Title
Viewing America : twenty-first century television drama / Christopher Bigsby.
ISBN
9781107619746 paperback
1107619742 paperback
9781107043930 hardcover
110704393X hardcover
Published
New York : Cambridge University Press, [2013]
Language
English
Description
xiii, 501 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PN1992.8.S4 B54 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.450973
Summary
"Something has happened in the world of television drama. For the last decade and a half America has assumed a dominant position. Novelists, screenwriters and journalists, who would once have had no interest in writing for television, indeed who often despised it, suddenly realised that it was where America could have a dialogue with itself. The new television drama was where writers could engage with the social and political realities of the time, interrogating the myths and values of a society moving into a new century. Familiar genres have been reinvented, from crime fiction to science fiction. This is a book as much about a changing America as about the television series which have addressed it, from The Sopranos and The Wire to The West Wing, Mad Men and Treme in what has emerged as the second golden age of American television drama"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-486) and index.
Introduction: television drama
Washington
The West Wing (NBC 1999-2006)
New Jersey
The Sopranos (HBO 1999-2007)
Baltimore
Homicide Life on the Street (NBC 1993-1999)
The Coroner (HBO 2000)
The Wire (HBO 2002-2008)
Earth
Battlestar Galactica (Syfy Channel/Sky 2004-2009)
Odessa
Friday Night Lights (NBC/DirectTV 2006-2011)
Baghdad
Generation Kill (HBO 2008)
New York
Mad Men (AMC 2007-2014)
New Orleans
Treme (HBO 2010-2014).
