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The essential cult tv reader / edited by David Lavery.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Essential readers in contemporary media and culture.
- Essential readers in contemporary media and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television viewers--Great Britain.
- Television viewers.
- Cult television programs--Great Britain.
- Cult television programs.
- Television viewers--United States.
- Cult television programs--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (410 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Essential Cult TV Reader is a collection of insightful essays that examine television shows that amass engaged, active fan bases by employing an imaginative approach to programming. Once defined by limited viewership, cult TV has developed its own identity, with some shows gaining large, mainstream audiences. By exploring the defining characteristics of cult TV, The Essential Cult TV Reader traces the development of this once obscure form and explains how cult TV achieved its current status as legitimate television. The essays explore a wide range of cult programs, from early shows such as Star Trek, The Avengers, Dark Shadows, and The Twilight Zone to popular contemporary shows such as Lost, Dexter, and24, addressing the cultural context that allowed the development of the phenomenon. The contributors investigate the obligations of cult series to their fans, the relationship of camp and cult, the effects of DVD releases and the Internet, and the globalization of cult TV. The Essential Cult TV Reader answers many of the questions surrounding the form while revealing emerging debates on its future.
- Contents:
- Introduction: how cult TV became mainstream / David Lavery
- Absolutely fabulous / Angelina I. Karpovich
- The adventures of Brisco County, Jr. / Bartley Porter and Lynnette Porter
- Alias / Henrik Örnebring
- Angel / Joyce Millman
- The avengers / Angelina I. Karpovich
- Battlestar Galactica / Ian Maull and David Lavery
- Blake's 7 / Steven Duckworth
- Buffy the vampire slayer / Milly Williamson
- The comeback / Joanne Morreale
- The daily show and The Colbert report / Sam Ford
- Dark shadows / Jonathan Malcolm Lampley
- Dexter / Michele Byers
- Doctor Who / Matt Hills
- Farscape / Jes Battis
- Firefly / J.P. Telotte
- Freaks and geeks / Jonathan Gray
- Heroes / Nikki Stafford
- The league of gentlemen / Leon Hunt
- Life on Mars / Robin Nelson
- Lost / Marc Dolan
- Miami vice / Jon Stratton
- Monty Python's flying circus / Marcia Landy
- My so-called life / Michele Byers
- Mystery science theater 3000 / Robert Holtzclaw
- The prisoner / Douglas L. Howard
- Quantum leap / Lynnette Porter
- Red dwarf / Dee Amy-Chinn
- Roswell / Stan Beeler
- The Simpsons / Jonathan Gray
- South Park / Jason Jacobs
- Stargate SG-1 / Angela Ndalianis
- The Star trek franchise / Rhonda V. Wilcox
- Supernatural / Alison Peirse
- This life / Stephen Lacey
- Torchwood / Matt Hills
- 24 / Steven Peacock
- The twilight zone / Jonathan Malcolm Lampley
- Twin peaks / David Bianculli
- Ultraviolet / Stacey Abbott
- Veronica Mars / Sue Turnbull
- Wonderfalls / Stan Beeler
- Xena : warrior princess / Carolyn Skelton
- The X-files / Mikel J. Koven.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes filmography.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813181493
- 0813181496
- 9780813150208
- 0813150205
- OCLC:
- 900344483
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