Serial Television
| Author | : Glen Creeber |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : |
Serial Television focuses on contemporary television drama examining its complex themes and often radical narratives.
Serial Television Big Drama On The Small Screen
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Serial Television
| Author | : Glen Creeber |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Popular culture |
| ISBN | : |
Small Screen Aesthetics
| Author | : Glen Creeber |
| Publisher | : British Film Institute |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2013-07-26 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9781844574100 |
This new study provides an introduction to TV aesthetics and viewership from the 1940s to the present day, at a time when television as a medium is 'converging' with the pc and laptop.
The Television Genre Book
| Author | : Glen Creeber |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2015-08-16 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1844578984 |
Genre is central to understanding the industrial context and visual form of television. This new edition of the key textbook on television genre brings together leading international scholars to provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the debates, issues and concerns of the field. Structured in eleven sections, The Television Genre Book introduces the concept of 'genre' itself and how it has been understood in television studies, and then addresses the main televisual genres in turn: drama, soap opera, comedy, news, documentary, reality television, children's television, animation and popular entertainment. This third edition is illustrated throughout with case studies of classic and contemporary programming from each genre, ranging from The Simpsons to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and from Monty Python's Flying Circus to Who Wants to be a Millionaire?. It also features new case studies on contemporary shows, including The Only Way Is Essex, Homeland, Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey, Planet Earth, Grey's Anatomy and QVC, and new chapters covering topics such as constructed reality, travelogues, telefantasy, stand-up comedy, the panel show, 24-hour news, Netflix and video on demand.
Composing TV Drama
| Author | : Marco Ianniello |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 113 |
| Release | : 2024-08-19 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1666941042 |
In this book, Marco Ianniello investigates the complex art of television drama screenwriting, arguing that the screenplay itself, rather than the final product, is at the heart of the current success of the genre. Bridging a crucial gap between theory and practice through textual analyses of various case studies, Ianniello expands on television story structure theory and screenwriting practice by foregrounding story construction and character development in the serial drama. The development of these key frameworks – structure and character – will enable both screenwriting scholars and practitioners to better identify, assess, critique, and craft the complexities of the television drama screenplay.
Complex Serial Drama and Multiplatform Television
| Author | : Trisha Dunleavy |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2017-11-22 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317402790 |
This book examines the creative strategies, narrative characteristics, industrial practices and stylistic tendencies of complex serial drama. Exemplified by shows like HBO’s The Sopranos, AMC’s Mad Men and Breaking Bad, Showtime’s Dexter, and Netflix’s Stranger Things, complex serials are distinguished by their conceptual originality, narrative complexity, transgressive lead characters and serial allure. As a drama form that continues to expand and diversify in today’s television, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones, Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black and Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale provide further examples. Dunleavy investigates the strategies that underpin the innovations, influence and success of complex serial drama, giving students and scholars a nuanced understanding of this contemporary TV form.
Complex TV
| Author | : Jason Mittell |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2015-04-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0814769608 |
A comprehensive and sustained analysis of the development of storytelling for television Over the past two decades, new technologies, changing viewer practices, and the proliferation of genres and channels has transformed American television. One of the most notable impacts of these shifts is the emergence of highly complex and elaborate forms of serial narrative, resulting in a robust period of formal experimentation and risky programming rarely seen in a medium that is typically viewed as formulaic and convention bound. Complex TV offers a sustained analysis of the poetics of television narrative, focusing on how storytelling has changed in recent years and how viewers make sense of these innovations. Through close analyses of key programs, including The Wire, Lost, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Veronica Mars, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Mad Men the book traces the emergence of this narrative mode, focusing on issues such as viewer comprehension, transmedia storytelling, serial authorship, character change, and cultural evaluation. Developing a television-specific set of narrative theories, Complex TV argues that television is the most vital and important storytelling medium of our time.
Dennis Potter: Between Two Worlds
| Author | : Glen Creeber |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 1998-05-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230374654 |
Dennis Potter is the most well-known, respected and controversial television dramatist Britain has ever produced. Plays and serials such as The Singing Detective and Pennies From Heaven received huge critical acclaim whilst always attracting audiences in their millions. This book will critically analyse both the strengths and the weaknesses of Potter's oeuvre, whilst investigating his status as both an 'author' and a 'celebrity'. Re-examining the drama, it foregrounds its ambiguities and contradictions, whilst clarifying the complex mixture of themes, styles and techniques that produced its distinctive and often provocative appeal.
Jimmy McGovern
| Author | : Steve Blandford |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2016-05-16 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1526111381 |
This, the first book length study of one of Britain's leading television writers, Jimmy McGovern, links his work to key changes in British television over the last thirty years. McGovern's versatility has meant that his work ranges from soap opera to crime series, studio based single drama to art house features for theatrical release. The book therefore acts partly as a survey of the way that drama for the small screen has mutated and changed over a key period in its history. Steve Blandford's percipient and readable book extensively examines some of McGovern's most influential work, including Brookside, Cracker, The Lakes, Hillsborough and The Street.
Immortal Films
| Author | : Barbara Klinger |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2022-11-15 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0520968956 |
Casablanca is one of the most celebrated Hollywood films of all time, its iconic romance enshrined in collective memory across generations. Drawing from archival materials, industry trade journals, and cultural commentary, Barbara Klinger explores the history of Casablanca's circulation in the United States from the early 1940s to the present by examining its exhibition via radio, repertory houses, television, and video. By resituating the film in the dynamically changing industrial, technological, and cultural circumstances that have defined its journey over eight decades, Klinger challenges our understanding of its meaning and reputation as both a Hollywood classic and a cult film. Through this single-film survey, Immortal Films proposes a new approach to the study of film history and aesthetics and, more broadly, to cinema itself as a medium in constant interface with other media as a necessary condition of its own public existence and endurance.
