{"product_id":"second-lives-black-market-melodramas-and-the-reinvention-of-television-9780226824802","title":"Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas and the Reinvention of Television","description":"\u003cb\u003eA history of prestige television through the rise of the \"black-market melodrama.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In\u003ci\u003e Second Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Szalay defines a new television genre that has driven the breathtaking ascent of TV as a cultural force over the last two decades: the black-market melodrama. Exemplified by the likes of \u003ci\u003eThe Sopranos \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBreaking Bad\u003c\/i\u003e, the genre moves between a family's everyday life and its secret second life, which may involve illegal business, espionage, or even an alternate reality. Second lives allow characters (and audiences) to escape what feels like endless work into a revanchist vision of the white middle class family. But there is for this grimly resigned genre no meaningful way back to the Fordist family wage for which it longs. In fact, Szalay argues, black-market melodramas lament the very economic transformations that untethered TV viewing from the daily rhythms of the nine-to-five job and led, ultimately, to prestige TV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-2177780\"\u003eMichael Szalay\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226824802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226824802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER010030\"\u003eTelevision | History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Szalay\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English and film and media at the University of California--Irvine. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eNew Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44519678476525,"sku":"9780226824802","price":51.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_f59a2656-fce1-41a5-b006-e047bd69eee9.jpg?v=1701262753","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/second-lives-black-market-melodramas-and-the-reinvention-of-television-9780226824802","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}