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Book Synopsis
This 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.

Table of Contents

1. Mapping the territory; blurring the boundaries
2. Distinctive product: three kinds of quality: The Sopranos, Shooting the Past, Shameless
3. State of Play: the TV drama industry - new rules of the game
4. Pushing the envelope: 'edgy' TV drama, Sex and The City, Queer as Folk, Carnivàle
5. Techniques, technologies and cultural form
6. Between global and national: 24 and Spooks; Oz and Buried
7. 'Quality TV' in context
8. Singularity sustained: Casanova, Blackpool, State of Play

State of Play Contemporary highend TV Drama

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 11/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719073113, 978-0719073113
      ISBN10: 0719073111

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This 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.

      Table of Contents

      1. Mapping the territory; blurring the boundaries
      2. Distinctive product: three kinds of quality: The Sopranos, Shooting the Past, Shameless
      3. State of Play: the TV drama industry - new rules of the game
      4. Pushing the envelope: 'edgy' TV drama, Sex and The City, Queer as Folk, Carnivàle
      5. Techniques, technologies and cultural form
      6. Between global and national: 24 and Spooks; Oz and Buried
      7. 'Quality TV' in context
      8. Singularity sustained: Casanova, Blackpool, State of Play

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