"Prestige Television explores how a growing array of 21st century US programming is produced and received in ways that elevate select series above the competition in a saturated market. Contributing authors demonstrate that these shows are positioned andunderstood as comprising an increasingly recognizable genre characterized by familiar markers of distinction. In contrast to most accounts of elite categorizations of contemporary US television programming that center on HBO and its primary streaming rivals, these essays examine how efforts to imbue series with prestigious or elevated status now permeate the rest of the medium, including network as well as basic and undervalued premium cable channels. Case study chapters focusing on diverse series, ranging from widely recognized examples such as The Americans (2013-2018) and The Knick (2014-15) to contested examples like Queen of the South (2016-2021) and How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014), highlight how contributing authors extend conceptions of the genre beyond expected parameters"--
Prestige Television explores how an array of 21st century US programming is produced and received in ways that elevate select series above the competition in a saturated market. Essays focusing on diverse series, ranging from widely recognized constituents such as The Americans to contested examples like Queen of the South highlight how contributing authors extend conceptions of the genre beyond expected parameters.
Prestige Television explores how a growing array of 21st century US programming is produced and received in ways that elevate select series above the competition in a saturated market. Contributing authors demonstrate that these shows are positioned and understood as comprising an increasingly recognizable genre characterized by familiar markers of distinction. In contrast to most accounts of elite categorizations of contemporary US television programming that center on HBO and its primary streaming rivals, these essays examine how efforts to imbue series with prestigious or elevated status now permeate the rest of the medium, including network as well as basic and undervalued premium cable channels. Case study chapters focusing on diverse series, ranging from widely recognized examples such as The Americans (2013-2018) and The Knick (2014-15) to contested examples like Queen of the South (2016-2021) and How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014), highlight how contributing authors extend conceptions of the genre beyond expected parameters.
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Seth Friedman and Amanda Keeler prompt us to rethink conventional wisdom about 'Quality TV' and explore a rich terrain that combines TV industry strategies and textual expressions. The book makes a wonderful contribution to the study of recent and contemporary television and its shifting cultural status. - Michael Z. Newman (Professor of English and Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Closely examining the ways in which industrial, textual, paratextual, and contextual factors have shaped the category of prestige television programming in the 21st century, Seth Friedman and Amanda Keeler invite us to ponder if prestige television should perhaps be recognized as a new genre. This rich and timely volume is a must read for scholars, students, and TV fans alike. - Yeidy Rivero (author of Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960)
Introduction
SETH FRIEDMAN AND AMANDA KEELER
Part I The Fringes of Prestige TV: Genre and Markers of Distinction
1 Spies Like Us: Genre Mixing, Brand Building, and Reagans 1980s in The
Americans
DAVID R. COON
2 Disrupting the Pattern of Prestige TV: Fringe
AMANDA KEELER
3 But Is It Star Trek?: Prestige, Fandom, and the Return of Star Trek to
Television
MURRAY LEEDER
4 Negotiating Prestige on The CW: Is Roswell, New Mexico Another Show about
Teenagers Getting F-cked Up and Having Sex or a Sophisticated Exploration of
Racial and Gender Politics?
CATHERINE MARTIN
Part II How Contemporary Programming Met Prestige TV: Unconventional
Depictions of Cultural and Televisual Norms
5 Prestige Adaptation by Design: The Commercial Appeal of Latinx Tropes in
Queen of the South
JAVIER RAMIREZ
6 Tell Them We Are Gone: Imperial Narratives, Indigenous Perspectives, and
Prestige in The Terror
JUSTIN O. RAWLINS
7 Prestige Comedy: Contemporary Sitcom Narrative and Complexity in How I Met
Your Mother
ANDRE W J. BOTTOMLEY
Part III Top of the Media Hierarchy: Cinematization and Televisions
Elevation
8 Running The Knick Show: Transfusing Steven Soderberghs Authorial Persona
into the Prestige Medical Series
SETH FRIEDMAN
9 Legitimating Top of the Lake: Jane Campion, the Film Fest, and the
Miniseries
W. D. PHILLIPS
10 Specters of Serling: Authorship, Television History, and Inherited
Prestige in The Twilight Zone (20192020)
JOSIE TORRES BARTH
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
SETH FRIEDMAN is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Theatre at DePauw University. He is the author of Are You Watching Closely?: Cultural Paranoia, New Technologies, and the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection Film.
AMANDA KEELER is an associate professor of Digital Media in the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University.
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