State of play
Subtitle: contemporary "high-end" TV drama
By: Robin Nelson.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780719073113; 9780719073106
Subjects: Television programs -- United States.; Television programs -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-218) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : aims, scope, methods, and standpoints; value: Mapping the territory, blurring the boundaries; value: Distinctive product : three kinds of quality : The Sopranos, Shooting the past, Shameless; value: State of play : the TV drama industry : new rules of the game; value: Pushing the envelope : "edgy" TV drama, Queer as folk, Sex and the City, Carnivàle; value: Techniques, technologies and cultural form; value: Between global and national : 24 and Spooks, Buried and Oz; value: "Quality TV" in context; value: Singularity sustained : Blackpool, Casanova, State of play.