Seeing It on Television

Max Sexton is a lecturer teaching television and film theory at the University of Surrey, UK. He is interested in the links between aesthetics and narrative, particularly in how they can be used to complicate our sense of visual signification and/or produce mediated realities in television. His second book Secular Magic and the Moving Image (2017) includes debates about aesthetics in TV shows that feature conjuring, escapology, and similar wondrous acts. Dominic Lees is Associate Head of Department: Filmmaking at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He is an experienced film and television director, with a career that has included directing 40 episodes of drama as well as the award-winning independent feature film, Outlanders (2008). Following a PhD in film at the University of Reading, UK, he has written for the Journal of Media Practice, Critical Studies in Television and Media Practice and Education, as well as leading interdisciplinary practice research into ‘Deep Fakes’ (digital face replacement) in television drama and film.

Introduction
Chapter One: Reconfiguring Televisuality in High-end Television
Chapter Two: Passionate Realism: Paolo Sorrentino’s The Young Pope
Chapter Three: Independent Style: Stephen Soderbergh’s The Knick
Chapter Four: Fargo: Adaptation of a Cinematic Text
Chapter Five: A Wealth of Allusiveness: Stranger Things, Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl
Chapter Six: Performance Modes in Collision: The Leftovers
Chapter Seven: Televisual Spectacle: Mars
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index