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Rewriting Television
Rewriting Television suggests that it is time for a radical overhaul of television studies. If we don’t want to merely recycle the same old methods, approaches, and tropes for another twenty years, we need to consider major changes in why and how we do our work. This book offers a new model for doing television (or film or media) studies that can be taken up around the world. It synthesizes ideas from production studies, screenwriting studies, and the idea of “writing otherwise” to create a new way of studying television. It presents an entirely original approach to working with practitioner interviews that has never been seen before in film, television, or media studies. It then offers a series of original reflections on form, story, and voice and considers how these reflections could shape future writing in our discipline(s). Ultimately, this is a book of ideas. This book asks “what if?” This book is an opportunity to imagine differently.
 
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Rewriting Television
Rewriting Television suggests that it is time for a radical overhaul of television studies. If we don’t want to merely recycle the same old methods, approaches, and tropes for another twenty years, we need to consider major changes in why and how we do our work. This book offers a new model for doing television (or film or media) studies that can be taken up around the world. It synthesizes ideas from production studies, screenwriting studies, and the idea of “writing otherwise” to create a new way of studying television. It presents an entirely original approach to working with practitioner interviews that has never been seen before in film, television, or media studies. It then offers a series of original reflections on form, story, and voice and considers how these reflections could shape future writing in our discipline(s). Ultimately, this is a book of ideas. This book asks “what if?” This book is an opportunity to imagine differently.
 
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Rewriting Television

Rewriting Television

by Alison Peirse
Rewriting Television

Rewriting Television

by Alison Peirse

Overview

Rewriting Television suggests that it is time for a radical overhaul of television studies. If we don’t want to merely recycle the same old methods, approaches, and tropes for another twenty years, we need to consider major changes in why and how we do our work. This book offers a new model for doing television (or film or media) studies that can be taken up around the world. It synthesizes ideas from production studies, screenwriting studies, and the idea of “writing otherwise” to create a new way of studying television. It presents an entirely original approach to working with practitioner interviews that has never been seen before in film, television, or media studies. It then offers a series of original reflections on form, story, and voice and considers how these reflections could shape future writing in our discipline(s). Ultimately, this is a book of ideas. This book asks “what if?” This book is an opportunity to imagine differently.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781978839632
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 01/14/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 190

About the Author

Alison Peirse is a professor in film and media at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research focuses on illuminating women’s invisible or overlooked contributions to the production of genre film and television. Her books include the multi-award-winning Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre  (Rutgers University Press, 2020).

Table of Contents

1 The One-Long-Slow-Idea Book 

2 Methods

3 Cast of Characters and Dialogue Key

4 Commissioning

5 Form

6 “That’s TV, It Isn’t Like Writing a Poem”

7 Development

8 Story

9 “It Is Horrible, It Is Necessary” 

10 Voice

11 Glorious

Coda: “How Are We Going to Get Out of This?”

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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