Description |
1 online resource (226 pages). |
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text file |
Series |
Contemporary Landmark Television
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Contemporary landmark television.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Series Editors' Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Life on Mars; Am I Mad, in a Coma or Back in Time?'; Immersion versus Alienation; Memory Banks Failing!; Sam Tyler and the 'New North'; 'Moonage Daydreams'; 'Up The Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire'; The Medium is the Monster ... or the World?; Consuming Retrosexualities; American Remake -- Shudder'; The Emigration of Life on Mars; Locating Generational and Cultural Clashes inthe Transfer of Successful Formats between the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States; Julie Gardner and Claire Parker; Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. |
Summary |
This is the first full-length academic study of Life on Mars (and its successor, Ashes to Ashes), and seeks to account for the series' innovative form and popular appeal. Paying attention to issues of genre and hybridity, the book examines televisual and cultural memory, press and reception contexts and analyses the ways in which both series represent Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. The book also discusses the remakes of Life on Mars in the USA and Spain, acknowledging both the specific address to particular situations and the ways in which key elements are re-worked in different national cont. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Life on Mars (Television program : Great Britain)
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Life on Mars (Television program : Great Britain) |
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Ashes to ashes (Television program)
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Lacey, Stephen, 1952-
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McElroy, Ruth.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Lacey, Stephen. Life on Mars : From Manchester to New York. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, ©2012 9780708323595 |
ISBN |
9780708323601 (electronic book) |
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070832360X (electronic book) |
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9780708323595 |
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0708323596 |
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9780708323595 |
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