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Titolo |
Television and criticism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Solange Davin and Rhona Jackson |
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Bristol, UK ; ; Chicago, IL, : Intellect, 2008 |
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1-281-44209-7 |
9786611442095 |
1-4356-5325-4 |
1-84150-228-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (130 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DavinSolange |
JacksonRhona <1949-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Television criticism |
Dramatic criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Introduction; Our Common Cultural Heritage: Classic Novels and English Television; Aspects of the Soap Opera and Other Stories; Shakespeare on American Television and the Special Relationship between the UK & the USA; Television as History: History as Television; 'The story you are about to see is true': Dragnet, Film Noir and Postwar Realism; The Skilled Viewer; The Culture of Post-Narcissism: Post-Teenage, Pre-Midlife Singles Culture in Seinfeld, Ally McBeal and Friends |
Television's Vanishing Terms? Traditional Aesthetics and Television Drama in the Age of Reality TV'I've been searching my soul tonight': the Ally McBeal Effect; Index; Back Cover |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Television and Criticism unites distinguished scholars from the fields of literary criticism, media studies, and film studies to challenge the traditional boundaries between high and low culture. Through a theoretical lens, this volume addresses such topics as the blurring of genres, television and identity, and the sophistication of television audiences by examining examples from soap operas, televised adaptations of classic novels, film noir, and popular shows like Queer |
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as Folk, Seinfeld, and Ally McBeal. Ranging from Shakespeare to Dragnet, this comprehensive study will interest cultural s |
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