Television

Watching Doctor Who

Fan Reception and Evaluation Paul Booth, DePaul University, USA & Craig Owen Jones, San Jose State University, USA Watching Doctor Who explores fandom’s changing attitudes towards this much-loved TV series during its over-50 year history. Why do fans love an episode one year but deride it a decade later? How do fans’ values of Doctor Who change over time? As a show that's featured as part of the shared landscape of home entertainment since the 1960s, Doctor Who helps us understand the changing nature of notions of ‘value’ and ‘quality’ in popular television. Through a series of in-depth case studies of fan polls and debates, Paul Booth and Craig Owen Jones interrogate the way Doctor Who fans and audiences re-interpret the value of particular episodes, Doctors, companions, and eras of Who.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 216 pages PB 9781350185630 • £19.99 / $26.95 Previously published in HB 9781350116764 ePub 9781350116740 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350116733 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Who Watching • Bloomsbury Academic

Design for Doctor Who

World-building and Visual Style Piers D. Britton, University of Redlands, Southern California, USA Piers Britton provides the first in-depth study of Doctor Who's design and the way the show constructs unique visual worlds. Tracing Doctor Who's design history from its inception in 1963 through to the present day, and following its production journey from London to its current home in Cardiff, Britton explores how the show's designers have created settings from Elizabethan England to the end of the universe, the distinctive costumes of the individual Doctors and his companions, and the extraordinary prosthetics of the Doctor's allies and opponents from across the galaxies.

UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 256 pages • 30 bw illus PB 9781472984159 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350116870 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350116832 • £19.79 / $24.63 ePdf 9781350116825 • £19.79 / $24.63 Series: Who Watching • Bloomsbury Academic

All Men Must Die

Power and Passion in Game of Thrones Carolyne Larrington, University of Oxford, UK In Game of Thrones, potent and intimate narratives of love and passion can be found within the grand landscapes of heroism, honour and death. In this vital follow-up to Winter Is Coming (2015), acclaimed medievalist Carolyne Larrington explores themes of power, blood-kin, lust and sex in order to put entirely fresh meanings on the show of the century.

UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 272 pages • 40 bw illus PB 9781784539320 • £12.99 / $17.95 ePub 9781350141537 • £11.69 / $14.77 ePdf 9781350141544 • £11.69 / $14.77 Bloomsbury Academic

TV

Susan Bordo, University of Kentucky, USA Weaving together personal memoir and social history, reflecting on key moments in the history of TV programming, the evolution of the material object that once was a “set” and now dominates entire rooms, and how TV has been depicted in movies such as Avalon, Broadcast News and Network, Susan Bordo opens up the 75 year-old time-capsule that is TV as it has shaped habits of consumption, ethical values, social relations, and our very ability to discriminate between the scripted and the spontaneous, the factual and the spun, image and reality.

UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 160 pages PB 9781501362521 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501362538 • £11.36 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501362545 • £11.36 / $13.45 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

OBJECT LESSONS Explore the hidden lives of ordinary things

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Seeing It on Television

Televisuality in the Contemporary US ‘High-end’ Series Max Sexton, University of Surrey, UK & Dominic Lees, University of the West of England, UK This volume discusses how complex production histories lie behind the rise of the US mini-series, a form that reflects industrial changes and the renegotiation of formal strategies. They reveal how the involvement of many different people in the production process, based on new relationships of creative authority, complicates our understanding of authorship. These phenomena have affected the construction of stylistics and the viewing strategies required by different shows. The cultural, as well as industrial, strategies of recent television drama and discourses of legitimation are explored in several exemplary shows ranging from The Young Pope to Stranger Things.

UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 208 pages • 16 color illus, 10 bw illus HB 9781501359422 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501359415 • £81.19 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501359408 • £81.19 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Ranger Reboot

Nostalgia, Transmediality and the Power Rangers Franchise Ross Garner, Cardiff University, UK Examining a range of contemporary case studies that includes Downton Abbey, Doctor Who and The Muppets, this book considers how forms of mediated nostalgia respond to, and are shaped by, such production-located issues as public service and/or commercial outlooks, scheduling decisions and target audience. The study argues against a primarily sociological understanding of mediated forms of nostalgia, which would account for these by linking them to perceived periods of anxiety and crisis, by instead foregrounding how production-based concerns impact upon individual constructions of nostalgia.

UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 240 pages HB 9781501312533 • £80.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501312557 • £87.69 / $107.99 ePdf 9781501312540 • £87.69 / $107.99 Bloomsbury Academic

The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV

Production Design and the Boomer Era Alex Bevan, The University of Queensland, Australia Explores the aesthetic politics of nostalgia for 1950s and '60s America on contemporary television. Specifically, it looks at how nostalgic TV production design shapes and is shaped by larger historical discourses on gender and technological change, and America’s perceived decline as a global power. Alex Bevan argues that the aesthetics of nostalgic TV tell stories of their own about historical decline and progress, and the place of the baby boomer television suburb in American national memory, using Mad Men, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, and film remakes of 1950s and '60s family sitcoms as primary case studies.

UK August 2020 • US August 2020 • 264 pages • 29 bw illus PB 9781501368097 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501331411 ePub 9781501331435 • £29.22 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501331428 • £29.22 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic

The Persistence of Television

People, Programmes and Practices that Endure Jason Jacobs, University of Queensland, Australia & Frances Bonner, University of Queensland, Australia The Persistence of Television examines more than 60 years of television - including popular shows such as Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, and NYPD Blue - to identify the elements that have entertained and informed viewers from the beginning of mass broadcasting to the present day. On-screen faces, programmes and genres, and production practices drawn from British, American and Australian television services are examined to demonstrate how continuity persists in the face of change. There's no denying the excitement or the value of the new, but the contributors to this book argue that it runs in tandem with enduring aspects of the already existing.

UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 240 pages HB 9781350089693 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501347344 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501347351 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Sense8

Transcending Television Edited by Deborah Shaw, University of Portsmouth, UK & Rob Stone, University of Birmingham, UK This collection explores the many ways in which the Netflix series Sense8 transcends television. As its characters transcend physical and psychological borders of gender and geography, so the series itself transcends those between television, new media platforms and new screen technologies, while dissolving those between its producers, stars, audiences and fans. Sense8: Transcending Television is much more than an academic examination of a series; it is an account and analysis of the way that we all receive, communicate and consider ourselves as participants in global communities that are social, political and cultural, and now both physical and virtual too.

UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 224 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781501352935 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501352928 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501352911 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic