From "Ma Perkins" and "One Man's Family" in the 1930s to "All My Children" in the 1980s, the soap opera has capture the imagination of millions of American men and women of all ...

A critical history of American burlesque traces its social, demographic, and cultural changes

A discussion of a truly international range of television programs, this title covers alternative modes of television such as digital and satellite.

The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the expanding field of television studies, providing an overview of the discipline and addressing issues of ...

Focusing on the soap opera, this book discusses both the cultural specificity of television soap operas and their reception in other cultures. It considers the soap as a media ...

This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition, On the edge of your seat : Popular theater and film in early-twentieth century American art, organized by the ...

In this book an international team of contributors examines critically the relationship between television and women's culture. Although they recognize that television ...