Rewriting Television
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Rewriting Television

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eBook - ePub

Rewriting Television

About this book

Rewriting Television suggests that it is time for a radical overhaul of television studies. If we don't want to merely recycle the same old methods, approaches, and tropes for another twenty years, we need to consider major changes in why and how we do our work. This book offers a new model for doing television (or film or media) studies that can be taken up around the world. It synthesizes ideas from production studies, screenwriting studies, and the idea of "writing otherwise" to create a new way of studying television. It presents an entirely original approach to working with practitioner interviews that has never been seen before in film, television, or media studies. It then offers a series of original reflections on form, story, and voice and considers how these reflections could shape future writing in our discipline(s). Ultimately, this is a book of ideas. This book asks "what if?" This book is an opportunity to imagine differently.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. 1. The One-Long-Slow-Idea Book
  7. 2. Methods
  8. Cast of Characters and Dialogue Key
  9. 3. “Edgy Sex … Not Just Boring Sex”
  10. 4. Commissioning
  11. 5. Form
  12. 6. “That’s TV, It Isn’t Like Writing a Poem”
  13. 7. Development
  14. 8. Story
  15. 9. “It Is Horrible, It Is Necessary”
  16. 10. Voice
  17. 11. Glorious
  18. Coda: “How Are We Going to Get Out of This?”
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. Notes
  21. Index
  22. About the Author