LEADER 03556oam 22007934a 450 001 9910791731303321 005 20211004152544.0 010 $a1-78170-111-3 010 $a1-84779-182-4 024 7 $a10.7765/9781847791825 035 $a(CKB)2560000000085705 035 $a(EBL)1069553 035 $a(OCoLC)818847261 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000712854 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12274050 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712854 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10651512 035 $a(PQKB)11343038 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085721 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1069553 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1934205 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1069553 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10623353 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL843500 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1934205 035 $a(OCoLC)932346744 035 $a(OCoLC)1257381234 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78482 035 $a(DE-B1597)659071 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781847791825 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000085705 100 $a20080618d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aState of play$eContemporary 'high-end' TV drama /$fRobin Nelson 210 1$aNew York :$cDistributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,$d2007. 210 4$dİ2007. 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7190-7311-1 311 $a0-7190-7310-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [214]-218) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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, Carniva?le -- 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. 330 $aRobin 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 ty 606 $aPERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aTV drama. 610 $aaesthetics of texts. 610 $acultural trends. 610 $aeconomics. 610 $aglobal market-place. 610 $ainstitutions. 610 $aquality. 610 $atelevision. 610 $avalue shift. 610 $aviewer preference. 615 7$aPERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism. 676 $a791.456 700 $aNelson$b Robin$f1949-$01176929 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 856 $ahttps://ebookcentral-proquest-com.salford.idm.oclc.org/lib/salford/detail.action?docID=1069553 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791731303321 996 $aState of play$93828522 997 $aUNINA