Television and criticism (Intellect, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Our common cultural heritage: classic novels and English television / Len Platt -- Aspects of the soap opera and other stories / Dorothy Hobson -- Shakespeare on American television and the special relationship between the UK & the USA / Curtis Breight -- Television as history: history as television / Anne Wales -- 'The story you are about to see is tru': Dragnet, film noir and postwar realism / R. Barton Palmer -- The skilled viewer / Rhona Jackson -- The culture of post-narcissism: post-teenage, pre-midlife singles culture in Seinfeld, Ally McBeal and Friends / Michael Skovmand -- Television's vanishing terms? Traditional aesthetics and television drama in the age of reality TV / Felix Thompson -- 'I've been searching my soul tonight': the Ally McBeal effect / Jill Barker