Complexity / simplicity: Moments in television

✍ Scribed by Sarah Cardwell; Jonathan Bignell; Lucy Fife Donaldson (editors)

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 275
• Series: The Television Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection interrogates the concept of complex TV, and reappraises the value of simplicity in TV, with reference to a range of television programming, including episodic series and serial dramas, sitcoms, science-fiction, animation, horror, thrillers and period dramas.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
The Television Series: general editors’ preface
Moments in Television, the collections: editors’ preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: complexity / simplicity
‘WTF June?’: The Handmaid’s Tale and the significance of unexpected choice
Being Frank? Breaking the ‘fourth wall’ in Netflix’s House of Cards
‘You’ve got to expect this kind of thing in the priesthood’: simplicity and complexity in Father Ted
Depth in two dimensions: complex/simple moments in Rick and Morty
Simplicity and complexity in the costuming of Killing Eve
Complexity and clear-sightedness in The Wire
Such schadenfreude: unpacking the political satire in Veep
Queer adventures in time and space: complicating simplicity in Doctor Who
Vanity Fair and the contradictions of colour
The value of simplicity: The Long Wait
Index