Description |
xi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Introduction : Getting into gear with the action TV series / Bill Osgerby and Anna Gough-Yates -- The business of action : television history and the development of the action TV series / Bill Osgerby, Anna Gough-Yates and Marianne Wells -- 'So you're the famous Simon Templar' : The saint, masculinity and consumption in the early 1960s / Bill Osgerby -- 'Who loves ya, baby?' : Kojack, action and the great society / Paul Cobley -- ' A lone crusader in the dangerous world' : heroics of science and technology in Knight rider / Nickianne Moody -- Angels in chains? Feminism, femininity and consumer culture in Charlie's angels / Anna Gough-Yates -- 'Who's the cat that won't cop out?' : Black masculinity in American action series of the sixties and seventies / Elaine Pennicott -- Kung fu : re-orienting the television Western / Yvonne Tasker -- 'Drop everything ... including your pants!' : The professionals and 'hard' action TV / Leon Hunt -- The games we play(ed) : TV Westerns, memory and masculinity / Martin Pumphrey -- The persuaders! A girl's best friends / Joke Hermes -- King and queen : interpreting sexual identity in Jason King / Andy Medhurst -- TV gets jazzed : the evolution of action TV theme music / Elizabeth Withey -- The comics connection : low culture meets even lower culture / Roger Sabin -- Of leather suits and kinky boots : The avengers, style and popular culture / Marc O'Day -- The sixties in the nineties : pastiche or hyperconsciousness? / John Storey |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Action and adventure television programs -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery television programs -- United States.
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Detective teams on television.
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Detective and mystery television programs -- Great Britain.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Author |
Osgerby, Bill.
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Gough-Yates, Anna, 1968-
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LC no. |
2001031656 |
ISBN |
0415226201 : |
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041522621X paperback |
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