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This book constitutes the first major exploration of HBO's current programming, examined in the context of the transformation of American television and global society. With studies of well-known shows such as Game of Thrones, Girls, The Leftovers, Silicon Valley, True Detective, The Looking, Ballers and Vinyl, authors examine the trends in current programming, including the rise of queer characters, era-defining comedy, reinvented fantasy series, and the content's new awareness of gender, sexuality and family dysfunction. Interdisciplinary and international in scope, HBO's New and Original Voices explores the sociocultural and political role and impact that HBO's current programmes have held and the ways in which it has translated and reinterpreted social discourses into its own televisual language. A significant intervention in television studies, media studies and cultural studies, this book illuminates the emergence of a new era of culturally relevant television that fans, students, and researchers will find lively, accessible and fascinating.

Race on television. --- Sex on television. --- Sex role on television. --- Television programs --- Social aspects United States. --- Home Box Office (Firm).

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"Weird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid genre of the weird western, analyzing movies, TV shows, and comic books such as Django Unchained, The Walking Dead, and Wynonna Earp"--

Western stories --- Western television programs --- Western films --- Women on television. --- Race in literature. --- Race in motion pictures. --- Race on television. --- Women in literature. --- Women in motion pictures. --- History and criticism. --- West (U.S.) --- In literature.

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"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU) is more popular than any other American police procedural television series, but how does its unique focus on sex crimes reflect contemporary popular culture and feminist critique, whilst also recasting the classic crime narrative? All-American TV Crime Drama is the first dedicated study of SVU and its treatment of sexual violence, gender and criminality. This book uses detailed textual and visual analyses of episodes to illuminate the assumptions underpinning the program. Although SVU engages with issues pertaining to feminism and gender, it sill relies upon traditional and misogynistic tropes such as false rape charges and the monstrous mother to undermine positive views of the feminine. The show and its backdrop, New York City, thus become a stage on which national concerns about women, gender roles, the family and race are carried out. Moorti and Cuklanz unpack how the show has become a crucible for examining current attitudes towards these issues and include an analysis of its reception by its many fans in over 30 countries"--Publisher's description.

Feminism on television. --- Women on television. --- Families on television. --- Identity (Psychology) on television. --- Television --- Family on television --- Women in television --- Women in television plays --- Law & order: Special Victims Unit (Television program) --- Law and order: Special Victims Unit (Television program) --- Law & order: SVU (Television program) --- Law and order: SVU (Television program) --- Race on television. --- Television programs --- Special Victims Unit (Television program)

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Through contextual and textual analyses, this title explores a range of texts and practices that address the ongoing phenomenon of race and its relationship to television. Chapters explore policies and the management of race; transnationalism and racial diversity; historical questions of representation; the myth of a multicultural England, and more. Included are textual analyses of programmes such as Doctor Who, Shoot the Messenger, Desi DNA, Top Boy, and the broadcast environments that helped to create them. Other chapters scrutinise the 1950s and how immigration is reframed on contemporary television screens on programmes like Call the Midwife; the continuing myth of a multicultural England through Luther, and how comedies such as Till Death Us Do Part, cautiously framed racial tensions as laughing matters.

Television broadcasting --- Television programs --- Race on television. --- Minorities on television. --- Telecasting --- Television --- Television industry --- Broadcasting --- Mass media --- Minorities in television --- Social aspects --- Television Studies --- PERFORMING ARTS --- General --- Asian British comedy. --- BBC. --- Black British comedy. --- British history. --- British multiculturalism. --- British television. --- Channel 4. --- Cultural production. --- Identity. --- Immigration. --- Multiculturalism. --- Policy Studies. --- Public service broadcasting. --- Race. --- Representations. --- Stereotypes. --- Television. --- black representation. --- cultural identity. --- ethnicity. --- far-right politics. --- multicultural England. --- public service media. --- racial difference. --- racial diversity. --- racial representations. --- television drama. --- transnationalism.