Transgressive Television
Politics and Crime in 21st-Century American TV Series
Published in December 2015
358 pages
978-3-8253-7553-9 (ISBN)
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Since the turn of the 21st century, the landscape of television has decisively changed. Whereas seriality had been part and parcel of television entertainment since the 1940s, the past two decades have witnessed the rise of new technologies and increasingly "complex and elaborate forms" (Jason Mittell), with HBO and Netflix playing leading roles. Particularly in its manifold transgressions of political, social, and ethical boundaries, the contemporary American TV serial serves as both a laboratory for and diagnostic platform of current epistemes and ideological codes.
In fifteen interdisciplinary perspectives from the United States and Europe, this volume provides a critical diagnosis of the genre's politics of gender and ethnicity, difference, normativity and representational control. Contesting the popular term "quality TV," 'Transgressive Television' provides original work on TV series as diverse as 'Twin Peaks', 'The Sopranos', 'Breaking Bad', 'The Wire', 'House of Cards', 'Homeland', and many others.
In fifteen interdisciplinary perspectives from the United States and Europe, this volume provides a critical diagnosis of the genre's politics of gender and ethnicity, difference, normativity and representational control. Contesting the popular term "quality TV," 'Transgressive Television' provides original work on TV series as diverse as 'Twin Peaks', 'The Sopranos', 'Breaking Bad', 'The Wire', 'House of Cards', 'Homeland', and many others.
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Birgit Däwes | Alexandra Ganser | Nicole Poppenhagen
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Politics and Crime in 21st-Century American TV Series
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- SEASON RECAP: A PREFACE
- PAVING PATHWAYS
- TRANSGRESSIVE TELEVISION: PRELIMINARY THROUGHTS
- THE COUNTDOWN TO Y2KTV AND THE ARRIVAL OF THE NEW SERIALISTS
- TRANSGRESSIVE SERIALIZATION AND THE SERIALIZATION OF TRANSGRESSION AT THE U.S. - CANADIAN BORDER: TWIN PEAKS
- REPRESENTING POWER: FORMATS OF POLICTICAL TV SERIES
- THE POLITICS OF TIME IN HOUSE OF CARDS
- ANOTHER SCANDAL IN WASHINGTON: HOW A TRANSGRESSIVE, BLACK ANTI-HEROINE MAKES FOR NEW "QUALITY TV
- THE HUMANE FACE OF POLITICS? POLITICAL REPRESENTATIONS, POWER STRUCTURES, AND GENDER LIMITATIONS IN HBO'S POLITICAL COMEDY VEEP
- INSTITUTIONS AND PERSONAL CONCEPTIONS OF REALITY IN HBO'S THE WIRE: SPATIAL TRANSGRESSIONS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES
- THE PORTRAYALS OF BLACK MOTHERHOOD IN THE WIRE
- SYMBOLIC ANNIHILATION" AND DRIVE-BY MISOGYNY: WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY U.S. - AMERICAN TELEVISION SERIES
- SECRET SPHERES FROM BREAKING BAD TO THE AMERICANS: THE POLITICS OF SECRECY, MASCULINITY, AND TRANSGRESSION IN 21ST-CENTURY U.S. TELEVISION DRAMA
- CASHING IN: "THE 'CASINO INDIAN' ON TELEVISION
- NO LONGER YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD KILLER: CRIME SHOWS AND SERIALITY AFTER DEXTER
- CRIME, CONTROL, AND (MEDICAL) CONDITION: THE ILLNESS NARRATIVES OF THE SOPRANOS, BOSS, AND BREAKING BAD AS BOUNDARY TRANSGRESSION
- DEATH ART: REPRESENTATIONS OF VIOLENCE IN NBC'S HANNIBAL
- NBC'S HANNIBAL AND THE POLITICS OF AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT
- DEXTER IN DISGUISE: A STYLISTIC APPROACH TO VERBAL CAMOUFLAGE IN A SERIAL KILLER SERIES
- CONTRIBUTORS
