Robin Nelson's "State of Play" up-dates and develops the arguments of his influential "TV Drama In Transition" (1997). It is equally distinctive in setting analysis of the aesthetics and compositional principles of texts within a broad conceptual framework (technologies, institu…
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.
Television presenters are key to the sociability of the medium, speaking directly to viewers as intermediaries between audiences and those who are interviewed, perform or compete on screen. As targets of both great affection and derision from viewers and the subjects of radio, i…
Television presenters are key to the sociability of the medium, speaking directly to viewers as intermediaries between audiences and those who are interviewed, perform or compete on screen. As targets of both great affection and derision from viewers and the subjects of radio, i…