Knots Landing

Airing on CBS for fourteen seasons (1979-93), Knots Landing was a spinoff of the popular drama Dallas,...
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Author: Nick Salvato
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Language: English
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Knots Landing by Salvato, Nick

Knots Landing

€47,27

Knots Landing

€47,27
Author: Nick Salvato
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Airing on CBS for fourteen seasons (1979-93), Knots Landing was a spinoff of the popular drama Dallas, but ultimately ran longer and took a very different tone on domestic, social, and economic issues than its predecssor. In the first full-length scholarly study of Knots Landing, Nick Salvato situates the series in its economic and industrial contexts, addresses its surprisingly progressive relationship to the American politics of its period, offers close formal interpretations of noteworthy episodes, and unpacks the pleasures of the program's sensuous surfaces.

While it has been largely overlooked in studies of 1980s television, Knots Landing nonetheless beat more masculine fare like Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law in the ratings, introduced a novel focus on middle-class lives in melodrama, and launched or revived the careers of its major stars. In this study Salvato investigates the series' place in widespread serialization of American primetime television in the early 1980s and the end of network dominance in the early 1990s, along with its unique relationship to Reaganism and glamour, on the one hand, and everydayness and suburbanization, on the other. Salvato also looks at the series in relation to key concepts such as memory, theatricality, identification, "quality" TV, and stardom.

Fans of the series as well as readers interested in popular culture, television history, representations of gender, and constructions of celebrity will find much to enjoy in this volume.



Author: Nick Salvato
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 05/01/2015
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 6.99h x 5.77w x 0.32d
ISBN: 9780814340332

About the Author
Nick Salvato is associate professor of performing and media arts at Cornell University. He is also the author of Uncloseting Drama: American Modernism and Queer Performance.

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