Dear Colleagues,

Please find below details about my new book Television in Transition: The Life and 
Afterlife of the Narrative Action Hero (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010):

Combining an exciting methodology alongside high-interest case studies, Television in 
Transition offers a guide to a medium that has weathered the challenges of first-run 
syndication, a multi-channel universe, netlets, major media conglomerates, deregulation, 
and globalization--all in the space of twenty years. This is a highly original explanation of 
how innovation takes place within the television industry's management of predictability, 
risk, and familiarity. 

-Examines a return in television programming to action narratives with individual (super) 
heroes intended to navigate this new, international, multi-channel universe 

-Explores how television programming "translates" to new spatial geographies 

-Looks at the value of a program's "afterlife," the continued circulation, repackaging and 
repurposing of programming beyond its initial iteration 

-Features illustrative case studies of popular programs including Highlander: The Series, 
Smallville, 24, and Doctor Who 


For further information, please visit the following links:

Television in Transition: The Life and Afterlife of the Narrative Action Hero
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140518535X.html

http://www.amazon.com/Television-Transition-Afterlife-Narrative-
Action/dp/140518535X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275511041&sr=8-1


Thank you,

Shawn Shimpach
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of Massachusetts
410 Machmer Hall
240 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003

413-545-2341 (office)
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