03162oam 2200721I 450 991045092910332120200520144314.00-203-32966-X1-280-32652-21-134-97962-20-203-18800-410.4324/9780203188002 (CKB)1000000000254259(EBL)166140(OCoLC)60503454(SSID)ssj0000311193(PQKBManifestationID)11260398(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000311193(PQKBWorkID)10316169(PQKB)10787864(MiAaPQ)EBC166140(Au-PeEL)EBL166140(CaPaEBR)ebr10060919(CaONFJC)MIL32652(OCoLC)50816858(EXLCZ)99100000000025425920180331d1990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTelevision drama agency, audience, and myth /John TullochLondon ;New York :Routledge,1990.1 online resource (336 p.)Studies in communicationDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-01649-5 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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; IndexesViews 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.Studies in communication.Television playsHistory and criticismTelevision broadcastingTelevision viewersPopular cultureCommunicationElectronic books.Television playsHistory and criticism.Television broadcasting.Television viewers.Popular culture.Communication.302.23/45Tulloch John.615398MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450929103321Television drama1539146UNINA