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Other authors / contributors: | Lacey, Stephen, 1952-
McElroy, Ruth.
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ISBN: | 9780708323601 070832360X 0708323596 9780708323595 9781783161126 1783161124 9780708323595
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
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Summary: | This is the first full-length academic study of Life on Mars (and its successor, Ashes to Ashes), and seeks to account for the series' innovative form and popular appeal. Paying attention to issues of genre and hybridity, the book examines televisual and cultural memory, press and reception contexts and analyses the ways in which both series represent Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. The book also discusses the remakes of Life on Mars in the USA and Spain, acknowledging both the specific address to particular situations and the ways in which key elements are re-worked in different national cont.
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Other form: | Print version: Lacey, Stephen. Life on Mars : From Manchester to New York. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, ©2012 9780708323595
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