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. Epic / everyday explores the presence within television of the epic and the everyday. It argues that attention to ideas of the epic and notions of the everyday can illuminate television programmes in new ways.
The book explores an eclectic range of TV fictions, including Game of Thrones, Lost and Dr Who. 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.
Table of Content
Introduction: epic/everyday – Sarah Cardwell
1 Configurations of man, monster and hero in The Incredible Hulk – James C. Taylor
2 Game of Thrones’ Epic 9s: a series of epic moments intertwined with the everyday – Louise Coopey
3 ‘I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind’: making the everyday epic in Detectorists – Phil Wickham
4 From the everyday to the epic and back: ‘foreground’ and ‘background’ in Community– Timotheus Vermeulen
5 The epic in the everyday: television and Doctor Who, ‘The Chase’ – Jonathan Bignell
6 Storms and teacups: Russell T. Davies, the epic and the everyday – James Walters
7 Spies with ties: the marital logic of the Cold War in The Americans– Courtney Hopf and Liam Creighton
8 Columbo: in touch with the ordinary –Alex Clayton and Sarah Moore
9 Lost in the everyday – Zoë Shacklock
Index
About the author
Jonathan Bignell is Reader in Television and Film at the University of Reading, and Director of the Centre for Television Drama Studies
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