State of play contemporary "high-end" TV drama /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelson, Robin, 1949-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
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Table of 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.