Shimpach Television in Transition

The Life and Afterlife of the Narrative Action Hero
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-2068-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Combining an exciting methodology alongside high-interest casestudies, Television in Transition offers studentsof television a guide to a medium that has weathered the challengesof first-run syndication, a multi-channel universe, netlets, majormedia conglomerates, deregulation, and globalization--all in thespace of twenty years.
* Examines a return in television programming to actionnarratives with individual (super) heroes intended to navigate thisnew, international, multi-channel universe
* Explores how television programming "translates" to new spatialgeographies: different nations, cultures, broadcast systems; anddifferent formats, distribution outlets, and screen sizes
* Looks at the value of a program's "afterlife," the continuedcirculation, repackaging and repurposing of programming beyond itsinitial iteration
* Blends institutional and textual analyses in casestudies of Highlander: The Series, Smallville, 24,and Doctor Who

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shimpach, Shawn

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
Introduction: The Time and Space of Television inTransition.
1 Television in Transition.
2 The Hero.
3 How to Watch Television.
4 Highlander: The Immortal Cosmopolitan.
5 Smallville: "No Flights, No Tights": Doing Business withSuperman.
6 24: In Real Time.
7 Doctor Who: Regeneration through Time and (Relative Dimensionsin) Space.
Conclusion: Do We Need Another Hero?
Notes.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Shawn Shimpach is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research has appeared in the online scholarly fourm FLOW, as well as in many journals, including Social Semiotics and Cultural Studies and in the collectin Media and Public Sphere.