Complexity / Simplicity

Moments in Television

Sarah Cardwell, Jonathan Bignell, Lucy Fife Donaldson

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Manchester University Press
26 April 2022

Television; Television scripts & screenplays; Television production: technical & background skills

Series: The Television Series

An exciting new strand in The Television Series, the Moments in Television collections celebrate the power and artistry of television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television scholarship.

Each 'Moments' book is organised around a provocative binary theme. Complexity / simplicity addresses the idea of complex TV, examining its potential, limitations and impact upon creative and interpretative practices. It also reassesses simplicity as an alternative criterion for evaluation. Complexity and simplicity persuasively illuminate the book's chosen programmes in new ways.

The book explores an eclectic range of TV fictions, dramatic and comedic. Contributors from diverse perspectives come together to expand and enrich the kind of close analysis most commonly found in television aesthetics. Sustained, detailed programme analyses are sensitively framed within historical, technological, institutional, cultural, creative and art-historical contexts.

Edited by: Sarah Cardwell, Jonathan Bignell, Lucy Fife Donaldson
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 16mm
ISBN: 9781526148759
ISBN 10: 1526148757
Series: The Television Series
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 26 April 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading. Sarah Cardwell is Honorary Fellow in the School of Arts at the University of Kent. Lucy Fife Donaldson is Senior Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews.