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Steven Suskin

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Broadway Yearbook, –

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Stránka A Silesian Crossroads for Europe’s Displaced Books: Compensation or Prisoners of War? PATRICIA KENNEDY GRIMSTED In trying to unravel the fate of books displaced as a result of the Second World War in Europe, let us turn our focus with a wide-angle lens on Silesia as one of the major crossroads for cultural treasures during and immediately after the war. The area as a whole has received comparatively little attention in international literature, although several publications in the last decade suggest various aspects of the problem. The following analysis summarizes earlier findings with a few examples in a fresh geographic context. It demonstrates the complexities of wartime and postwar library displacements and shows the conjunction and interaction of several factors that determined the fate and disposition of Europe’s displaced books.1 Silesia itself has been a borderland for many centuries, and today it lies across the Czech-Polish border. But in together with the newly annexed Sudetenland, Silesia was part of the Third Reich. When Allied bombing of Berlin intensified in , Silesia was one the 1 See Grimsted, “Tracing Patterns of European Library Plunder: Books Still not Home from the War,” in Jüdischer Buchbesitz als Raubgut. Zweites Hannoversches Symposium, ed. Regine Dehnel (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann ); Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie, 88, pp. –67, and earlier publications listed at A more detailed updated survey of the RSHA and ERR library plunder and its fate will appear in the forthcoming Grimsted introductory chapters in the Fate of Nazi-Looted Books, eds F. J. Hoogewoud and Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (Leicester: Institute of Art and Law, ); see also Grimsted, “Patterns of Nazi Archival Plunder and Soviet Recovery,” in Returned from Russia: Nazi Archival Plunder in Western Europe and Recent Restitution Issues (Leicester: Ins

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The Contemporary Television Series Edited by Michael Hammond and Lucy Mazdon

Edinburgh University Press

© in this edition Edinburgh University Press, © in the individual contributions is retained by the authors Edinburgh University Press Ltd 22 George Square, Edinburgh Typeset in 11/13 Ehrhardt by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Manchester, and printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wilts A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 3 (hardback) ISBN 0 1 (paperback) The right of the contributors to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act Front cover illustrations: Buffy the Vampire Slayer 20th Century Fox Television / The Kobal Collection / Wolf, Jerry Hill Street Blues Mtm Enterprises / The Kobal Collection Six Feet Under Hbo / The Kobal Collection / Watson, Larry The Sopranos Hbo / The Kobal Collection / Wetcher, Barry Twin Peaks Lynch / Frost/Spelling / The Kobal Collection

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors

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Preface Lucy Mazdon

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PART I: HISTORIES Introduction Lucy Mazdon

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1 The Writer/Producer in American Television Roberta Pearson

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2 The Lack of Influence of thirtysomething Jane Feuer

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3 Twin Peaks: David Lynch and the Serial-Thriller Soap Linda Ruth Williams

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4 Quality/Cult Television: The X-Files and Television History Catherine Johnson

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PART II: THE SERIES/SERIAL FORM Introduction Michael Hammond 5 Television and the Neo-Baroque Angela Ndalianis 6 Serial Narrative and Guest Stars: Ally McBeal’s Eccentrics Greg Smith

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7 The Representation of Youth and the Twenty-Something Serial Sarah Cardwell 8 Violence and Therapy in The Sopranos Jason Jacobs 9 Television, Horror and Everyday Life in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Eric Freedman





PART III: RECEPTIONS Introduction Michael Hammond 10 Cult TV, Q

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Television Rewired The Rise of the Auteur Series

Martha P. Nochimson

University of Texas Press austin

Copyright © by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box Austin, TX ­ utpress​.utexas​.edu​/rp​-­­form

♾ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z– (r) (Permanence of Paper). library of congress cataloging-­i n-­p ublication data Names: Nochimson, Martha, author. Title: Television rewired : the rise of the auteur series / Martha P. Nochimson. Description: First edition. | Austin : University of Texas Press, | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn isbn ­0-­­­2 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn ­1-­­­9 (pbk : alk. paper) isbn ­1-­­­8 (library e-­book) isbn ­1-­­­5 (non-­library e-­book) Subjects: LCSH: Television series—United States—History and criticism. | Television writers—United States—History and criticism. | Television producers and directors—United States—History and criticism. | Television authorship— United States. Classification: lcc PNS4 N | ddc /75—dc23 LC record available at https://​lccn​.loc​.gov​/ doi/

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, I, 59

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introduction: The David Effect  1

The Founding Titans: Men without Formula chapter 1. David Lynch, Twin Peaks  31 Chapter 2. David Chase, The Sopranos  62 Chapter 3. David Simon, The Wire  91

The Legacy: New Options, New Questions, Retooled Formulas Chapter 4. David Simon and Eric Overmyer, Treme  Chapter 5. Matt Weiner, Mad Men  Chapter 6. Lena Dunham, Girls  Chapter 7. Backlash! Formula   Coda: The Return of David Lynch 

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