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Viewing America - Twenty-First-Century Television Drama

English · Paperback / Softback

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Christopher Bigsby explores the potential of television drama to offer a radical critique of American politics, myths and values.

List of contents

Introduction: television drama; New Jersey; 1. The Sopranos; Washington; 2. The West Wing; Baltimore; 3. Homicide Life on the Street; 4. The Corner; 5. The Wire; Earth; 6. Battlestar Galactica; Odessa; 7. Friday Night Lights; New York; 8. Mad Men; New Orleans; 9. Treme.

About the author

Christopher Bigsby is Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, he is an award-winning academic, novelist and biographer and has published more than forty books, including six novels. His first novel, Hester (1995), won the McKitterick Prize and Beautiful Dreamer (2002) was an American Library Association Notable Book. With Don Wilmeth, he won the Bernard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History and the George Freedley Jury Award for The Cambridge History of American Theatre (1998–2000). His biography of Arthur Miller was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Sheridan Morley Prize and the George Freedley Memorial Award and was co-winner of the American Studies Network Prize. The founding director of the Arthur Miller Centre for American Studies, he has presented its International Literary Festival for twenty years. For many years he was a presenter of programmes for BBC radio ranging from Radio 4's Kaleidoscope and Off the Page through to World Service's Meridian.

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'Explores lesser-known but no less fascinating works.' Daily Telegraph

Product details

Authors Christopher Bigsby, Christopher (University of East Anglia) Bigsby
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 10.10.2013
 
EAN 9781107619746
ISBN 978-1-107-61974-6
No. of pages 512
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV
Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism

USA, Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, United States of America, USA

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