Television Studies

This is the first book to examine an outstanding decade of British television drama. The 1980s witnessed a series of changes and innovation in television, in which a fourth channel was established, studio production largely gave way to location filming, and programmes reflected key political events. In this fascinating collection of twelve essays, the innovative programmes of the period are analysed and placed within their social and political contexts.

Edge of Darkness (BBC, 1985) is a conspiracy thriller, a psychological drama, and a mythic tale of the death and regeneration of the planet. It marks one of the points of a British television drama, which was both popular in its generic appeal and groundbreaking in its narrative style. John Caughie's insightful study of the series situates it in the political context of the 1980s and in the context of British television drama in transition.

Together, these two volumes provide the definitive technical history of the medium. Upon the development in the mid-1940s of new cameras and picture tubes that made commercial television possible worldwide, the medium rose rapidly to prominence. Perhaps even more important was the invention of the video tape recorder in 1956, allowing editing, re-shooting and rebroadcasting.This second volume, 1942 to 2000 covers these significant developments and much more. Chapters are devoted to television during World War II and the postwar era, the development of color television, Ampex Corporation's contributions, television in Europe, the change from helical to high band technology, solid state cameras, the television coverage of Apollo II, the rise of electronic journalism, television entering the studios, the introduction of the camcorder, the demise of RCA at the hands of GE, the domination of Sony and Matsushita, and the future of television in e-cinema and the 1080 P24 format. ...

How can we queerly theorise and understand television? How can the realms of television studies and queer theory be brought together, in a manner beneficial and productive for both? Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics is the first book to explore television in all its scope and complexity - its industry, production, texts, audiences, pleasures and politics - in relation to queerness. ...

The 1980s saw the rise of Ronald Reagan and the New Right in American politics, the popularity of programs such as thirtysomething and Dynasty on network television, and the increasingly widespread use of VCRs, cable TV, and remote control in American living rooms. In Seeing Through the Eighties, Jane Feuer critically examines this most aesthetically complex and politically significant period in the history of American television in the context of the prevailing conservative ideological climate. ...

This is an insider's tour, touching on the network's dizzying decision-making process, and the artists who have revolutionized the medium.

Television and the Modernization Ideal in 1980s China: Dazzling the Eyes explores Chinese television history in the pivotal decade of the 1980s and explains the intellectual reception of television in China during this time. ...

A human police officer in the future Los Angeles and his alien partner must deal with their differences in order to solve crimes in the new immigrant population of aliens.

Created by and featuring some of the greatest talents in Hollywood, these original tales delivered a groundbreaking and imaginatively unique show every week.

A man-beast living under the streets of New York City saves and befriends a wealthy and shallow attorney after she is beaten and left for dead. From the moment these two cross paths, they share a strong psychic bond, and though they live in separate worlds, their love continues to grow without measure.

Television series centering around partners Christine Cagney and Mary Beth Lacey-- two strong and intelligent female New York City detectives with real lives and real problems.

All 22 complete uncut episodes of the show's premier season.

Focuses on sisters Julia and Suzanne Sugarbaker, who, despite being opposites, run a business together. Julia is an elegant, outspoken liberal intellectual, Suzanne is a rich, flashy, often self-centered former beauty queen. Together they have launched Sugarbaker Designs.

The first season of the primetime soap of the 80s. Relive the saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business.

Escorting his daughter home from college, Detective Inspector Ronald Craven watches helplessly as she is gunned down in cold blood. Hellbent on revenge, his search for her killer leads him on a terrifying one-way trip to the heart of the nuclear state.

With 13 principal characters, overlapping stories, and endings where the "good guys" frequently lost, Hill Street was a breakthrough comedy/drama series.

Dick Loudon and his wife, Joanna, run a small country inn in Vermont where they're surrounded by an eclectic group of friends and neighbors who have more than a few screws loose.

Before he was Bond ... he was Remington Steele ... Private eye Laura Holt grudgingly accepts a new partner when a mystery man assumes the identity of her fictitious boss, Remington Steele. Together, they battle crime and their feelings for each other.

Join the caring doctors and nurses of St. Eligius hospital in South Boston.

A cult-favorite horror anthology series from the '80s depicting standalone stories of horror fantasy and/or science fiction. Some episodes are gruesome, a few are of a lighter comedic style.

The heroic conflict comes to a surprising outcome in V: The Series, presented complete and uncut in this 3-disc, 19-episode set. Now the aliens whose human guise hides their true reptilian natures are wiser.