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Author Burkhead, Cynthia.

Title Dreams in American Television Narratives : From Dallas to Buffy.

Publication Info. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (311 pages)
Summary Dreams in Television Narratives is the first comprehensive analysis of one of American television's most frequently utilized tropes, the dream. From its beginning, television has been a storytelling medium. Whether delivered to a live audience or played out on a sound stage, narratives and those who write them have always been the crux of the television program. While film can claim a long history of scholarly inquiry into the connection between film and dreams, no comprehensive research exists on the subject of television dreams. Locating its primary function as narrative, the author uses exa.
Contents Copyright; Contents; Index; Compendium of Television Dreams; Part 3; Bibliography; Notes; Case Study: Awake; Case Study: Lost; Case Study: The Sopranos; Case Study: Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Part 2; Note to Readers; 7 Television Critiques its Dreams; 6 Lysis: Ending the Narrative; 5 Crisis: Building to Narrative Climax; 4 Development: Advancing the Narrative; 3 Exposition: Introducing the Narrative; 2 Dreaming in Black and White; 1 Film Dreams and Television Dreams; Part 1; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Title.
Subject Dreams on television.
Television programs -- United States -- History.
Dreams on television. (OCoLC)fst01893558
Television programs. (OCoLC)fst01147026
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Burkhead, Cynthia. Dreams in American Television Narratives : From Dallas to Buffy. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, ©2013 9781441198105
ISBN 9781441125231 (electronic book)
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