State of play [electronic resource] : contemporary "high-end" TV drama / Robin Nelson.

By: Nelson, Robin, 1949-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007Description: 222 p. : illISBN: 9781847791825 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Television programs -- United States | Television programs -- Great BritainGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: PN1992.3.U5 | N46 2007Online resources: Click to View
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, Carnivale -- 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-218) and index.

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, Carnivale -- 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.

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