Cinematic TV : serial drama goes to the movies / Rashna Wadia Richards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richards, Rashna Wadia, 1977- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television series--United States--History and criticism.

Television series.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

In the last two decades, media scholars have often suggested that television has become cinematic. Once considered 'a mere instrument of transmission,' as Rudolf Arnheim put it, or derided as a vast wasteland, TV is now praised for its visual density and complexity. Serial dramas, in particular, are acclaimed for their imitations of cinema's stylistically innovative and narratively challenging conventions. But what exactly does 'cinematic TV' mean? This text takes up this question comprehensively, arguing that TV dramas quote, copy, and appropriate (primarily) American cinema in multiple ways and toward multiple ends. Putting together an innovative framework by combining intertextuality and memory studies, 'Cinematic TV' focuses on four modalities of intermedial borrowings: homage, evocation, genre, and parody.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-007129-X

0-19-007127-3

OCLC:

1227790556