TV Drama in Transition: Forms, Values and Cultural Change

Tv Drama In Transition Reflects Upon Changing Dramatic Forms In Television In The Context Of Broad Cultural Shifts Over The Past Two Decades. Sceptical About A Postmodern 'paradigm Shift', Nelson Nevertheless Sets Contemporary Tv Drama In Its Socio-economic Context, And Explores The Dramatic Forms And Experiences Of Recent Television Texts. A Contentious Stance Is Taken On A Number Of Media Orthodoxies, And The Case For Critical Realisms Is Remade.--book Jacket. From Electronic Theatre To--cyberspace? : Technology And Televisual Form -- Flexi-narrative From Hill Street To Holby City : Upping The Tempo : Raising The Temperature -- Dislocations Of Postmodernity : Transition In The Political Economy Of Culture -- Signs Of The Times? : Heartbeat And Baywatch -- Tv Drama Forms : Tradition And Innovation : Gradual (un)realizations -- Framing 'the Real' : Oranges, Middlemarch, X-files -- The Public Stock Of Harmless Pleasure : Pleasure, Meanings, Responsibilities -- Diverse Innovations : Radical 'tec(h)s' : Nypd Blue, Between The Lines, The Singing Detective -- For What It's Worth : Problematics Of Value And Evaluation -- Coda : Critical Postmodernism : Critical Realism : Twin Peaks And Our Friends In The North -- Appendix : Segment Breakdown Of Casualty, Episode 16 October 1993. Robin Nelson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 265-273) And Index.