Popular Television Drama

Author : Jonathan Bignell,Stephen Lacey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0719069335

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Popular Television Drama by Jonathan Bignell,Stephen Lacey Pdf

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 : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1799 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Television Series by Warner Bros. Television by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1640 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Television Series by Universal Television by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Michael Hammond
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748679645

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Contemporary Television Series by Michael Hammond Pdf

An engaging and provocative study of the contemporary prime-time 'quality' serial television format, this book gives a timely account of prominent programmes such as 24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER, The Sopranos and The West Wing and explores their influential position within the television industry. Divided into the areas of history, aesthetics and reception, the text provides an illuminating overview of an increasingly hybrid television studies discipline. Chapters consider the formal and aesthetic elements in the contemporary television serial through approaches ranging from those concerned with issues of gender and sexuality, national identity, and reception to industry history and textual analysis. The book also includes British examples of 'quality' serial television emphasizing not only their cultural specificity but also the transnational context in which these programmes operate. Features*Section introductions provide student-friendly explanations of the various approaches and methodologies employed in the book*Chapters are written by an international team of experts in the field of television studies*Ideal for use as a textbook on courses in contemporary television taught at undergraduate level

Author : Lez Cooke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844578962

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British Television Drama by Lez Cooke Pdf

This widely-respected history of British television drama is an indispensable guide to the significant developments in the area; from its beginnings on the BBC in the 1930s and 40s to its position in the twenty-first century, as television enters a multichannel digital era. Embracing the complete spectrum of television drama, Lez Cooke places programmes in their social, political and industrial contexts, and surveys the key dramas, writers, producers and directors. Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition includes new images and case studies, new material on British television drama before 1936, an expanded bibliography and a substantial new chapter that explores the renaissance in the quality, variety and social ambition of television drama in Britain since 2002. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be of value to anyone interested in the rich history of British television and modern drama.

Author : John Tulloch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134979622

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Television Drama by John Tulloch Pdf

First published in 1990. This book is the first specifically about television drama from within a cultural studies perspective and as such examines the active agency of both viewers and media practitioners. The author examines dominant and counter-myths as they circulate in popular culture, discussing soap opera, science fiction, sitcom, cop series and 'authored' drama among its examples. It works within an ethnographic framework, he looks in detail at both the production and reception of TV drama. The overall aim of the book is to examine television representation as part of an historically positioned and differentiated social formation in which knowledgeable actors work in every institutional arena (whether media industry, academia or domestic household) to make their meanings.

Author : George W. Brandt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521427231

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British Television Drama in the 1980s by George W. Brandt Pdf

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Author : J. Bignell,S. Lacey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137327581

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British Television Drama by J. Bignell,S. Lacey Pdf

Featuring leading scholars of British television drama and noted writers and producers from the television industry, this new edition of British Television Drama evaluates past and present TV fiction since the 1960s, and considers its likely future.

Author : Shenshen Cai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317239529

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Television Drama in Contemporary China by Shenshen Cai Pdf

Due to high audience numbers and the significant influence upon the opinions and values of viewers, the political leadership in China attributes great importance to the impact of television dramas. Many successful TV serials have served as useful conduits to disseminate official rhetoric and mainstream ideology, and they also offer a rich area of research by providing insight into the changing Chinese political, social and cultural context. This book examines a group of recently released TV drama serials in China which focus upon, and to various degrees represent, topical political, social and cultural phenomena. Some of the selected TV serials reflect the present ideological proclivities of the Chinese government, whilst others mirror social and cultural occurrences or provide coded and thought-provoking messages on China’s socio-economic and political reality. Through in-depth textual analysis of the plots, scenes and characters of these selected TV serials, the book provides timely interpretations of contemporary Chinese society, its political inclinations, social fashions and cultural tendencies. The book also demonstrates how popular media narratives of TV drama serials engage with sensitive civic issues and cultural phenomena of modern-day China, which in turn encourages a broader social imagination and potential for change. Advancing our understanding of contemporary China, this book will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary Chinese culture, society and politics, as well as those with research interests in television studies more generally.

Author : Anne Marit Waade,Eva Novrup Redvall,Pia Majbritt Jensen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030407988

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Danish Television Drama by Anne Marit Waade,Eva Novrup Redvall,Pia Majbritt Jensen Pdf

This book explores how to understand the international appeal of Danish television drama and Nordic Noir in the 2010s. Focusing on production and distribution as well as the series and their reception, the chapters analyse how this small nation production culture was suddenly regarded as an example of best practice in the international television industries, and how the distribution and branding of particular series – such as Forbrydelsen/The Killing, Borgen and Bron/The Bridge – led to dedicated audiences around the world. Discussing issues such as cultural proximity, transnationalism and glocalisation, the chapters investigate the complex interplays between the national and international in the television industries and the global lessons learned from the way in which screen ideas, production frameworks and public service content from Denmark suddenly managed to travel widely. The book builds on extensive empirical material and case studies conducted as part of the transnational research project ‘What Makes Danish Television Drama Travel?’

Author : Diana I. Ríos,Carolyn A. Lin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781793613530

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Television Dramas and the Global Village by Diana I. Ríos,Carolyn A. Lin Pdf

This book discusses the role of television drama series on a global scale, analyzing these dramas across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Contributors consider the role of television dramas as economically valuable cultural products and with their depictions of gender roles, sexualities, race, cultural values, political systems, and religious beliefs as they analyze how these programs allow us to indulge our innate desire to share human narratives in a way that binds us together and encourages audiences to persevere as a community on a global scale. Contributors also go on to explore the role of television dramas as a medium that indulges fantasies and escapism and reckons with reality as it allows audiences to experience emotions of happiness, sorrow, fear, and outrage in both realistic and fantastical scenarios.

Author : Alan Sepinwall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476739687

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The Revolution Was Televised by Alan Sepinwall Pdf

A phenomenal account, newly updated, of how twelve innovative television dramas transformed the medium and the culture at large, featuring Sepinwall’s take on the finales of Mad Men and Breaking Bad. In The Revolution Was Televised, celebrated TV critic Alan Sepinwall chronicles the remarkable transformation of the small screen over the past fifteen years. Focusing on twelve innovative television dramas that changed the medium and the culture at large forever, including The Sopranos, Oz, The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad, Sepinwall weaves his trademark incisive criticism with highly entertaining reporting about the real-life characters and conflicts behind the scenes. Drawing on interviews with writers David Chase, David Simon, David Milch, Joel Surnow and Howard Gordon, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, and Vince Gilligan, among others, along with the network executives responsible for green-lighting these groundbreaking shows, The Revolution Was Televised is the story of a new golden age in TV, one that’s as rich with drama and thrills as the very shows themselves.

Author : Itay Harlap
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501328916

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Television Drama in Israel by Itay Harlap Pdf

Israeli television, currently celebrating fifty years of broadcasting, has become one of the most important content sources on the international TV drama market, when serials such as Homeland, Hostages, Fauda, Zaguory Empire and In Treatment were bought by international networks, HBO included. Offering both a textual reading and discourse analysis of contemporary Israeli television dramas, Itay Harlap adopts a case study approach in order to address production, reception and technological developments in its accounts. His premise is that the meeting point between social trends within Israeli society (primarily the rise of opposition groups to the hegemony of the Zionist-Jewish-masculine-Ashkenazi ideologies) and major changes in the medium in Israel (which are comparable to international changes that have been titled "post-TV"), led to the creation of television dramas characterized by controversial themes and complex narratives, which present identities in ways never seen before on television or in other Israeli mediums.

Author : Trisha Dunleavy,Elke Weissmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031355851

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TV Drama in the Multiplatform Era by Trisha Dunleavy,Elke Weissmann Pdf

This edited collection examines a new phase in the creation of transnational high-end drama in television’s current multiplatform era. Fuelled by the wider international exposure that internet distribution has brought to TV shows, this phase for high-end drama is one of unprecedented budgets and costs, frequent transnational coproduction and increased cultural diversification. While this drama continues to be facilitated by national broadcasters, fuelling the above trio of influences upon it has been the commissioning activity of multinational subscription-video-on-demand (SVoD) providers. This book showcases leading examples of transnational TV drama, produced outside the US, yet involving collaboration with US-owned SVoDs. It foregrounds some new potentials for drama creation in the context of its strategic importance to providers as different as national broadcasters and multinational SVoDs. This book helps to explain why today’s high-end dramas are demonstrating new elements of cultural specificity despite their common objective to engage a diverse international audience.

Author : James Chapman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350152502

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Contemporary British Television Drama by James Chapman Pdf

The early twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of television drama in Britain that adopts the professional practices and production values of high-end American television while remaining emphatically 'British' in content and outlook. This book analyses eight of these dramas - Spooks, Foyle's War, Hustle, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Downton Abbey, Sherlock and Broadchurch - which have all proved popular with audiences and in their different ways represent the thematic and formal paradigms of post-millennial drama. James Chapman locates new British drama in its institutional and economic contexts, considers their critical and popular reception, and analyses their social politics in relation to their representations of class, gender and nationhood. He demonstrates how contemporary drama has mobilised both new and residual elements in re-configuring genres such as the spy series, cop show and costume drama for the cultural tastes of modern audiences. And it concludes that television drama has played an integral role in both the economic and the cultural export of 'Britishness'.