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State of play : Contemporary 'high-end' TV drama / / Robin Nelson



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Autore: Nelson Robin <1949-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: State of play : Contemporary 'high-end' TV drama / / Robin Nelson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, , 2007
©2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
Disciplina: 791.456
Soggetto topico: PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: TV drama
aesthetics of texts
cultural trends
economics
global market-place
institutions
quality
television
value shift
viewer preference
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-218) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 ty
Titolo autorizzato: State of play  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78170-111-3
1-84779-182-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808248303321
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