Epic / everyday

<p>An exciting new strand in The Television Series the 'Moments in Television' collections celebrate the power and artistry of television whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television scholarship.<br><br> Each 'Moments' book is organised around a provocative binary theme. <i>Epic / everyday </i>explores the presence within television of the epic and the everyday. It argues that attention to ideas of the epic and notions of the everyday can illuminate television programmes in new ways.<br><br> The book explores an eclectic range of TV fictions including <i>Game of Thrones</i> <i>Lost</i> and <i>Dr Who</i>. Contributors from diverse perspectives come together to expand and enrich the kind of close analysis most commonly found in television aesthetics. Sustained detailed programme analyses are sensitively framed within historical technological institutional cultural creative and art-historical contexts.</p>