This work examines the multiple cultural and historical legacies that coexist and challenge each other within serialized television drama (dianshiju) in China. It argues for recognizing the complexity of dianshiju's melodramatic mode and its various subgenres, in effect 'refocus…
Serialized television drama (dianshiju), perhaps the most popular and influential cultural form in China over the past three decades, offers a wide and penetrating look at the tensions and contradictions of the post-revolutionary and pro-market period. The author draws attention…
Serialized television drama (dianshiju), perhaps the most popular and influential cultural form in China over the past three decades, offers a wide and penetrating look at the tensions and contradictions of the post-revolutionary and pro-market period. Zhong Xueping's timely new…
Literary Lost
"Sarah Clarke Stuart's tour-de-force analysis examines the roles of nearly a hundred books in Lost, ranging from the Holy Qu'run to the Wizard of Oz. The television series had highs and lows of narrative; Stuart's work has only highs, and is destined to become a classic in telev…
This book analyzes the mythological content of five television franchises within the genre of science fiction, fantasy and horror: The X-Files & Millennium, Babylon 5 & Crusade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel, Stargate and Star Trek. The central themes are errand into the wild…
This book analyzes the mythological content of five television franchises within the genre of science fiction, fantasy and horror: The X-Files & Millennium, Babylon 5 & Crusade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel, Stargate and Star Trek. The central themes are errand into the wild…
Overview: the transition from crime films to television series: a brief history -- American arrivistes: Hannah Weinstein, HUAC and Colonel March of Scotland Yard -- Cultural accommodations-domestic and foreign -- Conclusion.
Despite the resurgence of interest in British cinema and, more recently, British television, there have been no studies to date devoted to the genesis of domestic TV/Film production. This project presents for the first time an industrial and cultural history of the transformatio…
Jack Rosenthal is one of Britain's most highly-regarded TV dramatists. This book offers an analysis of Rosenthal's best-known works, drawing on archival material as well as interviews with many of his collaborators, incluing Jonathan Lynn and Don Black.
"This is the first-ever critical work on Jack Rosenthal, the award-winning British television dramatist. His career began with Coronation Street in the 1960s and he became famous for his popular sitcoms. This study offers a close analysis of all Rosenthal's best-known works, dra…