Substance / Style: Moments in Television

Hardback

Main Details

Title Substance / Style: Moments in Television
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Sarah Cardwell
Edited by Jonathan Bignell
Edited by Lucy Fife Donaldson
SeriesThe Television Series
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:258
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreTelevision scripts and screenplays
ISBN/Barcode 9781526148780
ClassificationsDewey:791.4501
Audience
General
Illustrations 24 black & white illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 26 April 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

An exciting new strand in The Television Series, the Moments in Television collections celebrate the power and artistry of television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television scholarship. Each 'Moments' book is organised around a provocative binary theme. Substance / style offers fresh perspectives on television's essential qualities and aesthetic significance. It reassesses the synergy between substance and style, highlighting the potential for meaning to arise through their integration. The book's chosen programmes are persuasively illuminated in new ways. The book explores an eclectic range of TV fictions, dramatic and comedic. Contributors from diverse perspectives come together to expand and enrich the kind of close analysis most commonly found in television aesthetics. Sustained, detailed programme analyses are sensitively framed within historical, technological, institutional, cultural, creative and art-historical contexts.

Author Biography

Sarah Cardwell is Honorary Fellow in the School of Arts at the University of Kent Jonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading Lucy Fife Donaldson is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews -- .