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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791
EAN: 9780851709413
ISBN: 0851709419
Label: British Film Institute
Manufacturer: British Film Institute
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 215
Publication Date: February 27, 2008
Publisher: British Film Institute
Release Date: March 04, 2008
Studio: British Film Institute
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Product Description:
Why are some contemporary television shows so compelling? The Sopranos, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, and ER are examples among many of a new era of the "must-see" program. These shows and others, like The X-Files and Ally McBeal, have a compulsiveness, a depth of characterization and backstory that puts most of cinema to shame.
Quality Popular Television looks at this new category of "cult" television (mostly U.S.-produced) and the reasons for its emergence. Considering shows as diverse as Ally McBeal, Martial Law, Buffy, Lois and Clark, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Ellen, the book examines the particular qualities necessary for success and how they relate to issues such as the economics of network scheduling, the growth of the Internet, and contemporary debates about television audiences. This important new book provides an invaluable window on transformations in contemporary television culture.
Book Description:
Why are some contemporary television shows so compelling? Looking at shows as diverse as "Ally McBeal", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Star Trek" it examines the particular qualities necessary for success and how they relate to issues such as the economics of network scheduling.
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The perfect anthology does not exist, either because not every contribution to a collection comes up to the standard of the finest essays or not every essay appeals to the interest of the reader. Nonetheless, this group of recent essays on the current state of television is an above average collection. Only one essay is truly awful, while most or all of the others will appeal to most general readers.
The loose concept around which the essays are constructed is that of "Must See TV." ... Read More
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