TY - CHAP
T1 - “University politics”: Change and Continuity in Representations of Higher Education between ITV’s Series Inspector Morse and Colin Dexter’s Morse Novels
AU - Olive, Sarah Elizabeth
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PY - 2022/1/20
Y1 - 2022/1/20
N2 - This chapter focuses on the phenomenon of Inspector Morse that includes both the Morse books by Colin Dexter and the Inspector Morse television series, inspired by Dexter, advised on by Dexter, but written and directed by numerous people. It offers an example of books and television series that developed in an intensely enmeshed way, so as to challenge linear notions such as source text and adaptation as well as challenging a deficit model of the television ‘adaptation’ of books. This chapter refutes a prevalent notion that television dumbs down and depoliticises the books that inspire its programming. On the contrary, this chapter argues, Inspector Morse embraces a greater role than the novels in articulating and critiquing higher education policy in 1980s and 1990s Britain.
AB - This chapter focuses on the phenomenon of Inspector Morse that includes both the Morse books by Colin Dexter and the Inspector Morse television series, inspired by Dexter, advised on by Dexter, but written and directed by numerous people. It offers an example of books and television series that developed in an intensely enmeshed way, so as to challenge linear notions such as source text and adaptation as well as challenging a deficit model of the television ‘adaptation’ of books. This chapter refutes a prevalent notion that television dumbs down and depoliticises the books that inspire its programming. On the contrary, this chapter argues, Inspector Morse embraces a greater role than the novels in articulating and critiquing higher education policy in 1980s and 1990s Britain.
UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-4720-1_13
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-15-4720-1_13
DO - 10.1007/978-981-15-4720-1_13
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789811547195
SP - 221
EP - 239
BT - Television Series as Literature
A2 - Huertas-Martin, Victor
A2 - Winckler, Reto
PB - Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
ER -