{"product_id":"state-of-play-contemporary-highend-tv-drama-9780719073106","title":"State of Play Contemporary highend TV Drama","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book deals with a wide range of 'high-end', expensive and high concept, TV dramas from the UK and the USA and analyses the compositional principles of texts (technologies, institutions, economics, cultrual trends). Drama examined include Oz, Buried Carnivale, Blackpool, The Sopranos, Shameless, and Shooting the Past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Mapping the territory; blurring the boundaries\u003cbr\u003e2. Distinctive product: three kinds of quality: The Sopranos, Shooting the Past, Shameless\u003cbr\u003e3. State of Play: the TV drama industry - new rules of the game\u003cbr\u003e4. Pushing the envelope: 'edgy' TV drama, Sex and The City, Queer as Folk, Carnivàle\u003cbr\u003e5. Techniques, technologies and cultural form\u003cbr\u003e6. Between global and national: 24 and Spooks; Oz and Buried\u003cbr\u003e7. 'Quality TV' in context\u003cbr\u003e8. Singularity sustained: Casanova, Blackpool, State of Play\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037303996759,"sku":"9780719073106","price":68.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/state-of-play-contemporary-highend-tv-drama-9780719073106","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}