Television Cities: Paris, London, Baltimore

by Charlotte Brunsdon

In Television Cities Charlotte Brunsdon traces television's representations of metropolitan spaces to show how they reflect the medium's history and evolution, thereby challenging the prevalent assumptions about television as quintessentially suburban. Brunsdon shows how the BBC's presentation of 1960s Paris in the detective series Maigret signals British culture's engagement with twentieth-century modernity and continental Europe, while...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822369206
• ISBN13: 9780822369202
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.2"