Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index
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pt. I Quality TV Form and Aesthetics -- 1. Life on Mars -- Hybridity and Innovation in a British Television Context / Robin Nelson -- 2. Àm I Mad, in a Coma or Back in Time?' -- Generic and Narrative Complexity in Life on Mars / Nichola Dobson -- 3. Immersion versus Alienation -- Listening to Life on Mars / Rob Smith -- pt. II Contesting the Past Television and History -- 4. Memory Banks Failing! -- Life on Mars and the Politics of Re-imagining the Police and the Seventies / Andy Willis -- 5. Sam Tyler and the 'New North' / John Curzon -- 6. Mòonage Daydreams' -- Nostalgia and Cultural Memory Contexts of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes / Mary Irwin -- pt. III Recalling the Past Television as Memory -- 7. Ùp The Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire' -- Time Travel, Childhood and the Uncanny Home in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes / Peter Hughes Jachimiak -- 8. Medium is the Monster ... or the World? -- Discourses of Uncanny Òld Media' and Immersive 'New Media' in Life on Mars / Matt Hills -- 9. Consuming Retrosexualities -- Past Live On Screen, Online Now / Ruth McElroy -- pt. IV Life on Mars as International Television -- 10. Àmerican Remake -- Shudder' -- Online Debates about Life on Mars and B̀ritish-ness' / Brett Mills -- 11. Emigration of Life on Mars -- Sam and Gene Do America / David Lavery -- 12. Locating Generational and Cultural Clashes in the Transfer of Successful Formats between the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States -- Case of Life on Mars / Teresa Ojer -- pt. V Debating Production -- 13. Julie Gardner and Claire Parker -- In Conversation -- Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes -- Production and Transmission Details