Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans
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 su…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-85170-941-3
- EAN: 9780851709413
- Produktnummer: 9116883
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 215 S.
- Masse: H23.2 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.4 cm 402 g
- Auflage: 2008 ed.
- Abbildungen: 215 p.
- Gewicht: 402
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
Über den Autor
Dr Mark Jancovich is Reader and Director of the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham. James Lyons is a lecturer in film at the University of Exeter. He is the author of John Sayles: Independence, Integrity and the Borders of Identity (co-written with Mark Jancovich, in Yvonne Tasker, ed, Fifty Contemporary Film Makers) and a member of the editorial advisory board of Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies
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