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Author | : Mark Jancovich |
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Why are some contemporary television shows so compelling? The Sopranos, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends and ER are examples among many of a new era of the 'must-see' programme. These shows and others like The X-Files and Ally McBeal, have a compulsiveness, a depth of characterisation and 'back-story' that puts most of cinema to shame. Quality Popular Television looks at this new category of 'cult' television (mostly US-produced) and the reasons for its emergence. Looking at shows as diverse as Ally McBeal, Martial Law, Buffy, Lois and Clark, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Ellen the book examines the particular qualities necessary for success and how they relate to issues such as the economics of network scheduling, the growth of the internet and contemporary debates about television audiences. This important new book provides an invaluable window on transformations in contemporary television culture.
Author | : Jonathan Bignell |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2017-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1526125390 |
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A collection of essays that examine landmark popular television drama from the last forty years, from 'Doctor Who' to 'The Office'. Contributors focus on programmes across the range of popular genres, from sitcoms to science fiction, gothic horror and children's drama
Author | : Mark Jancovich |
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Popular culture |
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Author | : Jonathan Bignell |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2005-10-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780719069338 |
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This collection of essays examines landmark British television programs of the last forty years, from Doctor Who to The Office, and from The Demon Headmaster to Queer As Folk. Contributions from prominent academics focus on the full range of popular genres, from sitcoms to science fiction, gothic horror and children's drama, and reconsider how British television drama can be analyzed. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in many academic disciplines that study television drama.
Author | : Janet McCabe |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2007-09-26 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0857715992 |
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In his seminal book "Television's Second Golden Age", Robert Thompson described quality TV as 'best defined by what it is not': 'it is not "regular" TV'. Audacious maybe, but his statement renewed debate on the meaning of this highly contentious term. Dealing primarily with the post-1996 era shaped by digital technologies and defined by consumer choice and brand marketing, this book brings together leading scholars, established journalists and experienced broadcasters working in the field of contemporary television to debate what we currently mean by quality TV. They go deep into contemporary American television fictions, from "The Sopranos" and "The West Wing", to "CSI" and "Lost" - innovative, sometimes controversial, always compelling dramas, which one scholar has described as 'now better than the movies!' But how do we understand the emergence of these kinds of fiction? Are they genuinely new? What does quality TV have to tell us about the state of today's television market? And is this a new Golden Age of quality TV? Original, often polemic, each chapter proposes new ways of thinking about and defining quality TV. There is a foreword from Robert Thompson, and heated dialogue between British and US television critics. Also included - and a great coup - are interviews with W. Snuffy Walden (scored "The West Wing" among others) and with David Chase ("The Sopranos" creator). "Quality TV" provides throughout groundbreaking and innovative theoretical and critical approaches to studying television and for understanding the current - and future - TV landscape.
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1922 |
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Author | : Wikipedia contributors |
Publisher | : e-artnow sro |
Total Pages | : 1154 |
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Download Focus On: 100 Most Popular Television Series by 20th Century Fox Television Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Sharon Marie Ross |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2008-04-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786435895 |
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This essay collection explores the phenomenon of "teen TV" in the United States, analyzing the meanings and manifestations of this category of programming from a variety of perspectives. Part One views teen television through an industrial perspective, examining how networks such as WB, UPN, The CW, and The N have created a unique economic framework based on demographic niches and teen-focused narrowcasting. Part Two focuses on popular teen programs from a cultural context, evaluating how such programs reflect and at times stretch the envelope of the cultural contexts in which they are created. Finally, Part Three explores the cultures of reception (including the realms of teen consumerism, fan discourse, and unofficial production) through which teens and consumers of teen media have become authors of the teenage experience in their own right.
Author | : Alison Horbury |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2015-07-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137511370 |
Download Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual difference - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', where this question has been otherwise foreclosed.
Author | : Anikó Imre |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415892481 |
Download Popular Television in Eastern Europe During and Since Socialism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This collection will be the first volume to gather the best writing on socialist and postsocialist entertainment television as a medium, technology, and institution in Eastern Europe.