Bignell, J. (2012) An introduction to television studies. 3rd edition. Routledge, London , pp348. ISBN 9780415598163

Bignell, J. (2011) Television for children: problems of national specificity and globalisation. In: Lesnik-Oberstein, K. (ed.) Children in Culture, Revisited: Further Approaches to Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 167-185. ISBN 9780230275546

Bignell, J. (2011) ‘Anything can happen in the next half-hour’: Gerry Anderson’s transnational science fiction. In: Hochscherf, T. and Leggott, J. (eds.) British Science Fiction Film and Television: Critical Essays. Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy (29). McFarland, Jefferson (North Carolina) & London, pp. 73-84. ISBN 9780786446216

Bignell, J. (2011) Docudramatizing the real: developments in British TV docudrama since 1990. Studies in Documentary Film, 4 (3). pp. 195-208. ISSN 1750-3280 doi: 10.1386/sdf.4.3.195_1

Bignell, J., Paget, D. J., Sutherland, H. A. and Taylor, L. (2011) Narrativising the facts: acting in screen and stage docudrama. In: Tönnies, M. and Flotmann, C. (eds.) Narrative in Drama. Contemporary Drama in English (18). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier, pp. 21-52. ISBN 9783868213157

Bignell, J. (2010) Spies, style and the Cold War: James Bond in the sixties and seventies. In: Ahrens, R., Stierstorfer, K. and Dickason, R. (eds.) Symbolism: an international annual of critical aesthetics. Special focus: propaganda. AMS Press, New York, USA, pp. 81-92. ISBN 9780404635701

Bignell, J. (2010) Television and the popular: viewing from the British perspective. Journal of Literary Theory, 4 (2). pp. 181-198. ISSN 1862-5290 doi: 10.1515/JLT.2010.012

Bignell, J. (2010) Docudrama performance: realism, recognition and representation. In: Cornea, C. (ed.) Genre and performance: film and television. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, pp. 59-75. ISBN 9780719079801

Bignell, J. (2010) Into the void: Beckett’s television plays and the idea of broadcasting. In: Caselli, D. (ed.) Beckett and nothing: trying to understand Beckett. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, pp. 125-142. ISBN 9780719080197

Bignell, J. (2010) Star Wars (1977): back and forth in time and space. In: Brown, T. and Walters, J. (eds.) Film moments: criticism, history, theory. British Film Institute and Palgrave, London, UK, pp. 111-115. ISBN 9781844573363

Bignell, J. (2010) Transatlantic spaces: production, location and style in 1960s-1970s action-adventure TV series. Media History, 16 (1). pp. 53-65. ISSN 1469-9729 doi: 10.1080/13688800903395460

Bignell, J. (2009) Beckett on screen: the television plays. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp230.

Bignell, J. (2009) The police series. In: Gibbs, J. and Pye, D. (eds.) Close-Up 03. Wallflower, London, pp. 1-66. ISBN 9781905674787

Bignell, J. and Fickers, A., eds. (2008) A European television history. Wiley-Blackwell, New York, pp288. ISBN 9781405163392

Bignell, J. and Weissmann, E. (2008) Cultural difference? Not so different after all. Critical Studies in Television: scholarly studies in small screen fictions, 3 (1). pp. 93-98. ISSN 1749-6020

Bignell, J. (2007) Citing the classics: constructing British television drama history in publishing and pedagogy. In: Wheatley, H. (ed.) Re-viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Television Historiography. I B Tauris, London, pp. 27-39. ISBN 9781845111885

Bignell, J. (2007) The child as addressee, viewer and consumer in mid-1960s 'Doctor Who'. In: Butler, D. (ed.) Time and Relative Dissertations in Space: Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 43-55. ISBN 9780719076817

Bignell, J. (2007) An introduction to television studies. 2nd edition. Routledge, London, New York, pp368. ISBN 9780415419178

Bignell, J. (2007) Masculinité, musique et politique dans 'Excalibur'. In: Sipiere, D. and Cohen, A. J.-J. (eds.) Les autres arts dans l'art du cinéma. Le Spectaculaire Cinéma. University of Rennes Press, Rennes, pp. 141-152. ISBN 9782753503885

Bignell, J. (2007) Seeing and knowing: reflexivity and quality. In: Mccabe, J. and Akass, K. (eds.) Quality TV: contemporary American television and beyond. Reading Contemporary Television. I B Tauris, London, pp. 145-157. ISBN 9781845115104

Bignell, J. (2007) Une lettre en souffrance: l'adaptation de 'La Servante écarlate/The Handmaid's Tale' de Margaret Atwood au cinéma. In: Cloarec, N. (ed.) Lettres de cinéma: de la missive au film-lettre. University of Rennes Press, Rennes, pp. 175-187. ISBN 9782753505308

Bignell, J. (2006) Programmes and canons. Critical Studies in Television, 1 (1). pp. 31-36. ISSN 1749-6020

Bignell, J. (2005) Big brother: reality TV in the twenty-first century. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp256. ISBN 9781403916846

Bignell, J. and Orlebar, J. (2005) The television handbook. 3rd edition. Routledge, London and New York, pp340. ISBN 9780415342513

Bignell, J. (2005) And the rest is history: Lew Grade, the creation myth and television historiography. In: Turnock, R. and Johnson, C. (eds.) ITV Cultures: Independent Television Over Fifty Years. Open University Press, Buckingham, pp. 57-70. ISBN 9780335217298

Bignell, J. and Lacey, S., eds. (2005) Popular television drama: critical perspectives. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp240. ISBN 9780719069321

Bignell, J. (2005) Space for "quality": negotiating with the Daleks. In: Bignell, J. and Lacey, S. (eds.) Popular television drama: critical perspectives. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 76-92. ISBN 9780719069321

Bignell, J. (2005) From detail to meaning: 'Badlands' (Terence Malick, 1973) and cinematic articulation. In: Gibbs, J. and Pye, D. (eds.) Style and Meaning: Studies in the Detailed Analysis of Film. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 42-52. ISBN 9780719065248

Bignell, J. (2005) Exemplarity, pedagogy and television history. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 3 (1). pp. 15-32. ISSN 1740-7923 doi: 10.1080/17400300500037324

Bignell, J. (2005) Familiar aliens: 'Teletubbies' and postmodern childhood. Screen, 46 (3). pp. 373-388. ISSN 1460-2474 doi: 10.1093/screen/46.3.373

Bignell, J. and O'Day, A. (2004) Terry Nation. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9780719065460

Bignell, J. (2004) Another time, another space: modernity, subjectivity and the time machine. In: Redmond, S. (ed.) Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Reader. Wallflower, London, pp. 136-144. ISBN 9781903364888

Bignell, J. (2004) An introduction to television studies. 1st edition. Routledge, London & New York. ISBN 0415261120

Bignell, J. (2003) Sex, confession and witness. In: Akass, K. and Mccabe, J. (eds.) Reading 'Sex and the City',. I B Tauris, London & New York, pp. 161-176. ISBN 9781850434238

Bignell, J. (2003) Where is Action Man's penis? Determinations of gender and the bodies of toys. In: Segal, N., Taylor, L. and Cook, R. (eds.) Indeterminate Bodies. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 36-47. ISBN 9780333949696

Bignell, J. (2002) John McGrath and the dialogues of television studies. International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3 (2). ISSN 1471-5198

Bignell, J. (2000) A taste of the gothic: film and television versions of Dracula. In: Sheen, E. and Giddings, R. (eds.) From Page to Screen: Adaptations of the Classic Novel:. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 114-130. ISBN 9780719052316