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TELEVISION &POPULAR CULTURECelebrating twenty-five years of groundbreaking scholarship, this series offers a wide variety ofvolumes about American television programming. The series includes books about individual shows, specific genres, creatorsand producers, and the history of the medium. Interview collections, anthologies, and newly updated classics, such as the widelycourse-adopted Watching TV, are also included in the series. Books in the series have won honors such as the Popular CultureAssociation Board of Governors Award and the Theatre Historical Society of America’s Outstanding Book of the Year Award.Since its founding, the series has expanded its field of interest to include works on other subjects in American popular culture andmass entertainment as well, including vaudeville, comics, movies, and radio broadcasting. We welcome proposals addressing allissues in television and popular culture, including the impacts of Netflix, Amazon, web streaming and web series, commercials(or the lack thereof), and graphic novels.Series EditorAcquisitions EditorRobert J. Thompson, Syracuse Universityrthompso@syr.eduDeborah Maniondmmanion@syr.edu
“A collection that deserves to be savored,taught, and revisited by media scholars,students, and fans alike. This is trulypeak media writers writing on peak TV.”—Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Texas State UniversityPaper 34.95s 9780815637134“This collection is of particular value forscholars interested in representationsof black womanhood and is highly stimulating for the sheer diversity of viewsit presents.”—Critical Studies in Television: The InternationalJournal of Television StudiesPaper 39.95s 9780815636403“This volume will be of particular valueto scholars invested in queer readingsof television. . . . [and] its inclusion ofcommentary from production staff.”—Critical Studies in Television: The InternationalJournal of Television StudiesPaper 34.95s 9780815636366
“The continuing fascination with Gilmore Girls . . . suggests just how muchthere is to the show, and the essays inthis collection mine much of this territoryquite well.”—The Complete ReviewPaper 29.95s 9780815635284“A colorful book about a remarkable television series. . . . It enhances the study ofthe American presidency while quietlyilluminating a lifetime collaboration oftwo remarkable film/history scholars.”—Film and History: An Interdisciplinary Journalof Film and Television StudiesPaper 19.95s 9780815630319Interrogating “The Shield” brings together ten critical essays, written from avariety of methodological and theoretical perspectives. Topics range from anexploration of the series’ derivation,genre, and production, to expositionsof the ethics, aesthetics, and politics ofthe show.Hardcover 29.95s 9780815633082
c u lt u r eLinda Feldmann“Castleman and Podrazik have put together a well-White House correspondent,Christian Science Monitorresearched, tightly written documentary on thedevelopment of the television industry and theindividuals involved.”CastlemanPodrazikpopularPublishers Weekly“A pleasure to read.”David BianculliTV critic, NPR’s “Fresh Air”Library Journaldepth survey of the entire world of TV trends and“The best one-stop-shopping detailed overviewof TV, season by season, ever published.”Watching“The authors have meticulously documented an inprogramming from the industry’s beginnings, presenting along the way some very judicious criticalanalyses.”Atlanta Constitution“An honest but affectionate chronicle that neverwhile, thankfully, not taking itself too seriously.”Walter J. Podrazik is a communicationsand logistics consultant. He also serves as televisioncurator at the Museum of Broadcast Communicationsin Chicago and is regularly quoted in the media. As anadjunct lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago,he teaches television history and analyzes the role ofmedia in politics.Front: Photograph copyright 2016, Digital Focus–Peter Sills; photographic inserts: Barbara Brown; Rebecca Freeman; Svengoolie 2014 MeTV National Limited Partnership, and the Museum ofBroadcast Communications in Chicago.thirdeditionCastleman and Podrazik present a sweepingseason-by-season story, capturing the essenceof television from its inception to the contemporary era of anytime access and online streaming,including every prime time fall schedule since1944. The authors have dug through the moundsof obscure facts, offbeat anecdotes, and corporate strategies that have made television amultibillion-dollar industry. Watching TV provides a fascinating history of how the personalities, popular shows, and coverage of key eventshave evolved across eight decades.Full of facts, firsts, insights, and exploits,as well as rare and memorable photographs,Watching TV is the standard history of Americantelevision. This third edition includes coverageup through the mid-2010s and looks ahead tothe next waves of change.Eight Decades ofAmerican Televisionloses sight of the more serious side of televisionHarry Castleman practices law in Bostonand has written seven other popular culture bookswith Podrazik. He has worked as a media producerand consultant for a number of political organizations and campaigns. He has also been a guestlecturer on TV history at Boston University’s Collegeof Communication.Television and Popular CultureSyracuse University PressSyracuse, New York 13244-5290www.SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.eduË xHSKILFy634386zv*: :!: :!“The last word on TV endings.”—Matt Zoller Seitz, television critic forNew York Magazine“An invaluable resource for thosestudying or researching popular culture. . . Highly recommended.”Syracuse“The authors have meticulously documented an in-depth survey of the entireworld of TV trends and programmingfrom the industry’s beginnings, presenting along the way some very judiciouscritical analyses.”—ChoicePaper 39.95 9780815611059—Library JournalPaper 49.95s 9780815634386“A critical anthology edited by someof the architects of Whedon Studies,offers an exciting, engaging snapshot ofthe work produced by scholars in thisgrowing area of study.”—Theatre Library AssociationPaper 29.95 9780815610380
“This well-researched and rich monograph concludes correctly that Lebanese television, LBC included, hasindeed mostly helped establish a ‘newhegemonic order based in consumerculture rather than the breakdown ofhegemony.’”—Middle East JournalPaper 39.95s 9780815635994Best Arab American Book of 2020“Traces the competing narratives ofArab American belonging to enhancethe understanding of how Othering isat once constructed and challenged,and what is at stake in those ongoing,parallel processes.”—New Books NetworkPaper 29.95s 9780815636816“Provides a valuable analytical framework to continue to understand theways in which the proliferation of blackactors on film are confined by the stereotypical legacy of the industry.”—The Popular Culture Studies Journal ReviewsPaper 19.95s 9780815630050
OF RELATED INTEREST“The first book-length academicstudy to investigate the subject from acultural, cinematic and sociohistoricalapproach by analyzing the differencesbetween the ways in which the thirdgeneration in Israel and second generation portray the Holocaust.”—Jewish LinkPaper 34.95s 9780815636502“This fascinating account deservesrecognition as a distinctive contributionto the literature on the Holocaust, theplight of Jewish survivors in post-war Poland and Germany, and, more generally,European and American Jewish history.”—East European Jewish AffairsPaper 14.95 9780815611196“A useful, engaging contribution toscholarship in several fields, such asAmerican literature, cultural studies,reception studies, and religious history.”—Australasian Journal of American HistoryPaper 34.95s 9780815634034
“The kind of thorough, thoughtprovoking research we get throughoutthis volume will lead us away from excessive simplifications or stifling—possibly unsavory—stereotypes, and forceus to reexamine the necessary generalizations we teach and think by.”—Modernism/modernityPaper 34.95s 9780815635987Written with considerable verve andacumen, this wide-ranging study makesan incisive contribution to film theoryand history, gender studies, postcolonialism and Irish Studies.”—Luke Gibbons, coauthor of Cinema and IrelandHardcover 39.95s 97808156333272021 Edgar Award Nominee“Here is academic writing that is accessible and fluent.No serious student ofIrish crime fiction can be without it.”—The Irish TimesPaper 29.95s 9780815636830
“A detailed, thorough and unbiasedreport and analysis of the themes andevents that pushed the entertainmentindustry into an unwanted but unavoidable labor dispute which will have ramifications on the industry for decades.”—Robert Broder, Chuck Lorre Productions executiveHardcover 29.95 9780815610083“An interesting and very readable bookthat aims to provide an introduction tothe study of English language and linguistics through the medium of populartelevision programmes.”—English in Education JournalPaper 34.95 9780815610816“Well written and wide-ranging,Stevens’s book will appeal to readersinterested in how popular culturehas reflected the ongoing nationaldiscourse about America’s role in theworld.”—Journal of American HistoryPaper 29.95s 9780815630913
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Syracuse Castleman Podrazik Castleman and Podrazik present a sweeping season-by-season story, capturing the essence of television from its inception to the contempo-rary era of anytime access and online streaming, including every prime time fall schedule since 1944. The authors have dug through the mounds
