Tag: Ross Garner
LESS CULT, MORE QUALITY?: AUDIENCE READINGS OF PRE...
Posted by Toby | Jul 28, 2017 | Blogs, Cult TV/Sci Fi/Horror, US TV | 0
IN DEFENCE OF CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP: THE PROBLEMATIC NATURE OF WORKING CLASS NOSTALGIA by Ross Garner
Oct 27, 2017 | Blogs, Game Shows, Sitcom, Transnational TV, UK TV | 0
N.B. Before reading this blog it is worth stating that my cultish sensibilities frequently draw me...
Read MoreLESS CULT, MORE QUALITY?: AUDIENCE READINGS OF PRE-TEXTS FOR MARVEL’S INHUMANS AND ‘QUALITY-MAINSTREAM-CULT’ TV DRAMA by Ross Garner
Jul 28, 2017 | Blogs, Cult TV/Sci Fi/Horror, US TV | 0
The past weekend saw the annual San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) take place, an event which, as Lincoln...
Read MoreA TALE OF TWO POSTERS: NEGOTIATING PARATEXTUALITY AND AFFECT IN ‘OFFICIAL’ AND ‘UNOFFICIAL’ PUBLICITY FOR THE NEW TWIN PEAKS by Ross Garner
Jun 9, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Cult TV/Sci Fi/Horror, Quality TV, US TV | 0
In this blog post I want to challenge the separation of ‘official’ and ‘unofficial’ paratexts as divergent trajectories within what Jonathan Hardy (2011) has named the ‘commercial intertextuality’ of contemporary television series.
Read MoreTHE CANCELLATION OF DEFIANCE AND ‘INVISIBLE CULT TV’ by Ross Garner
Jan 14, 2016 | Blogs, Cult TV/Sci Fi/Horror, Genres, UK TV | 0
Defiance (2013-15) was an original commission science-fiction TV series which has aired on the SyFy channel in both the US and the UK. Set on Earth in the near-future after a war between humans and immigrant aliens who arrived...
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