Cardwell / Unknown / Bignell Substance / style

Moments in television
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4879-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: The Television Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Cardwell, Sarah

Bignell, Jonathan

Donaldson, Lucy Fife

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio TV-Drama
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Fernsehproduktion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: substance/style – Lucy Fife Donaldson, Sarah Cardwell and Jonathan Bignell
1 Layers of style: design and embodiment in The Americans – Lucy Fife Donaldson
2 New uniforms! Costume and the 1950s/60s in Call the Midwife – Josette Wolthuis
3 When style is substance and beyond: Les Revenants as metaphysical drama – Alberto N. García
4 Representing mediated identity and consciousness in The Good Wife – Ariane Hudelet
5 Performing laughter in Friends– Gary Cassidy
6 ‘You’re what’s wrong with America, Simpson’: style, appreciation and the temporally prolonged problem of The Simpsons– Michael Clark
7 Resurrection, revelation, reception: rescuing John From Cincinnati from the HBO narrative – Robert Watts
8 Police Squad! The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker style versus the substance of early 1980s television – Emilio Audissino
9 Grand designs: television, style and substance in The Time Tunnel – Jonathan Bignell
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cardwell Sarah:
Sarah Cardwell is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Kent at CanterburyBignell Jonathan:
Jonathan Bignell is Reader in Television and Film at the University of Reading, and Director of the Centre for Television Drama StudiesSarah Cardwell is Honorary Fellow in the School of Arts at the University of Kent
Jonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading
Lucy Fife Donaldson is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews