The Essential Cult TV Reader
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The Essential Cult TV Reader

  1. 414 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Essential Cult TV Reader

About this book

The Essential Cult TV Reader is a collection of insightful essays that examine television shows that amass engaged, active fan bases by employing an imaginative approach to programming. Once defined by limited viewership, cult TV has developed its own identity, with some shows gaining large, mainstream audiences. By exploring the defining characteristics of cult TV, The Essential Cult TV Reader traces the development of this once obscure form and explains how cult TV achieved its current status as legitimate television.

The essays explore a wide range of cult programs, from early shows such as Star Trek, The Avengers, Dark Shadows, and The Twilight Zone to popular contemporary shows such as Lost, Dexter, and 24, addressing the cultural context that allowed the development of the phenomenon. The contributors investigate the obligations of cult series to their fans, the relationship of camp and cult, the effects of DVD releases and the Internet, and the globalization of cult TV. The Essential Cult TV Reader answers many of the questions surrounding the form while revealing emerging debates on its future.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: How Cult TV Became Mainstream
  7. Absolutely Fabulous
  8. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
  9. Alias
  10. Angel
  11. The Avengers
  12. Battlestar Galactica
  13. Blake's 7
  14. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  15. The Comeback
  16. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
  17. Dark Shadows
  18. Dexter
  19. Doctor Who
  20. Farscape
  21. Firefly
  22. Freaks and Geeks
  23. Heroes
  24. The League of Gentlemen
  25. Life on Mars
  26. Lost
  27. Miami Vice
  28. Monty Python's Flying
  29. My So-Called Life Michele Byers
  30. Mystery Science Theater 3000
  31. The Prisoner
  32. Quantum Leap
  33. Red Dwarf
  34. Roswell
  35. The Simpsons
  36. South Park
  37. Stargate SG-1
  38. The Star Trek Franchise
  39. Supernatural
  40. This Life
  41. Torchwood
  42. 24
  43. The Twilight Zone
  44. Twin Peaks
  45. Ultraviolet
  46. Veronica Mars
  47. Wonderfalls
  48. Xena: Warrior Princess
  49. The X-Files
  50. Appendix: Series by Genre and Nationality
  51. TV and Filmography
  52. Works Cited
  53. List of Contributors
  54. Index