TV Drama in Transition reflects upon changing dramatic forms on television in the context of broad cultural shifts over the past two decades. Analyses of a wide range of series (from Heartbeat to Middlemarch and Our Friends in the North; from NYPD Blue to Twin Peaks to The X-Files) are interspersed with accounts of new technologies, viewing dispositions and the political economy of culture. This book is generally concerned as much with the condition of culture in the 1980s and 1990s, as specifically with TV drama.

TV Drama in Transition: Forms, Values and Cultural Change

Humor & Entertainment

Nelson, Robin

Television

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

State of play: Contemporary 'high-end' TV drama

Robin Nelson's State of Play updates and develops the arguments of his influential TV drama In Transition (1997). It is equally distinctive in setting analysis 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.

Manchester University Press

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.

Have you ever bought a toy at a store? Have you had a haircut or ordered food in a restaurant? Then you’ve used goods and services! Goods and services are everywhere. They’re in stores, homes, schools, restaurants, farms, and factories. So, what is a good? And what’s a service? Read this book to find out.

What Do We Buy?: A Look at Goods and Services (Lightning Bolt Books ® ― Exploring Economics)

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Lerner Publications ™

Simple text and photographs provide children with basic information about cows.

Cows (First Step Nonfiction)

Animals

Lerner Pub Group

Uses simple text and photographs to provide children with basic information about horses.

Horses (First Step Nonfiction)

Simple text and photographs introduce pigs and their body parts.

Pigs (First Step Nonfiction)

Simple text and photographs introduce chickens and their body parts.

Chickens (First Step Nonfiction)

Take a visit to the farm and learn about the features and roles of a goat.

Goats (First Step Nonfiction)

Simple text and photographs provide children with basic information about sheep.

Sheep (First Step Nonfiction)

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Books by Nelson, Robin

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TV Drama in Transition: Forms, Values and Cultural Change

State of play: Contemporary 'high-end' TV drama

State of play: Contemporary 'high-end' TV drama

What Do We Buy?: A Look at Goods and Services (Lightning Bolt Books ® ― Exploring Economics)

Cows (First Step Nonfiction)

Horses (First Step Nonfiction)

Pigs (First Step Nonfiction)

Chickens (First Step Nonfiction)

Goats (First Step Nonfiction)

Sheep (First Step Nonfiction)