[Commlist] New book: Television Rewired

We would like to announce a recent publication from the University of 
Texas Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Television Rewired***

The Rise of the Auteur Series

*Martha P. Nochimson***

*_http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/television-rewired-0_**__*

"This book is clearly a labor of love and a polemic that deploys 
rhetoric, interviews, and textual evidence to hammer away at the norms 
of US series television as they have been developed since the 1950s as 
well as to promote the claims of key 'auteurs.' Its challenge to 
prevailing views of some contemporary US television deserves 
attention."*—Christine Geraghty, University of Glasgow, coeditor /of The 
Television Studies Book/*

"Martha Nochimson has written an excellent book about the evolution of 
the American television series as a serious and significant site of art 
in the contemporary world. She expands our understanding of it by 
focusing on the auteurs behind this art, amplified by the copious 
presence of the personal interviews she conducted."*—Martin Shuster, 
Goucher College, author of New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics 
of a Genre**__*

In 1990, American television experienced a seismic shift when Twin Peaks 
premiered, eschewing formulaic plots and clear lines between heroes and 
villains. This game-changing series inspired a generation of show 
creators to experiment artistically, transforming the small screen in 
ways that endure to this day.*__*

Focusing on six shows (/Twin Peaks/, with a critical analysis of both 
the original series and the 2017 return; /The Wire; Treme; The Sopranos; 
Mad Men/; and /Girls/), /Television Rewired/ explores what made these 
programs so extraordinary. As their writers and producers fought against 
canned plots and moral simplicity, they participated in the evolution of 
the exhilarating new auteur television while underscoring the fact that 
art and entertainment don't have to be mutually exclusive. Nochimson 
also makes provocative distinctions between true auteur television and 
shows that were inspired by the freedom of the auteur series but 
nonetheless remained entrenched within the parameters of formula. 
Providing opportunities for vigorous discussion, /Television Rewired/ 
will stimulate debates about which of the new television series since 
1990 constitute “art” and which are tweaked “business-driven storytelling.”

**

*Martha P. Nochimson*is the author of eight previous books about film 
and television, including /David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost 
Highway to Inland Empire, World on Film/, and /Dying to Belong: Gangster 
Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong./ She is currently teaching a course 
on Lynch’s oeuvre at the David Lynch Graduate School of Cinematic Arts.*__*


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