The cult tv book
Subtitle: from Star trek to Dexter, new approaches to tv outside the box
By: edited by Stacey Abbott.
Contributors: Abbott, Stacey.
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781593762766
Subjects: Television series -- United States; Television series -- Great Britain; Television viewers -- United States; Television viewers -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "never give up" "never surrender": the resilience of cult tv / Stacey Abbott. Defining cult tv: history, aesthetics, discourses. Observations on cult television / Roberta Pearson; title: Members only: cult tv from margins to mainstream / Sergio Angelini & Miles Booy; title: The aesthetics of Cult TV / Rhonda Wilcox; title: Babylon 5 / Sergio Angelini; title: Playing hard to "get", how to write cult tv / Jane Espenson; title: The Twilight zone / Stan Beeler; title: Reading cult tv: texts and contexts. The Avengers/New Avengers / Paul Sutton; title: Mainstream cult / Matt Hills; title: Transgressive tv / Jes Battis; title: Innovative tv / Stacey Abbott; title: Representation: exploring issues of sex, gender, and race in cult tv / Lorna Jowett; title: Boldly going: music and cult tv / Janet K. Halfyard; title: Constructing cult tv: the broadcast industry and cult television. The Star Trek franchise / Lincoln Gerraghty; title: Cult tv and the television industry / Catherine Johnson; title: Cult channels : Showtime, FX and cult tv / Simon Brown; title: Through the oblong window: the regulated duopoly and the creation of cult children's canon in Britain / Tat Wood; title: Cul tv and new media / Denzell Richards; title: Dr. Who / Miles Booy; title: Writing tie-in's / Nancy Holder; title: Southpark / David Simmons; title: The cult in cult tv: audiences, fans and fandom. Dark Shadows / Stacey Abbott; title: Television and the cult audience: a primer / Hillary Robson; title: The cult of cult tv / Dick Fiddy; title: Subcultural celebrity / Matt Hills; title: Sapphire and Steel / Sergio Angelini; title: Gen, slash, OT3s and crossover : the varieties of fan fiction / Roz Kaveney.