Complexity / Simplicity: Moments in Television
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Complexity / Simplicity: Moments in Television
By (Author) Sarah Cardwell
Edited by Jonathan Bignell
Edited by Lucy Fife Donaldson
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
26th April 2022
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Television screenplays, scripts and performances
Television production: technical and background skills
791.456
Physical Properties
Hardback
280
Width 138mm, Height 216mm, Spine 16mm
Description
An exciting new strand in The Television Series, the Moments in Television collections celebrate the power and artistry of television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television scholarship.
Each Moments book is organised around a provocative binary theme. Complexity / simplicity addresses the idea of complex TV, examining its potential, limitations and impact upon creative and interpretative practices. It also reassesses simplicity as an alternative criterion for evaluation. Complexity and simplicity persuasively illuminate the books chosen programmes in new ways.
The book explores an eclectic range of TV fictions, dramatic and comedic. Contributors from diverse perspectives come together to expand and enrich the kind of close analysis most commonly found in television aesthetics. Sustained, detailed programme analyses are sensitively framed within historical, technological, institutional, cultural, creative and art-historical contexts.
Author Bio
Sarah Cardwell is Honorary Fellow in the School of Arts at the University of Kent
Jonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading
Lucy Fife Donaldson is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews
