Research Catalog

Title

Popular television drama : critical perspectives / edited by Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey.

Publication

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bignell, Jonathan.
• Lacey, Stephen, 1952-

Description

ix, 230 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"A collection of essays examining landmark programmes of the last forty years, from Doctor Who to The Office, and from The Demon Headmaster to Queer As Folk. Contributions from prominent academics focus on the full range of popular genres, from sitcoms to science fiction, gothic horror and children's drama, and challenge received wisdom by reconsidering how British television drama can be analysed".--Back cover.

Subject

• Geschichte 1960-2004
• Television plays, English > History and criticism
• Television programs > Great Britain
• Fiction television programs > Great Britain
• Fiction television programs
• Television plays, English
• Television programs
• Fernsehspiel
• Televisiespelen
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

PART I. THE BOUNDARIES OF GENRE: THE SITCOM -- 'Our usual impasse': the episodic situation comedy revisited / Barry Langford -- Remembering Butterflies: the comic art of housework / Julia Hallam -- They do 'like it up 'em': Dad's army and myths of Old England / Robin Nelson -- PART II. QUALITY AND THE 'OTHER' DRAMA -- Space for 'quality': negotiating with the Daleks / Jonathan Bignell -- This is the modern world: The prisoner, authorship and allegory / Mark Bould -- Can kinky sex be politically correct? Queer as folk and the geo-ideological inscription of gay sexuality / Peter Billingham -- 'Just that kids' thing': the politics of 'Crazyspace', children's television and the case of The demon headmaster / Máire Messenger Davies -- PART III. REVISITING THE FAMILIAR -- Haunted houses, hidden rooms: women, domesticity and the female Gothic adaptation on television / Helen Wheatley -- BBC drama at the margins: the contrasting fortunes of Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh television drama in the 1990s / Steve Blandford -- The new social realism of Clocking off / Lez Cooke -- Becoming popular: some reflections on the relationship between television and theatre / Stephen Lacey.

ISBN

• 0719069327
• 9780719069321
• 0719069335
• 9780719069338

LCCN

• 9780719069321
• 9780719069338

OCLC

• ocm57576040
• 57576040
• SCSB-1371880

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library