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Contemporary Television Series

Author : Michael Hammond
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748679642
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Television Series written by Michael Hammond and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and provocative study of the contemporary prime-time 'quality' serial television format, this book gives a timely account of prominent programmes such as 24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER, The Sopranos and The West Wing and explores their influential position within the television industry. Divided into the areas of history, aesthetics and reception, the text provides an illuminating overview of an increasingly hybrid television studies discipline. Chapters consider the formal and aesthetic elements in the contemporary television serial through approaches ranging from those concerned with issues of gender and sexuality, national identity, and reception to industry history and textual analysis. The book also includes British examples of 'quality' serial television emphasizing not only their cultural specificity but also the transnational context in which these programmes operate. Features*Section introductions provide student-friendly explanations of the various approaches and methodologies employed in the book*Chapters are written by an international team of experts in the field of television studies*Ideal for use as a textbook on courses in contemporary television taught at undergraduate level

Contemporary Television Series

Author : Silvia Branea
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144386174X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Television Series written by Silvia Branea and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Television Series: Narrative Structures and Audience Perception proposes an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach of old concepts like fiction, reality and narrativity applied to actual worldwide television series. The authors that have contributed to this volume analyze the almost invisible barriers between fiction and reality in television series from different perspectives. The results of their studies are extremely interesting and revealing. The new perspectives offered by this volume will be of great interest to any scholar of European and international studies, because they bring to light new ideas, new methodologies and results that could be further developed. This volume allows readers to explore these unique insights, even if they are not senior researchers, and to easily digest the content, and also to acknowledge the impact of the viewing of television series on reality and on their own lives.

Quality TV

Author : Janet McCabe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857715992
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Quality TV written by Janet McCabe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his seminal book "Television's Second Golden Age", Robert Thompson described quality TV as 'best defined by what it is not': 'it is not "regular" TV'. Audacious maybe, but his statement renewed debate on the meaning of this highly contentious term. Dealing primarily with the post-1996 era shaped by digital technologies and defined by consumer choice and brand marketing, this book brings together leading scholars, established journalists and experienced broadcasters working in the field of contemporary television to debate what we currently mean by quality TV. They go deep into contemporary American television fictions, from "The Sopranos" and "The West Wing", to "CSI" and "Lost" - innovative, sometimes controversial, always compelling dramas, which one scholar has described as 'now better than the movies!' But how do we understand the emergence of these kinds of fiction? Are they genuinely new? What does quality TV have to tell us about the state of today's television market? And is this a new Golden Age of quality TV? Original, often polemic, each chapter proposes new ways of thinking about and defining quality TV. There is a foreword from Robert Thompson, and heated dialogue between British and US television critics. Also included - and a great coup - are interviews with W. Snuffy Walden (scored "The West Wing" among others) and with David Chase ("The Sopranos" creator). "Quality TV" provides throughout groundbreaking and innovative theoretical and critical approaches to studying television and for understanding the current - and future - TV landscape.

Emotions in Contemporary TV Series

Author : Alberto N. Garcφa
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137568852
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Emotions in Contemporary TV Series written by Alberto N. Garcφa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection offers a wide range of essays showcasing current research on emotions in TV series. The chapters develop from a variety of research traditions in film, television and media studies and explores American, British, Nordic and Spanish TV series.

Television Series as Mirrors of Contemporary Life

Author : Ion Piso
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527534715
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Television Series as Mirrors of Contemporary Life written by Ion Piso and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study sheds light on the impressive work done by writers of television series, highlighting their sources of inspiration and their exceptional talent for maintaining interest and mirroring changes in mentalities in lifestyle. It offers numerous original interpretations of various categories of such television shows, and explores the ways in which older series have been developed, and what has been maintained and changed in more modern TV series.

Complex TV

Author : Jason Mittell
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814738850
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Complex TV written by Jason Mittell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, new technologies, changing viewer practices, and the proliferation of genres and channels has transformed American television. One of the most notable impacts of these shifts is the emergence of highly complex and elaborate forms of serial narrative, resulting in a robust period of formal experimentation and risky programming rarely seen in a medium that is typically viewed as formulaic and convention bound. Complex TV offers a sustained analysis of the poetics of television narrative, focusing on how storytelling has changed in recent years and how viewers make sense of these innovations. Through close analyses of key programs, including The Wire, Lost, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Veronica Mars, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Mad Men the book traces the emergence of this narrative mode, focusing on issues such as viewer comprehension, transmedia storytelling, serial authorship, character change, and cultural evaluation. Developing a television-specific set of narrative theories, Complex TV argues that television is the most vital and important storytelling medium of our time.

Television Series as Literature

Author : Reto Winckler
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811547203
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Television Series as Literature written by Reto Winckler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how television series can be understood as a form of literature, bridging the gap between literary and television studies. It goes beyond existing adaptation studies and narratological approaches to television series in both its scope and depth. The respective chapters address literary works, themes, tropes, techniques, values, genres, and movements in relation to a broad variety of television series, while drawing on the theoretical work of a host of scholars from Simone de Beauvoir and Yuri Lotman to Ted Nannicelli and Jason Mittel, and on critical approaches ranging from narratology and semiotics to empirical sociology and phenomenology. The book fosters new ways of understanding television series and literature and lays the groundwork for future scholarship in a number of fields. By questioning the alleged divide between television series and works of literature, it contributes not only to a better understanding of television series and literary texts themselves, but also to the development of interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities.

Serial Killers in Contemporary Television

Author : Brett A.B. Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000591476
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Serial Killers in Contemporary Television written by Brett A.B. Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the significant increase in representations of serial killers as central characters in popular television over the last two decades. Via critical analyses of the philosophical and existential themes presented to viewers and their place in the cultural landscape of contemporary America, the authors ask: What is it about serial killers that incited such a boom in these types of narratives in popular television post-9/11? Looking past the serial format of television programming as uniquely suited for the presentation of the serial killer’s actions, the chapters delve into deeper reasons as to why TV has proven to be such a fertile ground for serial killer narratives in contemporary popular culture. An international team of authors question: What is it about serial killers that makes these characters deeply enlightening representations of the human condition that, although horrifically deviant, reflect complex elements of the human psyche? Why are serial killers intellectually fascinating to audiences? How do these characters so deeply affect us? Shedding new light on a contemporary phenomenon, this book will be a fascinating read for all those at the intersection of television studies, film studies, psychology, popular culture, media studies, philosophy, genre studies, and horror studies.

Serial Pinboarding in Contemporary Television

Author : Anne Ganzert
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030352722
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Serial Pinboarding in Contemporary Television written by Anne Ganzert and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth study of pinboards in contemporary television series and develops the interdisciplinary and innovative concept of Serial Pinboarding. Pinboards are character attributes; they visualize thought processes; are used for conspiracy theories, as murder walls, or for complex cases in any genre. They significantly condition, and are conditioned by, seriality. This book discusses how the pinboards in Castle, Homeland, Flash Forward, and Heroes connect evidence, knowledge, and seriality and how through transmediality and fan practices an “age of pinboarding” has formed. Serial Pinboarding in Contemporary Television will appeal to TV enthusiasts, professionals and researchers, and students of TV and production studies, fan studies, media studies, and art theory.

Thinking Outside the Box

Author : Gary R. Edgerton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813171722
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Outside the Box written by Gary R. Edgerton and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Outside the Box brings together some of the best and most challenging scholarship about TV genres, exploring their genesis, their functions and development, and the interaction of disparate genres. The authors argue that genre is a process rather than a static category and that it signifies much about the people who produce and watch the shows. In addition to considering traditional genres such as sitcoms, soap operas, and talk shows, the contributors explore new hybrids, including reality programs, teen-oriented science fiction, and quality dramas, and examine how many of these shows have taken on a global reach. Identifying historical continuities and envisioning possible trends, this is the richest and most current study of how television genres form, operate, and change.

Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television

Author : Ted Nannicelli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000478815
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television written by Ted Nannicelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book posits an interconnection between the ways in which contemporary television serials cue cognitive operations, solicit emotional responses, and elicit aesthetic appreciation. The chapters explore a number of questions including: How do the particularities of form and style in contemporary serial television engage us cognitively, emotionally, and aesthetically? How do they foster cognitive and emotional effects such as feeling suspense, anticipation, surprise, satisfaction, and disappointment? Why and how do we value some serials while disliking others? What is it about the particularities of serial television form and style, in conjunction with our common cognitive, emotional, and aesthetic capacities, that accounts for serial television’s cognitive, socio-political, and aesthetic value and its current ubiquity in popular culture? This book will appeal to postgraduates and scholars working in television studies as well as film studies, cognitive media theory, media psychology, and the philosophy of art.

Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes

Author : Paola Brembilla
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351628356
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes written by Paola Brembilla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes provides a new framework—the metaphor of the narrative ecosystem—for the analysis of serial television narratives. Contributors use this metaphor to address the ever-expanding and evolving structure of narratives far beyond their usual spatial and temporal borders, in general and in reference to specific series. Other scholarly approaches consider each narrative as composed of modular elements, which combine to create a bigger picture. The narrative ecosystem approach, on the other hand, argues that each portion of the narrative world contains all of the main elements that characterize the world as a whole, such as narrative tensions, production structures, creative dynamics and functions. The volume details the implications of the narrative ecosystem for narrative theory and the study of seriality, audiences and fandoms, production, and the analysis of the products themselves.

TV Cops

Author : Jonathan Nichols-Pethick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136994661
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book TV Cops written by Jonathan Nichols-Pethick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The police drama has been one of the longest running and most popular genres in American television. In TV Cops, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick argues that, perhaps more than any other genre, the police series in all its manifestations—from Hill Street Blues to Miami Vice to The Wire—embodies the full range of the cultural dynamics of television. Exploring the textual, industrial, and social contexts of police shows on American television, this book demonstrates how polices drama play a vital role in the way we understand and engage issues of social order that most of us otherwise experience only in such abstractions as laws and crime statistics. And given the current diffusion and popularity of the form, we might ask a number of questions that deserve serious critical attention: Under what circumstances have stories about the police proliferated in popular culture? What function do these stories serve for both the television industry and its audiences? Why have these stories become so commercially viable for the television industry in particular? How do stories about the police help us understand current social and political debates about crime, about the communities we live in, and about our identities as citizens?

Masculinity in Contemporary Quality Television

Author : Michael Mario Albrecht
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317099826
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Masculinity in Contemporary Quality Television written by Michael Mario Albrecht and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of ’quality’ television programs, many of which featuring complicated versions of masculinity that are informed not only by the women’s movement of the sixties and seventies, but also by several decades of backlash and debate about the effects of women’s equality on men, masculinity, and the relationship between men and women. Drawing upon studies of contemporary television programs, including popular series viewed internationally such as Mad Men, The League, Hung, Breaking Bad, Louie, and Girls, this book explores the ways in which popular cultural texts address widely circulating discourses of the ostensible ’crisis of masculinity’ in contemporary culture. A rich study of masculinity and its representation in contemporary television, Masculinity in Contemporary Quality Television will appeal to scholars and students of cultural and media studies, popular culture, television studies and cultural sociology with interests in gender, masculinities, and sexuality.

New Television

Author : Martin Shuster
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022650395X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book New Television written by Martin Shuster and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worlds on screen: the ontology of television series and/as the ontology of film -- Storytelling and worldhood: the screen and us -- "This America, man": tragic reconciliation, television, and The Wire -- The gangster, boredom, and family: Weeds, natality, and new television -- "Boyd and I dug coal together": Justified, moral perfectionism, and the United States of America -- Conclusion

Humor and Satire on Contemporary Television

Author : Silas Kaine Ezell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131711941X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Humor and Satire on Contemporary Television written by Silas Kaine Ezell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines contemporary American animated humor, focusing on popular animated television shows in order to explore the ways in which they engage with American culture and history, employing a peculiarly American way of using humor to discuss important cultural issues. With attention to the work of American humorists, such as the Southwest humorists, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, and Kurt Vonnegut, and the question of the extent to which modern animated satire shares the qualities of earlier humor, particularly the use of setting, the carnivalesque, collective memory, racial humor, and irony, Humor and Satire on Contemporary Television concentrates on a particular strand of American humor: the use of satire to expose the gap between the American ideal and the American experience. Taking up the notion of ’The Great American Joke’, the author examines the discursive humor of programmes such as The Simpsons, South Park , Family Guy , King of the Hill, Daria, American Dad!, The Boondocks, The PJs and Futurama . A study of how animated television programmes offer a new discourse on a very traditional strain of American humor, this book will appeal to scholars and students of popular culture, television and media studies, American literature and visual studies, and contemporary humor and satire.

The Contemporary Television Series

Author : Michael Hammond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780748671168
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Television Series written by Michael Hammond and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an engaging and provocative study of the contemporary prime-time 'quality' serial television format, this book gives a timely account of prominent examples of the genre such as 'The X Files', 'The Sopranos' and 'The West Wing' and explores their influential position within the television industry.