Knots Landing (TV Milestones Series) by Nick Salvato PDF

By Nick Salvato

ISBN-10: 0814340334

ISBN-13: 9780814340332

Airing on CBS for fourteen seasons (1979–93), Knots Landing was once a by-product of the preferred drama Dallas, yet eventually ran longer and took a really various tone on family, social, and financial concerns than its predecssor. within the first full-length scholarly learn of Knots Landing, Nick Salvato situates the sequence in its fiscal and business contexts, addresses its strangely innovative dating to the yankee politics of its interval, bargains shut formal interpretations of noteworthy episodes, and unpacks the pleasures of the program’s sensuous surfaces.

whereas it's been principally ignored in reviews of Eighties tv, Knots Landing still beat extra masculine fare like Hill road Blues and L.A. legislation in the rankings, brought a unique concentrate on middle-class lives in melodrama, and introduced or revived the careers of its significant stars. during this learn Salvato investigates the sequence’ position in frequent serialization of yank primetime tv within the early Eighties and the top of community dominance within the early Nineteen Nineties, besides its special courting to Reaganism and glamour, at the one hand, and everydayness and suburbanization, at the different. Salvato additionally seems on the sequence when it comes to key options reminiscent of reminiscence, theatricality, identity, “quality” television, and stardom.

lovers of the sequence in addition to readers attracted to pop culture, tv heritage, representations of gender, and structures of megastar will locate a lot to get pleasure from during this volume.

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