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Something Completely Different: British Television And American Culture - Softcover

Miller, Jeffrey S.

 
9780816632411: Something Completely Different: British Television And American Culture
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816632413 ISBN 13: 9780816632411
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2000

Synopsis

The first comprehensive study of the influence British programming had on American television.

The first comprehensive study of the influence British programming had on American television.

Between Emma Peel and the Ministry of Silly Walks, British television had a significant impact on American popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s. In Something Completely Different, Jeffrey Miller offers the first comprehensive study of British programming on American television, discussing why the American networks imported such series as The Avengers and Monty Python’s Flying Circus; how American audiences received these uniquely British shows; and how the shows’ success reshaped American television.

Miller’s lively analysis covers three genres: spy shows, costume dramas, and sketch comedies. In addition to providing his close readings of the series themselves, Miller considers the networks’ packaging of the programs for American viewers and the influences that led to their acceptance, including the American television industry’s search for new advertising revenue and the creation of PBS.

Something Completely Different concludes with a discussion of the American programs and genres that owed their existence to British progenitors. Miller convincingly argues that much of what came to define American television by 1980 was in fact British in origin, a contention that casts a new light on traditional discussions of American cultural imperialism.

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208 Pages17 black-and-white photos5 7/8 x 9January

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About the Author

Jeffrey S. Miller is assistant professor of English and journalism at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

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Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0816632413
ISBN 13 
9780816632411
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272