Contemporary Quality TV

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Contemporary Quality TV is written by Saskia M. Fürst and published by LIT Verlag Münster. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3643911998 (ISBN 10) and 9783643911995 (ISBN 13).

Ever since HBO's slogan "It's Not TV, It's HBO" launched in 1996, so-called quality television has reached a new level of marketing, recognition, and indeed quality. With other networks imitating the formula, the "HBO effect" triggered a wave of creative output. This turn to quality set off two shifts: (a) Contemporary television staged an international resurgence of the auteur, and (b) America transformed into an "on-demand nation." The chapters in this volume analyze new television lifestyles including marginalized perspectives, fan participation, and an emerging nostalgia correlated with trash aesthetics.