Action Tv: Tough-Guys, Smooth Operators and Foxy Chicks

ISBN-13: 9780415226202 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 272 str.

Bill Osgerby; Anna Gough-Yates

Opis

From re-runs of 'TV classics' like The Avengers or Starsky and Hutch, to soundtracks, club nights and film remakes such as Mission Impossible II, the action series is enjoying a popular revival. Yet little attention has been paid to the history, nature and enduring appeal of the action series, and its place in popular culture, past and present.
Action TV traces the development of the action series from its genesis in the 1950s. From The Saint to Knigh t Rider, contributors explore the key shows which defined the genre, addressing issues of audiences and consumption, gender and sexuality, fashion and popular culture. They examine the institutional and cultural factors influencing the action series, and relate shifts in the genre to other forms of popular culture including film, pop music, fashion and popular literature.
Chapters include:
* Of leather suits and kinky boots: The Avengers, style and popular culture
* 'Who loves ya, baby?': Kojak, action and the great society
*'A lone crusader in a dangerous world': heroics of science and technology in Knight Rider
* Angels in chains? feminism, femininity and consumer culture in Charlie's Angels
* 'Who's the cat that won't cop out?' Black masculinity in American action shows of the sixties and seventies

Spis treści

Introduction, Bill Osgerby, Anna Gough-Yates; Part I Situating the Action TV Series; Chapter 1 The Business of Action, Bill Osgerby, Anna Gough-Yates, Merianne Wells; Chapter 2 ‘So You’re the Famous Simon Templar’, Bill Osgerby; Chapter 3 ‘Who Loves Ya, Baby?’, Paul Cobley; Chapter 4 ‘A Lone Crusader in the Dangerous World’, Nickianne Moody; Part II Representation and Cultural Politics in the Action TV Series; Chapter 5 Angels in Chains?, Anna Gough-Yates; Chapter 6 ‘Who’s the Cat that Won’t Cop Out?’, Elaine Pennicott; Chapter 7 Kung Fu, Yvonne Tasker; Chapter 8 ‘Drop Everything … Including your Pants!’, Leon Hunt; Part III Audiences Reading and Re-Reading the Action TV Series; Chapter 9 The Games we Play(ed), Martin Pumphrey; Chapter 10 The Persuaders!, Joke Hermes; Chapter 11 King and Queen, Andy Medhurst; Part IV The Cultural Circulation of the Action TV Series; Chapter 12 TV Gets Jazzed, Elizabeth Withey; Chapter 13 The Comics Connection, Roger Sabin; Chapter 14 Of Leather Suits and Kinky Boots, Marc O’Day; Chapter 15 The Sixties in the Nineties, John Storey;

O autorze

Bill Osgerby is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of North London. He is the author of Youth in Britain Since 1945 (1998) and Playboys in Paradise: Masculinity, Youth and the Rise of American Leisure-Style., Anna Gough-Yates lectures in the Sociology of Culture and Communication at Brunel University. She is the author of Understanding Women's Magazines (Routledge 2001).