Research

Glen Creeber was a lecturer in television studies at the University of East Anglia and a ‘Research Fellow’ at Cardiff University before coming to Aberystwyth in 2002. While he is best known most for his work on television drama and genre, he has recently begun moving into areas of ‘new media’, reflected in his current interest in online drama and a forthcoming book on the aesthetics of television and the internet for BFI/Palgrave, due for publication in Spring, 2013.

Teaching

FM10220 Studying Television
FM20620 Television Genre
FM21220 Contemporary TV Dama
FM36040 Dissertation

Publications

Books:

Dennis Potter, Between Two Worlds: A Critical Reassessment, London & New York: Macmillan, 1998.

Serial Television: Big Drama on the Small Screen, London: British Film Institute, 2004.

TV Classics: The Singing Detective, London: British Film Institute, 2007.

Editor (associate eds. John Tulloch& Toby Miller) The Television Genre Book, London & New York: Palgrave/British Film Institute, 2001 & 2008.

Editor, 50 Key Television Programmes, London, New York, Sydney, Auckland: Arnold, 2004.

Editor, Tele-Visions: An Introduction to Studying Television, London: British Film Institute, 2006.

Co-Editor (with Royston Martin), Digital Cultures: Understanding New Media, London: Open University Press, 2009.

Recent Articles:

‘’Hideously White’: ‘British Television, Glocalisation and National Identity’, Television & New Media, February 2004, vol. 5 no. 1, 2004.

‘The Joy of Text?: Television and Textual Analysis’, Critical Studies in Television: scholarly studies in small screen fictions, Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2006.

‘The truth is out there! Not!’: Shameless and the moral structures of contemporary social realism’, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Volume 7, Issue 4, 2009.

‘Comfortably Numb?: The Sopranos, New Brutalism and the Last Temptation of Chris’ in David Lavery, Douglas L. Howard and Paul Levinson (eds.), The Essential Sopranos Reader, Kentucky: The University of Kentucky.

‘Online-Serien: Intime Begegnung der dritten Art’ in Robert Blanchet, Kristina Köhler, Tereza Smid, Julia Zutavern (Hg.), Serielle Formen: Von Den frühen Film-Serials zu aktuellen Quality-TV-und Online-Serien, Marburg: Schüren: 377-396.

‘It’s not TV, it’s online drama: The return of the intimate screen’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, May 24, Volume 14, No. 4, 2011.