As she films a 52-part series on wholesome American beef for Japanese television, director Jane Takagi-Little of New York realizes she is doing her viewers a disservice and sabotages the show. Combines exposure of unhealthy production of meat and a cross-cultural view of America.
"We all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it 'good' or 'bad.' Rather, criticism uses the close examination of a television program to explore that prog…
Tracing "the great value shift from conduit to content" (Todreas, 1999), Nelson is relatively optimistic about the future quality of TV Drama in a global market-place.
Offers analysis of contemporary television dramas, including The Sopranos, Shooting the past, Shameless, Sex and the city, Queer as folk, Carnivale, 24, Spooks, Oz, Buried, Casanova, Blackpool and State of play.
Tracing "the great value shift from conduit to content" (Todreas, 1999), Nelson is relatively optimistic about the future quality of TV Drama in a global market-place.
Explores the discrepancy between youth culture as it unfolded on the streets and how it was packaged as lowest-common-denominator mass entertainment. Includes Skip Williamson's vintage comic strip and information on the Monkees.
This collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China. Examining in depth the production, distribution, and consumption of TV drama, an international team of experts demonstrate why it remains the pre-eminent media form in China. The collec…
This collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China. It is organised into four sections: 'Tradition, History, and Politics', 'Gender and Domestic Sphere', 'Production, Reception, and Distribution' and 'Co-productions and Pan-Asian Markets…
Although Film Studies has successfully (re)turned attention to matters of style and interpretation, its sibling discipline has left the territory uncharted - until now. The question of how television operates on a stylistic level has been critically underexplored, despite being …
This significant new work redresses a vital gap in TV studies by engaging with the stylistic dynamics of TV; exploring the aesthetic properties and values of both the medium and particular types of output (specific programmes); and raising important questions about the way we ju…
