[Commlist] New Book: Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics: Recycling Middlebrow Culture

New book///Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics: Recycling 
Middlebrow Culture/, published by EUP.

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-action-tv-reboots-and-visibility-politics.html 


Examines the cultural politics of the contemporary American action TV 
re-boot

  * A theorisation of middlebrow television
  * A conceptualisation of visibility politics as a visual signifier of
    social change rather than it narrativization
  * A focus on contemporary middlebrow reboots
  * A theorization of the ‘gender and race swap

/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 focuses 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.


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