Quality TV Contemporary American Television and Beyond

Name: Quality TV Contemporary American Television and Beyond
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ISBN: 9781845115111

ISBN-10: 1845115112

ISBN-13: 9781845115111

Edition: 2007

Authors: Janet McCabe, Kim Akass, Janet Mccabe

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Dealing primarily with the post-1996 era shaped by digital technologies and defined by consumer choice and brand marketing, this book brings together leading scholars, established journalists and experienced broadcasters working in the field of contemporary television to debate what we currently mean by quality TV. They go deep into contemporary American television fictions, fromThe SopranosandThe West Wing, toCSIandLost-- innovative, sometimes controversial, always compelling dramas, which one scholar has described as "now better than the movies!" But how do we understand the emergence of these kinds of fiction? Are they genuinely new? What does quality tv have to tell us about the state…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Publication date: 10/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Janet McCabe is Lecturer in Film Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. Kim Akass is Lecturer in Film Studies at London Metropolitan University. Both are editors of Reading Sex & the City (I.B.Tauris, 2004) and Reading Six Feet Under (I.B.Tauris, 2005). Sarah Warn is the founder and editor of AfterEllen.com and AfterElton.com, leading entertainment websites for gays and lesbians.



Contributors


Acknowledgements


Preface



Introduction: Debating Quality



'Quality TV' On Show




Defining Quality: Critical Judgements and Debate



Is Quality Television Any Good? Generic Distinctions, Evaluations and the Troubling Matter of Critical Judgement




Quality TV: A US TV Critic's Perspective




Quality TV Drama: Estimations and Influences Through Time and Space




As Seen on TV: Women's Rights and Quality Television




Sex, Swearing and Respectability: Courting Controversy, HBO's Original Programming and Producing Quality TV




Defining Quality: Industry, Policy and Competitive Markets



Quality Control: The Daily Show, the Peabody and Brand Discipline




Inside American Television Drama: Quality is Not What is Produced, But What it Produces




Quality US TV: A Buyer's Perspective




CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Quality, the Fifth Channel and 'America's Finest'




The Problem of Quality Television: Television Schedules, Audience Demographics and Cultural Policy in New Zealand




Defining Quality: Aesthetics, Form, Content



HBO and the Concept of Quality TV




Seeing and Knowing: Reflexivity and Quality




Quality and Creativity in TV: The Work of Television Storytellers




Mark Lawson Talks to David Chase




Writing Music for Quality TV: An Interview with W.G. 'Snuffy' Walden




Read Any Good Television Lately? Television Companion Books and Quality TV



Afterthoughts: Defining Quality: Into the Future



Lost in Transition: From Post-Network to Post-Television Roberta Pearson


TV and Film Guide


Notes


Bibliography


Index