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Investigating Heroes: Essays on Truth, Justice and Quality TV

Author David Simmons
Publisher Mcfarland
Category Performing Arts
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Author(s) David Simmons
Publisher Mcfarland
ISBN / ASIN 0786459360
ISBN-13 9780786459360
Category Performing Arts
Marketplace France 🇫🇷
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Premiering in September of 2006, the weekly NBC television series Heroes was an immediate commercial and critical hit, lasting four successful seasons. Heroes follows a group of interrelated characters who discover they have superhuman powers, with each successive episode exploring how these people react to and utilize their powers for good or for evil. This collection of essays explores a variety of issues surrounding Heroes, examining the series' content, marketing and reception. Also investigated is the show's fusion of "cult" and mainstream elements of television, analyzing its ability to combine so-called lowbrow elements (comic books and superheroes) with a high-quality television form prizing such factors as moral ambiguity and depth of characterization--and what this blending process suggests about the current hybrid state of genre television, and about the medium as a whole.
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