
TV and Cars
Paul Grainge(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 25. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-4744-8004-8 (ISBN)
Description
TV and Cars offers a compelling lens on television in a mobile media era. Cars are vehicles for television, a fixture of the shows and ads that drive TV. In this original approach to contemporary television, Paul Grainge looks beyond questions of speed, spoilers and cylinders to explore the small screen intimacy of cars - the way people interact, sing and dwell in the habitat of automobiles. Considering the industrial, cultural and aesthetic relation between TV and cars, Grainge examines how comedy entertainment such as sitcoms, talk shows, web series and vlogs have been drawn to the practice of 'passengering'.
Getting under the bonnet of popular 'drive-and-talk' series like The Trip, Carpool Karaoke, Peter Kay's Car Share and Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, this engaging interdisciplinary excursion finds new ways to look at both television and the social life of cars.
Getting under the bonnet of popular 'drive-and-talk' series like The Trip, Carpool Karaoke, Peter Kay's Car Share and Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, this engaging interdisciplinary excursion finds new ways to look at both television and the social life of cars.
Reviews / Votes
In this compelling new book, Paul Grainge uses his closely-focused topic to map out an exciting range of fresh directions and connected paths. He expresses the importance of his diverse central case studies through their relationship to wider cultural and industrial contexts, in turn providing a captivating and authoritative account of the contemporary television landscape. The result is an engaging, intricate and lively work that will be essential reading in television studies for years to come. -- Dr. James Walters, University of Birmingham This small book engages with big ideas in an exciting realm only recently being discovered by researchers, and it does so with writerly style and broad scholarly learning. -- James Miller * The Journal of Transport History *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
14 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-8004-8 (9781474480048)
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Person
Paul Grainge is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is the author and editor of six books, including Promotional Screen Industries (with Catherine Johnson) (2015), Ephemeral Media: Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube (2011), and Brand Hollywood: Selling Entertainment in a Global Media Age (2008).
Content
List of FiguresAcknowledgements
Introduction: Vehicles for Television
1. The Trip - On journeys and passengering
2. Carpool Karaoke - On the drive to platforms
3. Peter Kay's Car Share - On commuting and commonplace roads
Conclusion: Mobility and Media
NotesBibliographyIndex
Introduction: Vehicles for Television
1. The Trip - On journeys and passengering
2. Carpool Karaoke - On the drive to platforms
3. Peter Kay's Car Share - On commuting and commonplace roads
Conclusion: Mobility and Media
NotesBibliographyIndex