Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index.
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Introduction : It's about Time / Steven Peacock -- Part 1. Splitting the Screen : Rewriting Television Conventions -- 1. 24 and Twenty-First Century Quality Television / Daniel Chamberlain and Scott Ruston -- 2. 24 : Status and Style / Steven Peacock -- 3. Divided Interests : Split-Screen Aesthetics in 24 / Michael Allen -- 4. Reasons to Split up : Interactivity, Realism and the Multiple-Image Screens in 24 / Deborah Jermyn -- 5. Interesting Times : The Demands 24's Real-Time Format Makes on its Audience / Jacqueline Furby -- Part 2. America under Siege : Terrorism, Globalisation and the Politics of (American) Morality -- 6. "So what are you saying? : An oil consortium's behind the nuke?" : 24, Programme Sponsorship, SUVs, and the "War on Terror" / Paul Woolf -- 7. Days and Hours of the Apocalypse : 24 and the Nuclear Narrative / Daniel Herbert -- 8. 24 after 9/11 : The American State of Exception / Anne Caldwell and Samuel A. Chambers -- 9. Just-in-Time Security : Permanent Exceptions and Neoliberal Orders / Torin Monahan -- 10. "Tell me where the bomb is or I will kill your son" : Situational Morality on 24 / Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan -- 11. "You're going to tell me everything you know" : Torture and Morality in Fox's 24 / Douglas L. Howard -- Part 3. Unmasking Identities : Sexuality, Difference, Culture -- 12. Damsels in Distress : Female Narrative Authority and Knowledge in 24 / Janet McCabe -- 13. Father Knows Best? : The Post-Feminist Male and Parenting in 24 / Joke Hermes -- 14. Techno-Soap : 24, Masculinity and Hybrid Forms / Tara McPherson -- 15. "She may be a little weird" : Chloe O'Brian / Paul Delany -- 16. 24 and Post-National American Identities / Christopher Gair -- Afterword / David Lavery.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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When "24" exploded onto TV screens in 2001, "Time" magazine called it one of the 'Best Television Events of the Decade'. "24" has gone on to establish itself as groundbreaking and controversial entertainment that has changed the face of television. Each season of "24" traces the events of a single day in the life of CTU Field Agent Jack Bauer. Racing against the clock, Bauer battles assassination attempts, germ warfare and terrorist factions to 'save the day'.
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Title
Reading 24.
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1845113292
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
24 (Television program)
24 (Fernsehsendung)
24 (Television program)
24, Fernsehsendung
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
PERFORMING ARTS-- Television-- History & Criticism.