Robin Nelson

State of play (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary 'high-end' TV drama

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book deals with a wide range of 'high-end', expensive and high concept, TV dramas from the UK and the USA and analyses the compositional principles of texts (technologies, institutions, economics, cultrual trends). Drama examined include Oz, Buried Carnivale, Blackpool, The Sopranos, Shameless, and Shooting the Past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847796479
• Artikelnr.: 42370128

Autorenporträt

Robin T. Nelson has studied watercolor painting for years and, having recently retired from many years as a research scientist, can now devote more time to art, conservation and protecting our environment. She enjoys painting and studying the physical appearances, personality traits, and habits of the different animals seen in these books. Robin is a scientist at heart, a devoted wife and mother and enjoys using her artistic skills for humanitarian purposes.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Mapping the territory; blurring the boundaries 2. Distinctive product: three kinds of quality: The Sopranos
Shooting the Past
Shameless 3. State of Play: the TV drama industry - new rules of the game 4. Pushing the envelope: 'edgy' TV drama
Sex and The City
Queer as Folk
Carnivàle 5. Techniques
technologies and cultural form 6. Between global and national: 24 and Spooks; Oz and Buried 7. 'Quality TV' in context 8. Singularity sustained: Casanova
Blackpool
State of Play