Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 240 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857716085
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1441600205
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1845113292
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9781441600202
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9781845113292
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9780857716088
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9780755695966
Series Statement:
Reading contemporary television
Content:
Introduction : It's about Time / Steven Peacock -- Part 1. Splitting the Screen : Rewriting Television Conventions -- 1. 24 and Twenty-First Century Quality Television / Daniel Chamberlain and Scott Ruston -- 2. 24 : Status and Style / Steven Peacock -- 3. Divided Interests : Split-Screen Aesthetics in 24 / Michael Allen -- 4. Reasons to Split up : Interactivity, Realism and the Multiple-Image Screens in 24 / Deborah Jermyn -- 5. Interesting Times : The Demands 24's Real-Time Format Makes on its Audience / Jacqueline Furby -- Part 2. America under Siege : Terrorism, Globalisation and the Politics of (American) Morality -- 6. "So what are you saying? : An oil consortium's behind the nuke?" : 24, Programme Sponsorship, SUVs, and the "War on Terror" / Paul Woolf -- 7. Days and Hours of the Apocalypse : 24 and the Nuclear Narrative / Daniel Herbert -- 8. 24 after 9/11 : The American State of Exception / Anne Caldwell and Samuel A. Chambers -- 9. Just-in-Time Security : Permanent Exceptions and Neoliberal Orders / Torin Monahan -- 10. "Tell me where the bomb is or I will kill your son" : Situational Morality on 24 / Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan -- 11. "You're going to tell me everything you know" : Torture and Morality in Fox's 24 / Douglas L. Howard -- Part 3. Unmasking Identities : Sexuality, Difference, Culture -- 12. Damsels in Distress : Female Narrative Authority and Knowledge in 24 / Janet McCabe -- 13. Father Knows Best? : The Post-Feminist Male and Parenting in 24 / Joke Hermes -- 14. Techno-Soap : 24, Masculinity and Hybrid Forms / Tara McPherson -- 15. "She may be a little weird" : Chloe O'Brian / Paul Delany -- 16. 24 and Post-National American Identities / Christopher Gair -- Afterword / David Lavery.
Content:
When "24" exploded onto TV screens in 2001, "Time" magazine called it one of the 'Best Television Events of the Decade'. "24" has gone on to establish itself as groundbreaking and controversial entertainment that has changed the face of television. Each season of "24" traces the events of a single day in the life of CTU Field Agent Jack Bauer. Racing against the clock, Bauer battles assassination attempts, germ warfare and terrorist factions to 'save the day'
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index -- Filmography: (pages 217-219)
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845113292
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1845113292
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reading 24 London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, ©2007 ISBN 9781845113292
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1845113292
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755695966
