The Essential Cult TV Reader
by Project Muse, Lavery, David
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
Review: "Refusing generic plotlines, commercialization, and mass-market ploys, cult TV programs utilize offbeat, original concepts to gain intensely loyal fan bases. The Essential Cult TV Reader covers a wide spectrum of shows, providing a broad examination of series from across…
The Essential Cult TV Reader is a collection of insightful essays that examine television shows that amass engaged, active fan bases by employing an imaginative approach to programming. Once defined by limited viewership, cult TV has developed its own identity, with some shows g…
Introduction: how cult tv became mainstream / David Lavery -- Absolutely Fabulous / Angelina I. Karpovich -- The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. / Bartley Porter and Lynnette Porter -- Alias / Henrik Örnebring -- Angel / Joyce Millman -- The Avengers / Angelina I. Karpovich -- …
"Refusing generic plotlines, commercialization, and mass-market ploys, cult TV programs utilize offbeat, original concepts to gain intensely loyal fan bases. The Essential Cult TV Reader covers a wide spectrum of shows, providing a broad examination of series from across the glo…
The Essential Cult TV Reader is a collection of insightful essays that examine television shows that amass engaged, active fan bases by employing an imaginative approach to programming. Once defined by limited viewership, cult TV has developed its own identity, with some shows g…
Introduction: Naming -- Tanya Barfield -- Jocelyn Bioh -- Sheila Callaghan -- Kristoffer Diaz -- Bash Doran -- Laura Eason -- Madeleine George -- Jason Grote -- Jordan Harrison -- David Henry Hwang -- MJ Kaufman -- Itamar Moses -- Janine Nabers -- Christopher Oscar Peña -- Adam …
"Playwrights on Television features interviews with writers of award-winning stage plays and celebrated television shows reflecting on the successes and challenges of being a playwright in the post-network television era. In these conversations, eighteen dramatists consider thei…
"Playwrights on Television features interviews with writers of award-winning stage plays and celebrated television shows reflecting on the successes and challenges of being a playwright in the post-network television era. In these conversations, eighteen dramatists consider thei…
