Popular television drama: critical perspectives

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Editors' introduction - Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey Part I Editors' introduction: The boundaries of genre the sitcom - Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey 1. 'Our usual impasse': The episodic situation comedy revisited - Barry Langford 2. Remembering 'Butterflies': The comic art of housework - Julia Hallam 3. They do 'like it up 'em': 'Dad's Army' and myths of old England - Robin Nelson Part II Editors' introduction: Quality and the 'other' drama - Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey 4. Space for 'quality': Negotiating with the Daleks - Jonathan Bignell 5. This is the modern world: 'The Prisoner', authorship, allegory - Mark Bould 6. Can kinky sex be politically correct? 'Queer As Folk' and the geo-ideological inscription of gay sexuality - Peter Billingham 7. 'Just that kids' thing': The politics of 'Crazyspace', children's television and the case of 'The Demon Headmaster' - Maire Messenger Davies Part III Editors' introduction: Revisiting the familiar - Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey 8. Haunted houses, hidden rooms: women, domesticity and the female Gothic adaptation on television - Helen Wheatley 9. BBC Drama at the margins: The contrasting fortunes of Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh TV drama in the nineties - Steve Blandford 10. The new social realism of 'Clocking Off' - Lez Cooke 11. Becoming popular: Some reflections on the relationship between television and theatre - Stephen Lacey Afterword

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