Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics
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- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- Publication date:
- 27 May 2026
- ISBN:
- 9781399512923
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- Subjects:
- Sociology: General Interest, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication, Sociology
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- Screen Serialities
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- Sociology: General Interest, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication, Sociology
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Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics: Rebooting Middlebrow Culture deals with the network TV reboots of Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, Magnum, P.I., Lethal Weapon and The Equalizer to explore the cultural politics at work in contemporary middlebrow culture. The book focusses specifically on the representational politics of contemporary middlebrow TV.
The book analyses action TV reboots via the framework of middlebrow television, and the political meanings of the category. It explores the category of middlebrow TV, the role of nostalgia of middlebrow reboots. This leads into a critique of the representational norms of middlebrow TV, which includes a variety of visual representations of ‘otherness’ but fails to narrativize marginalisation. Instead, visual ‘difference’ is reduced to visual signifier of an inclusive society. What emerges is the idea of visibility politics and its dominance in American network TV.
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