Prestige Television : : Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America /

Prestige Television : : Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America / / ed. by Seth Friedman, Amanda Keeler.

Prestige Television explores how a growing array of 21st century US programming is produced and received in ways that elevate select series above the competition in a saturated market. Contributing authors demonstrate that these shows are positioned and understood as comprising an increasingly recog...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
MitwirkendeR:
Barth, Josie Torres,
Bottomley, Andrew J.,
Coon, David R.,
Friedman, Seth,
Keeler, Amanda,
Leeder, Murray,
Martin, Catherine,
Phillips, W. D.,
Phillips, Wyatt D.,
Ramirez, Javier,
Rawlins, Justin O.,
HerausgeberIn:
Friedman, Seth,
Keeler, Amanda,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]
©2023
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (202 p.) :; 35 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 The Fringes of Prestige TV: Genre and Markers of Distinction
  • 1 Spies Like Us: Genre Mixing, Brand Building, and Reagan’s 1980s in The Americans
  • 2 Disrupting the Pattern of Prestige TV: Fringe
  • 3 “But Is It Star Trek?” Prestige, Fandom, and the Return of Star Trek to Television
  • 4 Negotiating Prestige on The CW: Is Roswell, New Mexico “Another Show about Teenagers Getting F-cked Up and Having Sex” or a Sophisticated Exploration of Racial and Gender Politics?
  • Part 2 How Contemporary Programming Met Prestige TV: Unconventional Depictions of Cultural and Televisual Norms
  • 5 Prestige Adaptation by Design: The Commercial Appeal of Latinx Tropes in Queen of the South
  • 6 “Tell Them We Are Gone” Imperial Narratives, Indigenous Perspectives, and Prestige in The Terror
  • 7 Prestige Comedy: Contemporary Sitcom Narrative and Complexity in How I Met Your Mother
  • Part 3 Top of the Media Hierarchy: Cinematization and Television’s Elevation
  • 8 Running The Knick Show: Transfusing Steven Soderbergh’s Authorial Persona into the Prestige Medical Series
  • 9 Legitimating Top of the Lake: Jane Campion, the Film Fest, and the Miniseries
  • 10 Specters of Serling: Authorship, Television History, and Inherited Prestige in The Twilight Zone (2019–2020)
  • Acknowledgments
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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