Legitimating genre: The discursive turn to quality in early 1990s science fiction television.
This essay analyses how this discourse of science fiction quality was created in the early 1990s through newspaper critics’ writings about Quantum Leap, Star Trek: The Next Generation and The X-Files. Nine categories of quality – positive or negative evaluations of the science fiction programmes – a...
| Publicado en: | Critical Studies in Television Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 35 - 51 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Mar2017
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