{"product_id":"the-fugitive-in-flight-faith-liberalism-and-law-in-a-classic-tv-show-personal-takes","title":"The Fugitive in Flight: Faith  Liberalism  and Law in a Classic TV Show (Personal Takes)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In the 1990s when I was watching reruns of The Fugitive on the Arts and Entertainment Network twice a day  I couldnt take my eyes off it. . . . No one in The Fugitive ever relaxes as you watch and you cant relax either  even though for long stretches absolutely nothing happens. It was the combination of nonstop tension with the (relative) absence of slam-bang action that attracted me  and as I now reflect on it  the same combination characterizes the literary works I have been reading and writing about for more than forty-five years.\"Stanley Fish  from the Introduction  In the stark television drama The Fugitive  Dr. Richard Kimble  an innocent man convicted of murder  is on the run from the police and in pursuit of the real killer. The award-winning show  which aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967 and inspired a 1993 blockbuster movie  still has many devoted fans  none more passionate than literary and legal theorist and intellectual provocateur Stanley Fish. In The Fugitive in Flight  Fish examines the moral structure of the long-running series and explains why he thinks this may well be the greatest show ever aired on American network television.  Analyzing key episodes  The Fugitive in Flight goes beyond plot summaries and behind-the-scenes stories. For Fish  the real action of The Fugitive takes place in confined spaces where the men and women Richard Kimble encounters are forced to choose what kind of person they will be for the rest of their lives. Kimble is the catalyst of such choices and changes  but he himself never changes. Breaking free from the political and social problems of his time  he is always the bearer and exemplar of the very middle-class values informing the system that has misjudged him. Kimble is the perfect representative of a mid-twentieth-century liberalism that values above all independence  personal integrity  and the refusal to surrender oneself to obsessions or causes. He is so consistently faithful to his liberal vision of life that he displays both its virtues and its dark side  the side that flees attachments  entanglements  responsibilities  and human connections. Stanley Fishs Richard Kimble is the ultimate man in a gray flannel suit  even when he is wearing a windbreaker and walking down a dark  lonely road.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966565576757,"sku":"ByrdShop_0812242777","price":27.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780812242775_40d5b52f-eb90-42bf-b8b4-06c9f3c27bf5.jpg?v=1772673716","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-fugitive-in-flight-faith-liberalism-and-law-in-a-classic-tv-show-personal-takes","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}