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Telefantasy / Catherine Johnson.
- Title
- Telefantasy / Catherine Johnson.
- Author
- Johnson, Catherine, 1973-
- Publication
- London : BFI, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PN1992.8.F35 J64 2005 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- British Film Institute
- Description
- 181 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 'Telefantasy' offers the first book length study to consider the place of fantasy, science fiction, and horror dramas in the history of British and US television. Case studies are provided that will be of interest to students of television and fans of telefantasy.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-164) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : approaching telefantasy -- 1. Spectacle and intimacy : the Quatermass serials and British television in the 1950s -- 2. Serious entertainment : The prisoner and British television in the 1960s -- 3. 'Regulated innovation' : Star Trek and the commercial strategies of US television in the 1960s -- 4. Quality/cult television : The x-files and Buffy the vamipre slayer in US television of the 1990s -- 5. Problematic histories : US and UK telefantasy in British television of the 1990s/2000s -- Conclusion : genre, aesthetics, history.
- ISBN
- 1844570754 (hbk.)
- 9781844570751 (hbk.)
- 1844570762 (pbk.)
- 9781844570768 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 59138799
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library