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Title Quality TV : contemporary American television and beyond / edited by Janet McCabe and Kim Akass.

Publication Info. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2007.

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 Moore Stacks  PN1992.3.U5 Q83 2007    Available  ---
Description xx, 292 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and index.
Contents Preface / Robert J. Thompson -- Introduction: Debating quality / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- 'Quality TV' on show / Karen Fricker -- Is quality television any good? generic distinctions, evaluations and the troubling matter of critical judgement / Sarah Cardwell -- Quality TV: a US TV critic's perspective / David Bianculli -- Quality TV drama: estimations and influences through time and space / Robin Nelson -- As seen on TV: women's rights and quality television / Ashley Sayeau -- Sex, swearing and respectability: courting controversy, HBO's original programming and producing quality TV / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- Quality control: The daily show, the Peabody and brand discipline / Jimmie L. Reeves, Mark C. Rogers and Michael M. Epstein -- Inside American television drama: quality is not what is produced but what it produces / Peter Dunne -- Quality US TV: a buyer's perspective / Dermot Horan -- CSI: crime scene investigation: Quality, the fifth channel and 'America's finest' / Ian Goode -- The problem of quality television: television schedules, audience demographics and cultural policy in New Zealand / Geoff Lealand -- HBO and the concept of quality TV / Jane Feuer -- Seeing and knowing: reflexivity and quality / Jonathan Bignell -- Quality and creativity in TV: the work of television storytellers / Máire Messenger Davies -- Mark Lawson talks to David Chaase / Mark Lawson -- Writing music for quality TV: an interview with W.G. 'Snuffy' Walden / Peter Kaye -- Read any good television lately? television companion books and quality TV / David Lavery -- Lost in transition: from post-network to post-television / Roberta Pearson.
Subject Television -- United States.
Television.
United States.
Television programs -- United States -- History and criticism.
Television programs.
Television broadcasting -- United States.
Television broadcasting.
Popular culture -- United States.
Popular culture.
Télévision -- États-Unis.
Télévision -- Émissions -- États-Unis -- Histoire et critique.
Culture populaire -- États-Unis.
Added Author McCabe, Janet (Janet Elizabeth)
Akass, Kim.
ISBN 9781845115111
1845115112