Lucy Fife Donaldson is Senior Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, UK, and her research focuses on the materiality of style and the body in popular film and television. She is the author of Texture in Film (Palgrave Macmillan: 2014), and a member of the Editorial Board of Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism.James Walters is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. His books include Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema (2008), Fantasy Film (2011), Film Moments (2010) and the BFI Television ClassicThe Thick of It (2016).

• Critical Introduction, Lucy Fife Donaldson & James WaltersSection One: Performance and television form1.In small packages: Particularities of performance in dramatic episodic series, Sarah Cardwell2.The performing lives of things: Animals, puppets, models and effects, Jonathan Bignell3.The enduring act: Performance and achievement in long television,James Walters4.Faces of allegiance in Homeland: Performance and the provisional in serial television drama, Elliott LoganSection Two:Television performance and collaboration5.Approaching performance in contemporary Coronation Street (1960), James Zborowski6.Don’t Curb Your Enthusiasm: visible bonhomie and the ontology of improvisational comedy,Tom Brown7.Tears, Tantrums and Television Performance, Amy Holdsworth and Karen Lury8.Comedy, performance and the panel show, Alex ClaytonSection Three: The television performer9.An actor diversifies: A diachronic examination of the work and career of Tony Curran, Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox10.The same, but different: adjustment and accumulation in television performance, Lucy Fife Donaldson11.Analyzing Aniston: Tonal complexity and the non-comedic approaches to sitcom performance, Lydia Buckingham12.Soft upper lip – Coach’s facial expressions in Friday Night Lights,Timotheus Vermeulen.

An interesting and original collection of essays around the neglected topic of performance on television. I know of no other text that covers the topic in such a comprehensive way.

Lucy Fife Donaldson is Senior Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, UK, and her research focuses on the materiality of style and the body in popular film and television. She is the author of Texture in Film (Palgrave Macmillan: 2014), and a member of the Editorial Board of Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism.James Walters is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. His books include Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema (2008), Fantasy Film (2011), Film Moments (2010) and the BFI Television ClassicThe Thick of It (2016).

• Critical Introduction, Lucy Fife Donaldson & James WaltersSection One: Performance and television form1.In small packages: Particularities of performance in dramatic episodic series, Sarah Cardwell2.The performing lives of things: Animals, puppets, models and effects, Jonathan Bignell3.The enduring act: Performance and achievement in long television,James Walters4.Faces of allegiance in Homeland: Performance and the provisional in serial television drama, Elliott LoganSection Two:Television performance and collaboration5.Approaching performance in contemporary Coronation Street (1960), James Zborowski6.Don’t Curb Your Enthusiasm: visible bonhomie and the ontology of improvisational comedy,Tom Brown7.Tears, Tantrums and Television Performance, Amy Holdsworth and Karen Lury8.Comedy, performance and the panel show, Alex ClaytonSection Three: The television performer9.An actor diversifies: A diachronic examination of the work and career of Tony Curran, Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox10.The same, but different: adjustment and accumulation in television performance, Lucy Fife Donaldson11.Analyzing Aniston: Tonal complexity and the non-comedic approaches to sitcom performance, Lydia Buckingham12.Soft upper lip – Coach’s facial expressions in Friday Night Lights,Timotheus Vermeulen.

An interesting and original collection of essays around the neglected topic of performance on television. I know of no other text that covers the topic in such a comprehensive way.

Lucy Fife Donaldson is Senior Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, UK, and her research focuses on the materiality of style and the body in popular film and television. She is the author of Texture in Film (Palgrave Macmillan: 2014), and a member of the Editorial Board of Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism.James Walters is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. His books include Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema (2008), Fantasy Film (2011), Film Moments (2010) and the BFI Television ClassicThe Thick of It (2016).

• Critical Introduction, Lucy Fife Donaldson & James WaltersSection One: Performance and television form1.In small packages: Particularities of performance in dramatic episodic series, Sarah Cardwell2.The performing lives of things: Animals, puppets, models and effects, Jonathan Bignell3.The enduring act: Performance and achievement in long television,James Walters4.Faces of allegiance in Homeland: Performance and the provisional in serial television drama, Elliott LoganSection Two:Television performance and collaboration5.Approaching performance in contemporary Coronation Street (1960), James Zborowski6.Don’t Curb Your Enthusiasm: visible bonhomie and the ontology of improvisational comedy,Tom Brown7.Tears, Tantrums and Television Performance, Amy Holdsworth and Karen Lury8.Comedy, performance and the panel show, Alex ClaytonSection Three: The television performer9.An actor diversifies: A diachronic examination of the work and career of Tony Curran, Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox10.The same, but different: adjustment and accumulation in television performance, Lucy Fife Donaldson11.Analyzing Aniston: Tonal complexity and the non-comedic approaches to sitcom performance, Lydia Buckingham12.Soft upper lip – Coach’s facial expressions in Friday Night Lights,Timotheus Vermeulen.

An interesting and original collection of essays around the neglected topic of performance on television. I know of no other text that covers the topic in such a comprehensive way.