Viewing America : Twenty-First-Century Television Drama
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
110704393X
ISBN-13
9781107043930
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 10th, 2013
Print length
512 Pages
Weight
94 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 16.80 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
Television
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For the last decade and a half there has been a revolution in American television drama. Christopher Bigsby explores what amounts to a new golden age as that drama has engaged with a changing country, from the decline of the city to the crisis provoked by 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina.
Something has happened in the world of television drama. For the last decade and a half America has assumed a dominant position. Novelists, screenwriters and journalists, who would once have had no interest in writing for television, indeed who often despised it, suddenly realised that it was where America could have a dialogue with itself. The new television drama was where writers could engage with the social and political realities of the time, interrogating the myths and values of a society moving into a new century. Familiar genres have been reinvented, from crime fiction to science fiction. This is a book as much about a changing America as about the television series which have addressed it, from The Sopranos and The Wire to The West Wing, Mad Men and Treme, in what has emerged as the second golden age of American television drama.
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