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Quality TV : contemporary American television and beyond
- Title
- Quality TV : contemporary American television and beyond / edited by Janet McCabe and Kim Akass.
- Publication
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2007.
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- Description
- xx, 292 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-286) and index.
- Contents
- Preface / Robert J. Thompson -- Introdution: Debating quality / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- 'Quality TV' on show / Karen Fricker -- Pt. 1. Defining quality: critical judgements and debate. Is quality television any good? Generic distinction, 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 responsibility: courting controversy, HBO's original programming and producing quality TV / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- pt. 2. Defining quality: industry, policy and competitive markets. 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 -- pt. 3. Defining quality: aesthetics, form, content. 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 / Máire 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 -- Afterthought. Defining quality: into the future. Lost in translation: from post-network to post-television / Roberta Pearson.
- Call Number
- MWGT 08-1701
- ISBN
- 9781845115104
- 1845115104
- OCLC
- 144227209
- Title
- Quality TV : contemporary American television and beyond / edited by Janet McCabe and Kim Akass.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-286) and index.
- Added Author
- McCabe, Janet (Janet Elizabeth)Akass, Kim.
- Research Call Number
- MWGT 08-1701