10 Specters of Serling: Authorship, Television History, and Inherited Prestige in The Twilight Zone (2019–2020)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1 The Fringes of Prestige TV: Genre and Markers of Distinction
5. 1 Spies Like Us: Genre Mixing, Brand Building, and Reagan’s 1980s in The Americans 21
6. 2 Disrupting the Pattern of Prestige TV: Fringe 38
7. 3 “But Is It Star Trek?” Prestige, Fandom, and the Return of Star Trek to Television 55
8. 4 Negotiating Prestige on The CW: Is Roswell, New Mexico “Another Show about Teenagers Getting F-cked Up and Having Sex” or a Sophisticated Exploration of Racial and Gender Politics? 74
9. Part 2 How Contemporary Programming Met Prestige TV: Unconventional Depictions of Cultural and Televisual Norms
10. 5 Prestige Adaptation by Design: The Commercial Appeal of Latinx Tropes in Queen of the South 95
11. 6 “Tell Them We Are Gone” Imperial Narratives, Indigenous Perspectives, and Prestige in The Terror 113
12. 7 Prestige Comedy: Contemporary Sitcom Narrative and Complexity in How I Met Your Mother 131
13. Part 3 Top of the Media Hierarchy: Cinematization and Television’s Elevation
14. 8 Running The Knick Show: Transfusing Steven Soderbergh’s Authorial Persona into the Prestige Medical Series 153
15. 9 Legitimating Top of the Lake: Jane Campion, the Film Fest, and the Miniseries 170
16. 10 Specters of Serling: Authorship, Television History, and Inherited Prestige in The Twilight Zone (2019–2020) 189
17. Acknowledgments 207
18. Selected Bibliography 209
19. Notes on Contributors 217
20. Index 219