James Lyons

Miami Vice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Miami Vice captures the glitter and glamour embodied byCrockett and Tubbs and offers students an anatomy of aground-breaking work in the police procedural genre.

Explores Miami Vice 's combination of disparateinfluences (MTV, film noir, soap opera, 'high concept'action films) as well as the social, cultural and industrialmoments when it burst onto the network

Introduces readers to major components of televisualanalysis--style, storytelling, the television show as commodity andideological critique-- that illustrate the show's uniquefeatures

Provides a model for students' own assessment of othershows, and confirms precisely how--and on what terms-- MiamiVice redefined the police drama and an era

Produktdetails

• Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 144mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781405178112
• ISBN-10: 1405178116
• Artikelnr.: 27544207

Autorenporträt

James Lyons is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter. His publications include Quality Popular Television (2003), Selling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America (2004), and Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. I Want My MTV Cops: Miami Vice as
Television Commodity. 2. Guns, Glitter, and Glamour: Styling the Show. 3.
Losing the Plot?: Storytelling in Miami Vice. 4. Risky Business: the
Cultural Politics of Vice. Afterword. Broadcast Date Notes. Notes.
Bibliography. Index.