Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: "the moral vineyards" -- "Temples of God's own building" : Harold Bell Wright and the roots of Branson tourism -- "Hills of truth and love" : authenticity and the sacred in shepherd of the Hills Country -- "I would much rather see a sermon than hear one" : faith at Silver Dollar City -- Jesus is "the greatest star" : the variety show and contemporary Branson tourism -- "Near heaven" : the dynamics of sacred space in Branson -- Hillbilly heaven : labor, leisure, and the Ozark trickster -- "The aroma of God's spirit" : branding Branson's future…”

“…Thin Safety Margin charts the history of SEFOR, a twenty-megawatt reactor that operated for three years in the rural Ozark Mountains of Arkansas as part of an internationally sponsored program designed to demonstrate the Doppler effect in plutonium-oxide-fueled fast reactors. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: The Fact and Fiction of Television: Stanley Cavell and the Terms of Television Philosophy DAVID LaROCCA and SANDRA LAUGIER -- PART I: NEW TELEVISION -- 1 Justifying Justified WILLIAM ROTHMAN -- 2 'You Get Paid for Pain': Kingdom and New Television MARTIN SHUSTER -- 3 To See and to Stop: The Problem of Abdication in Succession ELISABETH BRONFEN -- 4 When TV is on TV: Metatelevision and the Art of Watching TV with the Royal Family in The Crown DAVID LaROCCA -- PART II: BIG PERFECTIONISM ON THE SMALL SCREEN -- 5 It's My Party and I'll Die Even If I Don't Want To: Repetition, Acknowledgment, and Cavellian Perfectionism in Russian Doll MICHELLE DEVEREAUX -- 6 'Nobody's Perfect': Moral Imperfectionism in Ozark HENT de VRIES -- 7 A Zigzag of a Hundred Tacks: Narrative Complexity in The Good Place CATHERINE WHEATLEY -- 8 Im/Moral Perfectionism: On TV's Two Worlds JEROEN GERRITS -- PART III: EVERYDAY EDUCATION -- 9 The Sublime and the American Dream in Fargo HUGO CLÉMOT -- 10 TV Time, Recurrence, and the Situation of the Spectator: An Approach via Stanley Cavell, Raúl Ruiz, and Ruiz's Late Chilean Series Litoral (2008) BYRON DAVIES -- 11 Education about Trust in Homeland THIBAUT de SAINT MAURICE -- 12 Small Acts PAUL STANDISH -- PART IV: POPULAR TV AND ITS GENRES -- 13 The Event of Television: Sitcoms, Superheroes, and WandaVision STEPHEN MULHALL -- 14 Love, Remarriage, and The Americans SANDRA LAUGIER -- 15 True Detective: Existential Scepticism and Television Crime Drama ROBERT SINNERBRINK -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Growing an Oak: An Ethnography of Ozark Bioregionalism Brian C. Campbell Chapter 4. …”

“…Combining his 30+ years as a working screenwriter and professor, industry veteran Neil Landau expertly unpacks essential insights to the creation of a successful show, and takes readers behind the scenes with exclusive and enlightening interviews with showrunners from some of TV's most lauded series, including Fargo, Better Call Saul, Watchmen, Insecure, Barry, Doctor Who, Succession, Ozark, Schitt's Creek, Euphoria, PEN15, and many more. …”

“…beat sheet -Devise high-level series concepts with multi-season potential -Map out and organize TV pilots and multi-season shows -Break down the best and most diverse TV series using examples from Atlanta, Barry, Ozark, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, What We Do in the Shadows, Black-ish, The Mandalorian, Law and Order: SVU and more -Create layered characters who are driven by complex internal struggles It's time for Save the Cat! …”