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    Reading 24 : TV against the clock / edited by Steven Peacock.

    • Title:Reading 24 : TV against the clock / edited by Steven Peacock.
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    • Variant Title:Reading twenty-four
      Reading 24, television against the clock
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Peacock, Steven.
    • Published/Created:London [England] ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : In the U.S. and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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    • Subject(s):24 (Television program)
    • Description:xiii, 240 p. ; 22 cm.
    • Series:Reading contemporary television.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-232) and indexes.
    • ISBN:1845113292 (pbk.)
      9781845113292 (pbk.)
    • Contents:Introduction : it's about time / Steven Peacock
      Pt. 1. Spitting the screen : rewriting television conventions
      1. 24 and twenty-first century quality television / Daniel Chamberlain and Scott Ruston
      2. 24 : status and style / Steven Peacock
      3. Divided interests : split-screen aesthetics in 24 / Michael Allen
      4. Reasons to split up : interactivity, realism and the multiple-image screens in 24 / Deborah Jermyn
      5. Interesting times : the demands 24's real-time format makes on its audience / Jacqueline Furby
      Pt. 2. America under sieges : terrorism, globalisation and the politics of (American) morality
      6. 'So what are you saying? : an oil consortium's behind the nuke?' : 24, programme sponsorship, SUVs, and the 'war on terror' / Paul Woolf
      7. Days and hours of the Apocalypse : 24 and the nuclear narrative / Daniel Herbert
      8. 24 after 9/11 : the American state of exception / Anne Caldwell and Samuel A. Chambers
      9. Just-in-time security : permanent exceptions and neoliberal orders / Torin Monahan
      10. 'Tell me where the bomb is or I will kill your son' : situational morality on 24 / Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan
      11. 'You're going to tell me everything you know' : torture and morality in Fox's 24 / Douglas L. Howard
      Pt. 3. Unmasking identities : sexuality, difference, culture
      12. Damsels in distress : female narrative authority and knowledge in 24 / Janet McCabe
      13. Father knows best? : the post-feminist male and parenting in 24 / Joke Hermes
      14. Techno-soap : 24, masculinity and hybrid forms / Tara McPherson
      15. 'She may be a little weird' : Chloe O'Brian / Paul Delany
      16. 24 and post-national American identities / Christopher Gair.
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