Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction What Is Cinematic TV?
Chapter 1 "How about . . . We Watch a Scary Movie Together": Paying
Tribute
Chapter 2 "You See Everything": Evoking Cinema
Chapter 3 "You're Nobody's Mommy": Overlapping Genres
Chapter 4 "This Isn't Some TV Show, Okay?": Mocking Cinema
Epilogue What Do TV Critics Dream about?
Notes
Index
Rashna Wadia Richards is Associate Professor and T. K. Young Chair of English at Rhodes College. She is the author of Cinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood (2013) and co-editor of For the Love of Cinema: Teaching Our Passion in and Outside the Classroom (2017).
"Rashna Wadia Richards makes such a lively, resourceful, and
compelling case for the remarkably complex and varied relations
between contemporary television series and the cinema that you may
never want to set foot in a movie theater again." -- Thomas Leitch,
author of The History of American Literature on Film
"The word 'cinematic' has been widely used to describe post-network
dramatic television, and yet until recently, the term has been used
with little conceptual rigor. Rashna Richards addresses this
problem head-on, developing a sophisticated theory of
intertextuality to argue that the cinematic in today's serial
dramas operates via (often unintentional) echoes and reverberations
from the cinema's archives. Richards then provides nuanced readings
of the eruptions
of the cinematic in Mad Men, Dear White People, and a number of
other series. The cinematic connections she finds are as surprising
as they are enlightening." -- Angelo Restivo, author of
"Breaking
Bad" and Cinematic Television
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