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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300003803321

Autore

Lee David

Titolo

Independent Television Production in the UK : From Cottage Industry to Big Business / / by David Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-71670-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 244 pages)

Disciplina

384.550941

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Ethnology—Europe

Cultural policy

Film/TV Industry

British Culture

Cultural Policy and Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Chapter 1: Introduction: Situating Independent Television in the cultural economy -- 2. Part I: Independent transformations. The politics of independence: Contextualising independent television production in the UK - Chapter 2. The creation of the independent sector in the UK -- 3. Chapter 3. Creative Industries policy and the rise of the ‘mega-indies’; Independent television production in the age of New Labour -- 4. Part II: Working in independent television - Chapter 4: Creative labour and social change -- 5. Chapter 5 Working in the Indies: Precarity, value and burnout -- 6. Chapter 6 Networks, social capital and the burden of performativity -- 7. Part III: Cultural Value - Chapter 7 Independent Creativity -- 8. Chapter 8: Commercialisation, consolidation and cultural value: The restructuring of the British independent television industry, and the implications for production -- 9. Chapter 9. Conclusion: towards a moral economy of independent television production. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first authoritative account of the UK’s independent television production sector, following the creation of Channel 4 in



1982. It examines the rise of a global industry, increasingly interconnected through format development, distribution, ancillary sales and rights. Drawing on case studies, interviews and policy analysis; the author considers the cultural politics behind the growth of the ‘indies’, the labour conditions for workers in this sector, and some of the key television programmes that have been created within it. Filling an important gap in our understanding, this book constitutes a comprehensive account of this vital cultural industry for students, academics and researchers working in the areas of the cultural and creative industries, media and cultural policy and television studies.