Substance / Style

Moments in Television

Sarah Cardwell, Jonathan Bignell, Lucy Fife Donaldson

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Manchester University Press
26 April 2022

Television scripts & screenplays; Television production: technical & background skills

Series: The Television Series

An exciting new strand in The Television Series, the Moments in Television collections celebrate the power and artistry of television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television scholarship.

Each ‘Moments’ book is organised around a provocative binary theme. Substance / style offers fresh perspectives on television’s essential qualities and aesthetic significance. It reassesses the synergy between substance and style, highlighting the potential for meaning to arise through their integration. The book’s chosen programmes are persuasively illuminated in new ways.

The book explores an eclectic range of TV fictions, dramatic and comedic. Contributors from diverse perspectives come together to expand and enrich the kind of close analysis most commonly found in television aesthetics. Sustained, detailed programme analyses are sensitively framed within historical, technological, institutional, cultural, creative and art-historical contexts.

Edited by: Sarah Cardwell, Jonathan Bignell, Lucy Fife Donaldson
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 16mm
ISBN: 9781526148780
ISBN 10: 1526148781
Series: The Television Series
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 26 April 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: substance/style – Lucy Fife Donaldson, Sarah Cardwell and Jonathan Bignell 1 Layers of style: design and embodiment in The Americans – Lucy Fife Donaldson 2 New uniforms! Costume and the 1950s/60s in Call the Midwife – Josette Wolthuis 3 When style is substance and beyond: Les Revenants as metaphysical drama – Alberto N. García 4 Representing mediated identity and consciousness in The Good Wife – Ariane Hudelet 5 Performing laughter in Friends– Gary Cassidy 6 ‘You’re what’s wrong with America, Simpson’: style, appreciation and the temporally prolonged problem of The Simpsons– Michael Clark 7 Resurrection, revelation, reception: rescuing John From Cincinnati from the HBO narrative – Robert Watts 8 Police Squad! The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker style versus the substance of early 1980s television – Emilio Audissino 9 Grand designs: television, style and substance in The Time Tunnel – Jonathan Bignell Index -- .

Sarah Cardwell is Honorary Fellow in the School of Arts at the University of Kent Jonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading Lucy Fife Donaldson is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews -- .