Viewing America:Twenty-First Century Television Drama

Bigsby, Christopher (2013) Viewing America:Twenty-First Century Television Drama. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107619746

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 16 - peace, justice and strong institutions ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/peace_justice_and_strong_institutions
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > American Studies
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2013 05:33
Last Modified:	21 Jul 2023 09:15
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/43340
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