Szalay Michael - Second Lives Black - Market Melodramas And The Reinvention Of Television - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A history of prestige television through the rise of the black - market melodrama. In Second Lives Michael Szalay defines a new television genre that has driven the breathtaking ascent of TV as a cultural force over the last two decades: the black - market melodrama. Exemplified by the likes of The Sopranos and Breaking Bad the genre moves between a family's everyday life and its secret second life which may involve illegal business espionage or even an alternate reality. Second lives allow characters (and audiences) to escape what feels like endless work into a revanchist vision of the white middle class family. But there is for this grimly resigned genre no meaningful way back to the Fordist family wage for which it longs. In fact Szalay argues black - market melodramas lament the very economic transformations that untethered TV viewing from the daily rhythms of the nine - to - five job and led ultimately to prestige TV.
Title: Second Lives Black - Market Melodramas And The Reinvention Of Television
Author(s): Szalay Michael
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226824802
Pages: 288 Pages, 50 Halftones
Publication Date: 3/22/2023
Category: Television