In Television Cities Charlotte Brunsdon traces television's
representations of metropolitan spaces to show how they reflect the
medium's history and evolution, thereby challenging the prevalent
assumptions about television as quintessentially suburban. Brunsdon
shows how the BBC's presentation of 1960s Paris in the detective
series Maigret signals British culture's engagement with
twentieth-century modernity and continental Europe, while various
portrayals of London—ranging from Dickens adaptations to the
1950s nostalgia of Call the Midwife—demonstrate Britain's
complicated transition from Victorian metropole to postcolonial
social democracy. Finally, an analysis of The Wire’s acclaimed
examination of Baltimore, marks the profound shifts in the ways
television is now made and consumed. Illuminating the myriad
factors that make television cities, Brunsdon complicates our
understanding of how television shapes perceptions of urban spaces,
both familiar and unknown.
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