British Science Fiction Television

A Hitchhiker's Guide

Popular TV Genres

John R. Cook and Peter Wright

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From Doctor Who to Red Dwarf, Thunderbirds to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, some of the most memorable and cherished British television has been in the area of science fiction.This pioneering book, by leading writers in TV history and science fiction, offers for the first time a detailed national survey of this most well-loved of TV genres and provides in-depth reassessments of these shows, as well as others including Threads, Sapphire and Steel, Invasion: Earth and The Last Train. The volume argues that British science fiction television, too often in the past critically derided for the quality of its special effects compared to American equivalents such as Star Trek--deserves to be taken seriously as a legitimate object of cultural analysis, both in terms of its ambition and ideas and its value in illuminating wider aspects of recent social and cultural history. The book also features a contribution from an acclaimed biographer of the late Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as well as an exclusive published interview with Thunderbirds creator and producer Gerry Anderson.

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Dfordoom  rated it  
Jun 23, 2008
British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker’s Guide, edited by John R. Cook and Peter Wright, is part of the Popular Television Genres series. It covers most of the better-known series from the 1950s to today, although I was a little surprised to find no mention at all of Ultraviolet. Some of ...more
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John R. Cook and Peter Wright

John R. Cook is Senior Lecturer in Mass Media at Glasgow Caledonian University and the author of Dennis Potter: A Life on Screen (1995; 1998). Peter Wright is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Film Studies at Edge Hill College of Higher Education and the author of Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader (2003).

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British Science Fiction Television
A Hitchhiker's Guide
Popular TV Genres
John R. Cook and Peter Wright

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I. B. Tauris
I.B. Tauris
January 2006
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ISBN: 9781845110482
ISBN10: 184511048X
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 256 pages, 16 b/w photos
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January 2006
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