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'At last a book that really understands the vision part of television, and television studies. Helen Wheatley here rediscovers responses to the wide range of visual delights - and shocks! - that the medium has offered since its inception, highlighting television's spectacularity through careful analyses.' - Professor John Ellis, Royal Holloway, University of London; 'Helen Wheatley's innovative Spectacular Television exposes our contemporary oversight of the significance of television's visual strategies. Through a series of compelling case studies, and a fascinating history of television as technology, she demonstrates how television - the apparent 'poor relation' of cinema in terms of spectacle - always enticed and continues to entrance audiences with images that variously provoke curiosity, wonder and disgust.' - Professor Karen Lury, University of Glasgow; 'This superb book is no small accomplishment. Spectacular Television provides a painstaking archaeology of televisual excess as both a formal and industrial practice and places television in dialogue with an array of illuminating approaches. In doing so, Wheatley develops a precedent-setting research model and absolute must-read for television studies students and scholars everywhere.' - Professor John T. Caldwell, UCLA, USA

An eminently readable book with strong examples that support its fundamental argument that visual pleasure is intrinsic to television aesthetics and practice ... Wheatley [provides] comprehensive research and articulate analysis. * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *

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Helen Wheatley is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the editor of Re-viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Television Historiography (I.B.Tauris, 2007), co-editor of Television for Women: New Directions (2016) and author of Gothic Television (2006). Her research focuses on television history and aesthetics.

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