Miami Vice
1st Edition
Published on 22. January 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-4051-7810-5 (ISBN)
Description
Miami Vice captures the glitter and glamour embodied by Crockett and Tubbs and offers students an anatomy of a ground-breaking work in the police procedural genre.
Explores Miami Vice's combination of disparate influences (MTV, film noir, soap opera, 'high concept' action films) as well as the social, cultural and industrial moments when it burst onto the network
Introduces readers to major components of televisual analysis--style, storytelling, the television show as commodity and ideological critique--that illustrate the show's unique features
Provides a model for students' own assessment of other shows, and confirms precisely how--and on what terms--Miami Vice redefined the police drama and an era
Explores Miami Vice's combination of disparate influences (MTV, film noir, soap opera, 'high concept' action films) as well as the social, cultural and industrial moments when it burst onto the network
Introduces readers to major components of televisual analysis--style, storytelling, the television show as commodity and ideological critique--that illustrate the show's unique features
Provides a model for students' own assessment of other shows, and confirms precisely how--and on what terms--Miami Vice redefined the police drama and an era
Reviews / Votes
"All in all, the careful, detailed analysis of the various contexts of network television turns this study into a useful handbook especially for film students who can use it as blueprint for analysing other series." (European Journal of American Studies, 2011) "[Lyons] displays, in addition to still other virtues, an attentiveness to visual texture and theme as refined as that in the best film criticism. This book offers the richest account of a single television program I've ever read, describing a defining show of the Reagan years...Lyons's treatment of the series' conflicted ideology is equally illuminating." (Cinema Journal, 1 June 2011)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
199 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-7810-5 (9781405178105)
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James Lyons is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter, where he researches and publishes in the area of contemporary American television. His publications include a co-edited collection Quality Popular Television (BFI Press, 2003), and two forthcoming book chapters on the Miami-set medical drama Nip/Tuck. he is also author of Selling Seattle: Representing the Contemporary American City (Wallflower Press, 2004).
Content
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.
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.