9780719086298-0719086299-Paul Abbott (The Television Series)

Paul Abbott (The Television Series)

ISBN-13: 9780719086298
ISBN-10: 0719086299
Edition: 1
Author: Beth Johnson
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardcover 192 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780719086298
ISBN-10: 0719086299
Edition: 1
Author: Beth Johnson
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardcover 192 pages

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Paul Abbott (The Television Series) (ISBN-13: 9780719086298 and ISBN-10: 0719086299), written by authors Beth Johnson, was published by Manchester University Press in 2013. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Paul Abbott (The Television Series) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Creator of television series such as Shameless, Clocking Off, State of Play, Reckless, Linda Green and Children's Ward, Paul Abbott is a British producer and writer whose name and reputation for edgy, intelligent, successful and socio-political programmes holds significant weight in the
contemporary television industry and with the public. This is the first book-length academic study of the television programmes created, written by, and/or executive-produced, by Abbott. It is also the first academic study to attempt to consider his complete oeuvre. Within a broadly chronological
structure this volume elucidates, decodes and evaluates key examples of Abbott's output, exhibiting a vital evaluation of Abbott's work over the past three decades and assessing his contribution to British television.

Primarily, the volume presents an aesthetic analysis of televisual case studies. The case studies explore the technicity or 'grammar' of the televisual, including: colour, sound, diegetic and non-diegetic music, point of view, shot size, shot length, dialogue, the creation of space and place,
on-location shooting, temporality, televisual narrative, performance and mise-en-scène. The disclosures of the close textual analysis are to be associated with a range of thematic, stylistic and representational motifs across the range of Abbott's work, thereby inaugurating discussions based upon
the 'authorial voice', definitions of 'quality' television and the negotiation of generic boundaries. Engaging with thematic and ideological notions of the personal, the autobiographical, the honest, the shameless, the pleasurable and the painful recourse of the specificity of 'ordinary life', the
volume seeks to combine close textual analysis of Abbott's work with archival research and specially commissioned interviews with Abbott and other important industry practitioners.

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