Substance/style : moments in television / editors, Sarah Cardwell, Jonathan Bignell, Lucy Fife Donaldson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cardwell, Sarah, editor.

Bignell, Jonathan, editor.

Donaldson, Lucy Fife, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Television series (Manchester University Press)

The television series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television--Aesthetics.

Television.

Television programs--History and criticism.

Television programs.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 237 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Layers of style: design and embodiment in The Americans / Lucy Fife Donaldson

2. New uniforms! Costume and the 1950s/60s in Call the Midwife / Josette Wolthuis

3. When style is substance and beyond: Les Revenants as metaphysical drama / Alberto N. Garcia

4. Representing mediated identity and consciousness in The Good Wife / Ariane Hudelet

5. Performing laughter in Friends / Gary Cassidy

6. `You're what's wrong with America, Simpson': style, appreciation and the temporally prolonged problem of The Simpsons / Michael Clark

7. Resurrection, revelation, reception: rescuing John From Cincinnati from the HBO narrative / Robert Watts

8. Police Squad! The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker style versus the substance of early 1980s television / Emilio Audissino

9. Grand designs: television, style and substance in The Time Tunnel / Jonathan Bignell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781526148780

1526148781

OCLC:

1308696782