Epic / everyday

Moments in television

Sarah Cardwell, Jonathan Bignell, Lucy Fife Donaldson, Sarah Cardwell, Jonathan Bignell, Lucy Fife Donaldson

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781526170224
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526170217
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film Screenwriting

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of figures
• Notes on contributors
• The Television Series: general editors’ preface
• Moments in Television, the collections: editors’ preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: epic/everyday
• 1: Configurations of man, monster and hero in The Incredible Hulk
• 2: Game of Thrones’ Epic 9s: a series of epic moments intertwined with the everyday
• 3: ‘I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind’: making the everyday epic in Detectorists
• 4: From the everyday to the epic and back: ‘foreground’ and ‘background’ in Community
• 5: The epic in the everyday: television and Doctor Who, ‘The Chase’
• 6: Storms and teacups: Russell T Davies, the epic and the everyday
• 7: Spies with ties: the marital logic of the Cold War in The Americans
• 8: Columbo: in touch with the ordinary
• 9: Lost in the everyday
• Index