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Seeing It on Television
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Product details
- ISBN 9781501359422
- Weight: 572g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Apr 2021
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Seeing It on Television: Televisuality in the Contemporary US 'High-end' Series investigates new categories of high-end drama and explores the appeal of programmes from Netflix, Sky Atlantic/HBO, National Geographic, FX and Cinemax. An investigation of contemporary US Televisuality provides insight into the appeal of upscale programming beyond facts about its budget, high production values and/or feature cinematography. Rather, this book focuses on how the construction of meaning often relies on cultural discourse, production histories, as well as on tone, texture or performance, which establishes the locus of engagement and value within the series.
Max Sexton and Dominic Lees discuss how complex production histories lie behind the rise of the US high-end series, a form that reflects industrial changes and the renegotiation of formal strategies. They reveal how the involvement of many different people in the production process, based on new relationships of creative authority, complicates our understanding of 'original content'. This affects the construction of stylistics and the viewing strategies required by different shows. The cultural, as well as industrial, strategies of recent television drama are explored in The Young Pope, The Knick, Stranger Things, Mars, Fargo, The Leftovers, Boardwalk Empire, and Vinyl.
Max Sexton is a lecturer teaching television and film theory at the University of Surrey, UK. He is interested in the links between aesthetics and narrative, particularly in how they can be used to complicate our sense of visual signification and/or produce mediated realities in television. His second book Secular Magic and the Moving Image (2017) includes debates about aesthetics in TV shows that feature conjuring, escapology, and similar wondrous acts.
Dominic Lees is Associate Head of Department: Filmmaking at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He is an experienced film and television director, with a career that has included directing 40 episodes of drama as well as the award-winning independent feature film, Outlanders (2008). Following a PhD in film at the University of Reading, UK, he has written for the Journal of Media Practice, Critical Studies in Television and Media Practice and Education, as well as leading interdisciplinary practice research into ‘Deep Fakes’ (digital face replacement) in television drama and film.
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