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Title Life on Mars : From Manchester to New York / edited by Stephen Lacey and Ruth McElroy
Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (226 pages)
Series Contemporary Landmark Television
Contemporary landmark television.
Contents Series Editors' Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Life on Mars; Am I Mad, in a Coma or Back in Time?'; Immersion versus Alienation; Memory Banks Failing!; Sam Tyler and the 'New North'; 'Moonage Daydreams'; 'Up The Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire'; The Medium is the Monster ... or the World?; Consuming Retrosexualities; American Remake -- Shudder'; The Emigration of Life on Mars; Locating Generational and Cultural Clashes inthe Transfer of Successful Formats between the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States; Julie Gardner and Claire Parker; Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes
Summary This is the first full-length academic study of Life on Mars (and its successor, Ashes to Ashes), and seeks to account for the series' innovative form and popular appeal. Paying attention to issues of genre and hybridity, the book examines televisual and cultural memory, press and reception contexts and analyses the ways in which both series represent Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. The book also discusses the remakes of Life on Mars in the USA and Spain, acknowledging both the specific address to particular situations and the ways in which key elements are re-worked in different national cont
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Print version record
SUBJECT Life on Mars (Television program : Great Britain) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008077685
Ashes to ashes (Television program)
Life on Mars (Television program : Great Britain) fast
Subject PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Acting & Auditioning.
Form Electronic book
Author Lacey, Stephen, 1952-
McElroy, Ruth.
ISBN 9780708323601
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0708323596
9780708323595
9781783161126
1783161124
1299201202
9781299201200