John Tulloch

Television Drama (eBook, PDF)

Agency, Audience and Myth

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134979622
• Artikelnr.: 42828756

Autorenporträt

Professor John Tulloch (Charles Sturt University, Australia & Cardiff University, Wales) He has written widely on film history and theory, audience analysis and theories of textual criticism, and has published books on the British science fiction series, Doctor Who, and the Australian soap opera, A Country Practice.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: theories of myth, agency and audience Part One Popular TV
drama: ideology and myth 1 'Soft' news: the space of TV drama 2 Genre and
myth: 'a half-formed picture' Part Two Authored drama: agency as 'strategic
penetration' 3 'Reperceiving the world': making history 4 'Serious drama':
the dangerous mesh of empathy 5 TV drama as social event: text and
inter-text 6 Authored drama: 'not just naturalism' 7 Industry/performance:
drama as 'strategic penetration' Part Three Reading drama: audience use,
exchange and play 8 'Use and exchange': delivering audiences 9 Sub-culture
and reading formation: regimes of watching Conclusion: comedies of 'myth'
and 'resistance' 10 Comic order and disorder: residual and emergent ultures
11 'Marauding behaviour': parody, carnival and the grotesque