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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815936903321

Autore

Billingham Peter <1953->

Titolo

Sensing the city through television : urban identities in fictional drama / / Peter Billingham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR, : Intellect, 2000

ISBN

1-84150-821-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 187 pages)

Disciplina

791.45/621732

Soggetti

Television programs - Great Britain

Television programs - United States

Cities and towns on television

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Sensing the city : navigating a journey -- Policing the imagination : Tony Garnett's The cops -- The city as a site of redemptive struggle : Tony Marchant's Holding on -- The fabled city : The San Francisco of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the city -- A Manchester heterotopia? : Queer as folk -- Homicide, life on the street.

Sommario/riassunto

This is an investigation of the fictional representations of the city in contemporary British and American television drama, assessing their political, sociological and cultural implications. It draws on five key case studies, analyzing the structure, content, characterisation and narrative, and placing each within its specific ideological context.