Something Completely Different: British Television and American Culture - Softcover

Miller, Jeffrey S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816632413 ISBN 13: 9780816632411

Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2000

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The first comprehensive study of the influence British programming had on American television.

The first comprehensive study of the influence British programming had on American television.

Between Emma Peel and the Ministry of Silly Walks, British television had a significant impact on American popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s. In Something Completely Different, Jeffrey Miller offers the first comprehensive study of British programming on American television, discussing why the American networks imported such series as The Avengers and Monty Python's Flying Circus; how American audiences received these uniquely British shows; and how the shows' success reshaped American television.

Miller's lively analysis covers three genres: spy shows, costume dramas, and sketch comedies. In addition to providing his close readings of the series themselves, Miller considers the networks' packaging of the programs for American viewers and the influences that led to their acceptance, including the American television industry's search for new advertising revenue and the creation of PBS.

Something Completely Different concludes with a discussion of the American programs and genres that owed their existence to British progenitors. Miller convincingly argues that much of what came to define American television by 1980 was in fact British in origin, a contention that casts a new light on traditional discussions of American cultural imperialism.

ISBN 0-8166-3240-5 Cloth £31.00 $44.95xx

ISBN 0-8166-3241-3 Paper £12.50 $17.95x

208 Pages 17 black-and-white photos 5 7/8 x 9 January

Translation inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

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Jeffrey S. Miller is assistant professor of English and journalism at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

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• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0816632413
• ISBN 13: 9780816632411
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 250
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