- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 231 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "In the last two decades, media scholars have often suggested that television has become cinematic. Once considered "a mere instrument of transmission," as Rudolf Arnheim put it, or derided as a vast wasteland, TV is now praised for its visual density and complexity. Serial dramas, in particular, are acclaimed for their imitations of cinema's formally innovative and narratively challenging conventions. But what exactly does "cinematic TV" mean? Rashna Wadia Richards takes up this question comprehensively, arguing that TV dramas quote, copy, and appropriate (primarily) American cinema in multiple ways and toward multiple ends. Putting together an innovative framework by combining intertextuality and memory studies, Cinematic TV focuses on four modalities of intermedial borrowings: homage, evocation, genre, and parody. Through close readings of such exemplary shows as Stranger Things, Mad Men, Damages, and Dear White People, the book demonstrates how serial dramas reproduce and rework, undermine and idolize, and, in some cases, compete with and outdo cinema. Ultimately, Cinematic TV argues that serial dramas function archivally in relation to cinema. For cinematic moments, motifs, and contours hover around the televisual frame, constantly breaking through. How serial dramas handle such cinematic hauntings is the story that this book tells"--
- Uniform Title
- Cinematic TV (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Cinematic TV (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction. What is cinematic TV? -- "How about ... We watch a scary movie together" : paying tribute -- "You see everything" : evoking cinema -- "You're nobody's mommy" : overlapping genres -- "This isn't some TV show, okay?" : Mocking cinema -- Epilogue. What do TV critics dream about?
- LCCN
- 2020053452
- OCLC
- ssj0002453302
- Author
Richards, Rashna Wadia, 1977-
- Title
Cinematic TV [electronic resource] : serial drama goes to the movies / Rashna Wadia Richards.
- Imprint
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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