television today. This series is distinct in that it sets out to immediately comment upon the TV zeitgeist while providing an intellectual and creative platform for thinking differently and ingeniously writing about contemporary television culture. The books in the series seek to establish a critical space where new voices are heard and fresh perspectives offered. Innovation is encouraged and intellectual curiosity demanded.

Series Editors: Kim Akass and Janet McCabe

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Nip/Tuck Television That Gets Under Your Skin Reading Contemporary Television Edited by Roz Kaveney and Jennifer Stoy I. B. Tauris Promoted as a "disturbingly perfect" and "deeply shallow" television show and created by the mind behind Glee, Ryan Murphy, Nip/Tuck has been among the most...

Trade Paperback : $27.50 Buy	The Queer Politics of Television Reading Contemporary Television Samuel A. Chambers I. B. Tauris This is a radical book, which brings together the fields of political theory and television studies. In one of the first books to do so, Samuel A. Chambers...

Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Reading Lost Perspectives on a Hit Television Show Reading Contemporary Television Edited by Roberta Pearson I. B. Tauris This book is a comprehensive guide to the one of the most successful TV dramas in global television history. Created by wunderkind J.J. Abrams, the...

Trade Paperback : $17.95 Buy	Reading CSI Crime TV Under the Microscope Reading Contemporary Television Edited by Michael Allen I. B. Tauris Taking a scalpel to the CSI juggernaut

Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Makeover Television Realities Remodelled Reading Contemporary Television Edited by Dana Heller I. B. Tauris With the explosion of reality television onto screens and schedules worldwide, this timely and original book explores makeover tv, the ubiquitous reality...

Trade Paperback : $27.00 Buy	Third Wave Feminism and Television Jane Puts It in a Box Reading Contemporary Television Edited by Merri Lisa Johnson I. B. Tauris The sexual politics of television culture is the territory covered by this ground-breaking book – the first to demonstrate the ways in which third wave...

Trade Paperback : $18.95 Buy	Reading 24 TV against the Clock Reading Contemporary Television Steven Peacock I. B. Tauris Time has named 24 one of the "Best Television Events of the Decade." With an innovative format that uses one hour of real time for each episode, and a season...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Reading Deadwood A Western to Swear By Reading Contemporary Television Edited by David Lavery I. B. Tauris With the debut of Deadwood on HBO, a vision of the “Old West” emerged that was unlike anything done before on TV. David Milch, also the creator of NYPD Blue,...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Reading 'Desperate Housewives' Beyond the White Picket Fence Reading Contemporary Television Edited by Janet McCabe and Kim Akass I. B. Tauris The darkly comic series about the secret lives of Bree, Gabrielle, Lynette, Susan and the other ladies living on Wisteria Lane became an instant breakthrough...

Trade Paperback : $21.95 Buy	Reading Stargate SG-1 Reading Contemporary Television Edited by Stan Beeler and Lisa Dickson I. B. Tauris A critical celebration of the cult hit TV show

Trade Paperback : $21.95 Buy	Reading The L Word Outing Contemporary Television Reading Contemporary Television Edited by Kim Akass and Janet McCabe, with an Introduction by Sarah Warn I. B. Tauris A provocative look at the controversial TV show

Trade Paperback : $23.00 Buy	Reading The Sopranos Hit TV from HBO Reading Contemporary Television Edited by David Lavery I. B. Tauris The Sopranos has rewritten the rules of television drama and changed attitudes toward television itself. Topics explored include the extraordinary...

Trade Paperback : $23.00 Buy	Reading Angel The TV Spin-off With a Soul Reading Contemporary Television Edited by Stacey Abbott I. B. Tauris In 1999, Joss Whedon spun-off the vampire with a soul from Buffy the Vampire Slayer into his own Angel. Recast in L.A., Angel developed its own preoccupations,...

Trade Paperback : $23.00 Buy	Reading Six Feet Under TV to Die for Reading Contemporary Television Edited by Kim Akass and Janet McCabe; Foreword by Mark Lawson I. B. Tauris Praised for its unabashed portrait of the "death care" industry, HBO's Six Feet Under is less about the business of death than the art of living well. Created...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Reading the Vampire Slayer The Complete, Unofficial Guide to 'Buffy' and 'Angel' Reading Contemporary Television Edited by Roz Kaveney Tauris Parke Paperbacks The first edition of Reading the Vampire Slayer was highly praised in both the fan magazine SFX and the Times Literary Supplement. This second edition is...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Reading Sex and the City Reading Contemporary Television Edited by Kim Akass and Janet McCabe I. B. Tauris A highly readable and critically astute study of HBO's hit comedy, Sex and the City

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