In the United States and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
viii, 296 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm.
Popular television genres
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Futures past': an introduction to and brief survey of British science fiction television / John R. Cook and Peter Wright -- Quatermass and the origins of British television sf / James Chapman -- Tardis at the OK corral: Doctor Who and the USA / Nicholas J. Cull -- Countering the counterculture: the prisoner and the 1960s / Sue Short -- The age of Aquarius: utopia and anti-utopia in late 1960s' and early 1970s' British science fiction television / John R. Cook -- The man who made Thunderbirds: an interview with Gerry Anderson / Nicholas J. Cull -- Everyday life in the post-catastrophe future: Terry Nation's Survivors / Andy Sawyer -- TV docudrama and the nuclear subject: The war game, The day after and Threads / David Seed -- Resist the host: Blake's 7 -- a very British future / Una McCormack -- Echoes of discontent: conservative politics and Sapphire and steel / Peter Wright -- Counterpointing the surrealism of the underlying metaphor in The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy / M.J. Simpson -- 'OK, homeboys, let's posse!' masculine anxiety, gender, race and class in Red Dwarf / Elyce Rae Helford -- British apocalypses now--or then? The uninvited, Invasion: earth and The last train / Catriona Miller.
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"Television is the dominant mass-entertainment medium of the modern age. Yet, while popular genres in film have received much attention, their television equivalents have remained relatively unknown and unexplored. Popular Television Genres explores the lineages and taxonomies of fictional television worldwide. Written by experts in the field, each book in the series focuses on a particular genre or cycle of popular television. The approach is methodologically broad, balancing the textual analysis of narrative with the need to place popular television in its cultural and historical contexts, as well as analysing its critical and popular reception.
Intended for use on television and media studies courses, Popular Television Genres provides informed and accessible reading for scholars, students and general readers alike."--Jacket.
Science fiction television programs-- Great Britain-- History and criticism.