Cardwell, S., Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and Donaldson, L., eds. (2023) Epic / everyday: moments in television. The Television Series. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp264. ISBN 9781526170224

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2023) The epic in the everyday: television and Doctor Who, ‘The Chase’. In: Cardwell, S., Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and Donaldson, L. (eds.) Epic / Everyday: Moments in Television. The Television Series. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9781526170224

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2023) Entanglements of intermediality: Polanski, Pinter, Steptoe and Son. In: Nagib, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8808-9748 and Solomon, S. (eds.) The Moving Form of Film: Historicising the Medium through Other Media. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 267-280. ISBN 9780197621707 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197621707.003.0017

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601, McMullan, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2531-3746 and Verhulst, P., eds. (2023) Beckett's afterlives: adaptation, remediation, appropriation. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp288. ISBN 9781526153791

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2023) Adaptation and convergence: Beckett on film. In: Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601, McMullan, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2531-3746 and Verhulst, P. (eds.) Beckett’s Afterlives: Adaptation, Remediation, Appropriation. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 34-49. ISBN 9781526153791 (In Press)

Bignell, J. and Woods, F. (2022) An introduction to television studies. 4th edition. Routledge, London, pp336. ISBN 9781138665811 doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315619675

Cardwell, S., Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and Fife Donaldson, L., eds. (2022) Complexity/simplicity: moments in television. The Television Series. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp280. ISBN 9781526148759

Cardwell, S., Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and Fife Donaldson, L., eds. (2022) Sound/image: moments in television. The Television Series. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp248. ISBN 9781526149190

Cardwell, S., Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and Fife Donaldson, L., eds. (2022) Substance/style: moments in television. The Television Series. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp258. ISBN 9781526148780

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2022) Alien or familiar: sounds and images in The Twilight Zone, ‘The Invaders’. In: Cardwell, S., Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and Donaldson, L. F. (eds.) Moments in Television: Sound/image. The Television Series. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 15-37, 248 pages. ISBN 9781526149190

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2022) Grand designs: television, style and substance in The Time Tunnel. In: Cardwell, S., Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and Donaldson, L. F. (eds.) Moments in Television: Substance/style. The Television Series. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 202-224, 258 pages. ISBN 9781526148780

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2022) Screen and stage space in Beckett’s theatre plays on television. In: Wrigley, A. and Wyver, J. (eds.) Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 226-245. ISBN 9780719097928

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2022) Vanity Fair (1967) and the contradictions of colour. In: Cardwell, S., Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and Donaldson, L. F. (eds.) Moments in Television: Complexity/simplicity. The Television Series. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 192-215, 280 pages. ISBN 9781526148759

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2022) Black screens: Beckett and television technologies. In: Rapcsak, B., Nixon, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3730-1785 and Schweighauser, P. (eds.) Beckett and Media. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 177-193, 248. ISBN 9781526145833

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2021) Adventures between TV and film, and between Britain and America. Ecrans, 15 (1). pp. 27-42. ISSN 2267 4357 doi: https://doi.org/10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12259-3.p.0027 (Special issue "Mémoire et réécritures dans les séries télévisées")

Bignell, J. (2021) Beckett and television: anachronism as innovation. In: Kiryushina, G., Adar, E. and Nixon, M. (eds.) Samuel Beckett and Technology. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474463287

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2021) The absence of television: broadcasting and war in Britain, 1939-45. In: Dickason, R. (ed.) Issues and Singularity in the British Media. Atlande, Paris. (In Press)

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2021) Articulations of voice and medium in Beckett’s screen work. In: De Vos, L., Hori Tanaka, M. and Johnson, N. (eds.) Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett. Themes in Theatre, 12. Brill, Leiden, pp. 280-294. ISBN 9789004468382 doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468382_021

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2021) Cringe histories: Harold Pinter and the Steptoes. Humanities, 10 (2). 83. ISSN 2076-0787 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/h10020083

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2020) “Random dottiness”: Samuel Beckett and the reception of Harold Pinter’s early dramas. In: Rakoczy, A., Hori Tanaka, M. and Johnson, N. (eds.) Influencing Beckett / Beckett Influencing. Collection Karoli. L'Harmattan, Budapest & Paris, pp. 61-74. ISBN 9782343219110

Bignell, J. (2020) Television biopics: Questions of genre, nation, and medium. In: Cartmell, D. and Polasek, A. D. (eds.) A Companion to the Biopic. Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, pp. 45-60. ISBN 9781119554813 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119554783.ch4

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2020) Children’s television and radio. In: Fournier, G. (ed.) La BBC et le service public de l'audiovisuel, 1922-1995. Agregation Anglais. Editions Ellipses, Paris, pp. 111-128. ISBN 9782340041127

Bignell, J. (2020) Specially for television? Eh Joe, intermediality and Beckett’s drama. Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, 32 (1). pp. 41-54. ISSN 1875-7405 doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/18757405-03201004

Bignell, J. (2020) When Beckett on Film migrated to television. Књижевна историја (Literary History), 51 (169). pp. 97-108. ISSN 0350-6428 doi: https://doi.org/10.18485/kis.2019.51.169.5

Bignell, J. and Davies, W. (2020) Introduction: Harold Pinter’s transmedial histories. Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television, 40. pp. 481-498. ISSN 1465-3451 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2020.1778314

Bignell, J. (2020) Pinter, authorship and entrepreneurship in 1960s British cinema: the economics of "The Quiller Memorandum". Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television, 40 (3). pp. 533-550. ISSN 1465-3451 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2020.1778316

Bignell, J. (2019) “Do you really enjoy the modern play?”: Beckett on commercial television. In: Stewart, P. and Pattie, D. (eds.) Pop Beckett: Intersections with Popular Culture. Samuel Beckett in Company, 7. Ibidem, Stuttgart, pp. 63-84. ISBN 9783838211930

Bignell, J. (2019) The performing lives of things: animals, puppets, models and effects. In: Walters, J. and Donaldson, L. F. (eds.) Television Performance. Red Globe Press, London, pp. 43-60. ISBN 9781137608192

Bignell, J. (2019) Meta-commentary and mythology: "Episodes" as a performance of transatlantic TV. In: Hills, M., Hilmes, M. and Pearson, R. (eds.) Transatlantic Television Drama: Industries, Programs and Fans. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 163-180. ISBN 9780190663124

Bignell, J. (2019) Performing the identity of the medium: adaptation and television historiography. Adaptation, 12 (2). pp. 149-164. ISSN 1755-0645 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apz017

Bignell, J. (2018) Performing television history. Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies, 13 (3). pp. 262-279. ISSN 1749-6039 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1749602018782860

Bignell, J. (2018) Children of the world on British television: national and transnational representations. Strenae, 13. ISSN 2109-9081 doi: https://doi.org/10.4000/strenae.1966 (Special issue: Le '68 des enfants / The Children's 68)

Bignell, J. (2018) James Bond’s forgotten beginnings: television adaptations. In: Strong, J. (ed.) James Bond Uncovered. Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 41-60. ISBN 9783319761220 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76123-7_3

Bignell, J. (2017) Children’s television and public service in contemporary Britain. In: Dinter, S. and Schneider, R. (eds.) Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain. Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 87-102. ISBN 9781138232105

Bignell, J. (2017) Myth. In: Ouellette, L. and Gray, J. (eds.) Keywords for Media Studies. New York University Press, New York, pp. 123-125. ISBN 9781479859610

Bignell, J. and Burchardt, J. (2017) Agents, beneficiaries and victims: picturing people on the land. In: Haigron, D. (ed.) The English Countryside: Representations, Identities, Mutations. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 61-82. ISBN 9783319532721 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53273-8

Bignell, J. (2017) Broadcasting children's music. InFormation: Nordic Journal of Art and Research, 6 (2). pp. 1-16. ISSN 1893-2479 doi: https://doi.org/10.7577/information.v6i2.2275 (Special issue: Children's Music)

Bignell, J. (2016) Cars, places and spaces in police drama. In: McElroy, R. (ed.) Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box. Routledge Advances in Television Studies. Routledge, London, pp. 123-136. ISBN 9781472454935

Bignell, J. (2016) Representing violence, playing control: warring constructions of masculinity in Action Man toys. In: Wesseling, E. (ed.) The Child Savage, 1890–2010. From Comics to Games. Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present. Routledge, London, pp. 189-202. ISBN 9781409455981

Bignell, J. (2016) Authenticity and performance of class in British factual TV series. In: Cloarec, N., Haigron, D. and Letort, D. (eds.) Social Class on British and American Screens: Essays on Cinema and Television. McFarland, Jefferson, USA, pp. 58-73. ISBN 9781476662343

Bignell, J. (2015) Performing right: legal constraints and Beckett’s plays on BBC television. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, 27. 129- 142. ISSN 0927-3131 doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004309937_011

Bignell, J. (2014) The spaces of the Wednesday Play (BBC TV 1964–1970): production, technology and style. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 34 (3). pp. 369-389. ISSN 0143-9685 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2014.937182 (Special issue "Production, site and style")

Bignell, J. and Lacey, S., eds. (2014) British television drama: past, present and future. 2nd edition. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp272. ISBN 9781137327567

Bignell, J. (2013) The look: style, technology and televisuality in the New Who. In: O'Day, A. (ed.) Doctor Who: the eleventh hour. Who watching. I. B. Tauris, London and New York, pp. 123-140. ISBN 9781780760193

Bignell, J. (2013) Realism and reality formats. In: Ouellette, L. (ed.) A companion to reality television. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester; Hoboken, NJ, pp. 97-115. ISBN 9780470659274

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: https://doi.org/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: https://doi.org/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: https://doi.org/10.1080/13688800903395460

Bignell, J. (2009) Beckett on screen: the television plays. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp230. ISBN 9780719064203

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 doi: https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755696376.ch-012

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) How to watch television? Pedagogy and paedocracy in Beckett’s television plays. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, 15. pp. 281-293. ISSN 0927-3131 (Historicising Beckett / Issues of Performance)

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: https://doi.org/10.1080/17400300500037324

Bignell, J. (2005) Familiar aliens: 'Teletubbies' and postmodern childhood. Screen, 46 (3). pp. 373-388. ISSN 1460-2474 doi: https://doi.org/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. (2002) Writing the child in media theory. The Yearbook of English Studies, 32. pp. 127-139. ISSN 0306-2473 doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3509052

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

Bignell, J., Lacey, S. and MacMurraugh-Kavanagh, M., eds. (2000) British television drama: past, present and future. 1st edition. Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780333774953

Bignell, J. (1998) Territories, boundaries, identities: 'The Handmaid's Tale'. In: Howells, C. A. and Vevaina, C. (eds.) Margaret Atwood The Shape Shifter. Creative New Literatures. Indian Association for Canadian Studies, and Creative Books, New Delhi, pp. 9-25. ISBN 9788186318515

Bignell, J. (1996) Method Westerns: The Left-Handed Gun and One Eyed Jacks. In: Cameron, I. and Pye, D. (eds.) The Movie Book of the Western. Movie Books. Studio Vista (Cassell), London, pp. 99-110. ISBN 9780289801680

Bignell, J. (1993) Lost messages: The Handmaid’s Tale, novel and film. British Journal of Canadian Studies, 8 (1). pp. 71-84. ISSN 1757-8078