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British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker's Guide (Popular TV Genres)
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ISBN
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9781845110482
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Publisher
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I. B. Tauris
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Subject
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Film, Tv & Radio
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Binding
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PAPERBACK
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Pages
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256
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Year
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2005
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Description
From Doctor Who to Red Dwarf, Thunderbirds to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, some of the most memorable and cherished British television has been in the area of science fiction.This pioneering book, by leading writers in TV history and science fiction, offers for the first time a detailed national survey of this most well-loved of TV genres and provides in-depth reassessments of these shows, as well as others including Threads, Sapphire and Steel, Invasion: Earth and The Last Train. The volume argues that British science fiction television, too often in the past critically derided for the quality of its special effects compared to American equivalents such as Star Trek--deserves to be taken seriously as a legitimate object of cultural analysis, both in terms of its ambition and ideas and its value in illuminating wider aspects of recent social and cultural history. The book also features a contribution from an acclaimed biographer of the late Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as well as an exclusive published interview with Thunderbirds creator and producer Gerry Anderson.
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Author Biography
John R. Cook is Senior Lecturer in Mass Media at Glasgow Caledonian University and the author of Dennis Potter: A Life on Screen (1995; 1998).xA0;Peter Wright is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Film Studies at Edge Hill College of Higher Education and the author of Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader (2003).
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