Synopsis
This innovative and timely collection offers a wide-reaching critical evaluation of performance in television, mapping out key conventions, practices and concerns while introducing performance theory and criticism to the established field of television studies. Chapters from leading scholars move through a range of examples from different styles and genres, from Game of Thrones to America's Next Top Model. Individual performances are analysed in close detail as the authors debate central questions of meaning, value and achievement.
Opening out new pathways for inquiry and investigation, this book is an important touchstone for undergraduate and postgraduate students of television, media and theatre studies with an interest in the work of actors and non-actors on screen.
About the Authors
Tom Brown practices as a barrister from Cloisters Chambers, London, UK, specialising in employment, equality, and human rights law. He has worked as a Judicial Assistant to the late Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Senior Law Lord, and for the United Nations on human rights and humanitarian projects. Tom has sat as a fee-paid Employment Judge since 2013.
Amy Holdsworth is a senior lecturer in Film and Television Studies in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is the author of Television, Memory and Nostalgia (2011) and has published in Cinema Journal, Screen, Critical Studies in Television, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Journal of Popular Television. She is on the editorial advisory board for Screen and Memory Studies and regularly reviews for a wide range of journals and publishers.
Karen Lury is Professor of Film and Television Studies in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow. She has published widely in film and television studies, with a particular focus on the representation of the child in film and in relation to children's media more generally. Her books include Interpreting Television (Bloomsbury, 2005) and The Child in Film: Tears, Fears and Fairytales (2010). Her work on the child in film was developed through her (2010-2014) AHRC funded project 'Children and Amateur Media in Scotland'. Her most recent publication, an anthology - co-edited with Michael Lawrence - The Zoo and Screen Media: Images of Exhibition and Encounter (2016) includes an essay based on research from this project. She is a longstanding editor of the international film and television studies journal, Screen.
Timotheus Vermeulen is Professor of Media, Culture and Society at the University of Oslo, where he teaches and writes on media and cultural theory and aesthetics. He is also an art critic. His latest book, Plastic Time: Gesture on Screen, is to be published in 2026.
James Walters is Professor of Screen Aesthetics and Criticism at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Visions in the Frame: Mise en scène between Film and TV (2025), Television and Repetition (2023), the BFI TV Classic The Thick of It (2016), Fantasy Film (2011), and Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema (2008). He is the co-editor of Television Performance (2019) and Film Moments: Criticism, History, Theory (2010). His work has appeared in numerous edited collections and international journals including Journal of Film and Video, Critical Studies in Television, Journal of Popular Television, Film Studies, and Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism.
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