Strange TV: Innovative Television Series from the Twilight Zone to the X-Files

by M. Keith Booker

In the years since World War II, commercial television has become the most powerful force in American culture. It is also the quintessential example of postmodernist culture. This book studies how The Twilight Zone, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, and The X-Files display many of the central characteristics that critics and theorists have associated with postmodernism, including fragmentation of narratives and characters, multiplicity in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313323739
• ISBN13: 9780313323737
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.7"