Truth and Consequences: Game Shows in Fiction and Film

by Mike Miley

Book Overview

Although nearly every other television form or genre has undergone a massive critical and popular reassessment or resurgence in the past twenty years, the game show's reputation has remained both remarkably stagnant and remarkably low. Scholarship on game shows concerns itself primarily with the history and aesthetics of the form, and few works assess the influence the format has had on American society or how the aesthetics and rhythms of contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149682539X
• ISBN13: 9781496825391
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"