The Essential Cult TV Reader Hardback
Edited by David Lavery
Part of the Essential Readers in Contemporary Media and Culture series
Hardback
Description
The Essential Cult TV Reader is a collection of insightful essays that examine television shows that amass engaged, active fan bases by employing an imaginative approach to programming.
Once defined by limited viewership, cult TV has developed its own identity, with some shows gaining large, mainstream audiences.
By exploring the defining characteristics of cult TV, The Essential Cult TV Reader traces the development of this once obscure form and explains how cult TV achieved its current status as legitimate television.
The essays explore a wide range of cult programs, from early shows such as Star Trek, The Avengers, Dark Shadows, and The Twilight Zone to popular contemporary shows such as Lost, Dexter, and 24, addressing the cultural context that allowed the development of the phenomenon.
The contributors investigate the obligations of cult series to their fans, the relationship of camp and cult, the effects of DVD releases and the Internet, and the globalization of cult TV.
The Essential Cult TV Reader answers many of the questions surrounding the form while revealing emerging debates on its future.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:414 pages, 10
- Publisher:The University Press of Kentucky
- Publication Date:15/12/2010
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- ISBN:9780813125688
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:414 pages, 10
- Publisher:The University Press of Kentucky
- Publication Date:15/12/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780813125688
