Reading 24 : TV Against the Clock


Steven. Peacock
Bok Engelsk 2007 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
London : : I.B.Tauris, , 2007.
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1 online resource (257 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Regular Cast List; Introduction: It's about Time - Stephen Peacock; PART 1: Splitting the Screen: Rewriting Television Conventions; 1. 24 and Twenty-First Century Quality Television - Daniel Chamberlain and Scott Ruston; 2. 24: Status and Style - Steven Peacock; 3. Divided Interests: Split-Screen Aesthetics in 24 - Michael Allen; 4. Reasons to Split up: Interactivity, Realism and the Multiple-Image screens in 24 - Deborah Jermyn; 5. Interesting Times: The Demands 24's Real-Time Format Makes on its Audience - Jacqueline Furby. - 11. 'You're going to tell me everything you know': Torture and Morality in Fox's 24 - Douglas L HowardPART 3: Unmasking Identities: Sexuality, Difference, Culture; 12. Damsels in Distress: Female Narrative Authority and Knowledge in 24 - Janet McCabe; 13. Father knows Best? The Post-Feminist Male and Parenting in 24 - Joke Hermes; 14. Techno-Soap: 24, Masculinity and Hybrid Form - Tara McPherson; 15. 'She may be a little weird': Chloe O'Brian - Paul Delany; 16. 24 and Post-National American Identities - Christopher Gair; Afterword - David Lavery; Season Guide; Film and TV Guide; Bibliograpgy. - Index. - PART 2: America Under Siege: Terrorism, Globabisation and the Politics of (American) Morality6. 'So what are you saying? An oil consortium's behind the nuke?' 24, Promgramme Sponsorship, SUVs, and the 'War on Terror' -; 7. Days and Hours of the Apocalypse: 24 and the Nuclear Narrative - Daniel Herbert; 8. 24 after 9/11: The American State of Exception - Anne Caldwell and Samuel A Chambers; 9. Just-in-Time Security: Permanent Exceptions and Neoliberal Orders - Torin Monahan; 10. 'Tell me where the bomb is or I will kill your son': Situational Morality on 24 - Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan. - When 24 exploded onto TV screens in 2001, 'Time' magazine called it one of the 'Best Television Events of the Decade'. '24' has gone on to establish itself as groundbreaking and controversial entertainment that has changed the face of television._x000D__x000D_Each season of '24' traces the events of a single day in the life of CTU Field Agent Jack Bauer. Racing against the clock, Bauer battles assassination attempts, germ warfare and terrorist factions to 'save the day'. '24' presents the nail-biting events of each day through its use of split-screen and 'real-time' devices. Dramatically explo
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