State of Play

Name: State of Play
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Contemporary 'High-End' Tv Drama

By Robin Nelson

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State of Play by Robin Nelson revisits and expands the discussions from his influential work TV Drama In Transition (1997). The book examines the aesthetics and construction of TV drama within a wide framework encompassing technology, institutions, economics, and cultural trends. Nelson explores the shift in value from distribution channels to content itself, offering an optimistic view of the future of quality TV drama in a global market. He critically addresses how certain notions of "quality" may privilege affluent viewers, potentially overlooking the global audience's desire for local relevance. The fusion of arts and cultural studies methodologies provides a distinctive and insightful perspective.
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State of Play is ideal for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of television, media studies, and cultural analysis, especially those interested in the evolution and valuation of TV drama within global and local contexts.

This book deals with a wide range of 'high-end', expensive and high concept, TV dramas from the UK and the USA and analyses the compositional principles of texts (technologies, institutions, economics, cultrual trends). Drama examined include Oz, Buried Carnivale, Blackpool, The Sopranos, Shameless, and Shooting the Past.

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State of Play by Robin Nelson updates and develops the arguments of his influential TV Drama In Transition (1997). It is equally distinctive in setting analysis of the aesthetics and compositional principles of texts within a broad conceptual framework, including technologies, institutions, economics, and 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 marketplace. However, characteristically taking up questions of worth where others have avoided them, Nelson recognises 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.

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Matthew Hills, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, praises State of Play for its detailed analysis of high-end TV drama qualities without relying on a singular definition of "quality." He highlights the book as a vibrant contribution to Television and Cultural Studies and a passionate argument for recognising contemporary television drama as part of a new "Golden Age."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780719073113

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 November 2007

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Manchester University Press

Illustration: Illustrations, black & white

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 336g

Pages: 232

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Robin Nelson

About the Author

Robin Nelson is Professor of Theatre and TV Drama in the Department of Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University