Erin Giannini

Meta Television (eBook, ePUB)

A History of US Popular Television's Self-Awareness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways in which the current metatextual turn, in both the usual genres in which it appears and its movement into drama and sitcom, represents the next turn in television's inherent self-awareness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003850106
• Artikelnr.: 69864137

Autorenporträt

Erin Giannini, PhD, is an independent scholar, and author of Supernatural: A History of Television's Unearthly Road Trip and The Good Place, as well as co-editor of the book series B-TV: Television Under the Critical Radar for Bloomsbury.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Exploiting TV's TV-ness, or isn't television weird? Part I: Facets of meta television 1. "Like there were only three walls, not a fourth one": Addressing the world outside the TV 2. "That's fake me!": Shows about shows Part II: Deep dives: Defining shows 3. Soap's parody of soap opera's dramatic excesses 4. "Tonight, broadcasting takes a giant leap...backwards": Moonlighting's comedy noir 5. Life isn't a John Hughes Film: Parker Lewis Can't Lose, film, and surveillance 6. Whose story is it? Roseanne, Supernatural, and the writer as God 7. "Abed, stop being meta": Community deconstructs TV tropes 8. "In one indescribable instant": Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's rom-com-musical deconstruction 9. "Teachers at a school like Abbott...we have to be able to do it all": Meta as pedagogy in Abbott Elementary Conclusion "The audience might just see through this little charade": WandaVision and when meta TV goes streaming