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- Title
Lifetime on the Street: Textual Strategies of Syndication.
- Authors
Nichols-Pethick, Jonathan
- Abstract
Argues that the stakes of Lifetime Television's adaptations of the text of television series 'Homicide: Life on the Street' go beyond the commercial imperatives of increases ratings gained through the acquisition of programs. Cost of Lifetime's purchase of off-network syndication rights for the series per episode; Discussion on the issue of television textuality; Case study of one episode of 'Homicide'; Types of textual distinctions between commercial contexts.
- Subjects
TEXTUAL criticism; HOMICIDE (TV program); TELEVISION programs
- Publication
Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film & Television, 2001, Issue 47, p62
- ISSN
0149-1830
- Publication type
Article