The Aesthetics of Television : Genre, Auteur, Canon
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Giles, Paul David. (2024). The Aesthetics of Television : Genre, Auteur, Canon. In In Worthy, Blythe and Sheehan, Paul (Ed.). Adapting Television and Literature pp. 21 Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50832-5_2
Authors | Giles, Paul David |
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Editors | Worthy, Blythe and Sheehan, Paul |
Abstract | This introductory chapter outlines the long—(er) history of the television art-form—the problems that it has presented for serious scholarship; the critical emphasis on its sociological, rather than aesthetic, attributes; and the fraught question of canon formation, when applied to what was initially understood as a ‘medium’ designed to sell household products. Reworking those literary-based terms, canon and auteur, Giles proffers a judicious account of an era when British, not American television was considered to be the measure of literary-inflected television, which many saw as taking up literature’s ‘formal and thematic interpretants’ (Venuti, 2007). He takes as his case study the classic English comedy, Fawlty Towers, to argue that it is the ‘television of cruelty’ that has fed most distinctively into the experimental poetics of twenty-first-century comedy, tracing adaptation studies’ ‘non-canonical’ (Leitch, 2017) background alongside television’s adaptation of the literary canon. |
Keywords | television; media studies; criticism; Fawlty Towers; comedy; canon; screen studies |
Page range | 21 |
41 | |
Year | 01 Jan 2024 |
Book title | Adapting Television and Literature |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature) |
Place of publication | Switzerland |
Edition | 1 |
Series | Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture |
ISBN | 978-3-031-50831-8 |
ISSN | 2634-629X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50832-5_2 |
Web address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-50832-5_2 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Supplemental file | File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
25 Apr 2024 | |
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Deposited | 07 Nov 2024 |
Additional information | © 2024 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/91082/the-aesthetics-of-television-genre-auteur-canon
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