Janet McCabe, Kim Akass

Quality TV

Contemporary American Television and Beyond

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 mean by quality TV.

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Produktdetails

• Reading Contemporary Television
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781845115111
• ISBN-10: 1845115112
• Artikelnr.: 22705822

Autorenporträt

Janet McCabe is Research Associate (TV Drama) at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is Managing Editor of Critical Studies in Television and author of Feminist Film Studies: Writing the Woman into Cinema (Wallflower, 2004). Kim Akass is Research Fellow (TV Drama) at Manchester Metropolitan University and is co-editor of Critical Studies in Television. Janet McCabe and Kim Akass are joint Series Editors of the Reading Contemporary Television Series at I.B.Tauris. They have co-edited and contributed to Reading Sex and the City (2004), Reading Six Feet Under: TV To Die For (2005), Reading The L Word: Outing Contemporary Television (2006) and Reading Desperate Housewives: Beyond the White Picket Fence (2006, all I.B.Tauris).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Robert Thompson Debating Quality . Introduction: Janet McCabe and
Kim Akass 'Quality TV' On Show Karen Fricker Part 1 Defining Quality .
critical judgements and debate _____________________ Is Quality Television
Any Good? generic distinctions, evaluations and the troubling matter of
critical judgement. Sarah Cardwell Quality TV: from an American critic's
perspective David Bianculli Quality TV Drama: a tale of two traditions
(British and American) Robin Nelson As Seen on TV: women's rights and
quality television Ashley Sayeau Sex, Swearing and Respectability: courting
controversy, HBO's Original Programming and producing quality TV Janet
McCabe and Kim Akass Part 2: Defining Quality . industry, policy and
competitive markets_____________ Quality Control: The Daily Show, the
Peabody and brand discipline Jimmie Reeves, Michael Epstein and Mark Rogers
Inside American Television Drama Peter Dunne Quality US TV: a buyer's
perspective Dermot Horan C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation: quality, the
fifth channel and 'America's Finest' Ian Goode The Problem of Quality
Television: television schedules, audience demographics and cultural policy
in New Zealand.' Geoff Lealand Part 3: Defining Quality .aesthetics, form,
content ___________________________ HBO and the Concept of Quality TV Jane
Feuer Seeing and Knowing: reflexivity and quality Jonathan Bignell Quality
and Creativity in TV: the work of television storytellers Máire
Messenger-Davies An interview with David Chase Mark Lawson Writing Music
for Quality TV: An Interview with W. Snuffy Walden Peter Kaye 'Read Any
Good Television Lately? television tie-in books and quality TV David Lavery
Afterthoughts: Defining Quality . into the
future_____________________________ Lost in Transition: from post-network
to post-television Roberta Pearson TV and Film Guide Bibliography
Index?????