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Quality TV : contemporary American television and beyond / edited by Janet McCabe and Kim Akass.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, (c)2007.Description: xx, 292 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781845115111
  • 9781845115104
  • 9786000011574
  • 6000011571
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1992.3.M333.Q355 2007
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Contents:
Preface / Robert J. Thompson -- Introduction : Debating quality / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- 'Quality TV' on show / Karen Fricker -- Is quality television any good? generic distinctions, evaluations and the troubling matter of critical judgement / Sarah Cardwell -- Quality TV : a US TV critic's perspective / David Bianculli -- Quality TV drama : estimations and influences through time and space / Robin Nelson -- As seen on TV : women's rights and quality television / Ashley Sayeau -- Sex, swearing and respectability : courting controversy, HBO's original programming and producing quality TV / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- Quality control : The daily show, the Peabody and brand discipline / Jimmie L. Reeves, Mark C. Rogers and Michael M. Epstein -- Inside American television drama : quality is not what is produced but what it produces / Peter Dunne -- Quality US TV : a buyer's perspective / Dermot Horan -- CSI : crime scene investigation : Quality, the fifth channel and 'America's finest' / Ian Goode -- The problem of quality television : television schedules, audience demographics and cultural policy in New Zealand / Geoff Lealand -- HBO and the concept of quality TV / Jane Feuer -- Seeing and knowing : reflexivity and quality / Jonathan Bignell -- Quality and creativity in TV : the work of television storytellers / M aire Messenger Davies -- Mark Lawson talks to David Chase / Mark Lawson -- Writing music for quality TV : an interview with W.G. 'Snuffy' Walden / Peter Kaye -- Read any good television lately? television companion books and quality TV / David Lavery -- Lost in transition : from post-network to post-television / Roberta Pearson.
Summary: Programmes examined include: The daily show, CSI crime scene investigation, Lost, Six feet under, The Sopranos, Buffy the vampire slayer, Desperate housewives, ER, Friends, Hill Street blues, The Mary Tyler Moore show, Nip/tuck, The Rockford files, Sex and the city, The shield, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, South Park, the Star trek series, Thirtysomething, Twin Peaks, The west wing, The X files.
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Preface / Robert J. Thompson -- Introduction : Debating quality / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- 'Quality TV' on show / Karen Fricker -- Is quality television any good? generic distinctions, evaluations and the troubling matter of critical judgement / Sarah Cardwell -- Quality TV : a US TV critic's perspective / David Bianculli -- Quality TV drama : estimations and influences through time and space / Robin Nelson -- As seen on TV : women's rights and quality television / Ashley Sayeau -- Sex, swearing and respectability : courting controversy, HBO's original programming and producing quality TV / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- Quality control : The daily show, the Peabody and brand discipline / Jimmie L. Reeves, Mark C. Rogers and Michael M. Epstein -- Inside American television drama : quality is not what is produced but what it produces / Peter Dunne -- Quality US TV : a buyer's perspective / Dermot Horan -- CSI : crime scene investigation : Quality, the fifth channel and 'America's finest' / Ian Goode -- The problem of quality television : television schedules, audience demographics and cultural policy in New Zealand / Geoff Lealand -- HBO and the concept of quality TV / Jane Feuer -- Seeing and knowing : reflexivity and quality / Jonathan Bignell -- Quality and creativity in TV : the work of television storytellers / M aire Messenger Davies -- Mark Lawson talks to David Chase / Mark Lawson -- Writing music for quality TV : an interview with W.G. 'Snuffy' Walden / Peter Kaye -- Read any good television lately? television companion books and quality TV / David Lavery -- Lost in transition : from post-network to post-television / Roberta Pearson.

Programmes examined include: The daily show, CSI crime scene investigation, Lost, Six feet under, The Sopranos, Buffy the vampire slayer, Desperate housewives, ER, Friends, Hill Street blues, The Mary Tyler Moore show, Nip/tuck, The Rockford files, Sex and the city, The shield, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, South Park, the Star trek series, Thirtysomething, Twin Peaks, The west wing, The X files.

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