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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450929103321

Autore

Tulloch John

Titolo

Television drama : agency, audience, and myth / / John Tulloch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1990

ISBN

0-203-32966-X

1-280-32652-2

1-134-97962-2

0-203-18800-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

Studies in communication

Disciplina

302.23/45

Soggetti

Television plays - History and criticism

Television broadcasting

Television viewers

Popular culture

Communication

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Trevor Griffiths; General editor's preface; Introduction: theories of myth, agency and audience; Popular TV drama: ideology and myth; 'Soft' news: the space of TV drama; Genre and myth: 'a half-formed picture'; Authored drama: agency as 'strategic penetration'; 'Reperceiving the world': making history; 'Serious drama': the dangerous mesh of empathy; TV drama as social event: text and inter-text; Authored drama: 'not just naturalism'; Industry/performance: drama as 'strategic penetration'; Reading drama: audience use, exchange and play

'Use and exchange': delivering audiencesSub-culture and reading formation: regimes of watching; Conclusion: comedies of 'myth' and 'resistance'; Comic order and disorder: residual and emergent cultures; 'Marauding behaviour': parody, carnival and the grotesque; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes

Sommario/riassunto

Views television drama from a cultural studies perspective, examining



the active agency of both viewers and media practitioners. Tulloch looks at genres such as soap opera, science fiction, sitcoms and police series.