TY  - GEN
T1  - Popular television drama : critical perspectives
T2  - Manchester Gothic (Manchester, England)
A2  - Bignell, Jonathan
A2  - Lacey, Stephen, 1952-
LA  - English
PP  - Manchester, UK
PB  - Manchester University Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1141863788
AB  - A collection of essays that examine landmark popular television drama from the last forty years, from 'Doctor Who' to 'The Office'. Contributors focus on programmes across the range of popular genres, from sitcoms to science fiction, gothic horror and children's drama.
OP  - 240
NO  - Editors' introduction - Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey<BR>Part I<BR>Editors' introduction: The boundaries of genre; the sitcom - Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey<BR>1. 'Our usual impasse': The episodic situation comedy revisited - Barry Langford<BR>2. Remembering 'Butterflies': The comic art of housework - Julia Hallam<BR>3. They do 'like it up 'em': 'Dad's Army' and myths of old England - Robin Nelson<BR>Part II<BR>Editors' introduction: Quality and the 'other' drama - Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey<BR>4. Space for 'quality': Negotiating with the Daleks - Jonathan Bignell<BR>5. This is the modern world: 'The Prisoner', authorship, allegory - Mark Bould<BR>6. Can kinky sex be politically correct? 'Queer As Folk' and the geo-ideological inscription of gay sexuality - Peter Billingham<BR>7. 'Just that kids' thing': The politics of 'Crazyspace', children's television and the case of 'The Demon Headmaster' - Maìre Messenger Davies<BR>Part III<BR>Editors' introduction: Revisiting the familiar - Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey<BR>8. Haunted houses, hidden rooms: women, domesticity and the female Gothic adaptation on television - Helen Wheatley<BR>9. BBC Drama at the margins: The contrasting fortunes of Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh TV drama in the nineties - Steve Blandford<BR>10. The new social realism of 'Clocking Off' - Lez Cooke<BR>11. Becoming popular: Some reflections on the relationship between television and theatre - Stephen Lacey<BR>Afterword.
CN  - PN1992.65
SN  - 9781526125392
SN  - 1526125390
SN  - 9781526125408
SN  - 1526125404
SN  - 9780719069321
SN  - 9780719069338
KW  - Television plays, English : History and criticism.
KW  - Television programs : Great Britain.
KW  - Dramatiques anglaises : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Émissions télévisées : Grande-Bretagne.
KW  - Film and Media.
KW  - Television.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
KW  - Television programs
KW  - Television plays, English
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Popular culture : Television.
KW  - British television drama.
KW  - Butterflies.
KW  - Dad's Army.
KW  - Northern Irish television drama.
KW  - Queer As Folk.
KW  - Scottish television drama.
KW  - The Demon Headmaster.
KW  - The Prisoner.
KW  - Welsh television drama.
KW  - female Gothic.
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -