Life on Mars

Author/Artist/Editor

Stephen Lacey and Ruth McElroy

Type

Book, Hard Copy

Date

2012

Press/Publisher

University of Wales Press

Description

This is the first full-length academic study of Life on Mars (and its successor, Ashes to Ashes), and seeks to account for the series' innovative form and popular appeal. Paying attention to issues of genre and hybridity, the book examines televisual and cultural memory, press and reception contexts and analyses the ways in which both series represent Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. The book also discusses the remakes of Life on Mars in the USA and Spain, acknowledging both the specific address to particular situations and the ways in which key elements are re-worked in different national contexts. 

Keywords

Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Television Criticism

ISSN/ISBN

9780708323595

Availability

Available

OCLC

784884321