Format: Hardback
Pages: 414
ISBN: 9780813125688
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2010
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Series: Essential Readers in Contemporary Media and Culture
Illustrations: 10
Description:
The Essential Cult TV Reader is a collection of insightful essays that examine television shows that amass engaged, active fan bases by employing an imaginative approach to programming. Once defined by limited viewership, cult TV has developed its own identity, with some shows gaining large, mainstream audiences. By exploring the defining characteristics of cult TV, The Essential Cult TV Reader traces the development of this once obscure form and explains how cult TV achieved its current status as legitimate television.