Television

David Thomson Hardcover | 18.8 x 4.06 x 25.91 cm | 416 pp Thames & Hudson | 2016 | 9780500519165 In just a few years, what used to be an immobile piece of living room furniture, which one had to sit in front of...

Maurice Berger & Lynn Spigel  Hardcover | 26.67 x 19.81 x 2.03 cm | 172 pp Yale University Press | 2015 | 9780300207934 An engaging exploration of the relationship between avant-garde art and American network television from the 1940s through the 1970s. The aesthetics and concepts of modern...

Maggie Brown Softcover | 15.7 x 1.32 x 23.88 cm | 320 pp British Film Institute | 2021 | 9781911239840 This book covers a dramatic decade in the fortunes of Britains quirkiest broadcaster. It opens in 2009, with the realisation that Channel 4s biggest money spinner, Big...

Nick Fraser Softcover | 15.24 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 416 pp Faber & Faber | 2019 | 9780571329564 Documentary films are the rock and roll of our times. Why are they made? Who are in the tribe of documentary film-makers? Do their films really...

Lenny Henry & Marcus Ryder Softcover | 11.1 x 1.3 x 17.8 cm | 192 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571365128 Sir Lenny Henry rang up the Office for National Statistics to confirm something he'd been thinking about for a long time. They...

Allen Glover Hardcover | 20.32 x 2.92 x 25.4 cm | 256 pp Abrams | 2019 | 9781590201671 Noir as a style, movement, or sensibility has its roots in hardboiled detective fiction by writers like Chandler and Hammett, and films adapted from their novels were...