Action TV: Tough-Guys, Smooth Operators and Foxy Chicks (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gough-Yates, Anna; Yates, Anna Gough; Osgerby, Bill

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Action TV explores the historical development of the tv genre and its position within broader social, cultural and political contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136358654
• Artikelnr.: 39911074

Autorenporträt

Bill Osgerby is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of North London. He is the author of Youth in Britain Since 1945 (1998) and Playboys in Paradise: Masculinity, Youth and the Rise of American Leisure-Style., Anna Gough-Yates lectures in the Sociology of Culture and Communication at Brunel University. She is the author of Understanding Women's Magazines (Routledge 2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Bill Osgerby, Anna Gough-Yates
Part I Situating the Action TV Series
Chapter 1 The Business of Action, Bill Osgerby, Anna Gough-Yates, Merianne Wells
Chapter 2 'So You're the Famous Simon Templar', Bill Osgerby
Chapter 3 'Who Loves Ya, Baby?', Paul Cobley
Chapter 4 'A Lone Crusader in the Dangerous World', Nickianne Moody
Part II Representation and Cultural Politics in the Action TV Series
Chapter 5 Angels in Chains?, Anna Gough-Yates
Chapter 6 'Who's the Cat that Won't Cop Out?', Elaine Pennicott
Chapter 7 Kung Fu, Yvonne Tasker
Chapter 8 'Drop Everything ... Including your Pants!', Leon Hunt
Part III Audiences Reading and Re-Reading the Action TV Series
Chapter 9 The Games we Play(ed), Martin Pumphrey
Chapter 10 The Persuaders!, Joke Hermes
Chapter 11 King and Queen, Andy Medhurst
Part IV The Cultural Circulation of the Action TV Series
Chapter 12 TV Gets Jazzed, Elizabeth Withey
Chapter 13 The Comics Connection, Roger Sabin
Chapter 14 Of Leather Suits and Kinky Boots, Marc O'Day
Chapter 15 The Sixties in the Nineties, John Storey