Introduction
Solange Davin and Rhonda Jackson
Our Common Cultural Heritage: Classic Novels and English Television
Len Platt
Aspects of the Soap Opera and Other Stories
Dorothy Hobson
Shakespeare on American Television and the Special Relationship Between the UK & the USA
Curtis Breight
Television as History: History as Television
Anne Wales
'The story you are about to see is true': Dragnet, Film Noir, and Postwar Realism
R. Barton Palmer
The Skilled Viewer
Rhonda Jackson
The Culture of Post-Narcissism: Post-Teenage, Pre-Midlife Singles Culture in Seinfeld, Ally McBeal, and Friends
Michael Skovmand
Television's Vanashing Terms? Traditional Aesthetics and Television Drama in the Age of Reality TV
Felix Thompson
'I've been searching my soul tonight': The Ally McBeal Effect
Jill Barker
Index