Reading 24

TV Against the Clock

By: Steven Peacock (Editor)

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Paperback | 28 March 2007 | Edition Number 1

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When "24" exploded onto TV screens in 2001, "Time" magazine called it one of the 'Best Television Events of the Decade'. "24" has gone on to establish itself as groundbreaking and controversial entertainment that has changed the face of television. Each season of "24" traces the events of a single day in the life of CTU Field Agent Jack Bauer. Racing against the clock, Bauer battles assassination attempts, germ warfare and terrorist factions to 'save the day'. "24" presents the nail-biting events of each day through its use of split-screen and 'real-time' devices. Dramatically explosive and visually dynamic, "24" taps into a global sense of uncertainty and suspicion with its provocative depiction of America's role on the world stage and of terrorist activity and political double-dealing. "Reading '24'" is the first book to bring together critical discussions of "24" from a wide range of perspectives. Entertaining and illuminating, the book looks in detail at the creative and controversial features of "24". It considers, for example, "24"'s stylistic innovations, its engagement post 9/11 with the 'War on Terror', and its masking of identities.
The pioneering spirit of the show is matched by the original arguments on display here, celebrating and censuring "24" - TV on the edge.

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LIBRARY JOURNAL 'This is a two-fisted double shot of polysyllabic PhD works. Recommended only for academic pop culture and media collections.'SOUTHERN DAILY ECHOReading 24 - TV Against the Clock is a scholarly work that is proving popular with fans of the series as well as those planning to write a thesis on the influence of Bauer.- Kate Thompson

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Introduction
Splitting the Screen: Rewriting Television Conventions
24 and Twenty-First Century Quality Television
24 and New Directions in Televisuality
Multi-Panelled Narrative in 24
Reasons to Split Up
Interesting Times: The Demands 24's Real-Time Format Makes on its Audience
America under Siege: Terrorism, Globalisation and the Politics of (American) Morality
"So what are you saying An oil consortium's behind the nuke?"24, Programme Sponsorship, SUVs, and the "War on Terror"
Days and Hours of the Apocalypse: 24 and the Nuclear Narrative
24 after 9/11: The American State of Exception
Just-in-time Security: Permanent Exceptions and Neoliberal Orders
"Tell me where the bomb is or I will kill your son": Situational Morality on 24
"You're going to tell me everything you know": Torture and Morality in Fox's 24
Unmasking Identities: Sexuality, Difference, Culture
Damsels in Distress: Female Narrative Authority and Knowledge in 24
Gender and Genre in the Action-Soap 24
Techno-Soap: 24, Masculinity and Hybrid Forms
"She May Be a Little Weird": Chloe O'Brian
24 and Postnational American Identities
Afterword
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