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

• Autore: Miller Jeffrey S
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.23/45/0973
• Soggetto topico: Popular culture; Television broadcasting - Great Britain - Influence; Television broadcasting - United States; Television programs - United States
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Something completely different
• ISBN: 0-8166-8972-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812929503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II