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Author Bigsby, C. W. E.

Title Viewing America : twenty-first century television drama / Christopher Bigsby.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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 Moore Stacks  PN1992.8.S4 B54 2013    Available  ---
Description xiii, 501 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "Something has happened in the world of television drama. For the last decade and a half America has assumed a dominant position. Novelists, screenwriters and journalists, who would once have had no interest in writing for television, indeed who often despised it, suddenly realised that it was where America could have a dialogue with itself. The new television drama was where writers could engage with the social and political realities of the time, interrogating the myths and values of a society moving into a new century. Familiar genres have been reinvented, from crime fiction to science fiction. This is a book as much about a changing America as about the television series which have addressed it, from The Sopranos and The Wire to The West Wing, Mad Men and Treme in what has emerged as the second golden age of American television drama"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Introduction: television drama; New Jersey; 1. The Sopranos; Washington; 2. The West Wing; Baltimore; 3. Homicide Life on the Street; 4. The Corner; 5. The Wire; Earth; 6. Battlestar Galactica; Odessa; 7. Friday Night Lights; New York; 8. Mad Men; New Orleans; 9. Treme.
Subject Television series -- United States -- History and criticism.
Television series.
United States.
Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States.
Television broadcasting -- Social aspects.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 21st century
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