Reading between Designs: Visual Imagery and the Generation of Meaning in The Avengers, The Prisoner, and Doctor Who - Softcover

Britton, Piers D.

 
9780292709270: Reading between Designs: Visual Imagery and the Generation of Meaning in The Avengers, The Prisoner, and Doctor Who
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0292709277 ISBN 13: 9780292709270
Verlag: University of Texas Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

From the alien worlds of Star Trek to the realistic operating room of ER, the design of sets and costumes contributes not only to the look and mood of television shows, but even more importantly to the creation of memorable characters. Yet, until now, this crucial aspect of television creativity has received little critical attention, despite the ongoing interest in production design within the closely allied discipline of film studies. In this book, Piers Britton and Simon Barker offer a first analytical study of scenic and costume design for television drama series. They focus on three enduringly popular series of the 1960s-The Avengers, The Prisoner, and Doctor Who-and discuss such topics as the sartorial image of Steed in The Avengers, the juxtaposition of picturesque and fascistic architecture in The Prisoner, and the evolution of the high-tech interior of Doctor Who's TARDIS. Interviews with the series' original designers and reproductions of their original drawings complement the authors' analysis, which sheds new light on a variety of issues, from the discourse of fashion to that of the heritage industry, notions of "Pop" and retro, and the cultural preoccupation with realism and virtual reality.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Piers D. Britton is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California.

Simon J. Barker holds an M.A. in English from the University of Connecticut. He is currently an independent scholar of media studies in Mystic, Connecticut.

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Verlag
University of Texas Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0292709277
ISBN 13 
9780292709270
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
268
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
Niederlande

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