Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2025) Beckett and televisual ecosystems: dramas of the vast wasteland. In: Johnson, N. E., McTighe, T. and Thobois-Gupta, C. (eds.) Samuel Beckett and Ecology. Bloomsbury, London. ISBN 9781350366022 (In Press)

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2024) Television: from pre-production to programme making and dissemination. In: Beloborodova, O. and Van Hulle, D. (eds.) Toward a Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 473-486. ISBN 9789027215260

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2024) Technology. In: Nixon, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3730-1785 and Van Hulle, D. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Beckett. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press, Oxford. (In Press)

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2024) The absence of television: broadcasting and war in Britain, 1939-45. In: Dickason, R. and Haigron, D. (eds.) Issues and Singularity in the British Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 71-93. ISBN 9783031606526 doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-60653-3_4

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2024) Samuel Beckett’s television plays. In: Bennett, M. Y. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature. Routledge Literature Companions. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781032188126

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: 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 9781526178961

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

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and Woods, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8901-6524 (2022) An introduction to television studies. 4th edition. Routledge, London, pp336. ISBN 9781138665811 doi: 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. 177-194, 248. ISBN 9781526145833 doi: 10.7765/9781526145840.00018

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: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12259-3.p.0027 (Special issue "Mémoire et réécritures dans les séries télévisées")

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2021) Beckett and television: anachronism as innovation. In: Kiryushina, G., Adar, E. and Nixon, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3730-1785 (eds.) Samuel Beckett and Technology. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474463287

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: 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: 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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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: 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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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: 10.1163/18757405-03201004

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2020) When Beckett on Film migrated to television. Књижевна историја (Literary History), 51 (169). pp. 97-108. ISSN 0350-6428 doi: 10.18485/kis.2019.51.169.5

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and Davies, W. (2020) Introduction: Harold Pinter’s transmedial histories. Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television, 40. pp. 481-498. ISSN 1465-3451 doi: 10.1080/01439685.2020.1778314

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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: 10.1080/01439685.2020.1778316

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2019) Performing the identity of the medium: adaptation and television historiography. Adaptation, 12 (2). pp. 149-164. ISSN 1755-0645 doi: 10.1093/adaptation/apz017

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2018) Performing television history. Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies, 13 (3). pp. 262-279. ISSN 1749-6039 doi: 10.1177/1749602018782860

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2018) Children of the world on British television: national and transnational representations. Strenae, 13. ISSN 2109-9081 doi: 10.4000/strenae.1966 (Special issue: Le '68 des enfants / The Children's 68)

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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: 10.1007/978-3-319-76123-7_3

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and Burchardt, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9483-1494 (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: 10.1007/978-3-319-53273-8

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2017) Broadcasting children's music. InFormation: Nordic Journal of Art and Research, 6 (2). pp. 1-16. ISSN 1893-2479 doi: 10.7577/information.v6i2.2275 (Special issue: Children's Music)

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2015) Performing right: legal constraints and Beckett’s plays on BBC television. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, 27. 129- 142. ISSN 0927-3131 doi: 10.1163/9789004309937_011

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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: 10.1080/01439685.2014.937182 (Special issue "Production, site and style")

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and Lacey, S., eds. (2014) British television drama: past, present and future. 2nd edition. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp272. ISBN 9781137327567

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2012) An introduction to television studies. 3rd edition. Routledge, London , pp348. ISBN 9780415598163

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2011) Television for children: problems of national specificity and globalisation. In: Lesnik-Oberstein, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4970-0556 (ed.) Children in Culture, Revisited: Further Approaches to Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 167-185. ISBN 9780230275546

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601, 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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2009) Beckett on screen: the television plays. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp230. ISBN 9780719064203

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2009) The police series. In: Gibbs, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0876-1798 and Pye, D. (eds.) Close-Up 03. Wallflower, London, pp. 1-66. ISBN 9781905674787

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and Fickers, A., eds. (2008) A European television history. Wiley-Blackwell, New York, pp288. ISBN 9781405163392

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2007) An introduction to television studies. 2nd edition. Routledge, London, New York, pp368. ISBN 9780415419178

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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: 10.5040/9780755696376.ch-012

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2006) Programmes and canons. Critical Studies in Television, 1 (1). pp. 31-36. ISSN 1749-6020

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2005) Big brother: reality TV in the twenty-first century. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp256. ISBN 9781403916846

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and Orlebar, J. (2005) The television handbook. 3rd edition. Routledge, London and New York, pp340. ISBN 9780415342513

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and Lacey, S., eds. (2005) Popular television drama: critical perspectives. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp240. ISBN 9780719069321

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2005) Space for "quality": negotiating with the Daleks. In: Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and Lacey, S. (eds.) Popular television drama: critical perspectives. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 76-92. ISBN 9780719069321

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2005) From detail to meaning: 'Badlands' (Terence Malick, 1973) and cinematic articulation. In: Gibbs, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0876-1798 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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 and O'Day, A. (2004) Terry Nation. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9780719065460

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2004) An introduction to television studies. 1st edition. Routledge, London & New York. ISBN 0415261120

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2002) John McGrath and the dialogues of television studies. International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3 (2). ISSN 1471-5198

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2002) Writing the child in media theory. The Yearbook of English Studies, 32. pp. 127-139. ISSN 0306-2473 doi: 10.2307/3509052

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (2000) Postmodern media culture. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp248. ISBN 9780748609888

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601, Lacey, S. and MacMurraugh-Kavanagh, M., eds. (2000) British television drama: past, present and future. 1st edition. Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780333774953

Bignell, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-1601 (1993) Lost messages: The Handmaid’s Tale, novel and film. British Journal of Canadian Studies, 8 (1). pp. 71-84. ISSN 1757-8078