Reading 24: TV Against the Clock

Author/Artist/Editor

Steven Peacock

Type

Book, Hard Copy

Date

2007

Press/Publisher

IB Tauris

Description

Introduction : It's about Time / Steven Peacock --
Part 1. Splitting 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 --
Part 2. America under Siege : 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 --
Part 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 --
Afterword / David Lavery.

Important Notes

Signed Copy. 

Keywords

24, reading television

ISSN/ISBN

9781845113292

Availability

Available

OCLC

313436857