Australian Television: Programs, pleasures and politics

ISBN-13: 9780043800300 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 220 str.

Tulloch, John

Opis

This is the first collection of scholarly articles to be published specifically on Australian television. Although media studies are part of the curriculum in Australia, there are still few books which deal specifically with Australian television. It applies the benefits of contemporary developments in media and cultural studies to the analysis of Australian television, covering a wide range of programming and theoretical issues.

Spis treści

General Editor's Preface

Preface

Contributors

1 Three stages of Australian television

2 The converging of film and television

3 Transgressive TV: From In Melbourne Tonight to Perfect Match

4 Textual innovation in the Australian historical mini-series

5 In praise of Prisoner

6 Everyday quizzes, everyday life

7 Television documentary

8 Publicising progress: science on Australian television

9 Soaps and ads: flow and segmentation

10 Continuous pleasures in marginal places: TV, continuity and the construction of communities

11 Children and television

12 Changed times, changed tunes: music and the ideology of the news

13: Afterword: approaching audiences - a note on method

Index

O autorze

JOHN TULLOCH and GRAEME TURNER are two of Australia's leading writers, researchers and teachers in the field of media and cultural studies. JOHN TULLOCH is Associate Professor in Mass Communications at Macquarie University and his books include Legends and Australian Cinema: Industry, Narrative and Meaning. GRAEME TURNER is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Queensland Institute of Technology and he is the author of National Fictions and co-author of Myths of Oz.