Add to ORKGThe Essential Cult TV Reader is a collection of insightful essays that examine television shows that amass engaged, active fan bases by employing an imaginative approach to programming. Once defined by limited viewership, cult TV has developed its own identity, with some shows gaining large, mainstream audiences. By exploring the defining characteristics of cult TV, The Essential Cult TV Reader traces the development of this once obscure form and explains how cult TV achieved its current status as legitimate television. The essays explore a wide range of cult programs, from early shows such as Star Trek, The Avengers, Dark Shadows, and The Twilight Zone to popular contemporary shows such as Lost, Dexter, and 24, addressing the cultural cont...
This is an examination of the phenomenon of cult fiction. Starting with the Romantic poets this thes...
In the last ten years, television has reinvented itself in numerous ways. The demise of the U.S. thr...
Omnibus was, to use an expression current during the Golden Age of Television, a window on the wor...
Once confined solely to literature and film, science fiction has emerged to become a firmly establis...
The founding of Home Box Office in the early 1970s was a harbinger of the innovations that transform...
A television series is tagged with the label "cult" by the media, advertisers, and network executive...
Cult TV is a very exciting area of contemporary television. "The Cult TV Book" is the companion refe...
This collection of essays approaches the American Horror Story cult television series through a rich...
A key strategy of TV companies in the UK and US since the late 1990s, has been to create distinctive...
From Ken Burns’s documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from A&E’s Biography series to CN...
Sections: 1) Digital Television as New Media; 2) Cult Television's Use of New Media; 3) Audience App...
This study examined the intentions of a group of individuals who created the sitcom Aliens in Americ...
The point of departure for this thesis is the approach to television studies first developed in Read...
Reading Television was the first book to push the boundaries of television studies beyond the insigh...
This paper explores a “cult” following in television, by looking at various aspects of the program T...
This is an examination of the phenomenon of cult fiction. Starting with the Romantic poets this thes...
In the last ten years, television has reinvented itself in numerous ways. The demise of the U.S. thr...
Omnibus was, to use an expression current during the Golden Age of Television, a window on the wor...
Once confined solely to literature and film, science fiction has emerged to become a firmly establis...
The founding of Home Box Office in the early 1970s was a harbinger of the innovations that transform...
A television series is tagged with the label "cult" by the media, advertisers, and network executive...
Cult TV is a very exciting area of contemporary television. "The Cult TV Book" is the companion refe...
This collection of essays approaches the American Horror Story cult television series through a rich...
A key strategy of TV companies in the UK and US since the late 1990s, has been to create distinctive...
From Ken Burns’s documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from A&E’s Biography series to CN...
Sections: 1) Digital Television as New Media; 2) Cult Television's Use of New Media; 3) Audience App...
This study examined the intentions of a group of individuals who created the sitcom Aliens in Americ...
The point of departure for this thesis is the approach to television studies first developed in Read...
Reading Television was the first book to push the boundaries of television studies beyond the insigh...
This paper explores a “cult” following in television, by looking at various aspects of the program T...
This is an examination of the phenomenon of cult fiction. Starting with the Romantic poets this thes...
In the last ten years, television has reinvented itself in numerous ways. The demise of the U.S. thr...
Omnibus was, to use an expression current during the Golden Age of Television, a window on the wor...