Description |
1 online resource (x, 245 pages) |
Contents |
Introduction: the time and space of television in transition -- Television in transition -- The hero -- How to watch television -- Highlander : the immortal cosmopolitan -- Smallville : "no flights, no tights": doing business with Superman -- 24: in real time -- Doctor Who : regeneration through time and (relative dimensions in) space -- Conclusion : do we need another hero? |
Summary |
Combining an exciting methodology alongside high-interest case studies, Television in Transition offers students of television a guide to a medium that has weathered the challenges of first-run syndication, a multi-channel universe, netlets, major media conglomerates, deregulation, and globalization--all in the space of twenty years.: Examines a return in television programming to action narratives with individual (super) heroes intended to navigate this new, international, multi-channel universe; Explores how television programming "translates" to new spatial geographies: differen |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-226) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Action and adventure television programs -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
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Action and adventure television programs -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Heroes on television.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
1444320688 (electronic bk.) |
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9781444320688 (electronic bk.) |
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(paperback; alk. paper) |
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(hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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(paperback; alk. paper) |
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(hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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