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Television Genres

This research guide points to resources on different genres shown on Television.
  • Basic information
  • Action & adventure television
  • Biographical television shows
  • Cartoons and televised anime
  • Children's television
  • Comedies
    • I Love Lucy
  • Cop shows
  • Documentary television programs
  • Dystopian television programs
  • Fantasy television programs
  • Game shows
  • Historical television programs
  • Horror television programs
  • Internet TV
  • Legal shows
  • Live television programs
  • Made-for-TV movies
    • Hallmark movies
  • Medical shows
  • Reality TV
  • Religion on television
  • Science fiction
    • Star Trek
    • Doctor Who
  • Soaps
  • Spy shows
  • Superheroes on television
  • Talk shows
  • Television dramas
  • Variety shows
  • Westerns

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The More Technical Aspects of Television

  • Cover artMobile TV: customizing content and experience: mobile storytelling, creation and sharing by Aaron Marcus; Anxo Cereijo Roibás; Riccardo Sala, eds.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781848827004
    Developing usable, useful, and appealing solutions for the customer or user experience requires customization according to specific users' needs amidst frequently changing physical and social environments. Complex design problems like these require interdisciplinary perspectives that cover software functionality, human interaction and communication experiences, and perceived value.
  • Cover artShut off: the Canadian digital television transition by Gregory Taylor
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry HE 8700.9 .C2 T39 2013
    ISBN: 9780773540491
    Digital technology has revolutionized modern television but what exactly has changed? The history of the digital transition is one of great scientific achievement, expensive failures, and significant political and industrial power struggles. In Shut Off: The Canadian Digital Television Transition, Gregory Taylor examines the technology, institutional players, and the policies that have shaped Canada's efforts to switch from analogue to digital television broadcasting.
  • Cover artTelevision as digital media by James Bennett; Niki Strange, eds.
    • Book
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780822349105
    In Television as Digital Media, scholars from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States combine television studies with new media studies to analyze digital TV as part of digital culture.

Keeping up with Television Studies journal literature

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A definition for Internet Television

Internet television (or online television) is the digital distribution of television content, such as TV shows, via the public Internet (which also carries other types of data), as opposed to dedicated terrestrial television via an over the air aerial system, cable television, and/or satellite television systems. It is also sometimes called web television, though this phrase is also used to describe the genre of TV shows broadcast only online.

[Source: 'Internet Television," Wikipedia, 09/21/2016]

In the Library's collections

This page highlights library resources for programs that originate on the internet rather than on television.

  • internet television
  • television viewers effect of technological innovations on
  • internet videos
  • streaming video
  • video-on-demand
  • digital television

Selected book titles

  • Cover artBeyond the box: television and the Internet by Sharon Marie Ross
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry HE 8700.65 .R67 2008
    ISBN: 9781405161244
    Beyond the Box gives students and couch potatoes alike a better understanding of what it means to watch television in an era of profound technological change.
  • Cover ArtInternet comedy television series, 1997-2015 by Vincent Terrace
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    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780786497607
    Created around the world and available only on the web, Internet "television" series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through crowd-funding, they are filmed with borrowed equipment and volunteer casts and crews, and viewers find them through word of mouth or by chance. The fourth in a series covering Internet TV, this book takes a comprehensive look at 1,121 comedy series produced exclusively for online audiences. ...
  • Cover artInternet drama and mystery television series, 1996-2014 by Vincent Terrace
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780786495818
    Created around the world and available only on the Web, internet television series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through online crowd-funding, they are produced with borrowed equipment and volunteer casts and crews, and viewers find them through word of mouth or by chance.
  • Cover ArtOpen TV: innovation beyond Hollywood and the rise of web television by Aymar Jean Christian
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.926 .P76 C55 2018
    ISBN: 9781479874224
    Before HBO's hit show Insecure, Issa Rae's comedy about being a nerdy black woman debuted as a YouTube web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, her response to the absence of diverse black characters on the small screen. Broad City, a feminist sitcom now on Comedy Central, originated as a web series on YouTube, developed directly out of funny women Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson's real-life friendship. These unconventional stories took advantage of the freedom afforded outside the traditional television system: online. Open TV shows how we have left "the network era" far behind and entered the networked era, with the web opening up new possibilities for independent producers, entrepreneurs, and media audiences. ...
  • Cover artPost-TV: piracy, cord-cutting, and the future of television by Michael Strangelove
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.6 .S77 2015
    ISBN: 9781442614529
    In the late 2000s, television no longer referred to an object to be watched; it had transformed into content to be streamed, downloaded, and shared. Tens of millions of viewers have 'cut the cord,' abandoned cable television, tuned into online services like Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube, and also watch pirated movies and programmes at an unprecedented rate. The idea that the Internet will devastate the television and film industry in the same way that it gutted the music industry no longer seems farfetched. The television industry, however, remains driven by outmoded market-based business models that ignore audience behaviour and preferences. In Post-TV, Michael Strangelove explores the viewing habits and values of the post-television generation, one that finds new ways to exploit technology to find its entertainment for free, rather than for a fee. ...
  • Cover artSmall screen aesthetics: from TV to the internet by Glen Creeber
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.55 .C74 2013
    ISBN: 9781844574094
    In this ground-breaking study, Glen Creeber gives a critical and historical account of small screen aesthetics, tracing its origins from the early days of television through to the arrival of the internet, YouTube and beyond. ...
  • Cover ArtThat will never work: the birth of Netflix and the amazing life of an idea by Marc Randolph
    • Book
    Call Number: Feldberg at Baker HD 9697 .V544 N488 2019
    ISBN: 9780316530200
    In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company-all revealed by co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph. Once upon a time, brick-and-mortar video stores were king. Late fees were ubiquitous, video-streaming unheard was of, and widespread DVD adoption seemed about as imminent as flying cars. Indeed, these were the widely accepted laws of the land in 1997, when Marc Randolph had an idea. It was a simple thought-leveraging the internet to rent movies-and was just one of many more and far worse proposals, like personalized baseball bats and a shampoo delivery service, that Randolph would pitch to his business partner, Reed Hastings, on their commute to work each morning. But Hastings was intrigued, and the pair-with Hastings as the primary investor and Randolph as the CEO-founded a company. Now with over 150 million subscribers, Netflix's triumph feels inevitable, but the twenty-first century's most disruptive start up began with few believers and calamity at every turn. ...
  • Cover artTV outside the box: trailblazing in the digital television revolution by Neil Landau
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781138905269
    TV Outside the Box: Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution explores the new and exploding universe of on-demand, OTT (Over the Top) networks: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Crackle, CW Seed, Vimeo, AwesomenessTV, and many more. ...

Finding articles & journals

Articles and other writings about internet television can be found in many publications. Our collection includes an annual business analysis of Netflix. You can use Film & Television Literature Index to find articles or use the search box at the top of the page.

  • Netflix, Inc by MarketLine
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal
    This is a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats) analysis for Netflix, Inc.
  • Resource logoFilm & television literature index by EBSCO Publishing
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Use this index to find articles about this TV genre.
  • Resource logoBusiness source complete by EBSCO Publishing
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This index searches a variety of scholarly and popular business publications including the Business of Media.
  • Resource logoThe web of science citation databases by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.

Selected internet shows

Thanks to the Guardian for its article "The 25 web TV shows you need to see. (Hannah J. Davies; Gwilym Mumford; Rachael Hogg; David Stubbs)"

  • Title cardAnyone But Me
    • Video
    Call Number: Internet show
    The series centers around the experiences of Vivian McMillan (Rachael Hip-Flores), a sixteen-year-old lesbian whose father's illness prompts the two of them to move from Manhattan to the home of Vivian's maternal aunt in Westchester, about 30 minutes away. Vivian attempts to maintain her relationship with her girlfriend Aster Gaston (Nicole Pacent) while enrolling in a new school, negotiating old childhood connections, and establishing a new social circle in what she perceives to be a substantially different environment from her previous home in the city.
  • Title cardAve 43. Season 1 by Justin Tanner
    • Video
    Call Number: Internet show
  • Title cardBetween Two Ferns with Zach Galifinakis
    • Video
    Call Number: Internet show
    Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis is a talk show hosted by comedian Zach Galifianakis and featuring celebrity guests. Episodes last several minutes, in which the interviewer (Galifianakis) and guest trade barbs and insults.
  • The Conversation with Amanda Cadenet
    • Video
    Call Number: Internet show
    The concept for the show grew out of my own journey, and utilizing my ability to capture the essence of women through our universal language of shared experiences and solutions. In addition to reaching a television audience in 18 countries, THE CONVERSATION lives online as an active community and website.
  • Title cardFunny or Die
    • Link
    Call Number: Online resource
    Funny Or Die is a comedy video website that combines user-generated content with original, exclusive content. The site is a place where celebrities, established and up-and-coming comedians and regular users can all put up stuff they think is funny. At the same time, the site hopes to eliminate all the junk that people have to pick through to find videos. That means around here you get to vote on what videos are funny and what videos deserve to die.
  • Title cardThe Mis-Adventures of an Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
    • Video
    Call Number: Internet show
    The show follows the life of J as she interacts with co-workers and love interests who place her in uncomfortable situations. The story is told through first-person narrative as J usually reveals how she feels about her circumstances through voice-over or dream sequence.
  • The Slope
    • Video
    Call Number: Internet show
    THE SLOPE is a comedy that follows the lives of a lesbian couple navigating their way through modern-day Park Slope, Brooklyn. One year into their relationship, Ingrid and Desiree continue to hash out a power dynamic that ends up making them look homophobic, superficial and ultimately, perfect for one another.
  • Stooges
    • Video
    Call Number: Internet show

Internet resources

  • Indie Series Awards
    • Link
    The Indie Series Awards (ISAs) celebrate the best in independently produced scripted entertainment created for the Web.
  • International Academy of Web Television
    • Link
    Founded in 2009, the IAWTV is helping to shape the rapidly evolving digital entertainment industry while providing a venue for the acknowledgement of artistic and technological achievement in original entertainment distributed on the open internet.
  • Wikipedia logo
    List of web television series from Wikipedia
    • Link
    This is a list of notable web television series, or web series, organized alphabetically by name.
  • Wikipedia logo
    Web series from Wikipedia
    • Link
    This page defines what a 'web series' is.
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