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Television''s Second Golden Age
From Hill Street Blues to Er

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Fans of 'quality TV drama series' will have a field day with Syracuse University professor Thompson's multidisciplinary examination of 'the return of the seri­ous, literary, writer-based drama' over the past 15 years. Allotting full chapters to breakthrough series Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere, Thompson reviews a bit more briefly the histories of 1980s classics Cagney & Lacey, Moonlighting, L.A. Law, thirtysomething, and China Beach and their 'quirky' 1990s successors Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, and Picket Fences. 'The Future of Quality' chapter describes the networks' retreat from writer-based drama in the early 1990s and the return to it in series like NYPD Blue, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, Chicago Hope, and the number one hit, ER. This survey will appeal to several audiences: People readers will relish the gossip; Fortune readers will zero in on the economics of quality versus junk-food television; and readers monitoring media transmogrifications will find Thompson's analysis of TV's institutionalization of quality drama fascinating."-Booklist


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Robert J. Thompson is professor at S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, and the director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University.


Product details

Authors Robert J Thompson, Robert Thompson, Robert J. Thompson
Publisher Syracuse University Press
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 31.10.1997
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
 
EAN 9780815605041
ISBN 978-0-8156-0504-1
Pages 220
 
Series Television and Popular Culture
Subjects Pop Arts / Pop Culture
PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism
PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Guides & Reviews
 

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