{"product_id":"viewing-america-twenty-first-century-television-drama-hardback-9781107043930","title":"Viewing America; Twenty-First-Century Television Drama (Hardback) 9781107043930","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eViewing America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTwenty-First-Century Television Drama\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChristopher Bigsby explores the potential of television drama to offer a radical critique of American politics, myths and values.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristopher Bigsby (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107043930, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 October 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e512 pages, 9 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 16.8 x 2.7 cm, 0.94 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Bigsby makes a compelling case for twenty-first-century television drama as art to be viewed, studied, and appreciated … Highly recommended.' Choice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSomething has happened in the world of television drama. For the last decade and a half America has assumed a dominant position. Novelists, screenwriters and journalists, who would once have had no interest in writing for television, indeed who often despised it, suddenly realised that it was where America could have a dialogue with itself. The new television drama was where writers could engage with the social and political realities of the time, interrogating the myths and values of a society moving into a new century. Familiar genres have been reinvented, from crime fiction to science fiction. This is a book as much about a changing America as about the television series which have addressed it, from The Sopranos and The Wire to The West Wing, Mad Men and Treme, in what has emerged as the second golden age of American television drama.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: television drama\u003cbr\u003e New Jersey\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Sopranos\u003cbr\u003e Washington\u003cbr\u003e 2. The West Wing\u003cbr\u003e Baltimore\u003cbr\u003e 3. Homicide Life on the Street\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Corner\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Wire\u003cbr\u003e Earth\u003cbr\u003e 6. Battlestar Galactica\u003cbr\u003e Odessa\u003cbr\u003e 7. Friday Night Lights\u003cbr\u003e New York\u003cbr\u003e 8. Mad Men\u003cbr\u003e New Orleans\u003cbr\u003e 9. Treme.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Television [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Television\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Television%20%5BAPT%5D%22\"\u003eAPT\u003c\/a\u003e], Film, TV \u0026amp; radio [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Film, TV \u0026amp; radio\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Film,%20TV%20\u0026amp;%20radio%20%5BAP%5D%22\"\u003eAP\u003c\/a\u003e], Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265546637592,"sku":"9781107043930","price":71.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107043930i.jpg?v=1692024108","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/viewing-america-twenty-first-century-television-drama-hardback-9781107043930","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}