ABSTRACT

Television and film have always been connected, but recent years have seen them overlapping, collaborating, and moving towards each other in ever more ways. Set amidst this moment of unprecedented synergy, this book examines how television and film culture interact in the 21st century.

Both media appear side by side in many platforms or venues, stories and storytellers cross between them, they regularly have common owners, and they discuss each other constantly. Jonathan Gray and Derek Johnson examine what happens at these points of interaction, studying the imaginary borderlands between each medium, the boundary maintenance that quickly envelops much discussion of interaction, and ultimately what we allow or require television and film to be. Offering separate chapters on television exhibition at movie theaters, cinematic representations of television, television-to-film and film-to-television adaptations, and television producers crossing over to film, the book explores how each zone of interaction invokes fervid debate of the roles that producers, audiences, and critics want and need each medium to play. From Game of Thrones to The TV Set, Bewitched to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hundreds of TV shows and films are discussed.

Television Goes to the Movies will be of interest to students and scholars of television studies, film studies, media studies, popular culture, adaptation studies, production studies, and media industries. 

chapter |19 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|24 pages

Television Programs Go to the Movies

Crossing Boundaries in Exhibition Spaces

chapter 2|28 pages

Television’s Detractors Go to the Movies

Cinematic Representations of Television

chapter 3|29 pages

Television Stories Go to the Movies

Strategies of Adaptation

chapter 4|30 pages

Television Producers Go to the Movies

Transforming Professional Identities

chapter |3 pages

Coda

Let It Go?