A01=Robin Nelson
aesthetics of texts
Author_Robin Nelson
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cultural trends
economics
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global market-place
institutions
quality
television
TV drama
value shift
viewer preference
Product details
- ISBN 9780719073113
- Weight: 336g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2007
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Robin Nelson's State of play up-dates and develops the arguments of his influential TV Drama In Transition (1997). It is equally distinctive in setting analusis of the aesethetics and compositional principles of texts within a broad conceptual framework (technologies, institutions, economics, cultural trends). Tracing "the great value shift from conduit to content" (Todreas, 1999), Nelson is relatively optimistic about the future quality of TV Drama in a global market-place. But, characteristically taking up questions of worth where others have avoided them, Nelson recognizes that certain types of "quality" are privileged for viewers able to pay, possibly at the expense of viewer preference worldwide for "local" resonances in television. The mix of arts and cultural studies methodologies makes for an unusual and insightful approach.
Robin Nelson is Professor of Theatre and TV Drama in the Department of Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University
