Cinematic TV
Serial Drama goes to the Movies
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 September 2021
- ISBN 9780190071257
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages246 pages
- Size 160x243x18 mm
- Weight 481 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24 figures 197
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Short description:
Investigating the boundaries between media in an age of convergence, Cinematic TV constructs a new model for exploring how contemporary serial dramas quote, copy, and appropriate American cinema.
MoreLong description:
For decades after its invention, television was considered by many to be culturally deficient when compared to cinema, as analyses rooted in communication studies and the social sciences tended to focus primarily on television's negative impact on consumers. More recently, however, denigration has largely been replaced by serious critical consideration of what television represents in the post-network era. Once derided as a media wasteland, TV is now praised for its visual density and complexity. In the last two decades, media scholars have often suggested that television has become cinematic. Serial dramas, in particular, are acclaimed for their imitations of cinema's formally innovative and narratively challenging conventions. But what exactly does "cinematic TV" mean?
In Cinematic TV, author Rashna Wadia Richards takes up this question comprehensively, arguing that TV dramas quote, copy, and appropriate (primarily) American cinema in multiple ways and toward multiple ends. Constructing an innovative theoretical framework by combining intertextuality and memory studies, Cinematic TV focuses on four modalities of intermedial borrowings: homage, evocation, genre, and parody. Through close readings of such exemplary shows as Stranger Things, Mad Men, Damages, and Dear White People, the book demonstrates how serial dramas reproduce and rework, undermine and idolize, and, in some cases, compete with and outdo cinema.
Cinematic TV meets and exceeds its goal of "developing an expansive framework for analyzing [the relationships between film and serial drama] in ways that are not reductive or evaluative."
Table of Contents:
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction What Is Cinematic TV?
Chapter 1 "How about . . . We Watch a Scary Movie Together": Paying Tribute
Chapter 2 "You See Everything": Evoking Cinema
Chapter 3 "You're Nobody's Mommy": Overlapping Genres
Chapter 4 "This Isn't Some TV Show, Okay?": Mocking Cinema
Epilogue What Do TV Critics Dream about?
Notes
Index
