Table of Contents

Dedication - Acknowledgements - Key to Abbreviations - Introduction - From Electronic Theatre to... Cyberspace? Technology and Televisual Form - Flexi-narrative from Hill Street to Holby City - Dislocations of Postmodernity. The Political Economy of a Culture in Transition - Signs of the Times: Heartbeat and Baywatch - TV Drama Forms: Tradition and Innovation. Gradual (un)realizations - Framing 'the Real': Oranges, Middlemarch, X-Files - The Public Stock of Harmless Pleasure: Pleasures, Meanings, Responsibilities - Radical Tec(h)s: NYPD Blue, Between the Lines, The Singing Detective - For What It's Worth. Problematics of Evaluation and Cultural Value - CODA: Twin Peaks and Our Friends in the North - References - Appendix A - Index

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