{"product_id":"prestige-television-cultural-and-artistic-value-in-twenty-first-century-america-9781978818279","title":"Prestige Television: Cultural and Artistic Value","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrestige Television \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how a growing array of 21st century US programming is produced and received in ways that elevate select series above the competition in a saturated market. Contributing authors demonstrate that these shows are positioned and understood as comprising an increasingly recognizable genre characterized by familiar markers of distinction. In contrast to most accounts of elite categorizations of contemporary US television programming that center on HBO and its primary streaming rivals, these essays examine how efforts to imbue series with prestigious or elevated status now permeate the rest of the medium, including network as well as basic and undervalued premium cable channels. Case study chapters focusing on diverse series, ranging from widely recognized examples such as \u003ci\u003eThe Americans \u003c\/i\u003e(2013-2018) and \u003ci\u003eThe Knick \u003c\/i\u003e(2014-15) to contested examples like \u003ci\u003eQueen of the South \u003c\/i\u003e(2016-2021) and \u003ci\u003eHow I Met Your Mother \u003c\/i\u003e(2005-2014), highlight how contributing authors extend conceptions of the genre beyond expected parameters.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Seth Friedman and Amanda Keeler prompt us to rethink conventional wisdom about 'Quality TV' and explore a rich terrain that combines TV industry strategies and textual expressions. The book makes a wonderful contribution to the study of recent and contemporary television and its shifting cultural status.” -- Michael Z. Newman * Professor of English and Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee *\u003cbr\u003e“Closely examining the ways in which industrial, textual, paratextual, and contextual factors have shaped the category of prestige television programming in the 21st century, Seth Friedman and Amanda Keeler invite us to ponder if prestige television should perhaps be recognized as a new genre. This rich and timely volume\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis a must read for scholars, students, and TV fans alike.” -- Yeidy Rivero * author of Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e SETH FRIEDMAN AND AMANDA KEELER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Fringes of Prestige TV: Genre and Markers of Distinction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 Spies Like Us: Genre Mixing, Brand Building, and Reagan’s 1980s in The Americans\u003cbr\u003e DAVID R. COON\u003cbr\u003e 2 Disrupting the Pattern of Prestige TV: Fringe\u003cbr\u003e AMANDA KEELER\u003cbr\u003e 3 “But Is It Star Trek?”: Prestige, Fandom, and the Return of Star Trek to Television\u003cbr\u003e MURRAY LEEDER\u003cbr\u003e 4 Negotiating Prestige on The CW: Is Roswell, New Mexico “Another Show about Teenagers Getting F-cked Up and Having Sex” or a Sophisticated Exploration of Racial and Gender Politics?\u003cbr\u003e CATHERINE MARTIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II How Contemporary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Programming Met Prestige TV: Unconventional Depictions of Cultural and Televisual Norms\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 Prestige Adaptation by Design: The Commercial Appeal of Latinx Tropes in Queen of the South\u003cbr\u003e JAVIER RAMIREZ\u003cbr\u003e 6 “Tell Them We Are Gone”: Imperial Narratives, Indigenous Perspectives, and Prestige in The Terror\u003cbr\u003e JUSTIN O. RAWLINS\u003cbr\u003e 7 Prestige Comedy: Contemporary Sitcom Narrative and Complexity in How I Met Your Mother\u003cbr\u003e ANDRE W J. BOTTOMLEY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Top of the Media Hierarchy: Cinematization and Television’s Elevation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8 Running \u003ci\u003eThe Knick Show\u003c\/i\u003e: Transfusing Steven Soderbergh’s Authorial Persona into the Prestige Medical Series\u003cbr\u003e SETH FRIEDMAN\u003cbr\u003e 9 Legitimating Top of the Lake: Jane Campion, the Film Fest, and the Miniseries\u003cbr\u003e W. D. PHILLIPS\u003cbr\u003e 10 Specters of Serling: Authorship, Television History, and Inherited Prestige in The Twilight Zone (2019–2020)\u003cbr\u003e JOSIE TORRES BARTH\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49415245103447,"sku":"9781978818279","price":107.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781978818279.jpg?v=1730526377","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/prestige-television-cultural-and-artistic-value-in-twenty-first-century-america-9781978818279","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}