Details

State of play

State of play

Contemporary 'high-end' TV drama

von: Robin Nelson

CHF 26.00

Verlag: Manchester University Press
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 19.07.2013
ISBN/EAN: 9781847796479
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 232

In den Warenkorb
Als Gutschein
DRM-geschütztes eBook, Sie benötigen z.B. Adobe Digital Editions und eine Adobe ID zum Lesen.

Beschreibungen

Titelbeschreibung

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 types of "quality" are privileged for viewers able to pay, possibly at the expense of viewer preference worldwide for "local" resonances in television. The mix of arts and cultural studies methodologies makes for an unusual and insightful approach.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This book deals with a wide range of 'high-end', expensive and high concept, TV dramas from the UK and the USA and analyses the compositional principles of texts (technologies, institutions, economics, cultrual trends). Drama examined include Oz, Buried Carnivale, Blackpool, The Sopranos, Shameless, and Shooting the Past.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Mapping the territory; blurring the boundaries
2. Distinctive product: three kinds of quality: The Sopranos, Shooting the Past, Shameless
3. State of Play: the TV drama industry - new rules of the game
4. Pushing the envelope: 'edgy' TV drama, Sex and The City, Queer as Folk, Carnivàle
5. Techniques, technologies and cultural form
6. Between global and national: 24 and Spooks; Oz and Buried
7. 'Quality TV' in context
8. Singularity sustained: Casanova, Blackpool, State of Play

Autorenportrait

Robin Nelson is Professor of Theatre and TV Drama in the Department of Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University

Flap copy

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 types of "quality" are privileged for viewers able to pay, possibly at the expense of viewer preference worldwide for "local" resonances in television. The mix of arts and cultural studies methodologies makes for an unusual and insightful approach.

Diese Produkte könnten Sie auch interessieren: