British Television

A Reader
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-874265-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 559 g

OXFORD TELEVISION STUDIES

General Editors: Charlotte Brunsdon and John Caughie

Oxford Television Studies offers international authors - both established and emerging - an opportunity to reflect on particular problems of history, theory, and criticism which are specific to television and which are central to its critical understanding. The perspective of the series will be international, while respecting the peculiarities of the national; it will be historical, without proposing simple histories; and it will be grounded in the analysis of programmes and genres. The series is intended to be 3oundational without being introductory or routine, facilitating clearly focused critical reflection and engaging a range of debates, topics, and approaches which will offer a basis for the development of television studies.

British television has been a success story. One factor in this success has been the distinctive institutional structure of British broadcasting, a mix of state-regulated and publicly-funded services with commercial services. This book attempts to give a broad overview of British television by examining both the institutional framework and the programmes that it has produced. A range of reprinted writings from the work of acknowledged experts is supplemented by specially commissioned essays on such key topics as sport and British television in the global context.

It will be a key text for all students taking courses on British television and broadcasting.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buscombe, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Radio- und Fernsehindustrie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Presse & Journalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medienphilosophie, Medienethik, Medienrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Grafikdesign, Kommunikationsdesign
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part I: Histories, Structures, Economics

- The BBC and the General Strike May 1926

- Public Service Broadcasting: The History of a Concept

- The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom

- Channel Four Television: From Annan to Grade

- Money Talks: Broadcasting Finance and Public Culture

- Part II: Programmes

- Creating the Audience

- The Construction of a Community

- Structure of Anxiety: Recent British Television Crime Fiction

- Crime and Crisis: British Reality Television in Action

- Ill News Comes Often on the Back of Worse

- Every Wart and Pustule: Gilbert Harding and Television Stardom

- Framing 'the Real': Oranges, Middlemarch, X-Files

- Broadcast Comedy and Sitcom

- The Lads and The Gladiators: Traditional Masculinities in a Post-Modern Televisual Landscape

- The International Circulation of British Television

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Edward Buscombe is Visiting Professor of Media Arts, Southampton Institute. His previous publications include The Screen Education Reader (co-edited with Manuel Alvarado and Richard Collins, 1993) and Back in the Saddle Again: New Essays on the Western (co-edited with Roberta Pearson, 1998).