Epic / everyday
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Epic / everyday

Moments in television

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Epic / everyday

Moments in television

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Epic / everyday by Sarah Cardwell, Jonathan Bignell, Lucy Fife Donaldson, Sarah Cardwell,Jonathan Bignell,Lucy Fife Donaldson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Television History & Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. Notes on contributors
  9. The Television Series: general editors’ preface
  10. Moments in Television, the collections: editors’ preface
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. Introduction: epic/everyday
  13. 1: Configurations of man, monster and hero in The Incredible Hulk
  14. 2: Game of Thrones’ Epic 9s: a series of epic moments intertwined with the everyday
  15. 3: ‘I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind’: making the everyday epic in Detectorists
  16. 4: From the everyday to the epic and back: ‘foreground’ and ‘background’ in Community
  17. 5: The epic in the everyday: television and Doctor Who, ‘The Chase’
  18. 6: Storms and teacups: Russell T Davies, the epic and the everyday
  19. 7: Spies with ties: the marital logic of the Cold War in The Americans
  20. 8: Columbo: in touch with the ordinary
  21. 9: Lost in the everyday
  22. Index