An examination of television drama from within a cultural studies perspective, this text explores the active agency of both viewers and media practitioners. The author examines dominant and counter-myths as they circulate in popular culture, discussing soap opera, science fiction, sitcom, cop series and authored drama among its examples. It works within an ethnographic framework, John Tilloch looks at both the production and reception of TV drama. The overall aim of the book is to examine television representation as part of a historically positioned and differentiated social formation in...