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Moments in television
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2022
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An exciting new strand in The Television Series, the ‘Moments in Television’ collections celebrate the power and artistry of television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television scholarship.
Each ‘Moments’ book is organised around a provocative binary theme. Substance / styleoffers fresh perspectives on television’s essential qualities and aesthetic significance. It reassesses the synergy between substance and style, highlighting the potential for meaning to arise through their integration. The book’s chosen programmes are persuasively illuminated in new ways.
The book explores an eclectic range of TV fictions, dramatic and comedic. Contributors from diverse perspectives come together to expand and enrich the kind of close analysis most commonly found in television aesthetics. Sustained, detailed programme analyses are sensitively framed within historical, technological, institutional, cultural, creative and art-historical contexts.
Each ‘Moments’ book is organised around a provocative binary theme. Substance / styleoffers fresh perspectives on television’s essential qualities and aesthetic significance. It reassesses the synergy between substance and style, highlighting the potential for meaning to arise through their integration. The book’s chosen programmes are persuasively illuminated in new ways.
The book explores an eclectic range of TV fictions, dramatic and comedic. Contributors from diverse perspectives come together to expand and enrich the kind of close analysis most commonly found in television aesthetics. Sustained, detailed programme analyses are sensitively framed within historical, technological, institutional, cultural, creative and art-historical contexts.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Sarah Cardwell
Sarah Cardwell is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury
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Contributor: Jonathan Bignell
Jonathan Bignell is Reader in Television and Film at the University of Reading, and Director of the Centre for Television Drama Studies
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Figures
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List of contributors
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The Television Series
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Moments in Television, the collections
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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1 Layers of style
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2 New uniforms! Costume and the 1950s/60s in Call the Midwife
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3 When style is substance and beyond
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4 Representing mediated identity and consciousness in The Good Wife
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5 Performing laughter in Friends
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6 ‘You’re what’s wrong with America, Simpson’
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7 Resurrection, revelation, reception
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8 Police Squad! The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker style versus the substance of early 1980s television
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9 Grand designs
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Index
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eBook published on:
September 13, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781526148797
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9781526148797
Keywords for this book
TV substance; television style; television aesthetics; interpretation; TV drama; TV series; stylistic criticism; TV evaluation; television moments; substance and style
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
