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Action TV : tough-guys, smooth operators and foxy chicks / edited by Bill Osgerby and Anna Gough-Yates.

Contributor(s): Gough-Yates, Anna, 1968- | Osgerby, Bill.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001Description: xi, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0415226201.Subject(s): Action and adventure television programs -- History and criticism | Action and adventure television programsDDC classification: 791.456
Contents:
List of figures. - List of contributors. - Acknowledgements. - Introduction: Getting into gear with the action TV series / Bill Osgerby And Anna Gough-Yates. - Pt. I. Situating the action TV series. 1. The business of action: television history and the development of the action TV series / Bill Osgerby, Anna Gough-Yates And Marianne Wells. 2. 'So you're the famous Simon Templar': The Saint, masculinity and consumption in the early 1960s / Bill Osgerby. 3. 'Who loves ya, baby?: Kojak, action and the great society / Paul Cobley. 4. 'A lone crusader in the dangerous world': heroics of science and technology in Knight Rider / Nickianne Moody. - Pt. II. Representation and cultural politics in the action TV series. 5. Angels in chains? Feminism, femininity and consumer culture in Charlie's Angels / Anna Gough-Yates. 6. 'Who's the cat that won't cop out?' : Black masculinity in American action series of the sixties and seventies / Elaine Pennicott. 7. Kung Fu: re-orienting the television Western / Yvonne Tasker. 8. 'Drop everything ... including your pants!' : The Professionals and 'hard' action TV / Leon Hunt. - Pt. III. Audiences reading and re-reading the action TV series. 9. The games we play(ed) : TV Westerns, memory and masculinity / Martin Pumphrey. 10. The Persuaders! A girl's best friends / Joke Hermes. 11. King and queen: interpreting sexual identity in / Jason King Andy Medhurst. - Pt. IV. The cultural circulation of the action TV series. 12. TV gets jazzed : the evolution of action TV theme music / Elizabeth Withey. 13. The comics connection: low culture meets even lower culture / Roger Sabin. 14. Of leather suits and kinky boots: The Avengers, style and popular culture / Marc O'Day. 15. The sixties in the nineties : pastiche or hyperconsciousness? / John Storey. - Index.
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge.

Includes index.

List of figures. - List of contributors. - Acknowledgements. - Introduction: Getting into gear with the action TV series / Bill Osgerby And Anna Gough-Yates. - Pt. I. Situating the action TV series. 1. The business of action: television history and the development of the action TV series / Bill Osgerby, Anna Gough-Yates And Marianne Wells. 2. 'So you're the famous Simon Templar': The Saint, masculinity and consumption in the early 1960s / Bill Osgerby. 3. 'Who loves ya, baby?: Kojak, action and the great society / Paul Cobley. 4. 'A lone crusader in the dangerous world': heroics of science and technology in Knight Rider / Nickianne Moody. - Pt. II. Representation and cultural politics in the action TV series. 5. Angels in chains? Feminism, femininity and consumer culture in Charlie's Angels / Anna Gough-Yates. 6. 'Who's the cat that won't cop out?' : Black masculinity in American action series of the sixties and seventies / Elaine Pennicott. 7. Kung Fu: re-orienting the television Western / Yvonne Tasker. 8. 'Drop everything ... including your pants!' : The Professionals and 'hard' action TV / Leon Hunt. - Pt. III. Audiences reading and re-reading the action TV series. 9. The games we play(ed) : TV Westerns, memory and masculinity / Martin Pumphrey. 10. The Persuaders! A girl's best friends / Joke Hermes. 11. King and queen: interpreting sexual identity in / Jason King Andy Medhurst. - Pt. IV. The cultural circulation of the action TV series. 12. TV gets jazzed : the evolution of action TV theme music / Elizabeth Withey. 13. The comics connection: low culture meets even lower culture / Roger Sabin. 14. Of leather suits and kinky boots: The Avengers, style and popular culture / Marc O'Day. 15. The sixties in the nineties : pastiche or hyperconsciousness? / John Storey. - Index.