Title Reading between designs : visual imagery and the generation of meaning in The avengers, the prisoner, and Doctor who / Piers D. Britton and Simon J. Barker

Edition 1st ed Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) : illustrations Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION Design for Television as a Subject for Study: The Critical Background -- CHAPTER ONE Making a Spectacle: Design for Television in the Arena of Cultural Studies -- CHAPTER TWO Agents Extraordinary: Stylishness and the Sense of Play in Design for The Avengers -- CHAPTER THREE Your Village: Cultural Traps in The Prisoner -- CHAPTER FOUR Worlds Apart: Originality and Conservatism in the Imagery of Doctor Who -- AFTERWORD -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX Summary From the alien worlds of Star Trek to the realistic operating room of ER, the design of sets and costumes contributes not only to the look and mood of television shows, but even more importantly to the creation of memorable characters. Yet, until now, this crucial aspect of television creativity has received little critical attention, despite the ongoing interest in production design within the closely allied discipline of film studies. In this book, Piers Britton and Simon Barker offer a first analytical study of scenic and costume design for television drama series. They focus on three enduringly popular series of the 1960s--The Avengers, The Prisoner, and Doctor Who--and discuss such topics as the sartorial image of Steed in The Avengers, the juxtaposition of picturesque and fascistic architecture in The Prisoner, and the evolution of the high-tech interior of Doctor Who's TARDIS. Interviews with the series' original designers and reproductions of their original drawings complement the authors' analysis, which sheds new light on a variety of issues, from the discourse of fashion to that of the heritage industry, notions of "Pop" and retro, and the cultural preoccupation with realism and virtual reality Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-239) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL In Project MUSE Evidence Based Acquisitions (EBA) Project MUSE SUBJECT Avengers (Television program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84090321 Prisoner (Television program : 1967-1968) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85347792 Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989) Avengers (Television program) fast Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989) fast Prisoner (Television program : 1967-1968) fast Subject Television -- Stage-setting and scenery. Costume. PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- Reference. PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- History & Criticism. Costume Television -- Stage-setting and scenery Fernsehsendung Filmausstattung Inszenierung USA Form Electronic book Author Barker, Simon J., author. LC no. 2002013300 ISBN 0292797737 9780292797734

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