Nick Salvato

Knots Landing (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Airing on CBS for fourteen seasons (1979¿93), Knots Landing was a spinoff of the popular drama Dallas, but ultimately ran longer and took a very different tone on domestic, social, and economic issues than its predecssor. In the first full-length scholarly study of Knots Landing, Nick Salvato situates the series in its economic and industrial contexts, addresses its surprisingly progressive relationship to the American politics of its period, offers close formal interpretations of noteworthy episodes, and unpacks the pleasures of the program's sensuous surfaces. While it has been largely overlooked in studies of 1980s television, Knots Landing nonetheless beat more masculine fare like Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law in the ratings, introduced a novel focus on middle-class lives in melodrama, and launched or revived the careers of its major stars. In this study Salvato investigates the series' place in widespread serialization of...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wayne State University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780814340349
• Artikelnr.: 42539306

Autorenporträt

Nick Salvato is associate professor of performing and media arts at Cornell University. He is also the author of Uncloseting Drama: American Modernism and Queer Performance.