Television In Transition The Life And Afterlife Of The Narrative Action Hero 1st Edition Shawn Shimpach by Shawn Shimpach 9781405185356, 140518535X instant download after payment.

Combining an exciting methodology alongside high-interest case studies, Television in Transition offers students of television a guide to a medium that has weathered the challenges of first-run syndication, a multi-channel universe, netlets, major media conglomerates, deregulation, and globalization--all in the space of twenty years. Examines a return in television programming to action narratives with individual (super) heroes intended to navigate this new, international, multi-channel universeExplores how television programming "translates" to new spatial geographies: different nations, cultures, broadcast systems; and different formats, distribution outlets, and screen sizesLooks at the value of a program's "afterlife," the continued circulation, repackaging and repurposing of programming beyond its initial iterationBlends institutional and textual analyses in case studies of Highlander: The Series, Smallville, 24, and Doctor Who