Complexity / simplicity: Moments in television

Complexity / simplicity: Moments in television
ISBN-10
1526148749
ISBN-13
9781526148742
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2022-04-26
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Authors
Jonathan Bignell, Sarah Cardwell, Lucy Fife Donaldson

Description

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. Complexity / simplicity addresses the idea of complex TV, examining its potential, limitations and impact upon creative and interpretative practices. It also reassesses simplicity as an alternative criterion for evaluation. Complexity and simplicity persuasively illuminate the book’s chosen programmes 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.

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