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9780851709413

Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans

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  • ISBN13:

    9780851709413

  • ISBN10:

    0851709419

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-02-27
  • Publisher: British Film Inst

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Summary

Why are some contemporary television shows so compelling? "The Sopranos, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, "and "ER "are examples among many of a new era of the "must-see" program. These shows and others, like "The X-Files "and "Ally McBeal, "have a compulsiveness, a depth of characterization and backstory that puts most of cinema to shame. "Quality Popular Television "looks at this new category of "cult" television (mostly U.S.-produced) and the reasons for its emergence. Considering shows as diverse as "Ally McBeal, Martial Law, Buffy, Lois and Clark, Star Trek: The Next Generation, "and "Ellen, "the book examines the particular qualities necessary for success and how they relate to issues such as the economics of network scheduling, the growth of the Internet, and contemporary debates about television audiences. This important new book provides an invaluable window on transformations in contemporary television culture.

Author Biography

Mark Jancovich is Reader and Director of the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham. James Lyons is a lecturer in film at the University of Exeter. He is the author of John Sayles: Independence, Integrity and the Borders of Identity (co-written with Mark Jancovich, in Yvonne Tasker, ed, Fifty Contemporary Film Makers) and a member of the editorial advisory board of Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction
1(10)
Mark Jancovich
James Lyons
Part One: Industries, Networks and Programming
Vertical Vision: Deregulation, Industrial Economy and Prime-time Design
11(21)
Jennifer Holt
`Must See TV': Programming Identity on NBC Thursdays
32(16)
Nancy San Martin
The Changing Face of American Television Programmes on British Screens
48(17)
Paul Rixon
Part Two: `Content is King': Formats, Shows and Events
Long-format TV: Globalisation and Network Branding in a Multi-Channel Era
65(23)
John McMurria
`Must See' Queer TV: History and Serial Form in Ellen
88(15)
Anna McCarthy
You're not going to see that on TV': Star Trek: The Next Generation in Film and Television
103(15)
Roberta E. Pearson
Maire Messenger-Davies
Brave New Buffy: Rethinking `TV Violence'
118(19)
Lisa Parks
Part Three: Commodity Audiences: Cults, Fans and Dedicated Audiences
Martial Law and the Changing Face of Martial Arts on US Television
137(11)
Andrew Willis
Superman on the Set: The Market, Nostalgia and Television Audiences
148(15)
Ian Gordon
Web Wars: Resistance, Online Fandom and Studio Censorship
163(18)
Sara Gwenllian Jones
Afterword
What Is Television for?
181(18)
Alan McKee
Index 199

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