Description: Further DetailsTitle: Knots LandingCondition: NewRelease Date: 05/31/2015Format: PaperbackEAN: 9780814340332ISBN: 9780814340332Publisher: Wayne State University PressDescription: 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 American primetime television in the early 1980s and the end of network dominance in the early 1990s, along with its unique relationship to Reaganism and glamour, on the one hand, and everydayness and suburbanization, on the other. Salvato also looks at the series in relation to key concepts such as memory, theatricality, identification, ""quality"" TV, and stardom.Fans of the series as well as readers interested in popular culture, television history, representations of gender, and constructions of celebrity will find much to enjoy in this volume.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 190mmItem Length: 127mmItem Weight: 166gAuthor: Nick SalvatoGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: TV Milestones SeriesItem Width: 8mmType: Communication StudiesTopic: Films & TVRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Release Date: 05/31/2015
Release Year: 2015
Book Title: Knots Landing
Title: Knots Landing
EAN: 9780814340332
ISBN: 9780814340332
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Films & TV
Number of Pages: 152 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Knots Landing
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.3 in
Subject: Television / History & Criticism, Television / General, Popular Culture
Item Weight: 8.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Art, Performing Arts
Author: Nick Salvato
Item Length: 7 in
Item Width: 5.7 in
Series: TV Milestones Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
