Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. The Television Series xii
6. Moments in Television, the collections xiv
7. Acknowledgements xviii
8. Introduction 1
9. 1 Layers of style 18
10. 2 New uniforms! Costume and the 1950s/60s in Call the Midwife 42
11. 3 When style is substance and beyond 64
12. 4 Representing mediated identity and consciousness in The Good Wife 86
13. 5 Performing laughter in Friends 109
14. 6 ‘You’re what’s wrong with America, Simpson’ 132
15. 7 Resurrection, revelation, reception 156
16. 8 Police Squad! The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker style versus the substance of early 1980s television 178
17. 9 Grand designs 202
18. Index 225