[ecrea] new book: The era of drama in TV

>/La era del drama en televisión. Perdidos, CSI: 
>Las Vegas, El ala oeste de la Casa Blanca, Mujeres desesperadas y House/
>(/The era of drama in TV. Lost, CSI: Crime Scene 
>Investigation, The West Wing, Desperate Housewives and House/)
>
>March, 2010
>
>UOC Press
>
>Barcelona (Spain)
>
>259 pages
>
>By Anna Tous-Rovirosa
>
>Prologue: Professor Roman Gubern
>
>This book starts from the empirical analysis of 
>five drama series: /The West Wing/, NBC: 
>1999-2006;/ Lost/, ABC: 2004-2010; /Desperate 
>Housewives/, ABC: 2004-/; House, M.D., /Fox: 
>2004- and /CSI: Crime Scene Investigation/, CBS: 2000-.
>
>The first season of each series were analysed 
>with respect to the production context (the 
>programmes audiences, social repercussion, 
>awards, strategies of interactivity and the 
>characteristics inherent in US industrial 
>television production) as well as to generic 
>features, invariant motives and the use of 
>thematic and mythical recurrences. Each of the 
>series analysed pertains to an important genre 
>of drama (politics, adventures, soap-opera, 
>medical and police), within the television 
>production of the /era of drama/, as defined by Longworth (2000-2002).
>
>Series are being described in relation to its 
>genre, and thematic recurrences presence is 
>also analysed. Intertextuality, generic 
>hybridization, autoreferenciality and the 
>several TV eras (paleoTV, neoTV and metaTV) are also studied in this book.
>
>Anna Tous-Rovirosa is a lecturer at the Faculty 
>of Communication Sciences in the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).

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