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Action TV reboots and visibility politics
Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics: Rebooting Middlebrow Culture deals with the network television reboots of Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, Magnum, P.I., Lethal Weapon and The Equalizer to explore the cultural politics at work in contemporary middlebrow culture. The book focuses specifically on the representational politics of contemporary middlebrow TV. The book analyses action television reboots via the framework of middlebrow television, and the political meanings of the category. It explores the category of middlebrow television, the role of nostalgia of middlebrow reboots. This leads into a critique of the representational norms of middlebrow television, which includes a variety of visual representations of ‘otherness’ but fails to narrativize marginalization. Instead, visual ‘difference’ is reduced to visual signifier of an inclusive society. What emerges is the idea of visibility politics and its dominance in American network television.
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Action and adventure television programs