Adventures on Prime Time

The Television Programs of Stephen J. Cannell

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Robert Thompson

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The author examines the work of Stephen J.Cannell, one of television's most prolific and successful producers. Thompson uses theories of film authorship revised for application to television texts and provides close analysis of Cannell's programs, including individual episodes of "The Rockford Files", "The A-Team" and "The Greatest American Hero". Moving away from the notion that a television series is the creation of an individual author, the book begins with a look at the televisionmaker. Thompson probes the polyauthorial nature of the medium and introduces a new method of studying television authorship. The book then turns to Cannell and a study of his career, focusing on how he developed the formula for his many highly rated television series. Students and teachers of television and television criticism should find "Adventures on Prime Time" a source of ideas about the nature of the medium.

Author Biography:

ROBERT J. THOMPSON is an Associate Professor at the State University of New York at Cortland, the Director of the Radio-TV-Film N.H.S.I summer program at Northwestern University, and an occasional visiting Professor at Cornell University. In addition to the present volume, he is the co-editor of two anthologies of essays entitled Television Studies: Textual Analysis (Praeger) and Making Television: Authorship and the Production Process (Praeger).

Release date NZ

June 22nd, 1990

Author

Robert Thompson

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Pages

160

Dimensions

152x229x12

ISBN-13

9780275933302

Product ID

10085975

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