Transatlantic Television Drama

Michele Hilmes is Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she taught media studies for more than twenty years. Her books include Hollywood and Broadcasting: From Radio to Cable, Radio Voices: American Broadcasting 1922-1952, Network Nations: A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting, and Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States.Roberta Pearson is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham. Her books include Many More Lives of the Batman, Star Trek and American Television, Reading Lost: Perspectives on a Hit Television Show and Cult Television. Matt Hills is Professor of Media and Film at the University of Huddersfield, UK, and co-director of the Centre for Participatory Culture based there. His monographs include Fan Cultures, The Pleasures of Horror, Triumph of a Time Lord and Doctor Who: The Unfolding Event. He has published more than a hundred journals articles/ book chapters on media fandom.

• Introduction: Flying the Flag for Contemporary Transatlantic Television DramaMatt Hills, Michele Hilmes and Roberta PearsonPart One: Transatlantic Industries Section One Introduction1) Making Masterpiece Matter: The Transnational Cultural Work of America's Longest-Running Prime-Time Drama SeriesMichele Hilmes2) Traveling Without a Passport: 'Original' Streaming Content in the Transatlantic Distribution EcosystemKaren Petruska and Faye Woods3) BBC America: Cloning Drama for a Transnational NetworkChris Becker4) Branding Bridges: Sky Atlantic, 'Quality' Imports and Brand IntegrationSam WardPart Two: Transatlantic ProgramsSection Two Introduction5) Sherlock and Elementary: The Cultural and Temporal Value of High-end And Routine Transatlantic Television DramaRoberta Pearson 6) Mainstream trends and Masterpiece Traditions: ITV's Downton Abbey as a Hit Heritage Drama for Masterpiece in the USEva Redvall7) Meta-commentary and Mythology: Episodes as a Performance of Transatlantic TV Jonathan Bignell8) Boundary collisions in HBO-BBC transnational coproduction: Rome and Parade's EndRobin Nelson9) Game of Thrones: Investigating British ActingGary Cassidy and Simone KnoxPart Three: Transatlantic Fans and AudiencesSection Three Introduction10)Black Mirror as a Netflix Original: Programme Brand 'Overflow' and the Multi-Discursive Forms of Transatlantic TV FandomMatt Hills11) Contextualizing Quality US Television Programs for the UK: The Guardian's Media and Televisions Blogs and the Role of CriticsPaul Rixon12) Fans, Fezzes and Freebies: Branding British Television Series at the San Diego Comic ConLincoln Geraghty 13) From Imagined Communities to Contact Zones: American Monoculture in Transatlantic FandomsLori Hitchcock Morimoto14) Crossing Over the Atlantic: SuperWhoLock as Transnational/Transcultural Fan Text Paul BoothGlossaryIndexGlossary

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