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Informationen zum Autor Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies! Roehampton University. She is the editor of 'Reading Angel' (Tauris! 2005)! co-editor of 'Investigating Alias' (Tauris! 2007)! and author of 'Celluloid Vampires' (2007). She is also Series Editor of Tauris' 'Investigating Cult TV Series'. Klappentext Offers cult TV fans a wealth of information and argument! and students a full course text. Covers programmes such as "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" and "Babylon 5". Cult TV is a very exciting area of contemporary television. This book redefines our understanding of cult TV, with fresh approaches to and case studies on: Cult TV aesthetics, History of cult TV, Cult TV & new media, The 'sub-cultural celebrity', how to write cult TV, Cult TV & the broadcast industry, Music, Innovation, Cult channels, and more. Zusammenfassung Cult TV is a very exciting area of contemporary television. This book redefines our understanding of cult TV, with fresh approaches to and case studies on: Cult TV aesthetics, History of cult TV, Cult TV & new media, The 'sub-cultural celebrity', how to write cult TV, Cult TV & the broadcast industry, Music, Innovation, Cult channels, and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsIntroduction - Stacey Abbott Section One - What is Cult TV?• Observations on Cult TelevisionRoberta Pearson • Members Only: Cult TV from Margins to Mainstream Sergio Angelini & Miles Booy • The Aesthetics of Cult TV Rhonda Wilcox • Telefantasy and Beyond: Cult TV and Genre Stacey Abbott • Playing Hard to ‘Get’: How to Write Cult TV Jane EspensonSection Two - the Texts • Mainstream Cult Matt Hills • Gone but not Forgotten: The Cult Sleeper Simon Brown and Stacey Abbott• Transgressive TV Jes Battis • Innovative TV: narrative, style and genre Stacey Abbott • Representation: Exploring issues of sex, gender, and race in Cult TVLorna Jowett • Music and Cult TV Janet Halfyard • The Cult of Children’s TV Tat WoodSection Three - The Industry • Cult TV and the Television IndustryCatherine Johnson • Cult Channels : Showtime, FX and Cult TV Simon Brown • Cult TV and New Media. Denzell Richards • Writing Tie-ins for Cult TV Nancy Holder Section Four - Audiences • Television and the Cult Audience Hillary Robson • Subcultural celebrity Matt Hills • The Cult of Cult TVDick Fiddy• Doing it for themselves: Fan interpretations of cult TV Roz Kaveney Case Studies Angel (Lorna Jowett) The Avengers/New Avengers (Paul Sutton) Babylon 5 (Sergio Angelini) Battlestar Galactica (Bronwen Calvert) Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Stacey Abbott)Dark Shadows (Stacey Abbott) Dr. Who (Miles Booy) Grey’s Anatomy (Hilary Robson)Masters of Horror (Donato Totaro) The Prisoner (Sergio Angelini)Quatermass (Cathy Johnson)Sapphire and Steel (Sergio Angelini)South Park (David Simmons) The Sopranos (Cathy Johnson) Star Trek/franchise (Lincoln Geraghty) Trailer Park Boys (Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan)Twilight Zone (Stan Beeler) Twin Peaks (Miles Booy)The X-Files (Simon Brown) TeleographyBibliographyIndex...