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Serial Television

Big Drama on the Small Screen

By Glen Creeber

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| Paperback | 9781844570218

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Serial Television focuses on contemporary television drama, offering detailed accounts of hugely popular, influential, and groundbreaking shows such as The Sopranos, Queer as Folk, Sex and the City, Twin Peaks, This Life, Prime Suspect, Cold Lazarus, The Kingdom, Holocaust, Heimat, andContinue

Serial Television focuses on contemporary television drama, offering detailed accounts of hugely popular, influential, and groundbreaking shows such as The Sopranos, Queer as Folk, Sex and the City, Twin Peaks, This Life, Prime Suspect, Cold Lazarus, The Kingdom, Holocaust, Heimat, and Roots.
Glen Creeber argues that the demise of the single play has not meant the end of original, challenging, and innovative television drama. Instead, he reveals how contemporary television drama is frequently more complex, radical, and multilayered than its historical predecessors. In particular, he shows how serial dramas have breathed new life into representations of gender politics and refreshed genre formats, and he reconsiders trends such as art television, soap operas, and the historical mini-series.

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  • Serial Television - Big Drama on the Small Screen

    I love this book. It articulates exactly what I've wanted to say for a long time why I love TV so much more than film: Only with the length and the serial nature of TV can the complex, multi-layered stories I like be fully expressed. And it says that eloquently with examples of several genres too, a ... (continue)

    I love this book. It articulates exactly what I've wanted to say for a long time why I love TV so much more than film: Only with the length and the serial nature of TV can the complex, multi-layered stories I like be fully expressed. And it says that eloquently with examples of several genres too, and shows I've actually watched and loved, such as Queer as Folk, This Life and Cracker.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 190 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1844570215
  • ISBN-13: 9781844570218
  • Publisher: British Film Institute
  • Pub date: Feb 03, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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