Television / Media Theory

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 past television hits.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 240 pages HB 9781350089693 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501347344 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501347351 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Hipster Culture

Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives

Edited by Heike Steinhoff, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany This is the first comprehensive collection of original studies that address the hipster and hipster culture from a range of cultural studies perspectives. Contributers discuss the cultural, economic, and political meanings and implications of a wide range of cultural phenomena prominently associated with hipster culture. These include the gentrification of urban areas, alternative food styles and nutrition choices, vintage fashion styles and eclectic body adornments and practices, the nostalgic use of retro technologies, and the production and consumption of literature, art and music with a characteristic aesthetic and style marked by self-reflexivity, irony, and a simultaneous longing for an earnest authenticity.

UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 424 pages • 7 bw illus PB 9781501370410 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781501370427 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501370403 • £27.60 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501370397 • £27.60 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic

How We Use Stories and Why That Matters

Cultural Science in Action

John Hartley, Curtin University, Australia How We Use Stories and Why That Matters argues that media and networked systems perform and bind group identities, creating bordered fictions within which economic and political activities are made meaningful. Using striking examples and compelling analysis, the book shows what the New York Shakespeare Riots tell us about class struggle, what Death Cab for Cutie tells us about media, and what Kate Moss’s wedding dress tells us about authorship. Together, these knowledge stories tell us about how intimate human communication is organised and used to stage organised conflict, to test the ‘fighting fitness’ of contending groups, unwittingly creating new stories, identities and classes along the way.

UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 312 pages • 34 bw illus PB 9781501383298 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501351631 ePub 9781501351648 • £90.50 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501351655 • £90.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic A Brief History of Contemporary Artists' Responses to Television

Francesco Spampinato, University of Bologna, Italy While highlighting the prevailing role of television in Western societies, Art vs. TV maps and condenses a comprehensive history of the relationships of art and television. With a particular focus on the link between reality and representation, Francesco Spampinato analyzes video art works, installations, performances, interventions and television programs made by contemporary artists as forms of resistance to and appropriation and parody of mainstream television. These works and phenomena elicit a tension between art and television, exposing an incongruence; an impossibility not only to converge but at the very least to open up a dialogical exchange.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 304 pages • 70 bw illus HB 9781501370571 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501370564 • £90.50 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501370557 • £90.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Imperfections

Studies in Mistakes, Flaws, and Failures

Edited by Caleb Kelly, University of New South Wales, Australia, Jakko Kemper, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands & Ellen Rutten, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Imperfections synthesizes the swiftly growing but fragmented critical scholarship on mistakes, glitches, and other aesthetics and logics of imperfection into the first transdisciplinary, transnational framework of imperfection studies. With this framework, the editors offer scholars and students across various disciplines tools to craft more historically grounded and critically informed conceptualizations of the imperfect.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 320 pages • 30 bw illus HB 9781501380341 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501380334 • £90.50 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501380327 • £90.50 / $117.00 Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic