03556oam 22007934a 450 991079173130332120211004152544.01-78170-111-31-84779-182-410.7765/9781847791825(CKB)2560000000085705(EBL)1069553(OCoLC)818847261(SSID)ssj0000712854(PQKBManifestationID)12274050(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712854(PQKBWorkID)10651512(PQKB)11343038(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085721(MiAaPQ)EBC1069553(MiAaPQ)EBC1934205(Au-PeEL)EBL1069553(CaPaEBR)ebr10623353(CaONFJC)MIL843500(Au-PeEL)EBL1934205(OCoLC)932346744(OCoLC)1257381234(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78482(DE-B1597)659071(DE-B1597)9781847791825(EXLCZ)99256000000008570520080618d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrState of playContemporary 'high-end' TV drama /Robin NelsonNew York :Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,2007.©2007.1 online resource (233 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7190-7311-1 0-7190-7310-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-218) and index.Introduction : aims, scope, methods, and standpoints -- Mapping the territory, blurring the boundaries -- Distinctive product : three kinds of quality : The Sopranos, Shooting the past, Shameless -- State of play : the TV drama industry : new rules of the game -- Pushing the envelope : "edgy" TV drama, Queer as folk, Sex and the City, Carnivàle -- Techniques, technologies and cultural form -- Between global and national : 24 and Spooks, Buried and Oz -- "Quality TV" in context -- Singularity sustained : Blackpool, Casanova, State of play.Robin Nelson's State of play up-dates and develops the arguments of his influential TV Drama In Transition (1997). It is equally distinctive in setting analusis of the aesethetics and compositional principles of texts within a broad conceptual framework (technologies, institutions, economics, cultural trends). Tracing ""the great value shift from conduit to content"" (Todreas, 1999), Nelson is relatively optimistic about the future quality of TV Drama in a global market-place. But, characteristically taking up questions of worth where others have avoided them, Nelson recognizes that certain tyPERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & CriticismbisacshElectronic books. TV drama.aesthetics of texts.cultural trends.economics.global market-place.institutions.quality.television.value shift.viewer preference.PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism.791.456Nelson Robin1949-1176929MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPhttps://ebookcentral-proquest-com.salford.idm.oclc.org/lib/salford/detail.action?docID=1069553BOOK9910791731303321State of play3828522UNINA