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Television in Transition: The Life and Afterlife of the Narrative Action Hero

ISBN: 978-1-4051-8535-6
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256 pages
May 2010, ©2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgments.

Introduction: The Time and Space of Television in Transition.

1 Television in Transition.

2 The Hero.

3 How to Watch Television.

4 Highlander: The Immortal Cosmopolitan.

5 Smallville: "No Flights, No Tights": Doing Business with Superman.

6 24: In Real Time.

7 Doctor Who: Regeneration through Time and (Relative Dimensions in) Space.

Conclusion: Do We Need Another Hero?

Notes.

References.

Index.

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