Lyons Miami Vice

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1904-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Interventions: Studies in Film and Television

Miami Vice captures the glitter and glamour embodied byCrockett and Tubbs and offers students an anatomy of aground-breaking work in the police procedural genre.
* Explores Miami Vice's combination of disparateinfluences (MTV, film noir, soap opera, 'high concept'action films) as well as the social, cultural and industrialmoments when it burst onto the network
* Introduces readers to major components of televisualanalysis--style, storytelling, the television show as commodity andideological critique-- that illustrate the show's uniquefeatures
* Provides a model for students' own assessment of othershows, and confirms precisely how--and on what terms--MiamiVice redefined the police drama and an era

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lyons, James

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments. Introduction.
1. I Want My MTV Cops: Miami Vice as TelevisionCommodity.
2. Guns, Glitter, and Glamour: Styling the Show.
3. Losing the Plot?: Storytelling in Miami Vice.
4. Risky Business: the Cultural Politics of Vice.
Afterword.
Broadcast Date Notes.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

James Lyons is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter, where he researches and publishes in the area of contemporary American television. His publications include a co-edited collection Quality Popular Television (BFI Press, 2003), and two forthcoming book chapters on the Miami-set medical drama Nip/Tuck. he is also author of Selling Seattle: Representing the Contemporary American City (Wallflower Press, 2004).