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9780708323601

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Life on Mars: From Manchester to New York is the first full account of this ground-breaking television drama, and uses textual analysis and cultural and contextual critique to explore the popular and critical success of the original UK series and the US remake.

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University of Wales Press

Date de parution

15 mars 2012

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780708323601

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English

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1 Mo

Contemporary Landmark Television

Life on Mars From Manchester to New York

Edited by Stephen Lacey and Ruth McElroy

University of Wales Press

CONTEMPORARY LANDMARK TELEVISION LIFE ON MARS

Series editors Professor Steve Blandford (University of Glamorgan) Professor Stephen Lacey (University of Glamorgan) Professor Ruth McElroy (University of Glamorgan)

CONTEMPORARY LANDMARK TELEVISION

LIFE ON MARS FROM MANCHESTER TO NEW YORK

Edited by Stephen Lacey and Ruth McElroy

U N I V E R S I T Y O F W A L E S P R E S S C A R D I F F 2 0 1 2

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publica-tion should be addressed to the University of Wales Press, 10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff CF10 4UP.

www.uwp.co.uk

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-0-7083-2359-5 e-ISBN 978-0-7083-2360-1

The right of the contributors to be identiﬁed as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Designed and typeset by Chris Bell Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire

CONTENTS

Series Editors’ Preface

Notes on Contributors

Introduction Stephen Lacey and Ruth McElroy

Part IQuality TVForm and Aesthetics

1Life on MarsHybridity and Innovation in a British Television Context Robin Nelson

2I Mad, in a Coma or Back in Time?’ ‘Am Generic and Narrative Complexity inLife on Mars Nichola Dobson

3 Immersion versus Alienation Listening toLife on Mars Rob Smith

Part IIContesting the Past Television and History

4Memory Banks Failing! Life on Marsand the Politics of Re-imagining the Police and the Seventies Andy Willis

5Sam Tyler and the ‘New North’ John Curzon

6Daydreams’ ‘Moonage Nostalgia and Cultural Memory Contexts ofLife on Mars andAshes to Ashes John R. Cook and Mary Irwin

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Part IIIRecalling the Past Television as Memory

7‘Up The Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire’ Time Travel, Childhood and the Uncanny Home in Life on MarsandAshes to Ashes Peter Hughes Jachimiak

8The Medium is the Monster . . . or the World? Discourses of Uncanny ‘Old Media’ and Immersive ‘New Media’ inLife on Mars Matt Hills

9Consuming Retrosexualities The Past Live On Screen, Online Now Ruth McElroy

PartIVLife on Marsas International Television

10‘American Remake – Shudder’ Online Debates aboutLife on Marsand ‘British-ness’ Brett Mills

11The Emigration ofLife on Mars Sam and Gene Do America David Lavery

12Locating Generational and Cultural Clashes in the Transfer of Successful Formats between the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States The Case ofLife on Mars Joseba Bonaut and Teresa Ojer

Part V Debating Production

13Julie Gardner and Claire Parker In Conversation

Life on MarsandAshes to Ashes Production and Transmission Details

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SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE

HERE IS NO DOUBTthat the landscape of broadcasting has been trans-theTInternet), the internationalisation of television formats and programmes, formed in recent years, and the pace of change shows no sign of slow-ing. Technological change (satellite and digital television, the rise of the availability of the DVD box sets, new technologies for recording and time-shifting viewing, the proliferation of TV channels and the segmentation of the TV audience – these have all ensured that television, once dubbed ‘ephem-eral’, is now a major cultural commodity in a global marketplace. The disci-pline of television studies, although a relative newcomer to the ﬁeld of cultural and media studies, has grown conﬁdent in its ability to confront and debate the challenges that the new ecology of broadcasting poses. Contemporary Landmark Television focuses on one corner of the wider picture in recognition of its continuing signiﬁcance for both home and over-seas audiences. The series offers scholars and lecturers timely investigations of current broadcasting, especially in the UK context, through a focus upon television’s prime output: programmes. By being responsive to the contem-porary television landscape, the series recognises that television scholarship beneﬁts from engaging with the current viewing experience of scholars and students. For us, one of the enduring values of television as a mass medium lies in its contemporaneity with its audience: television exists in the moment – even when that ‘moment’ is lengthened by new technologies of recording and distribution – and in so doing, enjoys a privileged position as a creative source of artistic and social intervention in the world of its viewers. The choice to engage with programmes themselves is recognition of the turn towards television aesthetics in recent scholarship, and of the now-contentious nature of some of the accepted categories. The term ‘landmark’ is used cautiously in the series title to denote programmes that may be sig-niﬁcant to a variety of people – audiences, critics, programme makers – in a number of contexts. However, we recognise that landmark, and its syno-nyms such as ‘classic’ or ‘quality’, cannot be assumed but must be debated,

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and a reﬂection on key terms is an important aspect of the series’ approach. Also, broadcasters such as the BBC and Channel 4 in the UK have sought to meet the challenge of digitalisation by exploiting online programme assem-blages (the chat room, forum, and programme games and quizzes), and these have become staples of British television drama, in the process signiﬁcantly extending our understanding of what constitutes a television programme. Therefore, an important emphasis of the series is the treatment of individual programmes or series ‘in the round’ – in their production and reception con-texts, and where relevant in their different iterations. It also draws on, where possible, the perspectives of practitioners and television professionals them-selves. Programmes – even long-running series – exist in a wider context of other programmes, and the series will occasionally consider clusters of pro-grammes linked by a common theme. Although aimed primarily at students and scholars of television, Con-temporary Landmark Television intends to be accessible to the general reader with an interest in how television programmes have been commissioned,produced, debated and enjoyed, as well as to professional broadcasters.Whoever the reader, we hope that he or she will be both stimulated and chal-lenged by the experience.

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