Television soap operas books

Blaire, an early twenty-something woman, struggles with the pain of a past trauma and loses herself in the fight...  Read More >>

In this memoir, John Glavin returns to Italy to teach Shakespeare's Italian plays to contemporary American students....  Read More >>

The success of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels and HBO's Game of Thrones series underscores the...  Read More >>

Steve Halliwell is best known as the loveable patriarch Zak Dingle in the hit TV show Emmerdale, a part he has played...  Read More >>

This book brings the emergent interest in social class and inequality to the field of television studies. The case...  Read More >>

«Becoming Vampire» is an interdisciplinary exploration into how the figure of the vampire in the twenty-first century...  Read More >>

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In the first dedicated title on this landmark political comedy, James Walters provides an in-depth study of the...  Read More >>

From his first appearance at Alma's funeral, Richard Hillman was destined to be one of the most enigmatic, loving...  Read More >>

The Golden Girls, Designing Women, Living Single, Sex and the City, Girlfriends and Hot in Cleveland stand out as...  Read More >>

Whether it's Sherlock Holmes solving crimes or Sheldon and Leonard geeking out over sci-fi, geniuses are central...  Read More >>

Fans of the series as well as readers interested in popular culture, television history, representations of gender,...  Read More >>

Soap operas have been a staple of TV. But how did a genre devoted to lonely housewives become a Mecca for the gay...  Read More >>

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Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to:...  Read More >>

Media and Nostalgia is an interdisciplinary and international exploration of media and their relation to nostalgia....  Read More >>

Featuring leading scholars of British television drama and noted writers and producers from the television industry,...  Read More >>

Featuring leading scholars of British television drama and noted writers and producers from the television industry,...  Read More >>

An intimate, intelligent portrait of a man destined to be regarded as one of television's most enduring icons.  Read More >>

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From Mean Girl to BFF, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood explores female sociality in postfeminist popular...  Read More >>

A new, original investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve...  Read More >>

This pioneering book provides detailed analysis of scenes from nine British television dramas produced between 1954...  Read More >>

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Suitable for fans of the hit Channel 4 TV drama, Revenge, this title introduces the loyal audience to new characters...  Read More >>