TY - BOOK ID - 135436717 TI - State of play : Contemporary 'high-end' TV drama PY - 2007 SN - 1781701113 1847791824 9781847791825 9781781701119 9780719073113 0719073111 9780719073106 0719073103 PB - New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, DB - UniCat KW - TV drama. KW - aesthetics of texts. KW - cultural trends. KW - economics. KW - global market-place. KW - institutions. KW - quality. KW - television. KW - value shift. KW - viewer preference. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135436717 AB - Robin Nelson's State of play up-dates and develops the arguments of his influential TV Drama In Transition (1997). It is equally distinctive in setting analusis of the aesethetics and compositional principles of texts within a broad conceptual framework (technologies, institutions, economics, cultural trends). Tracing ""the great value shift from conduit to content"" (Todreas, 1999), Nelson is relatively optimistic about the future quality of TV Drama in a global market-place. But, characteristically taking up questions of worth where others have avoided them, Nelson recognizes that certain ty ER -