This article seeks to build a bridge between approaches to television drama that explore form and style, and those that explore realism and representation. It proposes questions which can be applied to any television drama, and reveal meaningful distinctions. The argument is developed through comparative analysis of Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley (2014–present) and long-running British soap opera Coronation Street (1960–present)
In recent years, American television drama series have been celebrated as ‘quality television’ at th...
This short article examines the strengths and weaknesses of textual analysis as a form of interpreti...
The formal analysis of ongoing television series brings with it many challenges. And despite signifi...
This article seeks to build a bridge between approaches to television drama that explore form and st...
This paper argues that the concept of soap-opera realism, as developed in some of the recent critica...
This article responds to recent shifts in television studies and argues that those developments have...
This article analyses a recent television drama written by Sally Wainwright in order to explore noti...
This article seeks to extend the debate about evaluating television by focusing specifically on tele...
This article explores the similarities and differences between Mare of Easttown (HBO 2021) and Sally...
It was argued that the social psychology of person perception, mass communications and cultural stud...
For several decades TV scholars have noted that genre hybridity is a characteristic of ‘quality’ tel...
Viewers' interpretations of television programs must mediate the effects of viewing. These interpret...
This article works from the established assumption that narratives produced for local audiences are ...
Abstract: As time-shifting technologies and digital convergence are facilitating and encouraging inc...
The return of the crime thriller Happy Valley to BBC1 after a seven-year hiatus has been a momentous...
In recent years, American television drama series have been celebrated as ‘quality television’ at th...
This short article examines the strengths and weaknesses of textual analysis as a form of interpreti...
The formal analysis of ongoing television series brings with it many challenges. And despite signifi...
This article seeks to build a bridge between approaches to television drama that explore form and st...
This paper argues that the concept of soap-opera realism, as developed in some of the recent critica...
This article responds to recent shifts in television studies and argues that those developments have...
This article analyses a recent television drama written by Sally Wainwright in order to explore noti...
This article seeks to extend the debate about evaluating television by focusing specifically on tele...
This article explores the similarities and differences between Mare of Easttown (HBO 2021) and Sally...
It was argued that the social psychology of person perception, mass communications and cultural stud...
For several decades TV scholars have noted that genre hybridity is a characteristic of ‘quality’ tel...
Viewers' interpretations of television programs must mediate the effects of viewing. These interpret...
This article works from the established assumption that narratives produced for local audiences are ...
Abstract: As time-shifting technologies and digital convergence are facilitating and encouraging inc...
The return of the crime thriller Happy Valley to BBC1 after a seven-year hiatus has been a momentous...
In recent years, American television drama series have been celebrated as ‘quality television’ at th...
This short article examines the strengths and weaknesses of textual analysis as a form of interpreti...
The formal analysis of ongoing television series brings with it many challenges. And despite signifi...
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