Viewing America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107043930)

Something has happened in the world of television drama. For the last decade and a half America has assumed a dominant position. Novelists, screenwriters and journalists, who would once have had no interest in writing for television, indeed who often despised it, suddenly realised that it was where America could have a dialogue with itself. The new television drama was where writers could engage with the social and political realities of the time, interrogating the myths and values of a society moving into a new century. Familiar genres have been reinvented, from crime fiction to science fiction. This is a book as much about a changing America as about the television series which have addressed it, from The Sopranos and The Wire to The West Wing, Mad Men and Treme, in what has emerged as the second golden age of American television drama.

Author: Christopher Bigsby
ISBN-10: 110704393X
ISBN-13: 9781107043930
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2013
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.80w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2014 pg. 67