State of play e-bog

Robin Nelson's State of play up-dates and develops the arguments of his influential TV Drama In Transition (1997). It is equally distinctive in setting analusis of the aesethetics and compositional principles of texts within a broad conceptual framework (technologies, institutions, economics, cultural trends). Tracing "e;the great value shift from conduit to content"e; (Todreas, 1999), Nelson is relatively optimistic about the future quality of TV Drama in a global market-place. But, characteristically taking up questions of worth where others have avoided them, Nelson recognizes that certain types of "e;quality"e; are privileged for viewers able to pay, possibly at the expense of viewer preference worldwide for "e;local"e; resonances in television. The mix of arts and cultural studies methodologies makes for an unusual and insightful approach.