The Essential Cult TV Reader 1st Edition by David Lavery ISBN ‎ 978-0813125688 ‎ 0813125685

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ISBN 10:  ‎ 0813125685

ISBN 13: 978-0813125688  

Author: David Lavery

The Essential Cult TV Reader is a collection of insightful essays that examine television shows that amass engaged, active fan bases by employing an imaginative approach to programming. Once defined by limited viewership, cult TV has developed its own identity, with some shows gaining large, mainstream audiences. By exploring the defining characteristics of cult TV, The Essential Cult TV Reader traces the development of this once obscure form and explains how cult TV achieved its current status as legitimate television.

The essays explore a wide range of cult programs, from early shows such as Star Trek, The Avengers, Dark Shadows, and The Twilight Zone to popular contemporary shows such as Lost, Dexter, and 24, addressing the cultural context that allowed the development of the phenomenon. The contributors investigate the obligations of cult series to their fans, the relationship of camp and cult, the effects of DVD releases and the Internet, and the globalization of cult TV. The Essential Cult TV Reader answers many of the questions surrounding the form while revealing emerging debates on its future.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction: How Cult TV Became Mainstream

2. Absolutely Fabulous

3. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

4. Alias

5. Angel

6. The Avengers

7. Battlestar Galactica

8. Blake’s 7

9. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

10. The Comeback

11. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report

12. Dark Shadows

13. Dexter

14. Doctor Who

15. Farscape

16. Firefly

17. Freaks and Geeks

18. Heroes

19. The League of Gentlemen

20. Life on Mars

21. Lost

1. Miami Vice

2. Monty Python’s Flying Circus

3. My So-Called Life

4. Mystery Science Theater 3000

5. The Prisoner

6. Quantum Leap

7. Red Dwarf

8. Roswell

9. The Simpsons

10. South Park

11. Stargate SG-1

12. The Star Trek Franchise

13. Supernatural

14. This Life

15. Torchwood

16. 24

17. The Twilight Zone

18. Twin Peaks

19. Ultraviolet

20. Veronica Mars

21. Wonderfalls

22. Xena: Warrior Princess

23. The X-Files

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