Download or read book Contemporary Quality TV written by Saskia M. Fürst and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since HBO's slogan "It's Not TV, It's HBO" launched in 1996, so-called quality television has reached a new level of marketing, recognition, and indeed quality. With other networks imitating the formula, the "HBO effect" triggered a wave of creative output. This turn to quality set off two shifts: (a) Contemporary television staged an international resurgence of the auteur, and (b) America transformed into an "on-demand nation." The chapters in this volume analyze new television lifestyles including marginalized perspectives, fan participation, and an emerging nostalgia correlated with trash aesthetics.