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Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics: Recycling Middlebrow Culture

Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics: Recycling Middlebrow Culture - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mareike JennerSeries:Screen SerialitiesPublish date:2024-11-30Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399512909ISBN-10:1399512900UPC:9781399512909Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:TelevisionBook Topic:History & Criticism, ReferenceSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCFHCA981N

Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics: Rebooting Middlebrow Culture deals with the network TV reboots of Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, Magnum, P.I., Lethal Weapon and The Equalizer to explore the cultural politics at work in contemporary middlebrow culture. The book focusses specifically on the representational politics of contemporary middlebrow TV.
The book analyses action TV reboots via the framework of middlebrow television, and the political meanings of the category. It explores the category of middlebrow TV, the role of nostalgia of middlebrow reboots. This leads into a critique of the representational norms of middlebrow TV, which includes a variety of visual representations of 'otherness' but fails to narrativize marginalisation. Instead, visual 'difference' is reduced to visual signifier of an inclusive society. What emerges is the idea of visibility politics and its dominance in American network TV.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399512909ISBN-10:1399512900UPC:9781399512909Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:TelevisionBook Topic:History & Criticism, ReferenceSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCFHCA981N

Mareike Jenner is a researcher at Anglia Ruskin University. Her research focusses on Streaming, American Television, and Middlebrow Television. Her edited collection Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Studies was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2021. Her previous work includes the monographs Netflix and the Re-Invention of Television and American TV Detective Dramas.


Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Mareike Jenner

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