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Investigating Heroes: Essays on Truth, Justice and Quality TV

By David Simmons

Book information

Publisher
McFarland
Year
2011
ISBN
0786459360, 9780786459360
LCC
PN1992.77.H47 I58 2012
Google Books ID
jZJVaqkPbjwC
Open Library ID
OL25101907M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
869 kB (889417 bytes)
Pages
188\188
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Premiering in September of 2006, the weekly NBC television series Heroes was an immediate commercial and critical hit, lasting four successful seasons. Heroes follows a group of interrelated characters who discover they have superhuman powers, with each successive episode exploring how these people react to and utilize their powers for good or for evil. This collection of essays explores a variety of issues surrounding Heroes, examining the series' content, marketing and reception. Also investigated is the show's fusion of "cult" and mainstream elements of television, analyzing its ability to combine so-called lowbrow elements (comic books and superheroes) with a high-quality television form prizing such factors as moral ambiguity and depth of characterization--and what this blending process suggests about the current hybrid state of genre television, and about the medium as a whole.

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