Epic / Everyday: Moments in Television

Hardback

Main Details

Title Epic / Everyday: 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:264
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreTelevision
Television scripts and screenplays
ISBN/Barcode 9781526170224
Audience
General
Illustrations 21 black & white illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
NZ Release Date 30 May 2023
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. Epic / everyday explores the presence within television of the epic and the everyday. It argues that attention to ideas of the epic and notions of the everyday can illuminate television programmes in new ways. The book explores an eclectic range of TV fictions, including Game of Thrones, Lost and Dr Who. 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 -- .