The cult TV book : from Star trek to Dexter, new approaches to TV outside the box

Book 2010

As evidenced by the recent proliferation of fan conventions, television show boxed sets, and collectible character figurines, cult TV shows have arguably become the most vital and interesting programming on television. The once-marginal genre manifests itself in a remarkable variety of programs, from the suburban mob drama The Sopranos to the beloved occult fantasy Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Cult TV Book is a guide to this phenomenon, complete...

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ISBN:

9781593762766
1593762763

Description:

xiv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index
"Television and film guide": pages 260-267

Contents:

Introduction : "never give up" "never surrender": the resilience of cult television / Stacey Abbott. Defining cult TV: history, aesthetics, discourses. Observations on cult television / Roberta Pearson
Members only: cult TV from margins to mainstream / Sergio Angelini & Miles Booy
The aesthetics of Cult television / Rhonda V. Wilcox
Babylon 5 / Sergio Angelini
Playing hard to "get", how to write cult TV / Jane Espenson
The Twilight zone / Stan Beeler
Reading cult TV: texts and contexts. The Avengers/New Avengers / Paul Sutton
Mainstream cult / Matt Hills
Transgressive TV / Jes Battis
Innovative TV / Stacey Abbott
Representation: exploring issues of sex, gender, and race in cult television / Lorna Jowett
Boldly going: music and cult TV / Janet K. Halfyard
Constructing cult TV: the broadcast industry and cult television. The Star Trek franchise / Lincoln Gerraghty
Cult TV and the television industry / Catherine Johnson
Cult channels : Showtime, FX and cult TV / Simon Brown
Through the oblong window: the regulated duopoly and the creation of cult children's 'canon' in Britain / Tat Wood
Cult TV and new media / Denzell Richards
Dr. Who / Miles Booy
Writing tie-in's / Nancy Holder
Southpark / David Simmons
The cult in cult TV: audiences, fans and fandom. Dark Shadows / Stacey Abbott
Television and the cult audience: a primer / Hillary Robson
The cult of cult TV / Dick Fiddy
Subcultural celebrity / Matt Hills
Sapphire and Steel / Sergio Angelini
Gen, slash, OT3s and crossover : the varieties of fan fiction / Roz Kaveney

LCCN:

2009047119

Control Number:

2907252

Other Authors:

Abbott, Stacey

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