{"product_id":"cinematic-tv-rashna-wadia-richards-9780190071264","title":"Cinematic TV: Serial Drama Goes to the Movies","description":"For decades after its invention, television was considered by many to be culturally deficient when compared to cinema, as analyses rooted in communication studies and the social sciences tended to focus primarily on television's negative impact on consumers. More recently, however, denigration has largely been replaced by serious critical consideration of what television represents in the post-network era. Once derided as a media wasteland, TV is now praised for its visual density and complexity. In the last two decades, media scholars have often suggested that television has become cinematic. Serial dramas, in particular, are acclaimed for their imitations of cinema's formally innovative and narratively challenging conventions. But what exactly does \"cinematic TV\" mean? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eCinematic TV\u003c\/em\u003e, author Rashna Wadia Richards takes up this question comprehensively, arguing that TV dramas quote, copy, and appropriate (primarily) American cinema in multiple ways and toward multiple ends. Constructing an innovative theoretical framework by combining intertextuality and memory studies, \u003cem\u003eCinematic TV\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on four modalities of intermedial borrowings: homage, evocation, genre, and parody. Through close readings of such exemplary shows as \u003cem\u003eStranger Things\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMad Men\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDamages\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eDear White People\u003c\/em\u003e, the book demonstrates how serial dramas reproduce and rework, undermine and idolize, and, in some cases, compete with and outdo cinema.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rashna Wadia Richards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190071265\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190071264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2022","brand":"Rashna Wadia Richards","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43982511472895,"sku":"9780190071264","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_549711f6-82c0-4294-b1bd-acce845f4e65.jpg?v=1683261575","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cinematic-tv-rashna-wadia-richards-9780190071264","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}