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Product details:
- Publisher I.B. Tauris
- Date of Publication 26 September 2007
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781845115111
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 214x138x20 mm
- Weight 400 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Dealing primarily with the post-1996 era shaped by digital technologies and defined by consumer choice and brand marketing, this book brings together leading scholars, established journalists and experienced broadcasters working in the field of contemporary television to debate what we mean by quality TV.
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In his seminal book "Television's Second Golden Age", Robert Thompson described quality TV as 'best defined by what it is not': 'it is not "regular" TV'. Audacious maybe, but his statement renewed debate on the meaning of this highly contentious term. Dealing primarily with the post-1996 era shaped by digital technologies and defined by consumer choice and brand marketing, this book brings together leading scholars, established journalists and experienced broadcasters working in the field of contemporary television to debate what we currently mean by quality TV. They go deep into contemporary American television fictions, from "The Sopranos" and "The West Wing", to "CSI" and "Lost" - innovative, sometimes controversial, always compelling dramas, which one scholar has described as 'now better than the movies!' But how do we understand the emergence of these kinds of fiction? Are they genuinely new? What does quality TV have to tell us about the state of today's television market? And is this a new Golden Age of quality TV? Original, often polemic, each chapter proposes new ways of thinking about and defining quality TV.
There is a foreword from Robert Thompson, and heated dialogue between British and US television critics. Also included - and a great coup - are interviews with W. Snuffy Walden (scored "The West Wing" among others) and with David Chase ("The Sopranos" creator). "Quality TV" provides throughout groundbreaking and innovative theoretical and critical approaches to studying television and for understanding the current - and future - TV landscape.
Table of Contents:
Preface:
Robert Thompson
Debating Quality . Introduction:
Janet McCabe and Kim Akass
'Quality TV' On Show
Karen Fricker
Part 1 Defining Quality . critical judgements and debate _____________________
Is Quality Television Any Good? generic distinctions, evaluations and the troubling matter of critical judgement.
Sarah Cardwell
Quality TV: from an American critic's perspective
David Bianculli
Quality TV Drama: a tale of two traditions (British and American)
Robin Nelson
As Seen on TV: women's rights and quality television
Ashley Sayeau
Sex, Swearing and Respectability: courting controversy, HBO's Original Programming and producing quality TV
Janet McCabe and Kim Akass
Part 2: Defining Quality . industry, policy and competitive markets_____________
Quality Control: The Daily Show, the Peabody and brand discipline
Jimmie Reeves, Michael Epstein and Mark Rogers
Inside American Television Drama
Peter Dunne
Quality US TV: a buyer's perspective
Dermot Horan
C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation: quality, the fifth channel and 'America's Finest'
Ian Goode
The Problem of Quality Television: television schedules, audience demographics and cultural policy in New Zealand.'
Geoff Lealand
Part 3: Defining Quality .aesthetics, form, content___________________________
HBO and the Concept of Quality TV
Jane Feuer
Seeing and Knowing: reflexivity and quality
Jonathan Bignell
Quality and Creativity in TV: the work of television storytellers
Máire Messenger-Davies
An interview with David Chase
Mark Lawson
Writing Music for Quality TV: An Interview with W. Snuffy Walden
Peter Kaye
'Read Any Good Television Lately? television tie-in books and quality TV
David Lavery
Afterthoughts: Defining Quality . into the future_____________________________
Lost in Transition: from post-network to post-television
Roberta Pearson
TV and Film Guide
Bibliography
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