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Substance / style: Moments in television

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

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2022
Tongue
English
Leaves
259
Series
The Television Series
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This collection interrogates and overturns the typical hierarchies of substance over style, renegotiating their relationship through new perspectives and with reference to a range of television programming, including series and serial dramas, sitcoms, science-fiction, animation, horror, thrillers and period dramas.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
Figures
List of contributors
The Television Series: general editors’ preface
Moments in Television, the collections: editors’ preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: substance / style
Layers of style: design and embodiment in The Americans
New uniforms! Costume and the 1950s/60s in Call the Midwife
When style is substance and beyond: Les Revenants as metaphysical drama
Representing mediated identity and consciousness in The Good Wife
Performing laughter in Friends
β€˜You’re what’s wrong with America, Simpson’: style, appreciation and the temporally prolonged problem of The Simpsons
Resurrection, revelation, reception: rescuing John From Cincinnati from the HBO narrative
Police Squad! The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker style versus the substance of early 1980s television
Grand designs: television, style and substance in The Time Tunnel
Index

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