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Author Nelson, Robin, 1949-

Title State of play : contemporary "high-end" TV drama / Robin Nelson.

Publication Info. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-218) and index.
Contents Introduction : aims, scope, methods, and standpoints -- Mapping the territory, blurring the boundaries -- Distinctive product : three kinds of quality : The Sopranos, Shooting the past, Shameless -- State of play : the TV drama industry : new rules of the game -- Pushing the envelope : "edgy" TV drama, Queer as folk, Sex and the City, Carnivàle -- Techniques, technologies and cultural form -- Between global and national : 24 and Spooks, Buried and Oz -- "Quality TV" in context -- Singularity sustained : Blackpool, Casanova, State of play.
Summary Tracing "the great value shift from conduit to content" (Todreas, 1999), Nelson is relatively optimistic about the future quality of TV Drama in a global market-place.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Television programs -- United States.
Television programs.
United States.
Television programs -- Great Britain.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Nelson, Robin, 1949- State of play. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007 9780719073106 (DLC) 2008299586 (OCoLC)148905841
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