Television and Criticism unites distinguished scholars from the fields of literary criticism, media studies, and film studies to challenge the traditional boundaries between high and low culture. Through a theoretical lens, this volume addresses such topics as the blurring of genres, television and identity, and the sophistication of television audiences by examining examples from soap operas, televised adaptations of classic novels, film noir, and popular shows like Queer as Folk, Seinfeld, and Ally McBeal. Ranging from Shakespeare to Dragnet, this comprehensive study will interest cultural studies scholars and media buffs alike.

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Aesthetics 11, 12 (n1), 20, 63, 101-113, 101, 104, 108, 111

Audience Active: 8

Appreciation: 83

Assumptions: 32

Batman, of: 42

Broadcasting histories, and: 51

Characters, and: 28, 29, 30

Child: 47 (n 1)

Conceptualisation of: 82

Consumers: 108

Democratic aspirations of: 103

Diversity of: 75

Expectations of: 31, 32, 34, 52, 78

Family: 8, 22

Fans: 25, 85, 86, 96, 115

Film: 83

Focus: 81

Forsyte Saga, The of: 15

Fragmented: 102

Nationwide, The: 12 (n 12), 14 (ref)

Genre, and: 27, 33, 34

Individual and universal experience, and: 27

Internet: 84 (n 5)

Literary: 78

Live: 90, 91

Live studio: 94

Lived experience of: 78

Mass: 18, 42

Middle class: 63

Modern: 15

Neighbourhood: 43

Position of: 94, 95

‘Preferred reading’, and 84: (n 17)

Pretending belief, and: 27

Readership, and the theories of: 26, 81

Relationship with drama: 33

Relationship with the real: 33

Remembering, and: 53

Response: 10, 77, 78, 94, 96

Research/Studies: 7, 10, 32, 51, 75, 81

Retention: 34, 70

Segment of: 97, 98, 102

Seinfeld, of: 96, 97

Soap opera and the public service brief: 32

and the theories of the: 26

Social construct, as: 93

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Our Common Cultural Heritage: Classic Novels and English Television
Aspects of the Soap Opera and Other Stories
Shakespeare on American Television and the Special Relationship between the UK & the USA
Television as History: History as Television
‘The story you are about to see is true’: Dragnet, Film Noir and Postwar Realism
The Skilled Viewer
The Culture of Post-Narcissism: Post-Teenage, Pre-Midlife Singles Culture in Seinfeld, Ally McBeal and Friends
Television’s Vanishing Terms? Traditional Aesthetics and Television Drama in the Age of Reality TV
‘I’ve been searching my soul tonight’: the Ally McBeal Effect
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