Viewing America : twenty-first century television drama by Bigsby, C. W. E instant download

Viewing America : twenty-first century television drama by Bigsby, C. W. E instant download

xiii, 501 pages ; 24 cm, \"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\"--, Includes bibliographical references (pages 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)