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TV Drama in Transition

Forms, Values and Cultural Change

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  • © 1997

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  1. Robin Nelson
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Robin Nelson
    Pages 1-9

  3. From Electronic Theatre to … Cyberspace?

    • Robin Nelson
    Pages 10-29

  4. Flexi-Narrative from Hill Street to Holby City

    • Robin Nelson
    Pages 30-49

  5. Dislocations of Postmodernity

    • Robin Nelson
    Pages 50-72

  6. Signs of the Times?

    • Robin Nelson
    Pages 73-98

  7. TV Drama Forms

    • Robin Nelson
    Pages 99-124

  8. Framing ‘the Real’

    • Robin Nelson
    Pages 125-157

  9. The Public Stock of Harmless Pleasure

    • Robin Nelson
    Pages 158-182

  10. Diverse Innovations: Radical ‘Tec(h)s’

    • Robin Nelson
    Pages 183-208

  11. For What It’s Worth

    • Robin Nelson
    Pages 209-234

  12. Coda — Critical Postmodernism: Critical Realism

    • Robin Nelson
    Pages 235-248

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 249-277
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TV Drama in Transition reflects upon changing dramatic forms on television in the context of broad cultural shifts over the past two decades. Analyses of a wide range of series (from Heartbeat to Middlemarch and Our Friends in the North; from NYPD Blue to Twin Peaks to The X-Files) are interspersed with accounts of new technologies, viewing dispositions and the political economy of culture. This book is generally concerned as much with the condition of culture in the 1980s and 1990s, as specifically with TV drama.

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