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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812929503321

Autore

Miller Jeffrey S

Titolo

Something completely different : British television and American culture / / Jeffrey S. Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8166-8972-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

302.23/45/0973

Soggetti

Popular culture

Television broadcasting - Great Britain - Influence

Television broadcasting - United States

Television programs - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-236) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Here Not There: American Imperialists and British Invaders; 2. Danger Men: Secret Agent and The Prisoner; 3. Mrs. Peel Goes to Washington: The Avengers; 4. Down the Up Staircase: The Forsyte Saga, Masterpiece Theatre, and Upstairs, Downstairs; 5. (Naughty) Bits of Limey Eccentricity: That Was the Week That Was and Monty Python's Flying Circus; 6. All in the Anglo-American Family: Hollywood Reproductions of British Originals; 7. British Television and American Culture: Something Completely Different?; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Between Emma Peel and the Ministry of Silly Walks, British television had a significant impact on American popular culture in the 1960's and 1970's. In Something Completely Different, Jeffrey Miller offers the first comprehensive study of British programming on American television, discussing why the American networks imported such series as The Avengers and Monty Python's Flying Circus; how American audiences received these uniquely British shows; and how the shows' success reshaped American television.