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03743aam a2200493 i 4500 001 18098C8E253111EE91433F782CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230718010455 008 220512t20232023ilua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022022553 020 $a 0226824802 020 $a 9780226824802 020 $a 0226820483 020 $a 9780226820484 035 $a (OCoLC)1337408985 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d CGU $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCQ $d CDX $d YDX $d UUC $d UCIDS $d VP@ $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1992.3.U5 $b S93 2023 082 00 $a 791.450973 $2 23/eng/20220726 100 1 $a Szalay, Michael, $d 1967- $e author. 245 10 $a Second lives : $b black-market melodramas and the reinvention of television / $c Michael Szalay. 246 30 $a Black-market melodramas and the reinvention of television 246 3 $a 2nd lives 264 1 $a Chicago, IL ; $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 322 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "We hear everywhere that we are in a golden era of television. Prestige dramas are the stars of streaming services and cable networks alike, luring viewers into binge watching hours of programming with writing, production values, and acting talent typically associated with feature-length films. In Second Lives, Michael Szalay focuses our attention on a highly influential subset of prestige television that he calls the black-market drama, and he tethers the new renaissance of television to this genre. The black-market drama is a genre that was inaugurated by the HBO series The Sopranos. At its most basic level, it consists of shows in which part or all of a (usually) white, middle-class family leads two lives, one routine and the other typically illegal and dangerous. Those lives might involve black markets or money laundering, a secret past or closeted identity, addiction, prostitution, espionage, or an alternate reality. And those secret lives might be kept from a variety of people, from other family members to neighbors to the state. What matters is that second lives allow characters to awaken from the slumber of their first lives. We, the audience, awaken too. For Szalay, these black-market dramas are the key to understanding how TV, once the lowest of the low, came to be esteemed as never before"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : television's second life -- The gangster mourning play -- The informal abject : housework and reproduction in Weeds and Orange is the new black -- AMC's white-collar supremacy : Breaking bad, Mad men, and Halt and catch fire -- Managed hearts : The Americans and news corporation -- Waiting for the end in Twin peaks, The wire, Queen Sugar, and Atlanta -- Conclusion : streaming and you. 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a African Americans in television broadcasting $z United States $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Fiction television programs $z United States $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Television series $z United States $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Television programs $z United States $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a History. 650 7 $a Fiction television programs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01743570 650 7 $a Television programs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01147026 650 7 $a Television series. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01720041 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025015.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=18098C8E253111EE91433F782CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search