Television Drama : Agency, Audience and Myth.
Title:
Television Drama : Agency, Audience and Myth.
Author:
Tulloch, John.
ISBN:
9780203188002
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (336 pages)
Series:
Studies in Culture and Communication
Contents:
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 audiences -- Sub-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.
Abstract:
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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