Television Aesthetics and Style

Jason Jacobs is Reader in Cultural History at the University of Queensland. He is author of The Intimate Screen (Oxford University Press, 2000) and Body Trauma TV (British Film Institute, 2003). He is currently completing a monograph on David Milch for the Manchester University Press Television Series and is the chief investigator on an Australian Research Council funded project about the history of BBC Worldwide. He has written extensively on the subject of television aesthetics.

• Introduction and Conclusion: Steven Peacock (University of Hertfordshire) and Jason Jacobs (University of Queensland). Individual Chapters (Case Studies, Close Readings), organized thematicallyGlossary

Questions of aesthetics and value in television have long been contentious . . . It is refreshing, therefore, to have a book which unashamedly asserts that television is capable of both 'aesthetics and style' . . . The book is successful in bringing into vision an important debate about the distinction of the television medium in all its multi-faceted dimensions