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State of play : contemporary "high-end" TV drama / Robin Nelson

Author
Nelson, Robin, 1949-
Published
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2007.
New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Physical Description
1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Introduction : aims, scope, methods, and standpoints -- Mapping the territory, blurring the boundaries -- Distinctive product : three kinds of quality : The Sopranos, Shooting the past, Shameless -- State of play : the TV drama industry : new rules of the game -- Pushing the envelope : "edgy" TV drama, Queer as folk, Sex and the City, Carnivàle -- Techniques, technologies and cultural form -- Between global and national : 24 and Spooks, Buried and Oz -- "Quality TV" in context -- Singularity sustained : Blackpool, Casanova, State of play.
Summary
Tracing "the great value shift from conduit to content" (Todreas, 1999), Nelson is relatively optimistic about the future quality of TV Drama in a global market-place.
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ISBN
9781847791825 (electronic bk.)
1847791824 (electronic bk.)
9781781701119
1781701113
9780719073113 (pbk.)
0719073111 (pbk.)
9780719073106 (hardback)
0719073103 (hardback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-218) and index.
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